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2026-03-14 18:36:38 UTC

Someone putting in “relationship anarchy” as their relationship style and then listing “not political” is so crazy to me. Some of yall did not get radicalized as teenagers during the George W Bush administration when all we had for the left was a raggedy ass version of Critical Mass, Food Not Bombs, and Crimethinc zines and it shows!!!!

2026-02-16 20:20:50 UTC

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yes!!!!!!! like hello it's called information asymmetry

2026-01-29 00:16:42 UTC

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I loved every twist and turn of this, truly!!!

2026-01-28 15:17:33 UTC

After an unexpected hiatus, I'm back on the mic for my New Deal history podcast NO TIME FOR FEAR! This month I talked with fellow archivist Aaron Purcell who wrote "White Collar Radicals" about the larger political context of 1930s progressive and leftwing politics, the idealism of young Tennessee Valley Authority white collar employees, and how Cold War anti-Communist hysteria reached all the way back to the New Deal. Listen at https://notimeforfear.net/episode-notes-power-tvas-white-collar-radicals/ or wherever you get your podcasts!

2025-12-23 01:11:44 UTC

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Please understand that insinuating women dealing with borderline creepy or mansplainy content online should simply solve the problem by just setting their profiles to private is a silencing tactic. I've benefited from other women making their work very public, and I view a lot of my more personal writing as paying it back and contributing to helping other women feel less alone in navigating patriarchy. I truly don't care what men's feelings are anymore.

2025-12-23 01:00:30 UTC

Giving myself permission to delete and block people (men, I assume) who leave weird anonymous comments on my public internet presence is the energy I'm bringing into 2026. If you're going to leave these comments all over my stuff, do it with a public profile or your name, you cowards.

2025-12-07 22:11:20 UTC

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Anyway I turn 40 at the end of the month and I’m actually excited AF about it because so many women I respect tell me their forties were great, and I have always venerated women who do their own thing. It’s why I am so obsessed with Patti Smith as my role model for aging well. It makes me sad that a lot of my peers are entering middle age dreading it. Patriarchal conditioning is a hell of a drug.

2025-12-07 22:07:54 UTC

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Like no joke, Sleater Kinney’s line “watch me make up my mind instead of my face” has been gospel for me since I was a TEENAGER. I still have a lot of patriarchal wounds I will be unpacking for years to come because of family and relationship trauma but I also see ways that conventionally attractive women my age are struggling in ways that I cannot relate to because I have *never* been perceived as conventionally attractive to men or typical beauty standards.

2025-12-07 22:03:50 UTC

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I have never, ever felt like being attractive was part of my own personal currency or value in the world. I grew up in a family and social environment where your work and your politics is what had currency, and while I am definitely unpacking a lot of the ways in which even a good little elderly millennial radical feminist internalized a lot of heteronormative and patriarchal norms, it’s so clear how much being a weirdo on the fringes remains the gift that keeps on giving.

2025-12-07 22:01:07 UTC

Sometimes I read these things from fellow millennial women about aging and how they feel weird about it and I thank god I spent a lot of my formative years dumpster diving and being adjacent to punk/leftist/artsy scenes and have been at peace with going gray since I was a teenager because I cannot identify with a lot of the hand wringing. Which is not to say it’s not real or in peoples heads, just feeling very tender about how my early weird alt kid identity inoculated me from so much.

2025-12-05 23:45:46 UTC

Who has written about boomer MSNBC liberal parents. I am desperate DESPERATE to read this essay. I know it’s way better than having MAGA parents but it’s also a pretty surreal experience how the latest weird Trump thing has entered the conversation along the lines of “did you see the Michigan final score earlier”

2025-10-30 19:12:33 UTC

Is there anyone on the Fediverse who has a semi-paywalled pay what you can newsletter hosted on Buttondown? I'd really like to see some examples, thanks in advance!

2025-10-20 03:12:32 UTC

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That said I would love to hear speakers at our local rallies who aren’t a) the annoying weirdos who bullied me out of local socialist spaces for the crime of not being a Leninist and who can barely organize a sock drawer let alone a union or b) the state Democratic Party nepobaby who moonlights as a political thriller author

2025-10-20 03:05:00 UTC

Leftists yelling about how ineffective No Kings rallies are and what we need is a general strike right this second are giving the same energy of someone mad that a baby who just learned how to walk is not running a marathon. I say this as a leftist with a union background who also has read a decent amount about the labor movement. There’s a reason general strikes in the United States are very rare! Why do we suddenly think we can conjure them out of thin air?!?

2025-09-24 15:56:16 UTC

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came here to ask the same thing

2025-09-09 15:54:07 UTC

Would love to hear about people's unconventional non-home/non-office/non-coffee shop writing location strategies. I remember ages ago reading about a guy who wrote at a race track and Maya Angelou famously would rent a hotel room to do some writing. I'm starting to experiment with writing at the laundromat and am digging it so far.

2025-07-28 17:29:43 UTC

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Ahhhhh! I wrote my undergrad capstone on Cincinnati's Carnegies which eventually turned into the title article for an issue of Ohio Valley History. Last I checked, Cincinnati is still one of the few cities with the majority of its Carnegies still in operation https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/272/article/615501/pdf

2025-07-25 22:08:59 UTC

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I'll check it out and report back!

2025-07-25 22:01:07 UTC

If Lilith Fair was your first concert and your formative early adult soundtrack was Sleater-Kinney, what should you be listening to now? I am very lost.

2025-07-22 14:11:47 UTC

Is there a regional archival services/consulting membership model anywhere, in which the members are non-GLAM organizations? I am fascinated by the idea of trying to pilot something like this for regional nonprofits/arts organizations. Basically the idea being that paying member organizations can get access to X hours of consulting archivist time at various membership tiers plus an ongoing schedule of webinars/training.

2025-07-21 22:34:26 UTC

Joanna Macy has passed. Years ago at Friends General Conference I participated in a weeklong climate grief workshop taught by one of her students that was transformational in helping me heal some profound wounds and anger I was carrying towards older generations and my perceptions of their failure to stop climate change. Years later I incorporated some of Macy's activities from Active Hope into my own climate teaching. Her work is so profoundly important for this moment https://workthatreconnects.org/joanna-macy-in-memoriam/

2025-07-16 15:25:28 UTC

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As an archivist who studies climate change, I would love to talk to y'all about this topic sometime!!

2025-07-08 18:08:55 UTC

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I was on the former executive council of my union back when I was an institutional employee. I can assure you that most people with organized labor backgrounds are EXTREMELY quick studies in understanding power, organizing, and getting up to speed about the peculiarities with a given sector’s working conditions. I had the great fortune to be part of a union with enough resources for 3 staff and none had a higher ed background but were amazing at advocating for us and our needs.

2025-07-08 18:04:10 UTC

Cue the predictably annoying complaints that the new ALA director doesn’t come from the library world. I don’t have a huge dog in this fight (except for being on the board of a major allied professional association) but I’m honestly pretty pumped he comes from the organized labor world ✌🏻

2025-07-07 21:23:59 UTC

Out of curiosity is there like a github repo for screenshots of men acting like dumb asses in your mentions

2025-06-11 19:33:16 UTC

There's some seriously bleak stuff happening in GLAM land right now, folks. I follow this closely because of my interests and also because of my work on the Society of American Archivists council. Here's four stories alone from the last 24 hours demonstrating how seriously scary it is to be an archivist, librarian, curator, and cultural worker right now in the United States in terms of your job security.

2025-05-07 14:27:32 UTC

Are there any rare book/antiquarian book dealers on Mastodon open to talking about your career path? I would like to set up virtual coffees with some of y'all (cc @npub1t06…2r9g if you want to help me boost!)

2025-04-15 18:46:52 UTC

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If this resonates with you, you might be a Virgo or Capricorn.

2025-04-15 18:45:57 UTC

I wish there was a way to talk about the general decline of professionalism and manners and etiquette without sounding like a tradwife or some kind of right-wing scold. People acting totally bitchy in emails, people who charge 3x my hourly rate running late to appointments, people with weaponized scheduling incompetency, I could go on and on but the bar is so low for this stuff it's on the floor. "Everyone is so tired and burned out" yeah me too brother but we live in a society, act like it

2025-04-08 22:31:03 UTC

“The federal layoffs have also created challenges in the private sector, with contractors and businesses reliant on federal workers or agencies as customers hit hard.” Hello yes it’s me
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/08/trump-job-cuts-workers-impacts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

2025-04-05 15:46:53 UTC

I could use a very accessible single volume history of the Interstate Highway System. Any recommendations? #transportation #transportationhistory #historians

2025-03-12 14:33:13 UTC

You could listen to an egotistical California politician's podcast, OR you could listen to NO TIME FOR FEAR, an awesome podcast made by a Midwestern archivist about the history of the New Deal and the politicians of the 1930s who actually got a lot of important shit done (though not always without problems) https://notimeforfear.net/

2025-03-07 13:32:56 UTC

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I ran a pilot workshop back in fall called FUN WITH ARCHIVES that was really intended for writers, creatives, and others to learn how to find and work with archival materials. It was a lot of fun and I eventually want to run it again. I have long suspected that there is a huge void for teaching the public how to use archives and the resources that are out there are underwhelming and basically just lists of URLs but not actually teaching folks how to effectively search for archival records.

2025-03-07 13:29:18 UTC

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I’m not hating Google Scholar by the way - now that I do not have any academic affiliation I rely on it almost entirely for my own scholarly reading needs because the databases through my public library don’t have good coverage in my interest areas. But the idea that gathering a bunch of PDFs constitutes research in and of itself, as opposed to an initial step in the research process, is what concerns me greatly.

2025-03-07 13:26:48 UTC

Still thinking about a discussion I saw on Substack a few days ago where I saw someone say more essays need actual research behind them (I agree), someone else ask how to do research (fair question) and then the response was use Google Scholar (and that’s when my soul left my body)

2025-03-06 16:58:40 UTC

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If you, a non-Jew attempting to build a broad-based coalition to fight for social justice in the local sphere, condition your acceptance of Jewish and Jewish-adjacent people on expecting them to denounce any form or relationship with a place where half of the world’s Jews live, many of whom are our direct relatives, then yeah we have a big problem on our hands. This shit is getting out of hand and it’s getting scary.

2025-03-06 16:48:04 UTC

Would be real cool if my city’s leftist organizations could stop antagonizing any local Jewish leaders who don’t pass super messed up litmus tests designed by non-Jews. There’s a reason why I call myself a socialist without a home and I regret that I don’t see the situation changing anytime soon.

2025-03-04 16:02:24 UTC

Really into this visualization tool that shows the vast gulf between analog records vs digitized records at NARA. One of the top things that drives archivists nuts is "why can't you digitize it all" - this is totally within the realm of possibility! But much like climate change, it's not a technical challenge but a political problem. To do so takes an army of people digitizing things around the clock, and archives have never been funded with those levels of resources https://www.archives.gov/findingaid/record-group-explorer

2025-02-26 18:04:29 UTC

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it’s almost like instability, constantly changing regulations, and major questions about the validity of contract law is really bad for business!

2025-02-21 21:31:24 UTC

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None of this is to say that dues paying members shouldn't hold folks to high standards, but it is to note that many of us who do this volunteer service work have effectively taken on an entire additional unpaid job in which we're doing anywhere from an additional 5-20 hours of unpaid work a week because we believe so strongly in giving back to the networks and associations that helped us in our career.

2025-02-21 21:27:53 UTC

pour one out for everyone doing volunteer service in your professional associations right now. This shit has always been hard, it's getting harder literally by the hour, and it's thankless work. At best you get to see the seeds you plant bloom years later, at worst people treat you like a punching bag for everything they don't like about the org.

2025-02-19 23:42:07 UTC

Can a New Jersey archivist please contact this Congress person and gently suggest that we don’t need Congress to do a time capsule but what we really need is an actually funded National Archives and a version of the Presidential Records Act but for Congress? Give me a break https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr469

2025-02-18 21:33:16 UTC

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As I've argued before, archives are foundational infrastructure for a democratic society. These wannabe dictators benefit from keeping us in a state of historical amnesia and without the accountability that good recordkeeping ensures.

2025-02-18 21:33:08 UTC

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Archivists, regardless of where we work, need to recognize that attacks on archivists who work for the federal government will not stop there. It is no accident that the billionaire interests now taking aim at federal archives also often have major recordkeeping scandals within their own business ventures and show little interest in understanding or promoting history.

2025-02-18 21:32:43 UTC

The hostile takeover that appeared imminent less than two weeks ago at the National Archives appears to be going from bad to worse following the termination of Dr. Shogan. I've been receiving heartbreaking reports from friends who work at the National Archives in the last couple days about the cascading resignations and now, widespread terminations that are taking place across the agency.

2025-02-12 04:12:34 UTC

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Paging @npub1prs…eh8y and @npub1t06…2r9g if either of you have any suggestion/search tips

2025-02-12 04:11:56 UTC

Is there a genre term for nonfiction books where there is an entry for each day of the year? I thought it was “book of days” but that’s not helping me track down new titles. An example of what I’m talking about is this title https://wwnorton.com/books/a-readers-book-of-days/

2025-02-11 19:39:07 UTC

lol I bet the folks in Puerto Rico, Guam, CNMI, American Samoa and the USVI have a lot to say about this kind of territorial expansion. We really live in the dumbest timeline. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

2025-01-22 19:26:21 UTC

I just dropped off two bags of books to the Friends of the Public Library book sale warehouse and managed to not buy anything to bring home (but I did lend mom $5 so she could buy some sheet music) please clap

2025-01-22 14:46:06 UTC

NO TIME FOR FEAR, my New Deal history podcast is live, baby!!!!! We might live in the dumbest timeline ever, but America did a lot of really good stuff nearly a century ago during the height of the Great Depression that we can use as a blueprint moving forward. It's still making its way into all of the podcast directories but is now available via Apple podcasts, Spotify, and Overcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-time-for-fear/id1791957947 #history #podcast

2025-01-15 17:34:21 UTC

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like, every Silicon Valley techbro is out here training AI on the entire output of human intellectual and creative content across centuries and yet we have artists and podcasters and documentarians worried about using a 30-second clip in their content that technically, legally, perhaps they are supposed to pay someone a for-profit licensing fee for even though those fees assume a real production budget somewhere? Please be for real.

2025-01-15 17:29:54 UTC

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Anyway, I belong to the Peter Hirtle school of thought which is that cultural workers are too timid around (c) and should just push the envelope as maximally as possible with fair use by basically doing whatever feels reasonable and in the public interest, and let the corporations have a temper tantrum. in most cases, you can just take it down and avoid a lawsuit!! (this is not legal advice btw, just my attitude I've had for years) (also please do not tell my lawyer about these feelings)

2025-01-15 17:27:07 UTC

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Like, sorry but solo history podcasters with an LLC (yes I am talking about myself) are not somehow more "for profit" than say A Major University With a Multi-Billion Dollar Endowment, but the way cultural heritage organizations frame reuse of content reinforces these dumb and arbitrary barriers that are based on 20th century legal fictions, not 21st century economic realities

2025-01-15 17:24:10 UTC

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Before anyone starts arguing with me about the tax code and legal forms of business structure, please assume I know what I'm talking about. I understand that 501c3 status means that "profit" is a very different animal than for an LLC or other biz structure. But I think a fairer way to deal with fair use fee waivers for content reuse is based on tiers of revenue/income/profits across organizational structure, not "are you a 501c3/educational institution/nonprofit or not."

2025-01-15 17:22:06 UTC

My red hot fair use copyright nuclear take is that for-profit/non-profit clauses are no longer useful in the 21st century content creator economy. A podcaster or documentarian who self-funds their own production and tries to turn a profit for sustaining it through crowdfunding is not the same kind of economic structure as say, PBS and Ken Burns. I say this as someone who used to have to explain fees as a university-based archivist and am now on the other side of the table.

2025-01-12 20:01:33 UTC

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Like you actually should try to align how you spend your money with certain values, this has been part of virtually every social movement since time immemorial and if nothing else it will help you feel more in integrity. I am traveling a lot for work right now and I actually feel really shitty about it and rather than try to gaslight myself about that shitty feeling by going “well capitalism left me no choice” I’m using it to figure out how to do work that requires less travel.

2025-01-12 19:59:24 UTC

Increasingly convinced that the “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism is a big business psy op but I also belong to a religion that has historically made a very big deal about trying to do trade and commerce slightly more ethically

2025-01-09 20:25:38 UTC

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This inspired me to look up wildfire numbers in Ohio. We had some in SE Ohio this year which I thought were a notable exception due to our summer drought, and I was very surprised to learn we have an average of 800 a year (and those numbers are just within state DNR lands) https://ema.ohio.gov/mitigation-recovery/mitigation/hazards/06-hazards-wildfire

2024-12-20 21:09:56 UTC

Confession time: I have never seen It's A Wonderful Life. Given my interest in uhhhhh the 1930s I should probably fix this right?

2024-12-20 17:42:46 UTC

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This is one of these things that truly grinds my gears because it also feeds into right-wing narratives that leftists have no sense of family tradition and that their ideas are weird and out of touch. Naw bro some of us leftists actually inherit our politics from our families ✌🏻

2024-12-20 17:38:05 UTC

I need people who grew up in conservative families to stop universalizing their life experiences. Just saw a well-meaning person trying to make a feminist argument go “your grandma was probably a tradwife because she had no choice.” Listen, my grandma (also a hardcore second wave feminist) worked her entire life and at one point was a negotiator for her union to win prescription drug coverage. Assuming everyone has a family history like yours is naïve at best and historical distortion at worst.

2024-12-12 21:53:27 UTC

YOUR GIRL HAS UNLOCKED A NEW ACHIEVEMENT: being cited and helping shape new legislation about archives and climate change! I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING AHHHHH huge shout out to [@j_feral](https://digipres.club/@j_feral ) who has been part of this wild ride the entire time. LET'S GOOOOOOOO https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sens-markey-hirono-and-rep-adams-introduce-legislation-to-promote-conservation-and-preservation-of-government-and-historic-records

2024-12-10 22:28:39 UTC

This is a friendly reminder that I put out a really interesting, useful, and fun monthly newsletter for my business! Even if you are like "Eira I will never have any need for your services" I still include a lot of interesting links in each newsletter to cultural heritage, tech, climate change, and public policy stories. Sign up here for the last edition of 2024, going out tomorrow morning! https://memoryrising.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=33964c505212f62c031cc170e&id=866da7c133

2024-11-23 22:00:57 UTC

Folks, there was a book title I ran across recently that I think was a short story collection by an Asian author (I think), and potentially about themes of climate change/technology/weird futures. Can anyone jog my memory what this might have been? I remember wanting to request it from the library and I think I forgot to do so. #literature #books

2024-11-15 21:37:03 UTC

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For context, all of these individuals I would be asking to cooperate with me on this are generally computer literate and working in professional environments where this would not be a huge challenge (I would not hold the elderly folks in my Quaker meeting to the same expectation!)

2024-11-15 21:34:11 UTC

I feel really bad/guilty about this, but I think I am going to need to get more adamant about asking people to send me calendar invitations if they want me to attend something. I feel kind of bad about this because one of my major service roles requires me to be a liaison to several groups, but I cannot easily keep track of everyone's meeting if they don't send me a calendar invitation. Please someone help me feel okay about doing this!

2024-11-07 22:08:12 UTC

guys I'm not trying to harsh anyone's vibes but a lot of people tried the whole "downloading every bit of climate data we could find from a .gov website" this time 8 years ago and most of those projects didn't actually work out very well. For example, the original DataRescue project basically petered out https://www.datarefuge.org/

2024-10-29 13:10:02 UTC

A friendly reminder for everyone on the glammr.us TL that you can support the costs of running the server through Patreon or Ko-fi! More information is here: https://glammr.us/about

2024-10-21 15:41:23 UTC

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Thanks for sharing! I visited Iceland last year and was really struck by some of the famines and natural disasters detailed in the National Museum. And as a Quaker who is ideologically opposed to state-sponsored violence, I appreciate this essay too.

2024-10-19 18:51:32 UTC

I know I am kind of a recurring asshole about this but the r/archivists subreddit is one of the worst modded subreddits I’ve ever seen. Can we please have fewer posts that read as if someone gave an LLM a chat prompt but with zero experience of actually being a digital archivist https://www.reddit.com/r/Archivists/s/VYX60m77cP

2024-10-18 17:26:55 UTC

I normally try to avoid sharing big news on a Friday, but this won't be the last time I'll share this! I'm excited to be able to share the final report from the work I've done for the Mellon Foundation over the last 18 months covering climate change challenges and adaptation for archives. Get the report here: https://memoryrising.net/research-project-on-climate-change-and-archives-final-report-for-mellon-foundation-public-knowledge-program/

2024-10-09 03:10:35 UTC

Pretty wild to see folks moving quickly from "there are no climate change safe harbors" to "every place is risky these days." I understand where people are coming from on this, but it isn't based in reality in terms of risk thresholds and I fear it lets goons like DeSantis off the hook. Nothing about the last two weeks changes the fact that coastal Florida is fundamentally a riskier place than most other locations in the United States when it comes to climate change adaptation.

2024-09-24 13:11:07 UTC

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I think there’s a way to talk about the dynamics of tension that exist around people and trusting that the other person will handle that with discretion, it’s the “…now don’t tell anyone else I told you this” without first asking me if I’m okay having a confidential conversation that sends my blood pressure through the roof

2024-09-24 12:25:24 UTC

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To be clear, I don’t mean receiving confidential information that is normal to be confidential (personnel issues, financials, etc). I mean internecine dynamics that feel intended to recruit me to one side or another. I can instantly tell the difference because I’ve experienced this since I was a child and it automatically makes me lose respect for whoever is putting me in this non-consensual information receiving position.

2024-09-24 12:23:51 UTC

One of the dynamics I hate the most is when people give me unsolicited information and then tell me I can’t share it with others. This happened to me yet again in a professional setting and I found it very triggering. At first I thought it was because it was like all the turf wars I saw in academia. But then I realized it goes back earlier, to my childhood which was full of estrangement, divorced parents trying to control information through me, and being parentified etc etc etc

2024-09-13 20:46:58 UTC

I need someone to give me a backstory behind the creation of this org. https://alplibraries.org/

2024-08-28 16:31:40 UTC

People who really believe that there’s going to be a huge boomer wealth transfer are really telling you that they have zero experience with eldercare, because unless you’re a 1%er to begin with, home care aide companies or assisted living is getting all of that money, honey

2024-08-24 01:28:37 UTC

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I’m fortunate that the parents in my life Get It and understand the different experiences and politics of caregiving, but the idea that you only understand sacrifice and care through having children is so wildly offensive that it makes my pacifist self literally want to slap the shit out of someone.

2024-08-24 01:23:07 UTC

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Also we should have a conversation some time about how many people who want to have children literally cannot because of caregiving for other family members. This is not my experience but it is a real phenomenon for many people and it’s why the constant erasure of childless caregivers makes me really irritated and uncomfortable.

2024-08-24 01:21:26 UTC

I really fucking hate the term sandwich generation because it a) implies that eldercare is particular to specific generations when caregivers for the elderly are found among many people of many ages (including literal children) and b) it erases the experiences of childless caregivers who are already condescended to by society and work and policy and others in many ways

2024-08-22 19:52:59 UTC

I love that my public library website has no 2FA nonsense or scaremongering about changing my password. Like, thank you for this, seriously.

2024-08-21 16:52:12 UTC

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nothing makes me feel more like i'm dissolving into dust than trying to explain what it was like to be a Deaniac to anyone younger than me

2024-08-09 20:59:44 UTC

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Also, that goat in me says manufactured urgency is often a reflection of others' total failure to plan, use good project management practices, and manage expectations, so..... this is why I now work for myself.

2024-08-09 20:45:30 UTC

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Literally one of the best things I've ever done for my own health and my friend's sanity levels is loosening my own grip on my unrelenting need for HAVING A PLAN and calendaring and scheduling. Look, I get it, I'm a Capricorn. But there's an art to navigating this with care.

2024-08-09 20:42:47 UTC

I really, really, really need GLAM folks to learn some scheduling and calendar etiquette around busy people's schedules. The way some people are creating manufactured urgency around things happening months from now for no obvious reason is borderline disrespectful.

2024-08-01 21:10:43 UTC

I've had to stay quiet about this news for WEEKS and I can finally announce it! My 2023 pub Green New Deal for Archives won the Waldo Gifford Leland award, which is the American archives profession's highest honor for excellent writing! Massive shout out to my wonderful friend and comrade [@j_feral](https://digipres.club/@j_feral ) who helped coordinate letter writing in support! https://www2.archivists.org/recipients/2024/waldo-gifford-leland-award-eira-tansey