Mary Grace
@emgeekay.bsky.social
Retired archivist, librarian, linguist, feminist, reader, mom, grandma, pacifist, socialist, supporter of trade unions, the welfare state, and Amnesty International. I like digital preservation and old photographs. Banner: painting by Andrew Nicholl.
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Happy turkey day to those who celebrate! 🦃
Happy turkey day to those who celebrate! 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Happy turkey day to those who celebrate! 🦃
We are rapidly losing everything that was good because of weaklings who don’t stand up to the US regime. Teen Vogue was a very good thing.
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
Less politics, more makeup: the unraveling of Teen Vogue under Trump 2.0
The folding of the progressive youth-focused magazine into Vogue comes at turbulent time for journalism and the crumbling of feminist media
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We are rapidly losing everything that was good because of weaklings who don’t stand up to the US regime. Teen Vogue was a very good thing.
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...
These whales have endured a lifetime in captivity. The provincial and federal governments must work together to save them! 🐳
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘It’s heartbreaking’: how 30 captive beluga whales have become pawns in row over animal cruelty
As the government, Marineland of Canada and activists remain at loggerheads over whales’ fate, health and freedom of beloved animals hangs in balance
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
These whales have endured a lifetime in captivity. The provincial and federal governments must work together to save them! 🐳
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The US is not safe and Canada must change the Safe Third Country Agreement to grant asylum to those whose lives are endangered @mark-carney.bsky.social !
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Junta hails end to US protected status for Myanmar nationals
Human rights monitors say it is not safe to return, citing reports of ‘serious crimes in the run-up to elections’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The US is not safe and Canada must change the Safe Third Country Agreement to grant asylum to those whose lives are endangered @mark-carney.bsky.social !
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Ahead of Labour's budget, Yanis Varoufakis talks about the lasting impact of Thatcherite politics on today's episode.
Listen here: linktr.ee/boldpolitics
Listen here: linktr.ee/boldpolitics
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Ahead of Labour's budget, Yanis Varoufakis talks about the lasting impact of Thatcherite politics on today's episode.
Listen here: linktr.ee/boldpolitics
Listen here: linktr.ee/boldpolitics
For many of these suggestions, I would agree, and remember doing so many of them as well. What do you think?
www.artofmanliness.com/lifestyle/57...
www.artofmanliness.com/lifestyle/57...
57 Things We Should Bring Back
When it goes well, cultural evolution works like biological evolution: the strongest things survive, while flaws, weaknesses, and superfluities disappear. Unfortunately, the progression of culture doe...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
For many of these suggestions, I would agree, and remember doing so many of them as well. What do you think?
www.artofmanliness.com/lifestyle/57...
www.artofmanliness.com/lifestyle/57...
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This made me laugh so hard! There are a few big stick dogs in our neighborhood
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This made me laugh so hard! There are a few big stick dogs in our neighborhood
Accessible link here: archive.ph/wHmvD
"...so many 🇺🇸 kitchens share the same DNA — from the placement of the sink + shelves, to the microwave over the stove, to the clutter. Let’s look back in time to find out why our kitchens look + work the way they do."
Also note @sarcher.bsky.social's 🌟 book on kitchen history, not cited here 😉
Also note @sarcher.bsky.social's 🌟 book on kitchen history, not cited here 😉
Why Your Kitchen Looks Like That
A century of American kitchen design, from the dawn of electricity to the kitchen island.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Accessible link here: archive.ph/wHmvD
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Everyone in the comments of that viral "We're not here to judge we're here to help" image with Dewey numbers for tough topics like abortion or HIV asking "Are those the prices?" are pushing all my "Could be a troll but what if they don't really know?" buttons. Here's one that looks less like AI slop
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Everyone in the comments of that viral "We're not here to judge we're here to help" image with Dewey numbers for tough topics like abortion or HIV asking "Are those the prices?" are pushing all my "Could be a troll but what if they don't really know?" buttons. Here's one that looks less like AI slop
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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This is how it works
1. Rich people create a bubble and invest in it
2. Not-rich people work in the bubble industry or invest in the bubble.
3. Rich people see the bubble is going to pop, run to govt financial institutions and screech that they'll lose lotsa money and the banks will lose money.
1. Rich people create a bubble and invest in it
2. Not-rich people work in the bubble industry or invest in the bubble.
3. Rich people see the bubble is going to pop, run to govt financial institutions and screech that they'll lose lotsa money and the banks will lose money.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is how it works
1. Rich people create a bubble and invest in it
2. Not-rich people work in the bubble industry or invest in the bubble.
3. Rich people see the bubble is going to pop, run to govt financial institutions and screech that they'll lose lotsa money and the banks will lose money.
1. Rich people create a bubble and invest in it
2. Not-rich people work in the bubble industry or invest in the bubble.
3. Rich people see the bubble is going to pop, run to govt financial institutions and screech that they'll lose lotsa money and the banks will lose money.
Authoritarians destroy records of their actions. It happened in Spain where Francoists destroyed their archives in the 1970s, and in East Germany where the Stasi shredded records before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I do not trust the US regime not to destroy records.
I do not trust the US regime not to destroy records.
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Authoritarians destroy records of their actions. It happened in Spain where Francoists destroyed their archives in the 1970s, and in East Germany where the Stasi shredded records before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I do not trust the US regime not to destroy records.
I do not trust the US regime not to destroy records.
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As our 50th anniversary comes to an end, the PDC invites you to attend a panel discussion with five archivists to reflect on the past and present state of archives in Canada, while considering some of their hopes for our profession.
To register, please visit archivists.ca/event-6411193.
To register, please visit archivists.ca/event-6411193.
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
As our 50th anniversary comes to an end, the PDC invites you to attend a panel discussion with five archivists to reflect on the past and present state of archives in Canada, while considering some of their hopes for our profession.
To register, please visit archivists.ca/event-6411193.
To register, please visit archivists.ca/event-6411193.
This is the website for Casa de la Memoria la Sauceda where they know that forgetting the past is unconscionable www.casamemorialasauceda.es
Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda
Verdad, Justicia y Reparación
www.casamemorialasauceda.es
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is the website for Casa de la Memoria la Sauceda where they know that forgetting the past is unconscionable www.casamemorialasauceda.es
The US District Court...granted a permanent injunction in the case of Rhode Island v Trump... "The injunction prevents the Administration from further carrying out the Executive Order relating to IMLS and vacates the Administration's actions."
www.aam-us.org/2025/11/24/m...
www.aam-us.org/2025/11/24/m...
Major Update on IMLS Court Case
Advocacy Alert – November 24, 2025 New Ruling in IMLS Court Case On November 21, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island granted a permanent injunction in Rhode Island …
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November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The US District Court...granted a permanent injunction in the case of Rhode Island v Trump... "The injunction prevents the Administration from further carrying out the Executive Order relating to IMLS and vacates the Administration's actions."
www.aam-us.org/2025/11/24/m...
www.aam-us.org/2025/11/24/m...
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We don't have to accept this slop.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We don't have to accept this slop.
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Astronaut. Navy captain. Combat veteran. Public servant. If Mark Kelly isn't your definition of an American hero, it's time to get a new dictionary.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Astronaut. Navy captain. Combat veteran. Public servant. If Mark Kelly isn't your definition of an American hero, it's time to get a new dictionary.
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
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What’s casserole?
Seriously, I’ve never eaten one in my life.
Is a lasagna a casserole? How about a shepherd’s pie?
Seriously, I’ve never eaten one in my life.
Is a lasagna a casserole? How about a shepherd’s pie?
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
What’s casserole?
Seriously, I’ve never eaten one in my life.
Is a lasagna a casserole? How about a shepherd’s pie?
Seriously, I’ve never eaten one in my life.
Is a lasagna a casserole? How about a shepherd’s pie?
Good guidance in this article for raising readers.
“…those deep reading circuits built through sustained attention to text, are the same ones that enable complex reasoning, empathy, and the kind of patient thinking that democracy requires.”
lithub.com/how-to-raise...
“…those deep reading circuits built through sustained attention to text, are the same ones that enable complex reasoning, empathy, and the kind of patient thinking that democracy requires.”
lithub.com/how-to-raise...
How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction
People make certain assumptions about you when you’re the CEO of a children’s book company. Some assume I must have spent my childhood summers in a hammock reading Rebecca of Sunnybrook…
lithub.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Good guidance in this article for raising readers.
“…those deep reading circuits built through sustained attention to text, are the same ones that enable complex reasoning, empathy, and the kind of patient thinking that democracy requires.”
lithub.com/how-to-raise...
“…those deep reading circuits built through sustained attention to text, are the same ones that enable complex reasoning, empathy, and the kind of patient thinking that democracy requires.”
lithub.com/how-to-raise...
Richard Ovenden‘s review of “Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today”—the book is a bit sweeping when discussing the advent of writing and printing presses but persuasive when talking about the web and its commodification algorithms.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
How to survive an information crisis | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Richard Ovenden‘s review of “Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today”—the book is a bit sweeping when discussing the advent of writing and printing presses but persuasive when talking about the web and its commodification algorithms.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Jimmy Cliff, one of the greatest reggae singers of all time, has passed away
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November 24, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Jimmy Cliff, one of the greatest reggae singers of all time, has passed away
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I am heartened by today’s victory and grateful for the prayers and support I have received from around the country.
I remain fearless in the face of these baseless charges as I continue fighting for New Yorkers every single day.
I remain fearless in the face of these baseless charges as I continue fighting for New Yorkers every single day.
Federal judge dismisses indictments against Letitia James and James Comey, saying Lindsey Halligan appointment was unlawful | CNN Politics
A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday.
www.cnn.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I am heartened by today’s victory and grateful for the prayers and support I have received from around the country.
I remain fearless in the face of these baseless charges as I continue fighting for New Yorkers every single day.
I remain fearless in the face of these baseless charges as I continue fighting for New Yorkers every single day.