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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS

@mkramer.bsky.social

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engagement + crowdsourcing products, ProPublica; librarian, journalist, hyperlocal information ecosystems, public(s) and participation, digital archives, dogs, civic joy, mom, mummer, board games, philly, carrboro north carolina 🌈 melodykramer.github.io

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · Nov 9

Intro: Hello! I’m a librarian and journalist who has also spent time with demographers, Wikipedia, and 18F. I care about hyperlocal information ecosystems, new models of information sharing, the South, digital archiving practices, hound dogs, and walking in the woods without headphones.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2h

Yes to this.

Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 2h

This is not a solicitation, but if someone had $2-5M to put into an organization to create and support open newsroom tools, there is an awful lot of good that could be done.

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 16h

a turkey has approximately how many feathers?

what is 3500?

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 16h

homework tonight was a jeopardy-style trivia competition to memorize facts about apples and turkeys and halloween for a real jeopardy-style trivia competition at school tomorrow.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 18h

the enthusiasm of the elementary school principal on the robocall reminding me of upcoming school closures

a man in a green elf costume is standing in a room with his mouth wide open .

ALT: a man in a green elf costume is standing in a room with his mouth wide open .

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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 20h

just wrote about how the nc senate redistricting chair drew himself a new district in '23 that included App State and then redrew county commission maps that mostly neutered the vote of students at his alma mater over the objections of 71% of that county's voters www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-voters...

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 1d

A surprising sight in St. Clair County, Michigan: A man waving Fixodent denture cream before the county commissioners at an August meeting.

“I am an unfluoridated child,” he declared, “with a set of uppers and lowers.”

Man with wire-frame glasses, blue overalls, and a gray zip-up hoodie waves a tube of denture cream before the dais of the county commissioners at an August meeting in St. Clair County, Michigan.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 1d

doing a fair amount of data cleaning and wrangling and whatnot for work this morning so am listening to jonathan goldstein’s heavyweight podcast and it’s just delightful.

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 1d

was just handed this note and said thomas edison and was told no, the question referred to the first house with electricity and now i am stumped.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 1d

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

rainy board game bar with root beer on tap day

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Anton Zuiker @zuiker.com · 2d

Great to see the turtles in @mkramer.bsky.social yard in Carrboro. A reminder for those of us on NC to follow the work of the Box Turtle Connection boxturtleconnection.org.

Box Turtle Connection

boxturtleconnection.org

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

spotted another turtle in our yard!

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

If you’d like to help out with an impactful reporting project, please send in your prescription drug labels (anonymized.) Instructions below: 👇

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

We’re looking for anonymized photos of prescription bottles to help us determine where those drugs were made.

Here’s a quick guide to sending in your label securely ⤵️

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

I had some onions on a piece of homemade wheat bread with melted cheese on top. It was very good.

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

We stopped. Tomorrow: a pot of beans. Then: mix, maybe make some lentils and rice as well.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

these were the sheets I had growing up!

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

I think our game plan is a little here a little there - maybe a bean and rice thing?

Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

um when is it done

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

going to attempt to put lid on, turn off heat, and restart efforts after birthday endeavor.

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

hour 4. have a children’s birthday party in an hour so may not have timed this well.

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hour 3

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 2d

would totally join a social media network that was limited to people posting very slow caramelized onion pictures

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 3d

hour two

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Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS @mkramer.bsky.social · 3d

hour one

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