@hacks4pancakes Hopefully it’ll all be housed outside of the country, where it’s safer.

@SecureInStyle I keep pleading with people outside the US to store things and not just count solely on the Internet Archive to do this for them. They're amazing, but a huge target right now.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like many non-Americans understand how bad it has gotten in one month and that this is really happening, right now. I will buy all the hard drives I can myself when I move.

The digital book burning and minimization of trans/black/gay/women's history is very well underway here. And because the US hosts much of the internet architecture, it has been very effective. They are doing everything from blowing away digital backups, to wiping file repos, to painting over walls and murals, to forcing changes in school curriculum. Now. It is happening now.

@lavaeolus
If y'all have the capacity, please consider outreach to LGBT community history archives around the US, either for backing up any digital archives they do have or, if possible, working with them to arrange for archive digitization. There are tens of thousands of boxes of material from the 50s through 90s, including the papers of many people who died during the aids epidemic, which are the material evidence that we were here. All of it is at immediate risk right now.
@hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle @SafeguardingResearch

@dymaxion yes! This is part of our fundamental mission 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

But we're stretched thin re outreach - it would be awesome of some people with more connections message us. Then we can assess the situation & try to support as much as we can

@hacks4pancakes @SecureInStyle @SafeguardingResearch