Dr. Tamara L. Siuda

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she/they 🏳️‍🌈 | author/scholar | Haudenosaunee & Métis #Indigenous | Egyptology, Coptic Studies, Haiti/Vodou, tech, religion | RT≠endorsement | https://linktr.ee/tamarasiuda

Profile picture: "The Temple of Bik Mekh," from a late 1980s greeting card, artist unnamed (not me)

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Dr. Tamara L. SiudaNov 12
Hm. Let’s see if this server is still working? Hello, mastodon.
Dr. Tamara L. SiudaJan 12, 2025
On This Day In HistoryJan 12, 2025

Today in 2010, 15 years ago: a devastating earthquake of a magnitude of 7 degrees, with an epicenter 15 km from Port-au-Prince (Haiti), produces some 316,000 deaths.

#OnThisDay

Dr. Tamara L. SiudaNov 9, 2024
Show threadDare ObasanjoNov 9, 2024
It is truly disappointing that the majority of voters chose a return to a government that deliberately and wantonly harmed millions of people over rhe belief that a person with “concepts of a plan” will make their grocery bills lower and gas prices cheaper.
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Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. ~ Anne Lamott
Dr. Tamara L. SiudaAug 31, 2024
Next Friday (6 September) I will be honoring the ancestors, like I do every month. You can join me if you’d like! (I offer this as a community service, supported by donations). Let’s bless the dead together ❤️
Dr. Tamara L. SiudaAug 29, 2024
dakkarAug 29, 2024
LEGO saw extra profits, and decided to cut their margins to reduce pollution!

RE: https://wandering.shop/users/adapalmer/statuses/113044267476593224
Ada Palmer (@[email protected])

Lego switching over to low-carbon renewable/recycled material for future legos! Awesome to see a company using high profits to do good: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/28/business/lego-bricks-renewable-plastic/index.html #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Dr. Tamara L. SiudaAug 29, 2024
Brewster KahleAug 25, 2024

How MIT copes without Elsevier

MIT leaders describe their experience of not renewing the largest journal contract as “overwhelmingly positive”.

“For MIT to continue to pay millions of dollars to corporations that lock up the scholarship that comes out of our own campus was just inconsistent with MIT’s history of supporting open education and research,” said Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries at MIT.

...MIT Libraries estimates annual savings at more than 80%....

https://sparcopen.org/our-work/big-deal-knowledge-base/unbundling-profiles/mit-libraries/

Unbundling Profile: MIT Libraries - SPARC

SPARC
Dr. Tamara L. SiudaAug 1, 2024
Dune QuotesAug 1, 2024
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Dr. Tamara L. SiudaJul 21, 2024
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Land Back: Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska Get Back 1,600 Acres That Was Illegally Taken by US 50 Years Ago | Sovereignty https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/land-back-winnebago-tribe-of-nebraska-get-back-1-600-acres-that-was-illegally-taken-by-us-50-years-ago
Land Back: Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska Get Back 1,600 Acres That Were Illegally Taken by US 50 Years Ago

This week, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that returns 1,600 acres of land back to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The land was illegally seized by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 50 years ago.

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