hmm, sorry, i'm going to make Bell rims now, you can't stop me Saul

Oh I didn’t know HistoryLink was on here! This is very exciting!

#OnThisDay in 1883, a telephone exchange started in Seattle with 90 subscirbers. Henry Yesler reportedly asked whether or not "one could swear over that thing." www.historylink.org/File/875

💯 some patent lawyer was like “ok they don’t pay me enough for this”

oh my god, the actual text starts on page 239

a page from a patent document. it looks like someone was playing a joke on the patent attorneys

unhinged patent filing for the no. 5 crossbar. there’s over 100 pages of just this.

the most important step in setting up my new toolbox

current mood

A faux brass sign that reads “No job is so important and no service is so urgent that cannot take time to perform our work safely. Bell System”

New treasure get!

A selfie of a girl standing on a ladder. Many cables snake around her.

A distant photo of a friend smiling and waving while standing on a ladder.

We are packing up the JKL Museum switch room for shipment to Seattle, which means that I’m spending the day crawling through the ceiling.

one of our coziest girls, in her natural habitat

a screenshot of youtube, showing the connections museum homepage. the name of the account is visible, along with the pronouns "she/her/hers"

Some doofus in the youtube comments section was big mad that the museum's account has pronouns listed. I didn't even know we did, but now I'm keeping them there, just to be a tar-pit to catch the next asshole who wanders through.

Trans rights are human rights, motherfucker.

girlfriends, on the other hand, have teletypes.

A picture of a western electric, junior electric range

Though to be fair, at the time, Western wasn’t actively manufacturing these objects. So the ad is truthful.

A 1950’s western electric advertisement, depicting, telephone equipment being raised into a newly constructed telephone exchange. Several curious people are looking on from a distance.

A close-up of text from the Western electric advertisement. The text reads as follows. “ Making telephone equipment for the Bell system is Western electric‘s job and has been for 68 years. We don’t make toasters or washing machines or electric ranges. We make telephone equipment. Good equipment that helps give you good service at low cost.”

A picture of a western electric toaster

A picture of a western electric washing machine

Oh yeah, Western Electric? Tell me more about how you don’t make washing machines and toasters.

Yes please! I’ll be out of town but we are open on Sundays from 10-3. Feel free to drop by, give it to a docent and say “Sarah said to come and donate this” and it will get taken care of <3

This is a great idea.
(Pear Williams, 7up, twist of citrus)

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Wish we could but right now we’ve got a good thing going with CottonBureau, and spinning up another merch relationship would be complicated.

I’m sorry it’s so damn expensive to buy a silly shirt :(

nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

watermarked stock image of witchcraft supplies (salt pentagram, crystal, candle)

telephony

HEY IT'S THE CONNECTIONS MUSEUM ON BLUESKY

They're the ones with the amazing 3ESS telephone exchange that I discovered on Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k865...

Give them a follow!

Also, I know we haven't released any new videos in *ages*. I'm really sorry. I haven't stopped traveling since June. I've got a script written though, so filming should start soon.

Heyo, it's us, the telephone weirdos.

Also on the fediverse tacobelllabs.net/@connections