penguinchris

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Was curious about the provenance of the scans - they're very good and I work in cultural heritage digitization; with some google sleuthing I found the source of these scans is actually the Smithsonian:

https://pulverer.si.edu/node/314/title/1

I was going to say maybe an inevitable result of posting high-quality public domain images, but actually the Smithsonian (one of the leaders in digitization) doesn't release their images of public-domain works into the public domain like we do where I work!

Ryakuga hayaoshie | F|S Pulverer Collection

One thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.

That there are systemic traps that trap workers in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.