@harchivist

Archivist-librarian, trad-classical musician, post-academic philosophy PhD, and other hyphenated things. Can't help it: so much to learn. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧

 Ontario, Canada
Joined January 2015
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Dr Francis Young
@DrFrancisYoungOct 18
This comment gets to the heart of the problem with AI translation; it's not that AI has actually got much better at translating, it's just that it *sounds* better and has got better at fooling the unwary bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wx…
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Hadas Weiss@weiss_hadasOct 18
i've seen the best minds of my generation destroyed by admin
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Fr. Andrew Younan@younan3000Oct 17
How your email finds me:
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Many of us have such once beloved places.
Democritus Sr@DemocritusSrOct 17
Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Boston” #poetry #sonnet
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Izabella Kaminska
@izakaminskaOct 16
The problem of our time is not merely information overload. It is that the time required to construct a coherent understanding of reality is becoming longer than the time during which that understanding remains valid.
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What a photograph.
Ninefold Kyrie@Gda1238Oct 15
Taken from a church in Manchester this week. 2026 for you. Absolutely dreadful.
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Philip Anderson@P_G_AndersonOct 12
Big news about would be Roman emperor, Magnus Maximus, confirming details of later Welsh literature - re his presence in Pembrokeshire. He became a crucial figure in the medieval Welsh imagination, as last a bastion of Roman civilisation vs the barbarians. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real

Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality

theguardian.com
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Harvest Thanksgiving (Canada) in "my" choir stall.
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Laughing and crying in archivist. If only.
CristinaM (Marmotta Malmostosa)@cri_mousseOct 4
Il mio sogno proibito al momento è trovare un posto d'archivista e seppellirmi per vent'anni tra carte più vecchie di me fino alla pensione. Un lavoro inutile, solitario e inattuale, che mi farebbe, proprio per questo, immensamente felice.
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The power of primary sources.
Simple@SimonSimplicioOct 3
My wife found an 11-year-old girl's diary at the antique store. She read me an entry from 1957 in which the girl writes: “I didn't go to school today because of my feet. I've been soaking them all day.” Now my wife and I are crying.
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Castle Hunter 🏰@castlehunterukSep 30
Some of the medieval graffiti inside Carlisle castle keep, Cumbria 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 zoom in to see how amazing the artwork is
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Michaelmas bee.
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Mej🧸
@MejSznSep 28
The workday is basically emails, meetings, “quick questions,” and trying to remember what you were doing before someone interrupted you.
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The smell of burning dust tells me that autumn has truly arrived.
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Especially if you're single. Why is my mother less important to society than some live-in rando I met two years ago whom I could put on my insurance with no problem. This would change my mother's life.
The Notorious YGL@jahmekyagyalSep 23
One of the things I’d love addressed by law is the inability to add your parents to your company health insurance scheme. Once they are senior citizens, you should be able to treat them as your dependents in every single way including being able to add them to your insurance
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For my birthday I visited the grave of one of my favourite historical figures, the Rev. Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby). The inscription is now hardly legible. You can make out the word Ojibway and part of his name. The original wording may be in some archival records I catalogued.
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He and his English wife Eliza Field Jones were remarkable people. More: biographi.ca/en/bio/jones_pe…
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Andrii Frolov@kznsqSep 18
"Rain In Newcastle" - my oil painting
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LM Sacasas@LMSacasasSep 17
A whole critical genealogy of modernity in one comic frame.
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We're still doing this.
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