Eira Tansey / is on Nostr

Feminist/Archivist/Quaker/Socialist, in chronological order. Resident of the Ohio River watershed. Author of A Green New Deal for Archives. Do no harm but take no shit.

Website: https://eiratansey.com/
Pronouns: she/her/comrade

Last Notes

2024-08-23 00:35:35

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lol sounds a lot like ours (Cincinnati public library… one of the largest)

2024-08-22 19:52:59

I love that my public library website has no 2FA nonsense or scaremongering about changing my password. Like, thank you for this, seriously.

2024-07-01 16:36:14

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populism gets a bad rap in the US imagination because it's so often associated with bad faith jerks like JD Vance who cosplay as a populist with a Yale Law School JD and a wildly expensive home on one of Cincinnati's wealthiest cul de sacs. But the left is very overdue for a populist conversation about putting major restraints on the Supreme Court, whether by expansion, term limits, or other means. Too bad we should have started this process 40 years ago.

2024-07-01 16:32:47

The Supreme Court has not been a legitimate or trustworthy branch of government since Gore v. Bush in in 2000. The ruling that Trump is immune from prosecution is basically fulfilling what began in December 2000. It is an unelected body of 9 people who function as America's unaccountable priestly class, most of whom have never worked or been educated in institutions that have anything in common with the overwhelming majority of the American population.

2024-06-26 13:39:22

My spicy take on the MTV disappearing all of its web archives is this is the obvious outcome of allowing major corporations to treat their information outputs as business assets. Some of y'all have never worked as archivists who've written retention schedules that you have to argue with an institution's attorneys about. I did, for nearly a decade. I have worked with staff attorneys who are extremely skeptical about the virtues of institutional archives because it's viewed as a legal liability.

2024-04-15 19:50:34

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One of the things that I still carry baggage around from my time in higher ed is how difficult and lonely it is to be the one who speaks out while others thank you in private for your "bravery." It takes a massive unbelievable toll on people. Truth tellers do not want to be thanked for their bravery, they want you at their side also adding your voice to the mix. United we bargain, divided we beg.

2024-04-15 19:48:50

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Quote from the new Ithaka S+R report on self-censorship and academic libraries https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/new-report-on-self-censorship-and-public-university-libraries/

2024-04-15 19:48:19

Man, we gotta talk about stuff like this. The tendency of library leaders to not speak out fearing further retaliation rarely proves to be a winning strategy, and in fact can be demoralizing for staff: "Library directors are seeking opportunities to speak to others at peer institutions about these issues without drawing public attention. They do not want organizations to speak for them or advocate on their behalf, out of fear that it will draw negative attention to their libraries."