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Yes but none of it is processed yet because of budget cuts that haven’t been addressed for over a decade. So there’s no finding aid, but you’re still supposed to have it all digitized and on a very user friendly website. Good luck!! 👍

[Video Description: An ad with piano music over it all, showing an elderly woman in her home, knitting, when two younger men walk by her window, which catches her attention. She stares out her window at them as they kiss each other while walking, the old lady staring in disbelief. Cut to the old woman approaching a residence with a broom in hand, staring up at the second floor window where a small rainbow Pride flag is hanging. The old woman stares up at it and mutters "Ridiculo", before getting up on a ladder with her broom to remove the flag. Focus on the flag fluttering to the ground as church bells chime. The scene then cuts to the couple from before, approaching their home with grocery bags in hand before one stops and stares at the second floor, stopping his partner who then drops the groceries as he too stares up. It's then revealed that the small pride flag had been replaced with a gigantic, hand-knit pride flag. It then cuts back to the old woman's home, where a tin of rainbow-colored yarn sits on her table. The hands of the old woman are holding and fondly touching an old black and white photo of two young smiling women, leaning against each other. Cut to the old woman's face as she stares out with a look of happy pride on her face. At the end of the video, the name "Idealista" appears on screen, followed by "buon pride" along with a rainbow. End VD.]

one of the few draw backs of having a house is playing "where is that particular leak coming from" by my god the power to just call someone about it and get it fixed without relying on a middleman who may or may not put it off for a considerable amount of time makes everything far less awful

anyway, turns out that the entire main sewer line was clogged and the mystery water was coming out of the toilet drain, so for a few days I had a cursed toilet and didn't even know it. problem got fixed today and now my basement has the most wild smell I've ever experienced but the problem got fixed today what a concept

It’s Whursday, my friends.

Whursday the 3rd of Smarch

so we're all just going to ignore the "[en]closed is the poem you wanted; I think it is pretty darn rotton"

Pretty darn rotten to ignore the poem, yes

Some of the moments when I have felt the coolest in my life are when I was doing internships in a museum. Because they kept the dang room where I was working below 70F and my fingernail beds turned blue.

having a 4,000 year old mummy in my office for half a year because we couldn't find storage space for a coffin sized box anywhere else is still the coolest thing that has ever happened to me

The convergence 

"We're gonna achieve immortality by turning ourselves into machines" buddy I want you to find yourself a 15 year old laptop and try to run a 10 year old piece of software on it please. Connect to the internet, if you can, and attempt to log into any of your online accounts

I forget where I read it, but somewhere in the archival literature I ran across a quote that noted that as our ability to create and store information has grown over time (from stone and clay tablets to paper to audio/video to born digital), our ability to preserve and steward that information over time has decreased greatly because we simply cannot predict how the format will behave over time. * Whenever I explain this to non-archivists, the dawning realization and fear in their eyes is tangible. *this is a broad generalization focused primarily on western european culture, the archival tradition i am trained in