Museum Collections

Archaeologists and field scientists of the world, does the tiniest bit of misty rain render your Sharpies Completely Useless when you try to label your artifact and sample bags? Today I discovered this bad boy, and holy shit it writes on wet flagging tape and wet artifact bags like it's nothing. Not sure yet if the pigment will fade sooner than a Sharpie, but for rainy days, this is a game-changer for me.

Methodology: Writing by both instruments was placed on both the clear and “white block label” (slightly textured) sections of a dry artifact bag. After about 30 seconds to 1 minute of drying time, both were rubbed with a clean finger. Next, a Q-tip wetted with pure acetone was rubbed over the left-most letters (fresh for each test), and another Q-tip of 70% isopropyl alcohol was rubbed over the right-most letters (again fresh Q-tip for each test).

Results: Both perform similarly in the rub test on the white block, and Inkzall performs slightly better on smooth clear plastic, though both can be rubbed off with low effort. Both solvents reactivated/removed both inks, with isopropyl alcohol creating more “bleed” on both, but overall Sharpie removing more cleanly and Inkzall producing a more pronounced purplish “bleed”.

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

the library had a single page from a gutenberg bible (the bible had been damaged by fire and the remaining undamaged pieces cut apart and sold) and a CD sitting next to each other

we looked at the bible page, marveling at this 500+ year old page with its neatly set type, carefully kept under a sheet of glass to protect it

and then she held up the CD and pointed out that in 500 years, if a CD could even last that long, it was unlikely we'd possess the technology to read it

and we all got very quiet and look at the book page for a long time

a few months later one of the parents wrote me a letter that i still keep with me and in the letter they asked the kids what they learned at the museum and one of the kids said, "i learned i'm special."

You checked out... probably some stuff? Thanks for doing that :)

Used our wifi maybe? For something?

Look we actually don't know what genres you read or how many times you renewed Gender Queer.

We don't want to know.

Our gift to you is privacy.

Take it.

> it's good

> it's bad

Most hoard images from Wikipedia.

Found with the rest of the hoard, the handaxe pictured above was probably found either while digging his own hole for the treasure or maybe earlier in a precious bout of hoarding by some Romano-Briton who thought it was cool enough to bury along with all of his coins and Juliane's bracelet, because cool rock. This was absolutely the correct move.

Archive.org deliver a windfall of lost music.

Happy Pride, QLL community! We’re asking you to give what you can to keep QLL growing this Pride, and we’ve got a fun incentive to encourage you to ask your people to join you.

Have you ever wished you could choose a book to add to the QLL collection? Well, this Pride Fundraiser, you can!

This year, we’re introducing Fundraising Teams! If you’d like to be a team leader, you can click "Start A Team" on this page to create a team. Then, you and your friends can work together to pool your donations to the fundraiser and win the ability to choose a title to be added to the QLL collection.

There are three requirements for the book choice:

The title must be available in OverDrive for us to purchase

The title must align with our Collection Development Policy

Your team must fundraise $300 to select a title

You get to choose the title and the format. You could also opt to add another copy of a book that’s already in the collection. If your team manages to double it and get $600 - well that’s a second book you and your team get to select!

Team Leaders will be contacted in July/August to make their selections on behalf of their team.

Nicholas Makalik, Barrow, Alaska, 1963

Coiled Baleen Basket by Abe Simmonds Barrow, Alaska, 1954