One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

After 5 years I have solved a work mystery that involved many emails, a trip to the UK, and lots of eBay scouting. I'm so happy I could cry

Unfortunately I do think Google Lens is one of the most useful inventions we've made. Love being able to point at a cable and go "magic camera, identify!"

SAA 2025 - I am here, masked, and in a funky print dress! Say hi! Also my presentation is at 1:15 this afternoon and it'd be cool to see some familiar faces 😊

Very important announcement: it appears the first Spirit Halloween stores are opening TODAY 🎃💀👻

I've said this before, but bless the hobbyists who tear down old tech to refurbish them and then puts the video of it on YouTube. Digital archivists everywhere bow down to you 🙏🏻

Got a Greaseweazle, playing with previously unreadable disks, feeling like a goddess

Hitting the trifecta today: meetings in every major video conferencing platform (Teams, Zoom, WebEx) 🏆

It's been 5 years (more, but since everyone did it) and I still wave at the end of every Zoom/Teams call 😅

Does anyone know what it's called when you see "word : word :: word : word" (normally about similes I think)? Searching this has been reallly difficult surprisingly and I know it has to have a proper name out there.

Digital archives people - do you do redactions on your files, or do you fully restrict the files? Any tips on redaction tools if so? Also, do you note that the file has been redacted in your finding aids/description? #digitalArchives #digiPres

Digital archives people - do you do redactions on your files, or do you fully restrict the files? Any tips on redaction tools if so? Also, do you note that the file has been redacted in your finding aids/description? #digitalArchives #digiPres

Does anyone know how to turn off Copilot in an institutional account? 😡

Yesterday was the capstone poster exhibit and it was SO COOL to see my students from last semester's final projects 🥹

#BDCAM25 "A history of the CD-ROM", a research project at the intersection of media history, digital studies, the history of digital technology and media archaeology done by Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) #DigitalHumanities www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/rese...

Sometimes I wonder who first said my favorite metaphor of "we are not dragons hoarding gold" re: archives and access, but I do love when it comes up #bdcam25

The badges are floppy disks. I repeat, the badges are floppy disks! #bdcam25 💾🤓

Is talking to a class at your alma mater a "made it" thing? Because if so, check ✅️

Uh...did the entire eduroam network just go down?

I should make "clearing out my pinned emails" one of my goals for this year 😵‍💫

A kind-hearted coworker: "We can get a student to put any labels on boxes that you need. You don't need to spend time doing it yourself." Me: "Please do not take away my brief moments of pure joy. There is nothing I love more than putting labels on boxes - I enter a meditative state."

Do not mess with Miss Dolly. "Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library" www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton...

remember how during lockdown, we declared 7pm was “we all scream out our windows all at once” time can we bring that back, I am getting really tired holding all this screaming in my heart

We like to say in Archives theory classes that Archives and records are how society holds government accountable, but that is NOT why the concept of either was invented. Proceed accordingly and watch for changes to Archives access/FOIA slowdowns.

there are times in life where we must gather within ourselves the rage of a two year old who does not want be buckled into a car seat

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Getting excited about the Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conf in early April (and a triumphant return to London for a few days) -- check out this killer programme easychair.org/smart-progra...

"A ruling for the plaintiffs could mean employers and insurers reimposing copays and deductibles, or denying birth control coverage entirely, with patients on the hook for the full price." -- @susanrinkunas.com www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

Any time I beat Ticketmaster at its own game, I feel like a god. What do you mean the price dropped $400 a few days before the event because they turned off the dynamic pricing??

Truly one of the best lines in the show #Yellowjackets

Finally can talk about this!! This took over half my professional life last year (for someone who isn't actually on the AMAZING project team). Let's be real - I was just excited the NYT article mentioned the born-digital materials www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/a...

Joke's on me - the last 70 imaged with no issue. Hooray!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Me, after having two floppy disks in a row image: "Oh, what a treat! What did I do to deserve such luxury?" (This accession has like...70% blank/unreadable disks)

First day back means I'm just writing down what individual emails I need to send on my to-do list so it actually feels productive. Life hack for ya 👈🏻

I said this and immediately learned that CDs can become moldy??

New Defunctland - time to image some material and stay locked in for the next 2 hours.

Building my first DND character and turns out that choosing a song and creating a character based off it (or a small mix) is really helpful.

Update: this was the best part of the movie 😬

"Don't Copy That Floppy" made the Alamo preshow for Y2K and I'm so happy about this fact 😂💾

The funniest development is that I cannot do work in my office - I *must* be down on the public services floor, hanging out in the back with the students and have their conversation as white noise to get anything done.

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

*looking through new acquisition* "Huh, I thought there was supposed to be a significant amount of born digital material with this one? Guess not, or it'll come later." *gets to last two boxes with flags* "Oh. There they are. My whole two bankers boxes of floppies. At least they're not lost." 😵‍💫

OH MY GOD I FORGOT IT'S THE DOG SHOW TODAY ALSO!!! WHAT AN AMAZING DAY

Retroactive life goal: be cast as the Shiv University librarian who gets a little forehead kiss from Jonathan Bailey 😍😍😍

Thanksgiving episodes of Bob's Burgers on loop for the next week - "It's very very important." 🦃

First class: "Has anyone seen National Treasure?" as a "get to know you" poll question Last class: "So, yesterday was the 20th anniversary of National Treasure, and really, this just completes a beautiful circle."

Attention Canva users! Sharing this in case you didn't see my repost last night. Check your privacy settings, as the default is switched on to train their AI services! You need to go into your privacy settings and switch it off! #WritingCommunity

Any modicum of cool I have gained throughout my life is immediately diminished because of my new love for Starlight Express

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines