If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

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developed multiple crushes at today's nashville comic arts festival 😌

the number one thing institutions and funders can do for community archives is just give them money, whether they have a 501(c)3 or not. give them money to do the work they need to do. #SAA25 signed, a jaded community archivist

Little MTSU Public History reunion at #SAA25 in Anaheim 🤩

This is my personal feeling, too. But also told from my higher ups that we *have* to engage with it, which suuucks.

Really enjoyed hearing about how the National Archives of the United Kingdom partnered with high school students to enhance their engagement with historical documents by using DRET AI and the RICHRAB analysis model #SAA25 Session 103

ok conference time tomorrow, but here are some fun SoCal things i did since thursday

Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.

Post a non religious picture you think of as holy. #RIPEdwardCrawford

Afrosheen is literally the coolest baddie in Nashville, no competition

this is why everyone I know isn’t having kids btw

flying to LAX today for: • queer history research at ONE Archives • queer exhibits at Getty Center • shenanigans, like seeing Yungblud on Saturday • the @saa-official.bsky.social annual meeting

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

WOMEN

update: 6 months later and guess what happened folks? LOL

i'll be attending #SAA (Soc. of American Archivists) for the first time ever this week, so i thought i'd hop back on here and try to actually use this account ~forever missing old archives twitter RIP 🪦

either i gotta move home to live with my parents or they gotta move to me because being a single wage earning adult is not possible anymore

I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending...

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Hello #archives #history and scholarly friends... help with this name! Last name is Scholz, first name is...?

not to be h0rny on main (event), but Walter is so hot and i guess by Walter, i mean "Gunther" or whatever dumb name WWE gave him

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.

went to a super cool (ha!) presentation today by @tchotchke.bsky.social about The Terror fandom and historical research which reminded me so much of this piece i wrote for @nursingclio.bsky.social nursingclio.org/2019/10/02/h...

"watching" the #Oscars thru bluesky posts since Hulu cut the feed this feels like old Twitter

i have no sports thoughts to contribute but i did eat hella good Indian food tonight and that's my win.

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

ok #museums and #archives folks: are there any upcoming textile workshops? specifically focused on management and preservation? in-person preferred i can't find anything current 😭

my students: are we gonna face backlash for this LGBTQ exhibit? me: ummmmm probably but also i don't care

ok i canNOT be eating like i did when trump was elected the first time because it might actually kill me 🤪

what will Vandy do when the fascist leaders decide that the word "belonging" is no longer acceptable? will we have to update all of our belonging statements to something else? the fascists move the goal post and we just keep following orders?

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FAFO, Vanderbilt. nashvillebanner.com/2025/02/05/v...

Seth dresses like if every non-binary person I know had a budget lol #WWERaw #WrestleSky 🤼

You aren't that sly, Seth

is netflix always this glitchy for WWE raw? love this, love to watch a glitchy livestream

ah cool, an archive of all CDC data before they tampered with it

Kendrick had no plan to win any of this shit. He was just hatin and look where it got him. There’s a lesson there!

YOUR first draft doesn’t need to be perfect. but mine does

bro every time i read a college essay i cry like where are these kids learning to write? 😭

I polled people on Instagram and THIRTY SEVEN people said yes. 2 said no. So, anyway, I went with yes they are the same person and then I bought an $800 drag program from the 1960s for Vanderbilt's archive. The person in the photo is trans icon Aleshia Brevard.

my perfume bottle broke in my backpack and leaked all over everythingggggg 😭

ok i need y'all to help me make an $800 decision your task: answer one question the question: is this the same person?

daryl dixon is so obviously a biromantic asexual i love him so much

and just like that, the DEI statement from the university library ceased to exist just kidding, the wayback machine has the receipts

People who don't use both lanes to line up at Dutch Bros shouldn't be able to vote

just absolutely bonkers i cannot afford a studio or 1 bedroom apartment on my salary what an american dream

when students call me Dr. Calise, like nooooo that's my hot Italian grandpa