Something I read earlier today that I don't know where to put

A truism posted on my LiveJournal feed:
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Apparently the US National Archives is looking for people to help them decipher and transcribe documents.
Read this article (link below) to find out how. A link to follow up on the opportunity is in the article, and I also placed the link separately below.
Happy deciphering, if you decide to give it a try. I might do some.

Quote from the Article (link below the quote)

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word.

Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from the Revolutionary War era are handwritten in cursive – requiring people who know the flowing, looped form of penmanship.

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Weise USA Today

www.usatoday.com

Can you read cursive? It's a superpower the National Archives is looking for.

The National Archives is looking for volunteers with an increasingly rare skill: Reading cursive.
www.usatoday.com

www.archives.gov

Get Started Transcribing

We highly recommend you begin by viewing the video How to Transcribe in the National Archives Catalog. Register Citizen Archivists must register for a free user account in order to contribute to the National Archives Catalog, by clicking on the Log in / Sign Up button. This button is found in...
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Please remove this video if inappropriate (touches a bit on politics, but barely):

It was posted ~2 days ago from what I understand.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine said:
Happy Robert Burns Day, y'all! Have a little haggis for me since it's off my diet...

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I believe that 'halal haggis' is available in Edinburgh :)

..but not where I live .. and I don't fancy the vegetarian haggis .. oh well.
I used to make it myself .. steamed in a pudding basin .. yum.

These days, I can open a tin of beans/soup. :(
 
A reaction to a movie that I want to watch sometime (not sure if anyone else would):

The movie reviewed is The Wild Robot, which came out last year.

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
No "receipts" were attached to the photos (the first is a French onion meatloaf and the second is spagghetti with meatballs in case y'all want to find a "receipt" for them/you have a favourite "receipt" for them):
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Perfect/"Purrfect" for colder weather, eh?

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
Happy World Radio Day, y'all! Celebrating is easy: just listen to your favourite radio station for as long as you want (the :kitty: delegation is doing that in the background, albeit different stations...)
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A :kitty: truism? (from my LiveJournal feed):
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It might be a repeat...

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
This crossstitch might bring back fond memories of a particular Monty Python film:
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No, I didn't make it myself (it was posted on my LiveJournal feed, replying to a question that was asked either yesterday or earlier today.) The OFs might remember the film it came from.

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