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Librarian/Archivist, knitter, possibly 2 kids in a trench coat. She/her. New York Flashes @ profeshnosy.bsky.social
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
New Yorker power walk racing the bus to the next stop to early vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to eliminate the possibility of out pacing the bus on foot.
Publication: nothing
Internet Archive: nothing
Author's website: nothing
Newspaper and various databases: nothing
General internet search: NOTHING
Oooh I might have my first "can you access this article, the link isn't working" because it is an AI hallucination request!

Which is fun because they have, apparently, already used it as a citation in something and I can't find even a hint that it exists.
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If you want to get your $100,000 deposit together just have to not eat 20,000 croissants! How hard can that be?! Imagine you had five a week - that’s just 4,000 weeks! Barely seventy six years to get that deposit! What on earth are they complaining about?!
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”

archive.ph/2TI8J
I regret to inform you that the clown has escaped and is loose somewhere in the archives.
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I have done this elsewhere the last few years and I need some fun on my feed.

It is Archives Trick-or-Treat!

Reply Trick-or Treat and get a random item from one of the archives I have worked in that is saved on my phone
A Barney Frank burn (transcript excerpt from Late Night with Conan O’Brien, December 1998)
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
Every time a show or film send someone to the archives/records room as punishment my spouse is like "I know. Please breathe/stop yelling."
When I came across this I then had to explain to my boss and the state archivist that I had done no actual work in roughly an hour. Maybe more. For obvious reasons.
A copy of Elvis Presley’s Denver Police Department Organized Crime Strike Force badge from state senate judiciary committee hearings!
The daisy press! Makes a business card reading “Abraham Beame, Mayor. City of New York”
The best letterhead ever. Massachusetts Department of Marine Resources, early 20th cent.
Herb Coleman, the flying dress salesman!
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New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this
The “ultimate all-occasion gift” apparently.
Allow me to introduce his royal highness, the potato king.
The man…er…bear. The myth. The Legend. SMOKEY