I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.
Black-and-white photo of a Tacoma News Tribune exhibit at the Western Washington Fair, 1964. A large overhead sign reads “Tacoma News Tribune,” with an “Information” counter beneath it. At left, two men—one in glasses and a cardigan, the other in a hat and overcoat—stand beside an Associated Press machine displaying photos and news pages. At right, three women and a young boy gather at the counter, speaking with a staff member. A rack of newspapers and display boards with photos and diagrams are visible in the background. (Courtesy Tacoma News Tribune, Image TNT0122N, Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room)
🧵 Saving local news also means saving archives 🗞️
Not just physical photos, clips & recordings, but digital reporting too 💻
When archives disappear, communities lose memory, identity, and their only reliable record of change.
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UK-based artists! The British Library is offering a funded opportunity to do creative work using their Amazon related materials! Share widely! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
thank you this is so kind 😭❤️
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there’s SO MUCH!! including some Godspeed You! Black Emperor shows 👀
L7 SET ??? L7!!! archive.org/details/ajc0...
VERY @josie.zone type stuff I think??
omg omg someone digitized their entire life’s collection of concert tapes archive.org/details/@aad...
I have accidentally over committed this week in a fit of “the sun is back!” optimism and now I am in Suffer City
honored and delighted to join @drdomdavies.bsky.social and Kremena Dimitrova in the Journal of The @britishacademy.bsky.social, documenting our exhibition at the Academy’s Summer Showcase last year representing @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/14/...
one of the joys of #BAAS2026 is getting very excited about scholarship again, post-PhD. another is that Glasgow is beautiful
THANK YOU!!!
Black Sinners fans, please consider submitting all of your brilliant essay ideas to this call for abstracts by Friday, May 15, 2026, as this looks like it will be an amazing Sinners Reader: The Blues, Black Horror, and the Jim Crow South anthology, as edited by Black English prof, DuEwa M. Frazier!🔥
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some personal news
William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:
sox won btw 😌
HAPPY RED SOX OPENER TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!! i may have the flu again but i’ve taken my nyquil and i’ve got the game on let’s gooo
"I think I don’t really want to change the world anymore. I am just happy to be able to do a little good."
Good blog about doing, not just saying, from @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social: aftermath.site/woke-2-woken...
Going after desalination is closer to nuclear war than anything else weve ever seen there is no world if this is done there is just no world left after the horrors this will unleash
Life is short, friends. Spend as much of it as you can loving people.
my Nonno (who was one of my primary caregivers growing up) passed in January and it has been very, very hard. but in these little moments, I feel so close to him
what does grief look like today, Reed? it’s always having some sliced crusty bread in the freezer for scarpetta
REALLY enjoying this interview on American culture and comic books with @julianchambliss.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4Ish...
it’s always so unnerving watching US news unfold outside of the US news cycle - it’s been 4 years and I still haven’t adjusted
oh my god that’s SO good
how’s post submission going? well i am currently re-watching the 2004 world series just to feel something