Stay strong, librarians! #libsky #edusky #booksky

A screenshot of a poem. The poem reads: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

From “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

#skybrary #skybrarians #booksky

Want to read a book but can’t afford to buy it?

❌ don’t pirate/steal it

✅ join your local library and borrow the book for FREE.

If the library doesn’t have the book you want, ask if they can buy it.

You get to read.
Authors get paid.
Libraries stay open.

✨ Triple win ✨

#BookSky #Library

Reading #thenightingale by Kristin Hannah for local coffeehouse’s #bookclub & was struck by this quote:
“Asking yourself a question, that’s how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else.” - Remco Campert
#booksky

Trump Pardons Ex-Tennessee State Senator Imprisoned for Campaign Fraud Brian Kelsey, a Republican, pleaded guilty to illegally funneling money to his failed campaign for Congress in 2016. He later tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his plea.

President Trump has pardoned an imprisoned former Tennessee state senator who was two weeks into a 21-month sentence for his role in a campaign finance fraud scheme.

Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts | CNN Politics Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans, some of whom have stopped holding town halls amid the raucous receptions their colleagues...

“Tim Walz is headed back out on the road – this time, for a tour of House districts represented by Republicans who have stopped holding in-person town halls amid the raucous receptions some of their colleagues have gotten across the country.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/p...

CBC hiring new correspondents in (takes deep breath):
-Banff
-Red Deer
-Lethbridge
-Medicine Hat
-Fort McMurray
-Lloydminster
-Hinton/Jasper
Plus a slew of other cities outside Alberta.
Apply. cbcrc.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/CBC_Radio-Ca...

Etymologies for Every Day of the Week The sun, the moon, four gods, and a goddess.

www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/ety...

‘Sooth’ is an archaic word that means “truth” or “reality.”

It primarily lives on in the verb ‘soothe’ which originally meant "to show, assert, or confirm the truth of.”

‘forsooth’ = for truth (indeed)

‘soothsayer’ = truth sayer (someone who can predict the future)

I did not know that and I grew up hearing howdy all day every day!

'Howdy' is an alteration of "how do ye."

This made me laugh

A large billboard ad has just been put up. It shows a Tesla underneath the movie headline which says “The Fast and the Fuhrer”. Underneath the car it says Heil Tesla. Next to the car is Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute he denies was a Nazi salute even though it looks identical to a Nazi salute and everyone thought it was a Nazi salute, especially Nazis. Photo credit to the campaign group that arranged the billboard - @overthrowmusk on TikTok.

Current scenes in Tottenham, North London. Just down the road from the local Tesla showroom.

I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping very well for *checks notes* the rest of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

Image of Donald Trump and Elon Musk sitting in a red Tesla with a screenshot of a Trump Truth Social post reading, "STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR III, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT "LEADERS" IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!"

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

Measles in the U.S.: Latest Maps and Cases As new cases are reported, our maps and illustrations show the spread of the virus and how infections can run through a community.

Measles continues to spread in West Texas and New Mexico, with more than 250 people infected — many unvaccinated school-age children. These maps and illustrations show the spread of the virus in the U.S., and how infections can run through a community.

NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

This message needs to be heard widely.

Meanwhile in Canada ❤️🇨🇦🍁

The story of ozempic - besides saving millions of lives and saving billions for the healthcare system - ozempic is a scientific breakthrough everybody should know about - it was discovered because someone studied the spit of a lizard that only eats 6 times a year the Gila monster - so first 🧵

Senate Democrats must vote against the Republican's continuing budget resolution It's the only way to hold the Trump regime accountable. Call your senators now.

The president of the United States and the richest person in the world are already shutting down the government.

Why should Congress give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their pillage?

Call your Senator: (202) 224-3121

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

"Where Law Ends Tyranny Begins"

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

We are nearing a precipice.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

Me in 1999: “That South Park movie was wacky, imagining an American imperialism so deranged that they decide to invade Canada in a crusade of censorship. 😂”

Me in 2025: 😐

Seems apropos
#quoteoftheday
#artlover