Gretchen Emmert
@widdershinns.bsky.social
Dogs! Books! History! Records! Prehistory! Bones! Art!
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Trinial goes hard… two sizes with mortised alt characters to mix and match. The dream of the 1890s is alive in the shop today (well, every day). #letterpress
September 29, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Trinial goes hard… two sizes with mortised alt characters to mix and match. The dream of the 1890s is alive in the shop today (well, every day). #letterpress
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Tom Morello: "Every act of art now is an act of resistance."
September 28, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Tom Morello: "Every act of art now is an act of resistance."
It’s National Voter Registration Day - check your status! California voters check here: voterstatus.sos.ca.gov
My Voter Status - California Secretary of State
My Voter Status - California Secretary of State
voterstatus.sos.ca.gov
September 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
It’s National Voter Registration Day - check your status! California voters check here: voterstatus.sos.ca.gov
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DIY web archiving is way more doable than you think. Trust me, we taught elementary schoolers and retirees as part of SUCHO. Then we made a zine about it!
Making time for web archiving things that matter should be like shoreline litter pickup or community garden weeding events.
Making time for web archiving things that matter should be like shoreline litter pickup or community garden weeding events.
September 5, 2026 at 4:23 AM
DIY web archiving is way more doable than you think. Trust me, we taught elementary schoolers and retirees as part of SUCHO. Then we made a zine about it!
Making time for web archiving things that matter should be like shoreline litter pickup or community garden weeding events.
Making time for web archiving things that matter should be like shoreline litter pickup or community garden weeding events.
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Given rising interest in the rapidly strengthening El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, I've created a one-page fact sheet succinctly describing what El Niño is, this year's (remarkable) forecast, and potential impacts from California to global scales. [Thread]
August 20, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Given rising interest in the rapidly strengthening El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, I've created a one-page fact sheet succinctly describing what El Niño is, this year's (remarkable) forecast, and potential impacts from California to global scales. [Thread]
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slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
August 11, 2026 at 1:46 PM
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
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This replica fossil skull is of a Sea Otter Dog. The strong tooth enamel and shape of the premolars suggest this was the first dog adapted to cracking its prey's bones for the marrow inside. Enhydrocyon lived 29-21 million years ago. #paleosky #FossilFriday
July 31, 2026 at 6:35 PM
This replica fossil skull is of a Sea Otter Dog. The strong tooth enamel and shape of the premolars suggest this was the first dog adapted to cracking its prey's bones for the marrow inside. Enhydrocyon lived 29-21 million years ago. #paleosky #FossilFriday
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America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
July 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Goodnight. Sleep well.
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov
May 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Goodnight. Sleep well.
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov
🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov
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The history of Ukraine helps explain the present - if you want to understand how we got to where we are now, the Holodmor
Research and Education Consortium has created a free course in the history of the Ukrainian famine. Sign up here:
www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...
Research and Education Consortium has created a free course in the history of the Ukrainian famine. Sign up here:
www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...
Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine
Offered by University of Alberta. The Holodomor, one of the major tragedies of the twentieth century, became the subject of serious study ... Enroll for free.
www.coursera.org
March 23, 2026 at 5:52 PM
The history of Ukraine helps explain the present - if you want to understand how we got to where we are now, the Holodmor
Research and Education Consortium has created a free course in the history of the Ukrainian famine. Sign up here:
www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...
Research and Education Consortium has created a free course in the history of the Ukrainian famine. Sign up here:
www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...
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i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
March 5, 2026 at 3:52 AM
i made a starter back of beautiful and unique manuscripts you can browse online! (with links) for anyone that wants a good way to spend an afternoon :)
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
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1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
Stream 4,000+ Public Domain Movies on WikiFlix: Silent Classics, Academy Award-Winners, Hitchcock Films & More
Humanity was already enjoying motion pictures a century ago. But the ability to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the ability to pull up a movie on demand through a streaming se...
www.openculture.com
March 1, 2026 at 9:39 PM
1000s of public domain films that you can stream, no ads!
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
www.openculture.com/2026/01/stre...
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George Orwell is everywhere; quoted, misquoted, meme-ified. But who was he really?
"George Orwell: Life and Legacy" goes beyond the soundbites to rediscover the man behind the masterpieces and offer an authentic portrait of Orwell: oxford.ly/4sV08CO
"George Orwell: Life and Legacy" goes beyond the soundbites to rediscover the man behind the masterpieces and offer an authentic portrait of Orwell: oxford.ly/4sV08CO
January 26, 2026 at 2:30 PM
George Orwell is everywhere; quoted, misquoted, meme-ified. But who was he really?
"George Orwell: Life and Legacy" goes beyond the soundbites to rediscover the man behind the masterpieces and offer an authentic portrait of Orwell: oxford.ly/4sV08CO
"George Orwell: Life and Legacy" goes beyond the soundbites to rediscover the man behind the masterpieces and offer an authentic portrait of Orwell: oxford.ly/4sV08CO
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Um, excuse me, I thought I was buying an America the Beautiful Pass??? 🤡
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Um, excuse me, I thought I was buying an America the Beautiful Pass??? 🤡
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Heart broken for many reasons. But there REALLY REALLY should be archaeologist on site of the destruction when digging and potentially destroying valuable historical artifacts (I know they don’t care, clearly) but further future harm above & beyond harm above ground. More broken laws forthcoming. 😞
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Heart broken for many reasons. But there REALLY REALLY should be archaeologist on site of the destruction when digging and potentially destroying valuable historical artifacts (I know they don’t care, clearly) but further future harm above & beyond harm above ground. More broken laws forthcoming. 😞
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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
ag.ny.gov
October 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
Please Use it and SHARE!
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...
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2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money
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It's textbook season, and that means it's time for this reminder:
Always use an aggregate site to comparison shop BOOK PRICES.
AddALL, Bookfinder, and viaLibri.net will all search multiple websites for you, so that you can see the prices everywhere - so that you won't be fooled by bookjackers.
Always use an aggregate site to comparison shop BOOK PRICES.
AddALL, Bookfinder, and viaLibri.net will all search multiple websites for you, so that you can see the prices everywhere - so that you won't be fooled by bookjackers.
viaLibri - The world’s largest search engine for old, rare & second-hand books.
viaLibri is the world's largest search engine for old, rare & second-hand books.
viaLibri.net
September 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
It's textbook season, and that means it's time for this reminder:
Always use an aggregate site to comparison shop BOOK PRICES.
AddALL, Bookfinder, and viaLibri.net will all search multiple websites for you, so that you can see the prices everywhere - so that you won't be fooled by bookjackers.
Always use an aggregate site to comparison shop BOOK PRICES.
AddALL, Bookfinder, and viaLibri.net will all search multiple websites for you, so that you can see the prices everywhere - so that you won't be fooled by bookjackers.
All those perimenopausal women that stocked up on tampons when they were on sale only to hit menopause the next month are really going to light up the revolution 🔥
July 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
All those perimenopausal women that stocked up on tampons when they were on sale only to hit menopause the next month are really going to light up the revolution 🔥
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CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information wit...
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July 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
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Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
July 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.
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What an amazing document: a four-volume journal/sketchbook/scrapbook kept by Jacques Gogois, a French child in Amiens, during the First World War.
The first volume begins in 1914, when Jacques is seven years old.
@sommecourt.bsky.social
archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/8...
The first volume begins in 1914, when Jacques is seven years old.
@sommecourt.bsky.social
archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/8...
July 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What an amazing document: a four-volume journal/sketchbook/scrapbook kept by Jacques Gogois, a French child in Amiens, during the First World War.
The first volume begins in 1914, when Jacques is seven years old.
@sommecourt.bsky.social
archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/8...
The first volume begins in 1914, when Jacques is seven years old.
@sommecourt.bsky.social
archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/8...
Shoutout to @bookshopghost.bsky.social for the best abebooks order I’ve ever had - those books were exactly as described & there was no way a dropped box was going to result in banged up corners! The graphic design book is beautiful & you’re going to be on my regular bookstore rotation from now on!
July 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Shoutout to @bookshopghost.bsky.social for the best abebooks order I’ve ever had - those books were exactly as described & there was no way a dropped box was going to result in banged up corners! The graphic design book is beautiful & you’re going to be on my regular bookstore rotation from now on!