Selfie of Matthew throwing a peace sign in front of a mug saying Libraries work because we dk
From a fellow librarian, trustee, and patron, sending solidarity to library workers across the world on National Library Workers Day
Libraries work because we do ✊️
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Ah, a co-author!
Graph showing websites breaking on the y axis and Meg getting better at PHP on the x axis and a curve that goes way up on the right with the apex labeled KABOOM!
Here, I made a graph for my paper:
The better I get at coding with PHP, the more likely I am to break a website coding with PHP. Took two down today! New record!
Anyway, I call this Meg’s Law of Progressive System Destabilization. Thinking about writing it up for the Proceedings of the Society for Dubious Website Development.
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Looks like the DOJ is delaying the #ADA #Title2 implementation by a year. Pre-published rule here, to be formally published on the 20th: www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
#accessibility #a11y
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New from ADAI: Results from the 2025 Syringe Services Program Health Survey. Newman A, Banta-Green CJ, Glick SN, Tinsley J, Moreno C, with contributors Branche N, Layman L, Williams J. Seattle, WA: UW Center for Community-Engaged Drug Education, Epidemiology & Research (CEDEER), Addictions, Drug & Alcohol institute (ADAI)
NEW! We surveyed people who use syringe services programs in WA, asking them about their drug use, health behaviors, treatment, and other service needs. Check out our report and join us April 29 (1pm PT) for a webinar to find out what they had to say! adai.uw.edu/syringe-surv...
A few key points 👇🧵
Counterpoint: This but it’s great actually.
Someone compiled all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips about Calvin’s polls of his Dad, which is proof that good people do exist on the internet
imgur.com/a/poll-resul...
the enemy of my enemy is.... the pope? wait that can't be right.
Beautiful! Just ordered one! ❤️
HOT DAMN, THEY DID IT!!
Quick question: What happens if Usha goes skydiving anyway?
A UW iSchool student was abruptly deported yesterday with his son. There’s a GoFundMe to support the family while they try to get them back to Seattle: www.gofundme.com/f/9wup9u-hel...
Just watched the NIH Strategic Planning input session...
Some observations:
(1) I am glad that NIH is doing this (although I do remain skeptical about how seriously they will take input which challenges their existing intentions).
PEOPLE SHOULD STILL COMMENT!
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
1/4
Shaker snatcher: "My aunt saves money by taking home all the rolls from the bread basket at a restaurant. We've also seen restaurant parmesan and pepper shakers in her kitchen." (For the record, this personal finance columnist does not condone taking an establishment's shakers, plates, glasses or silverware.)
Not exactly…
Screenshot of an error message from the UW library system that says "You've been disavowed"
Mission: Impossible-ass interlibrary loan system
Minimizing the cost of flushing: "I save water by urinating into a laundry detergent bottle and waiting until it's almost full before I pee the last time in the toilet, and then empty the detergent bottle into the toilet and flush it. I do it and although I don't know how much I save, it is about 1 gallon per flush. ... I keep the top on the jar." (The Environmental
Me making a “that ain’t right” sort of face
From www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."
The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.
🚨IMPORTANT🚨
This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance.
gofund.me/f7704eb98
Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...
Find someone who is as committed to you as the Mariners are to not hitting a single
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Oooooof.
1) Mariners
2) Red Sox
3) Padres
4) Phillies
5) Anyone vs the Yankees
6) Yakult Swallows
milkweed’s bio, which reads “Resist-lib mom desperately trying not to give in to anger, fear, and hate
Babe? You’re givin’ in.
Woman with black rimmed glasses and messy hair that is shaved on the sides and longer on top, about nose length
Entering the Chaos Phase of growing out my hair
