"When news publishers turn their back on libraries, they hurt themselves in certain ways. They lose evidence, they lose documentation, they lose tools that they use to do their jobs."
@andrewdeck.bsky.social on the big picture of news orgs blocking @archive.org www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
A baby raccoon
A baby raccoon
Meanwhile
A timeline cleanse:
I went to change my snow tires to summer tires this afternoon...
And discovered I've got a raccoon nursery in my shed.
A gleaming Frog stands with grumpy Toad on Toad's front porch. From "Spring" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*
What you see is the clear warm light of April. And it means that we can begin a whole new year together, Toad.
Eugenics
What a beautiful review thank you so much :)
just watched a subway maintenance worker try to scrub the mustache off a MoMA poster for Duchamp’s Mons Lisa. i love Art
😎😎😎😎😎
Check out my book!!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
I crush the quadrant, the thunder turns the needles, and now the mad sea parts the log-line.
LEMME WRITE A DARK, WEIRD BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25TH CENTURY, YOU COWARDS
My colleagues look at me with blank expressions whenever I say, "The Chronicle of Higher Education is not a trade magazine for colleges & universities. It is a trade magazine for Higher Education managers." Even when they include faculty voices its always edited from the perspective of the managers
Morning Universe!
+100000000 for the Archer gif
In case it’s of any interest, I’m enjoying the phrase “feed two birds with one scone” as a less lethal alternative. Cheesy I know but now that I’ve switched the original jumps out at me as pretty harsh lol.
The Vera Rubin observatory has already discovered 11,000 *previously unknown* asteroids... and the proper observing sessions haven't even begun yet!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/rubin-bags...
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Frog pours Toad a hot cup of tea while Toad asks about Frog's childhood. From "The Corner" In *Frog and Toad All Year*
“And was it?” asked Toad.
Astronauts’ brains don’t fully adapt to life in microgravity, new study finds New research shows astronauts tend to grip objects in microgravity as if they felt as heavy as or heavier than they would on Earth, a finding that could help future space exploration
RIGHT NOW -- Veterans are being arrested in #washingtondc after peacefully demanding an end to the War on Iran. @vetsaboutface
Two men in fatigues with their hands ziptied being arrested by Capitol Police
Dozens of people in fatigues lined up in the Capitol Rotunda with signage demanding an end to the Iran War
Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War.
Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social
Currently working on an #ArtemisII & #MoonJoy collection from the @astrosociety.org library...
Still a work in progress, but here's a taste.
#ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭
#BookSky 📚💙
www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/artemis
Waving from Ingleside!
If you want to live in this movie like I do, these books will help.
#ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭
#BookSky 📚💙
Morning Universe!
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf was formative for me, too.
YALL.
There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!
Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.
LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org
Morning Universe!
“Where were you on the night of July 27?”
“What does that have to do with it?” asked Milo.
“It’s my birthday, that’s what,” said the policeman as he entered “Forgot my birthday” in his little book. “Boys always forget other people’s birthdays.
Block’s black and white cartoon shows several planets hanging in space. Some are plain, some have rings, but one planet, in the center of the panel, bears a plaque that reads “Albert Einstein Lived Here.”
“Albert Einstein Lived Here”
Herb Block's cartoon memorializing Einstein appeared in the Washington Post #OTD in 1955, the day after Einstein’s death.
Image: Herb Block / Library of Congress
