PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER GUTTING INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM & LIBRARY SERVICES By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administrations executive order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted American institutions and the staff and services they offer. show up FOR OUR LIBRARIES American Association

Dear Congress,
Libraries are the place we all belong. The place where Mister Rogers’ neighbors collide at the library to help one another. We come together to embrace library joy. What good is the world without libraries and museums? ❤️‍🩹

Call, email Congress! Help libraries & museums! We need you 💛

Nice work asshole -
No market for swasticars in Germany
Let’s do the same in US

Huge march in New York today protesting the illegal DOGE cuts

Thoughts and prayers

SpaceX's Starship failed launch: Florida airports halt flights It impacted flights in Orlando, Miami and Palm Beach after debris concerns from Starship's failed launch

SpaceX rocket explodes, raining debris from sky for second time in a row. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Succulents wintered over in the sunroom...
#Dodgezen #photography #ArtYear #Macro

I AM ON BOARD! End this stupid idea. Come on West Coast alliance

As a teacher I’ve definitely seen a rise in casual misogyny among young men and it’s because they’d rather keep women down than work harder to compete with them.

Our home galaxy over Craig Goch dam in the beautiful Elan Valley, mid Wales.

Have a wonderful day/evening #bluesky. It’s goodnight from me.

Here’s our home galaxy over Craig Goch dam in the stunning Elan Valley, Mid Wales, UK.

The lights under the bridge are from a car’s headlights on the other side of the lake/reservoir.

‘Tesla Takedown’ wants to hit Elon Musk where it hurts The movement got started on BlueSky.

www.theverge.com/tesla/618572...

I just found out the proper name for doggo zoomies is Frenetic Random Activity Periods, or FRAPS.

I don’t know how to live with this knowledge.

Trump signed executive orders to expand logging on public lands while bypassing environmental protections. His “energy emergency” declaration lets him override regulations entirely.

this rules

🇳🇿 #nzpol

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at 74 Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

ANYWAY, did you know there's an extension you can put on Chrome that will connect with your local library system and when you go look at a book, say on AMZ, it will tell you if that book exists in the library system and if it's available?

It's literally called Library Extension.

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Mychal holds Lauren “Keke” Palmer’s book and points to her, saying, “baby, that is Keke Palmer” as she listens and smiles

Saying “baby, that is Keke Palmer” to Lauren Keyana Palmer (while holding her book) does wonders for your mental health. Just in case you were looking for a new self-care strategy! 💚

Rare planetary parade caught on camera by our expert stargazers Three astronomers tell the BBC what planets are on display in the sky above the UK this week.

Watch: Rare planetary parade caught on camera by our expert stargazers. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Great Horned Owl.
#wildlife #nature #photography #birds #owl

Commission your friends for art. Give them dollars (this makes them happy) in exchange for drawing you like (this makes you happy). This is symbiosis. This is a healthy ecosystem.

Support your friends. Support art. Support your friends' art.

a haunted house, but it's just a bunch of zombies popping out and asking "how's your writing coming along?" "what's your book about?" "what if this writing thing doesn't work out?"

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Adding "locked in bathroom at National Park" to my very long list of things that go wrong when you take a sledgehammer to the federal workforce.

Fellow book lovers! There is a better way to buy our books than Amazon. Instead of putting $ in Bezos' pocket, every purchase on @bookshop-org.bsky.social financially supports independent bookstores. You can even select the bookstore you'd like to support.

Updated boycott list

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.

I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people.

And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...