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Grateful this exists, and heartbroken that it has to. If you or someone you love needs it, this is a clear, practical, and important resource for family preparedness.
We deserve better than needing plans like this.💚
HEART ys the art of freedom.
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Let’s Do This – Your First Round of Snow/Sleet Dogs 2026!! - The pure joy and occasional confusion... but mostly joy: www.popville.com/2026/01/lets...
For international audiences, will this be recorded, by chance, to watch later on?
Here is my corgi, Teddy, being a goofy land-shark with his purple cow. I hope his joy brings you some, too.
Friends fear she's scripting complicated stop-motion videos about early modern volvelles again.
(All will be revealed alongside bsky.app/profile/rcpm...)
#WatchThisSpace
The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.
Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.
awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...
Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.
New blog post about my favorite book of doodles! “In which a 16th century monk flips me off, and we all pick out our next tattoos.”
www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...
Love my job. Not every day you get an enquiry which begins "Two of my ancestors, ‘John and Alan from the town of Strother’ are mentioned in [Chaucer's] Reeve’s Tale."
We have used both Adopt-a-Book and later (90s) rebranded it to just Acquisitions Night.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Rare book libraries are not quiet, orderly places. They are gothic mansions crammed with shrieking ghosts, decades of quirky decisions made by eccentric people & mountainous backlogs. It’s easy to lose books and easier to lose yourself.
Photo of a letterpress print in copper ink on cream poster-size paper, with an illustration of an old C&P wheeled platen floor printing press, and the following text: "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning, a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship; or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too) From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care; or serving capital, stoking hate A press is but its printers Friend vou stand on ground you make sacred or not THIS is a PRINTING OFFICE Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Labs; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr for the Book"
Closeup photo for easier reading, of a letterpress print in copper ink on cream poster-size paper, with an illustration of an old C&P wheeled platen floor printing press, and the following text: "THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning, a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship; or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too) From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care; or serving capital, stoking hate A press is but its printers Friend vou stand on ground you make sacred or not THIS is a PRINTING OFFICE Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Labs; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr for the Book"
"A press is but its printers": my letterpress remix of 2 texts (in italics)+my own writing. Warde’s 1932 “This is a Printing-Office” celebrates printshops but is too technoutopian (“Armory of the fearless truth”)—a technology is only what humans make of it, good or bad ( #DHmakes!). So I used +
...it concluded since the landslide was triggered by the melting glacier, and since *that* happened due to rising global temperatures...
This was a signal - and a warning - from our rapidly changing world, heard in every single part of it.
Best we listen up.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
Carla Hayden was an inspiring librarian of congress, and we were lucky to have her
A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier
Our cover this week.
The earliest known cat door, located at Exeter Cathedral in England 🏴🇬🇧, dates from around 1598 AD. The owners of the cats were paid a penny a week as early as 1305 AD, to help control mice and protect the cathedral from pests.
#archaeohistories
According to the US Gov't's own spending calculator, NEH accounts for 0.0% of the federal budget. Cutting these grants is not about efficiency; it's only and always about the destruction of knowledge available to everyone.
This is the 2025 version of Nazi book burning.
Me in every universe. 😌
I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertú engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Ynspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes...
Paging @lisafdavis.bsky.social
We can’t look away from rural spaces by writing everyone off as racist. You don’t magically become racist when you see a cow or cornfield. Racism is an American problem that resides in every corner of the country.
Come back to rural America and speak about jobs and schools and roads and hospitals.
Just saying.
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
