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@Austin_Dern @captpackrat My Canadian Mint commemoratives are actually worth more than I paid :D

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Bob Weir gave us songs to sing and shows to remember. Relive decades of Grateful Dead live recordings in the Live Music Archive. 🌹💀 https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

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#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/805549012426096640
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are standing on the opposite sides of Blue's car, which is covered in snow. Both foxes are holding ice scrapers, with the snow brush side up. Green: You clear the snow on your side, and I'll do this one. Blue: Sure. The snow that Green is brushing off the car gets blown by the wind, landing right onto Blue's face. Green looks startled. Green: Oh, sorry! The wind caught it! Suddenly turning to blow the opposite way as Blue tries to brush the snow off the car, the snow gets caught by the wind and blows directly on Green's face. Blue looks equally apologetic. The wind changes direction again, now somehow blowing into both directions, to blow snow on both foxes' eyes. Green: Aaah! Blue: How?!

@Austin_Dern You don't want any association with couch...

@karpour Okay, a friend on LJ posted a link explaining roughly what I asked about:
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25

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Does anyone still have old data on livejournal? I wrote a tool that dumps all user data into json files. I never polished it, but it works. If anyone wants help getting their data off, let me know.
(This month LJ will restrict access to anyone outside Russia)

@karpour Where did you hear this? Dreamwidth posted that there was a huge influx of Russian bloggers coming over but I had no notice of my lj possibly being blocked: I use my accounts there quite a bit still!

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Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎

🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain.

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

#PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

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👀 WATCH THIS SPACE! 🚨
Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? 🪩 Join us here!

At 12:01am ET, we’ll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 — iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them.

Learn more ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/public-domain-day-2026/

Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.

@Austin_Dern mid?

@Austin_Dern Dick Van Dyke's secret to a long life.

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"Must-have" Christmas gift of 1983? The Cabbage Patch Kid 🥬 👶

It started the holiday trend. Desperate parents camped out & tore through stores, while some greedy Grinches resold the dolls at inflated prices.

This serene Wishbook page belies the holiday chaos.

Browse the full catalog in our collection to see the gift also-rans of 1983 ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/1983-sears-christmas-wishbook-catalog/page/524/mode/2up

A 1983 Sears Wisbook catalog page showing a group of Cabbage Patch Kid dolls with different skin tones, hairstyles, and outfits, along with sample birth certificates and adoption papers. The page also displays accessory sets, including outfits, a yellow baby carrier, and a quilted doll blanket.

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Are your #Thanksgiving cooking plans half-baked? 🧑‍🍳 Don’t stew in your own juices—simmer down and take some time ⏲️ out to peruse these vintage kitchen manuals for slow cookers, blenders, cookware & ovens.

Feast your eyes on even more vintage kitchen manuals, guides, & cookbooks ➡️ https://archive.org/details/@iasocial/lists/5/thanksgiving-2025-cooking

A collage of four vintage cooking and appliance manuals. The top left shows a Rival Crock-Pot cookbook with illustrations of three crockpots surrounded by vegetables. The top right is a Duncan Hines stainless-steel cookware booklet with a close-up photo of fresh produce. The bottom left features a colorful, stylized cover for a manual titled Casserole Cooking in the New World Oven, with bold geometric graphics and food shapes. The bottom right shows the cover of Your Waring Cookbook, displaying an array of prepared foods and ingredients arranged around a blender.

@leaf It's what's inside that counts ...

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My editor at #HarperAlley sent me a couple of early copies of my new book! Always a thrill to finally hold a book in your hand after working on it for so long!

A KID LIKE ME publishes 2/3/26

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-kid-like-me-norm-feuti?variant=43787063361570

Two copies of A KID LIKE ME on a shipping envelope. On the cover, a boy sits on a picnic table with a chainlink fence and a trailer in the background.

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My author's note from A KID LIKE ME. The discourse around food assistance (and social programs in general) hits close to home for me.

While Ethan's story is a work of fiction, it was inspired by my own experiences trying to fit in as an underprivileged kid.
I grew up in an economically depressed rural town in Rhode Island. My sister and I were raised by our single mother, who worked in a factory assembling window screens. When I was ten, an old friend of my mother's was going through a divorce and was looking for someone to rent the basement of her house. Seeing it as an opportunity for a better life, my mother moved us across the country to the middle-class suburb in Colorado where her friend lived. Living in this new neighborhood was eye-opening
for me. Where I came from, most of the kids I knew were poor like me. Now I was surrounded by middle-class kids who were all much better off than we were.
Making new friends in this environment wasn't always easy. My mom drove a beat-up Dodge Rambler. I wore clothes from Kmart. My teeth were crooked because we couldn't afford braces. I might as well have been wearing a barrel with suspenders. More than a few parents eyed me cautiously. I was often looked at as a potential thief or a probable bad influence. In retrospect, those parents were just being protective of their own kids, but still-it always stung.
Still, I made friends. Instead of Bio Battle, it was Dungeons & Dragons that
helped me bond with other kids ... I'd discover my new middle-class friends had many of the same problems my poor friends did. Nobody was immune to the things life throws at you.

By the time I was entering middle school, we had moved into a subsidized apartment complex. Back in the early 1980s, the politics of the day had a lot of people talking disparagingly about "entitlement programs." I recall a social studies teacher lecturing us once that "Anybody who is on welfare is there because they want to be." When I shared this theory with my mother, she informed me that free hot lunch, food stamps, and rent control were all forms of "welfare." The people that teacher was talking about were us.
The way my family and I were often thought of in the abstract as a drain on society affected me profoundly as a kid. My mother worked full-time like everyone else; she was just paid a lot less and had to take care of herself and two kids with no child support. The idea that she was looking for a handout or had no ambition always seemed so unfair.
I grew up in a different time, but the stereotype of people who rely on public assistance being lazy and jobless remains the same. I recently saw a bumper sticker that read: Keep working! Millions on welfare are depending on you! In many ways this book is about putting a human face on the subjects of that kind of casual poverty-shaming. Maybe we'd all have an easier time fitting in if we stopped tearing each other down.
As someone who was ultimately able to break free from the cycle of poverty, I am profoundly thankful for the positive role models in my life, and for the social programs that helped a kid like me.

@captpackrat Good luck with this!

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Honored to receive a starred review from #Kirkus for my new book! A Kid Like Me publishes 2/3/26.

⭐"An honest and authentic portrayal of navigating an underprivileged childhood."

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/norm-feuti/a-kid-like-me/

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It's official! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.

🔗 Learn more & celebrate with us tonight ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/happy-internet-archive-day/

Joyous crowd gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall celebrating the Internet Archive.

First time driving in eleven weeks: COVID and flu shots obtained!

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