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Michelle Watson

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Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country

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Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social · Sep 12

After two years of work, the @stocktonhistsoc.bsky.social Online Archive is now live. I hope it can act as a model for small heritage and #GLAM groups to make their collections more accessable and create backups of unique cultural materials. Cost $100AUD p/a #GenHour

stockton.omeka.net

Header graphic for “Stockton Over the Years” Stockton Historical Society Archives”.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10h

Read the skeet a second and third time before you quote dunk on it to make sure you aren’t totally misreading it and getting your feelings hurt for no reason as justification for being a jerk challenge

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Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social · 1d

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE is official-publication-date-minus-2-weeks (11 November) which is a LOT👀 (I can't remember feeling this wound up about other books, I have the concentration of a gnat at the moment🙄) but seems to be live as an e-book already so, available to your Kindle right now, apparently...

The cover of a book. Text reads Textile Shakespeare. The lower part of the image is ink printed on linen and embroidery, black on white, with some silver thread, with flowers, fruit, insects, and animals. it is discoloured with age.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 1d

Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery

This article reveals that British-based merchants invested capital made from the Atlantic slave complex in the early Port Phillip District’s pastoral sector. It traces the capital that underpinned ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most enraging timeline. Yes, it is racist to say there are too many Black and Asian people on TV/in Birmingham/in the UK. No, I’m not going to debate it. The end.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

Waking up, again, to the sound of two white men on the radio arguing about whether it is ok to be made "mad" by the very sight of black and Asian people on TV. 😒

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Pauline Pantsdown @paulinepantsdown.bsky.social · 1d

Spectacular good news. A victory for the family who sued; for the local trans activists; & for anyone who pushes back against Australia falling into the western Trumphole of non-peer-reviewed, JFK-brain , Project 2025 nonsense 😍✊

Brisbane Times @brisbanetimes.bsky.social · 1d

The decision to indefinitely ban the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for children with gender dysphoria was unlawful and did not follow proper procedures, a court has ruled. Read more: tinyurl.com/43wz9s62

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Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social · 2d

Check with the archive as well. While many will allow photography, they don’t allow tripods.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

This thread makes a point I find myself coming to often these days.

It's hard to make this point in a way that doesn't sound like a threat, but it's just a fact that for centuries the wealthy in America worried that the mob would come get them and did all they could to avoid that fate.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

lol what the wealthy today don't seem to understand is part of staying wealthy in society is not pissing off the masses.

There's a reason why Carnegie and the Rockefellers poured money into institutions. Gutting institutions and making it harder for the masses to survive is a...choice.

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Ryan Humphrey @ryanhumphrey.bsky.social · 2d

Something I love about archival films is that when someone had a couple feet of film left on a roll they'd often use it to film their cat. So many films finish with a few seconds of cats

So, here's some cats from the 1950s and 60s. They were loved

Scanned from 8mm films

#Film #History #Cats

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Ben Raue @benraue.com · 2d

Today's blog post looks back at the 1984 parliamentary expansion - how did it change the shape of the pendulum, and how did it change where marginal seats were located? www.tallyroom.com.au/63515 #auspol

The 1984 expansion – how much did the map change?

If there is a substantial expansion of the size of the federal Parliament, it will be a rare event. It has only happened twice before since federation, and hasn’t happened at all in my lifeti…

www.tallyroom.com.au

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David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not a cock-up. It’s a deliberate strategy to get you to pay (something between $174 and $4037 pa, plus a $1699 start-up charge) for things that they used to provide to everybody regardless of capacity to pay.

Hence "Subscribe to become a registered user of our real-time data products".

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3d

The BOM have destroyed their website - no current observations by weather station available anymore for example. Royal Commission now. I want people sacked.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 2d

Some (accidental) transparency at last. Pour one out for the staffer who sent all Labor’s talking points on Gaza to APAN.

Exclusive: Australian government’s full talking points on Gaza accidentally sent to Palestinian advocacy group

Government notes reveal they won’t back Gaza hospital proposed by Dr Mohammed Mustafa

www.deepcutnews.com

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History Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social · 2d

⏰ We are getting excited for our final Book+Author of 2025 this Thursday!

Liam Byrne will be speaking about the history of Australian unionism at the intimate Bard's Apothecary in the CBD, with Professor Sean Scalmer at the helm.

➡ Book now to reserve your spot!: tinyurl.com/4zas4ws4

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 4d

Any influential law profs want to advocate for this? I don't have the reach or networks to move the needle.

Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 7d

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 3d

Baltimore’s Black archives and museums are still standing tall baltimorebeat.com/the-importan...

A Black woman dressed in a chartreuse top, pants, and matching headwrap, sits at the Great Blacks in Wax museum.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 25d

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

I HATE COLLINGWOOD Wolfenstein 3D mod on floppy disk. This version doesn't work. :(

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 3d

DOS archaeology ain't much, but it's honest work.

A screenshot of the I Hate Collingwood Wolf3D mod. I managed to track down some of the files and I'm trying to wrangle it together.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4d

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 4d

Insane racist heir to multi-billion-dollar fortune really really likes Donald Trump

Insane racist heir to multi-billion-dollar fortune really really likes Donald Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This guy is Andrew Mellon’s grandson, so you know those bootstraps were made for walking: Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the […]

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 4d

Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.

www.niemanlab.org

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 4d

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom

The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

www.forbes.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve already seen quite a few examples of ICE agents trying to kidnap someone and eventually giving up and running away because a crowd had gathered and shouted them down. That’s EFFECTIVE.

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of folks may think that just yelling at ICE agents is ineffective, but consider the cumulative psychological toll of being yelled at EVERY DAY when trying to do shit. Even the biggest asshole in the world who doesn't give a shit about other people will feel the pressure.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 4d