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Professionally Nosy
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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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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 8h
the CEO thought process
Other people don’t have thoughts or emotions. Why do they insist on being so difficult all the time?
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
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.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
Publication: nothing
Internet Archive: nothing
Author's website: nothing
Newspaper and various databases: nothing
General internet search: NOTHING
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
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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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 3d
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?!
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d
“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
Why are young people spending so much money?
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
I regret to inform you that the clown has escaped and is loose somewhere in the archives.
A wooden box about 2ft tall. The front is labeled in spray painted stencil letters “clown.” The box is ajar and the lock missing. You can see it is empty.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
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
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
A Barney Frank burn (transcript excerpt from Late Night with Conan O’Brien, December 1998)
Conan O'Brien: he's about to leave and since it is the holidays and in the spirit of healing...I think you should say something nice about Newt Gingrich Barney Frank: There is a flaw in your reasoning, I'm Jewish. I'm not bound by that. Conan O'Brien: How about in the spirit of Hanukkah? Barney Frank: That was last week.
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 3d
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
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."
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
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.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
A copy of Elvis Presley’s Denver Police Department Organized Crime Strike Force badge from state senate judiciary committee hearings!
Xerox of Elvis Presley’s police badge issued January 28, 1976.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
The daisy press! Makes a business card reading “Abraham Beame, Mayor. City of New York”
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Pink Trans Supernova 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinknovahtx.bsky.social · 3d
A pumpkin carved with a human shaped opening, and then the guy from The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito has been cut out with a text bubble saying “it was made for me!” And attacked to the pumpkin so it recreates the scene from the manga where the guy is climbing into the human shaped hole in a cliff side except now it’s a human shaped hole in a pumpkin.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Card catalog card. “Department of Health (complaint about parrot)”
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
Absolutely shredded Smokey Bear.
Covers of two Smokey Bear comic books. “The Raging Flood” and “The Blazing Forest”
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
Uhhh, fun at the health fair
Model of a giant woman’s head with her mouth open. A young boy is looking in at her teeth.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
The best letterhead ever. Massachusetts Department of Marine Resources, early 20th cent.
Horseshoe crab with “the test of years” printing in an arch over it.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
Herb Coleman, the flying dress salesman!
1930s ad, cartoon of a pontoon plane with a waiving pilot.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 3d
New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this
Halloween voter 2025 sticker with a pigeon wearing a witches hat and holding a pumpkin lantern with bats and a witch in the background
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
The “ultimate all-occasion gift” apparently.
1980s or 1990s newspaper ad for company called Endangered Feces. “Glittering dinosaur droppings…pyritized cretaceous corpolites-over 65 million years old and still going strong!”
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
Allow me to introduce his royal highness, the potato king.
Newspaper ad, 1960s. “Potato King” Features a drawing of a goofy potato smiling and wearing a crown.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
A trip to the Yarn Department
1960s drawing of a woman behind a counter with a half mannequin wearing a sweater and cones of yarn behind her.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 3d
The man…er…bear. The myth. The Legend. SMOKEY
1960 black and white photo of Smokey Bear driving a jeep.
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