Amanda Garfunkel
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Archivist. Reader. Cat enthusiast. Melancholy vibes. Lurker. New York
www.michigannewssource.com/2026/05/u-m-...
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U-M Accused of Hiding Records Linked to Architect of Modern Immigration Crackdown Movement
LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) ā The University of Michiganās long-running battle to keep portions of the controversial āTanton Papersā out of
https://www.michigannewssource.com/2026/05/u-m-accused-of-hiding-records-linked-to-architect-of-modern-immigration-crackdown-movement/
about 19 hours ago
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Alan Richardson
4 days ago
Humanities and social science profs are finding out how natural scientists treat authorship and we are losing our damn minds.
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Yaāll, it happened
5 days ago
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Yaāll - a dirty London fog?? Iām so tired and so excited
7 days ago
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The bots found our newly launched ASpace PUI and itās basically unusable for researchers now š«
7 days ago
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š¶every library hold is coming up all at once š¶
7 days ago
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James Truitt
9 days ago
Hey
#digipres
folks, anyone want to contribute to this bloggERS! call?
#digitalarchivesfail
Redux: a Celebration of Failure
saaers.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/c...
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Call for Contributors ā #digitalarchivesfail Redux: a Celebration of Failure
When have you experienced failure when dealing with digital records, what did the experience reveal, and why is the wisdom gleaned worth celebrating? Tell us the story of your #digitalarchivesfail.
https://saaers.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/call-for-contributors-digitalarchivesfail-redux-a-celebration-of-failure/
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Do I know anyone in or familiar with Chicago? Whatās the best way to kill 36 hours there?
11 days ago
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Big fan of the whoever decorated for this Kentucky Derby party
18 days ago
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Kim McCauley
18 days ago
Golden Tempo is an insane name for a horse that chills for the whole race and hits the jets with 1/8 of a mile to go
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philippe senderos luminosos
21 days ago
this is the practitioner-facing underbelly of the fact that unis donāt build infrastructure, jusy digital CV lines that rapidly create technical debt
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Is every Netflix show just an exercise in spotting product placements?
22 days ago
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I miss the person I was before knowing that there are undergrads at Ivy League schools who canāt alphabetize
28 days ago
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Intern asked if what they were holding was a floppy disk (it was) and now I must walk into the sea
about 1 month ago
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One thing I wasnāt expecting when we got a cat was having to hide our shoes. I thought that was more of a dog issue but apparently cats also like to steal shoes š„²
about 1 month ago
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Rob Townsend
about 2 months ago
"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency."
bit.ly/41M4pvK
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Gillian Brockell
about 2 months ago
The No. 1 reason aviation is so safe is that there are at least two of absolutely everything, redundancies on the redundancies. No single human should have ever been expected to perform this perfectly, it isnāt possible and shouldnāt even be legal. We need hearings now.
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John Pfaff
about 2 months ago
There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.
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I thought the cat was sick because she let me sleep in but it was just daylight savings
2 months ago
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I got my hopes up for remote work tomorrow but the snow is not snowing š
3 months ago
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Made it 17 minutes in before I had to step away. Seeing a side by side if Nazi Germany/Texas book burnings is a bit too much for a Tuesday morning š
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3 months ago
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Dina is not amused by the puppy bowl
3 months ago
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Thereās finally 40 degree weather in the forecast and people are going to get feral
3 months ago
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Never thought Iād see a curling throw described as ādisasterā
3 months ago
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Mar Hicks
3 months ago
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistābecause the person felt she did didnāt deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00254-z
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I have yet to encounter a working escalator today - maybe
@mta.info
can focus on actual upgrades instead of new entry turnstiles?
4 months ago
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Between the guy aggressively flossing on the subway and getting a senior discount at Dunkin - I donāt know what the tone of the day will be
4 months ago
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The cat went to the sitter for the first time and she was described as ātalkativeā which Iām pretty sure is the polite way of saying āscreaming goblin monsterā because sometimes thatās what she is
4 months ago
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Jocelyn Leitzinger
4 months ago
As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods
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I dunno, a computer supplier halting all sales for a month because thereās a memory and storage shortage due it AI seems bad
4 months ago
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These are the Sunday-est scaries to ever Sunday scary
5 months ago
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2/3 of the cookies done (lemon crinkle and m&m sugar) - up next is peanut butter blossoms!
5 months ago
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The gremlin got her first holiday presents tonight and immediately started listening to her demons
5 months ago
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Is this the year I finally watch Die Hard?
5 months ago
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Dorothy Berry
5 months ago
I can't imagine not caring about all the cruel and senseless and seemingly endless murder in our world, and it's a shame that others can
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The part I hate about peer review is Iām sitting here trying to explain to librarians that archival collections donāt circulate. Like librarianship is not that far from archival work and the fact that Iāve had to do it two rounds in a row makes me want to burn my computer
5 months ago
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āEverything Everywhere All At Onceā -my institution in December apparently
5 months ago
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What if I just bake a shit ton of holiday cookies? Will that bring back joy?
5 months ago
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Someone trying to schedule a research appointment today or Friday since theyāre āin town for the holidayā literally has me considering walking into the sea
6 months ago
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Karen K. Ho
10 months ago
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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The same museum getting rid of their institutional archivist? ā¦shocking
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6 months ago
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Are flare jeans really coming back?
6 months ago
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Starbucks Workers United
6 months ago
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say
#NoContractNoCoffee
with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Dan Brown is my Colleen Hoover. I donāt even care
6 months ago
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Canāt decide if missing every single product placement in Nobody Wants This S2 means Iām an advertiserās dream or nightmare demographic
6 months ago
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Love being super embarrassed about my larger institution on the Friday of a week where theyāve failed to help the archives during an environmental issue
6 months ago
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Jake i šµšø ā”ļø (alt Space Laser Command)
7 months ago
Okay, I've seen enough. Not election night related, just been a long year and I have seen way too many things
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Harry Litman
7 months ago
If Thatās a donation, it goes to the treasury and only congress can decide how to spend it. No such (lawful) thing as private payment of government obligation. Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/24/us/trump-canada-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Sorrowscopes
7 months ago
Gemini: Wrestling with your demons is usually a metaphor for boring things like developing effective coping strategies and discipline. Not today though. Today Satan is going to hit you with a folding chair.
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