Nikki Giovanni’s Wonderful Poems Celebrating Libraries and Librarians “(You never know what troubled little girl needs a book)”

www.themarginalian.org/2015/12/11/n... #NationalLibraryWeek

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A black bird with iridescent bluish-purplish-orangish-greenish colouring is perched on a tree branch, looking to the right.

You know, for a bird with all black feathers, Common Grackles sure are colourful.

Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025

📷 #birds #grackle #COGR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

Hey u U might feel overwhelmed rn Maybe u r feeling the big sad Maybe you even has a tummy ache Maybe you cried today Maybe u forgot to hydrate Maybe u cried again later But I just wanna remind u That u r loved U r not alone

For anyone who needs it right now. There's a lot happening in a lot of people's lives and I just wanted to send a small reminder to you all. No matter what kind of day/week/month/year you're having. No what what life is currently throwing at you.
You are loved
You are not alone
🫂

A New Law Voids IDs of Transgender Kansans. It Also Threatens Their Voting Access. - Bolts Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started invalidating some people’s driver’s licenses without warning. The law, which ...

Just to spell this out…

You need ID to vote in Kansas. For most, that means a driver’s license.

Kansas has canceled valid licenses of people who’d updated their gender marker. Many of those affected will need new licenses to be able to vote.

A new license costs $16.

= Poll tax on trans people.

My pretty canary song has begun to rasp with despair

Incredible stuff.

Personally I would be bold and say that in terms of my views on double tap missile strikes on schools during school hours that kill over 100 school girls, I'm against it.

Genocidal rhetoric. Identical to the language used by Israel's defense minister in 2023 referring to Palestinians.

When people say Gaza was the blueprint, this is what it means.

An outdoor shot, oriented in portrait mode, under bright sunlight and a clear blue sky. A sand yard, bordered by hurricane fence with white, plastic privacy panels attached, is partially shaded by a large tree jutting into the frame from the right. In the center of the frame, middle distance, four dogs are all in mid-air, facing every direction, suspended in mid-play. Puffs of sand are visible, kicked up by dogs jumping.

Every which way 💕💸 🐾 #DogSky #AnimalShelter #RescueDogs #DogsOfBluesky #photography #animals

godzilla is probably just freaking out cause people keep pointing at his nude body and screaming

I was told that Iran keeps shooting down F35s so I asked how many F35s we have, and they told me "oh we just go get a new F35 afterwards" so i just said, "sounds like you're just feeding F35s to Iran" and then they started crying.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Pentagon called ‘God Squad’ to cut protections for endangered whales in the Gulf of Mexico The Defense Department is invoking national security concerns to try to exempt the oil industry from protecting endangered whales in the Gulf of Mexico.

Pentagon called ‘God Squad’ to cut protections for endangered whales in the Gulf of Mexico

The Defense Department is invoking national security concerns to try to exempt the oil industry from protecting endangered whales in the Gulf of Mexico.

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

An ancient Romanian salt mine known for its vast chambers that dwarf visitors 🥹

not doing ok but tired of whinging about the same bullshit

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons Fishing crews face horrifying burns from dredging the dumped chemical weapons.

The utter disregard of the #US government for the #environment and their peoples #health always leaves me speechless.

Dumping 17,000 tons of unspent WW1 chemical weapons in front of your shores, & never recovering it, what could go wrong?

arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

1/2 #USPol #USA #America

who told these people they could come on here and assign essay questions to people like this? go talk to your computer boyfriend and leave the rest of us alone

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.

- Helms Jarrell

Gentlemen, it’s Women’s History Month, so maybe take the initiative and explain what that is.