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Emily Higgs Kopin
@ehkopin.bsky.social
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texpat in philly, working in digital archives, libraries, and preservation. 20% professional, 80% nonsense. 🐶🐱🎮📖🧶💾
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The cat distribution system really just gave me a lil guy who wants to be on my lap while I play video games, 10/10
A white and brown tabby cat is curled up asleep on a pink and purple tie dye patterned fleece blanket. It’s hard to tell from the photo but the blanket is across a woman’s lap. Behind the cat’s head is a partially visible Nintendo Switch controller and the corner of a coffee table
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Text on a black background reads: "10 PM Do you know where your digital collections are?" "10 PM" is in large red text and "Do you know where your [obscured] are" is in blue text, while "Digital collections" is sloppily pasted over the original message in white text
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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1% zoom, 99% this
Dark brindle greyhound with white face leans on a woman’s arm while asleep on a couch. The woman’s arm is holding a Nintendo DS
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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ZOOM
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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For bonus Halloween action, I am obsessed with these little snakey snake ear jackets
Same woman as above, close up of the side of her face. Her ear has three lobe piercings, a daith ring, and a snake stud in the helix. The first lobe piercing has a snake entering from the front of the ear with its head emerging under the lobe
October 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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It’s a bunt but it’s effective
A white woman in a black dress and braids (a la Wednesday Addams) is standing in the middle of a library atrium, mid distance from the camera, and staring at the photographer
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Screenshot of headline from The Betoota Advocate. Image of EA Electronic Arts logo next to heart-shaped bed in the Sims, crossed out. Headline reads “Sims No Longer Allowed to Woohoo Before Marriage After Saudis Acquire Electronic Arts” by Effie Bateman
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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POV: you’re the black sheep in your family group text. Things got REAL quiet after this
iPhone screenshot. Text from Josh Kopin: Emily just asked me if she’s supposed to know who Baker Mayfield is. Text from Lori Higgs: oopsie. We failed you Josh. Text from me: yeah, anyone who wants to make fun of me for that is going to have to tell me who the Speaker of the House is without looking it up. Text from Lori Higgs: I’m out
September 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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In case you didn’t have an alarm set on your phone like I did, the Animal Crossing Crocs dropped today
Screen shot of product page for Animal Crossing Platform Clogs. They are light green patterned with animal crossing trees, and contain charms based on animal crossing characters and iconography.
August 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Some encouragement in my office by @halperta.bsky.social printed by @literaturegeek.bsky.social, much needed and felt today
Printed text: what I can tell you is You already have everything you require To write To teach To be a voice for your community Fuck credentials. You are already Extraordinary and Powerful and Valuable in this world -Hannah Alpert-Abram’s Pencil in corner: Amanda Wyatt Visconti
August 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Based on his aura and history of activism, I would like to nominate James Cromwell for the role of Swarthmore College Special Collections
Actor James Cromwell, an older white man with a beard, stands in front of a plain white backdrop with one fist raised in the air
August 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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whatever, look at my brother and his dog
a young man in sunglasses straddles a vintage bicycle. In a sidecar attached to the bike, there is an adult golden retriever wearing goggles. His name is Buster and he is a good boy
August 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Being "left behind" is simply not a fear that resonates with me (a technology worker), as that card was pretty overplayed in my childhood and it basically inoculated me
Poster of Kirk Cameron in "Left Behind: The Movie"
July 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I’m at the Pikachu vending machine (what?)
I’m at the Shohei Ohtani vending machine (what?)
I’m at the combination Pikachu and Shohei Ohtani vending machine
Japanese vending machine decorated with many illustrations of Pikachu. The banner across the top of the machine and a large plaque on the front both display a baseball player, Shohei Ohtani.
June 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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It’s worth it to me to add this one, the legendary corgi/greyhound:
Photo of a dog standing in front of a door. The dog is a red fawn color with very strange proportions, like a greyhound that has been squished down to corgi height; he/she is wearing an orange visibility vest and looking at the camera with pointed ears up and tongue out
June 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Good morning from our hotel balcony in Beppu, where it’s looking like the Silent Hill f trailer, which my husband is thrilled* that I keep saying
Vista from a balcony where nothing is visible but mist. There is a sofa partially visible and a woman with brown hair, glasses, a white tied button-down, and a black skirt leaning into the frame while making peace signs with both hands.
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Most of them are pretty good but the HP is inflated and the back is the wrong color. Some of them are….more obviously forgeries. This one is my favorite. Art!!
Forgery of a Pokémon card with the art of a Heatran VMAX. The Pokemon name is incorrectly labeled “Hyundai.” Several components of the Pokemon card are in different languages, there are capitalization errors, and the moveset is nonsense, including a move called “baby boomers.”
May 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Learning to format and print a standard 8-page zine is a crucial life skill with many applications
Picture of a hand holding 6 zine booklets in a fan. The three on the left say “Addresses, Flights, and Confirmations.” The three on the right say “Japanese Phrasebook” with transliterated Japanese words and English translations underneath.
May 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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this lil dude peed on the hard drive containing the only copies of my recent MRI results, as if to call me out personally for being a digital preservation hypocrite
A woman sits cross cross on a grey couch taking a selfie from the neck down. She is holding a PS5 controller. A brown tabby and white cat lounges very relaxed on her lap. He is half asleep, front paw hanging down across her leg, and chin resting on her forearm.
May 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I’ve been saving my Deku Tree lego set for dire straits. I cracked. Here we goooo!!!!
A small platform constructed with legos. A Lego Hestu from “The legend of Zelda: breath of the Wild” stands with his maracas atop a small meadow with Lego plants and mushrooms.
May 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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A Biergarten story in two photos
A woman with brown hair and glasses stands in a grassy field holding a leash with a dog in front of her. The woman is wearing a white t shirt with Mike Wazowski from the film Monsters Inc with the word “brat” spelled out in letters cut from other t-shirts, placed over Mike’s eye, a cheetah print midi skirt, and black combat boots. The dog is a brindle greyhound with an aged grey-white face, wearing a purple sweater and a purple leash. There are people and trees in the background. The woman is smiling and gazing down at the greyhound and the greyhound is looking towards the camera. A selfie of a woman and a masc-presenting person in a car. The woman is the same as the other photo and the dog is standing in the backseat. The masc-presenting person has a beard and is wearing a cubs jersey and smiling at the camera. He and the woman are very wet. The woman is also looking at the camera but her eyes are obscured by water droplets on her glasses.
May 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Today I discovered that my cat, who I adopted as an adult and who HATES getting his nails trimmed, will actually tolerate it pretty well as long as I give him 4-5 forehead kisses in between each snip 🥹
Photo of a white and brown tabby cat with one back paw lifted in the air with his toes spread, as if presenting it. There is a very cluttered coffee table behind him and a tv showing a baseball game in the background
May 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Having a good old-fashioned think in the Swarthmore College Special Collections Reading Room about who this could be…
A white woman with glasses and brown hair takes a selfie with her finger on her chin, gazing quizzically above the camera. Behind her are both a life-size cardboard cutout and a painted portrait of the same woman in a Quaker bonnet. I would tell you who the woman is but that’s against the spirit of this post.
May 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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A selection of new stickers, coming to a laptop and/or water bottle near you (near me)
A top-down photo of six stickers on top of a desk. A desk mat is partially visible under them, and is patterned with green leaves, blue and white flowers, and black cats. Top left sticker: square, white background, black outline of mushroom cloud with black text reading "It's 11 p.m. Do you know what your expert system just inferred? Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility" Bottom left sticker: rectangle, black lines on white background, hand drawn squares containing letters reading "Computer professionals for peace" with the outline of a dove in the top left corner. Top middle sticker: Black circle with shiny script reading "this is not a woman" above a shiny drawing of a uterus. Bottom middle sticker: tarot card with baby blue background and white outline, the roman numeral "V" on top with a illustration of a book cart filled with colorful books, bottom text reads "the shelver." Top right sticker: shaped like an open book with a black background, gold outline and gold text reading "Fight evil read books." Bottom right sticker: Stack of five books making up a square, each book spine reads "LIBRARY" in a different font with a barcode on the right, books are blue, pink, and white in the order of the transgender pride flag
May 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Yeah your kids know more about Pokemon TCG league play than I do, but do they still carry an unspeakable sadness around from 1999 that leaks out of their tear ducts when they look at the artwork on this card?
Mewtwo ex pokemon card. The illustration of mewtwo is drawn in a 3D style; mewtwo is breaking through glass and reaching a hand in front of him, looking distressed
May 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM