Omg, of course this would happen to me now! 🤦🏾‍♂️Try it again: loudinthemargins.com/books/10-mus...

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!

If you or your students are new to DH, ACH has earned its reputation as a friendly, welcoming space. They also put a lot of thought into online activities beyond Zoom to get some of that "hallway conversation" effect, and it's extremely affordable especially for students. Please propose something!

Y'all, this saved my butt today. Re-sharing in case it can save someone else's.

My favorite way to find information on a topic remains googling my keywords and adding "libguide" to the search. I needed to find a good introduction to APIs and a basic tutorial and this improved my results SO MUCH.

“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else, are expendable.” -Omar El Akkad

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

From visual journalism to reportage and resistance, here are the 10 must-read comics of 2025 selected by ChannelDraw. Reality, politics, memory, and truth—told through powerful graphic storytelling.

Weekend reading ☺️

This has been bugging the shit out of me www.curbed.com/article/tech...

This by @literaturegeek.bsky.social is still the best quick starter guide to Bluesky. People should have a look because it will improve your experience here. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Unfortunately I am the bisexuals can't sit properly meme personified www.thepinknews.com/2018/11/27/b...

I spent almost the entire 8 hour work day + a 1 hour after work meeting sitting crosslegged at my desk. I just stood up and wow my hips are ANGRY. I will not learn from this and I shall continue to sit like a chaos human at all times

Public Domain day is actually my favorite holiday

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Mamdani arrives to his mayoral inauguration at City Hall in a motorcade of NYC taxi cabs—workers he went on hunger strike with in 2021.

Not to forget International Zine Library Day (July 21) during International Zine Month!

96 years later and they still haven't got a decent explanation

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

The new year starts off on a high note for me. I'll be the announcer for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor of the City of New York.

Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025. Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

In the New Year, I will need someone who is skilled at making an artful map for a project that I am working on. If this is you, please reach out in January - [email protected] I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.

An article from this for the #DHmakes crowd “In learning how to unpick or tighten their stitches, or if needed, start over again by cutting the thread and re-stitching from the beginning, they [students] learn productive, iterative failure.”

All the cool kids take BtB and turn into birding weirdos

This year I'm focusing less on my checklists and more on journaling about my birding sessions. It's how I learn and how I enjoy my hobbies more! And I feel like I have a more meaningful document at the end of the year.

“Data is just what you decide to pay attention to.” Nice quote from Mikko Jimenez in this Audubon mag piece on how to have fun with your birding data: www.audubon.org/magazine/bey...

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

Just pay your players fairly!!!!

I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!

I love my trans subway and would absolutely buy merch

Felt like shopping so I went an bought a bunch of stuff off wish lists at transanta.com. I love being Santa.

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

I recently learned this trick for getting images out of a Google Doc, so I wanted to share in case it's useful. File -> Download -> Web Page. Then unzip, and you've got a nice folder of images!

Hi friends, in case you missed it, I am offering some writing and editing services in the new year. If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨ halperta.com/categories/e...

A study just came out of Colorado looking at prison libraries' contributions to pro-social behavior / reentry success, and I am very much looking forward to diving into it this evening to see their findings! 📚📜 www.lrs.org/the-prism-pr...

I can't say for sure I am reading this how Tom Shapira means it, but... YES PLEASE. And for all kinds of storytelling and art. We need more middle-art. Things that are good, not stellar, not awful. The economy we have though, closes the door on the "okay," the "good." Good is, most times, enough

This weekend my partner performed with his queer symphonic band. Last night I went with a group of friends, today I went with my family and it was my niece's first ever concert. A lot of things suck, but she now thinks all concerts have conductors dressed head to toe in sequins and that's beautiful.

I want to get my three year old nibling some books for Christmas. If anyone has any faves for this age (she LOVES story time) I'm open to recommendations!

Column: Hobbies offer numerous benefits, but crafting comes with special ones. After spending 2,000 hours on cross-stitch, the slow, hypnotizing work kept me focused, making needlework an act of expression, self-care, and even rebellion.

I loved this zine! You can read it at invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...

I wrote the words "latitude" and "longitude" so many times today they look like complete gibberish. Like do those letters even get together?? Longitude in particular really gets me. My brain thinks I'm trying to portmanteau long attitude, which isn't even a phrase!!!

Okay, trans people of BlueSky. Can anyone think of a good novel (prose or graphic) that: 1. Has a transfemme protagonist 2. Does not have "dysphoria" or "transphobia" as the PRIMARY conflict (it can be an element, but not the main one) 3. Is suitable for a young teenager Recs would be AMAZING!

I cannot wait for this book

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

If you are a New Yorker living in a building with at least 10 units, you can request to have a textile recycling bin! www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/wh...

Such a great story about @gcdatavis.bsky.social student Paula Fleischer and her powerful data textile work, “Dónde Están: Searching for Desaparecidos of the Argentine Dirty War,” now on view in our program space at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #dhmakes

I tried to share a dinner reservation I made in Open Table with my partner. I needed to verify my phone number, fine did that. Then they needed me to verify my email and I gave up and just sent him a calendar hold.

It's entirely likely I just taught my second to last ever class at Pratt tonight. (It's too much to balance with my new job.) I'm so proud of these students and next week I hope to be able to share the link to our project.

Made in NYC Pop-Up Holiday Markets - www.madeinnyc.org/news-events/...