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Librarian and data stuff. Scholar of online credibility and sci comm and GIS. Visiting faculty @ a SLAC UTexas iSchool PhD, now novice Californian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️supporter and will be loud about it #unionyes she/her
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“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

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🚨🚨 We're cooking a special session at the @ach.bsky.social conference on "What the NEH/ODH has Inspired." Modeled on the format of the NEH/ODH directors' meetings, we'll be featuring lightning talks from those impacted by the closure. Submit by form by Monday, June 9th - forms.gle/9A8WvfNvEVcK...

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DEMOCRACY: "Every time we’ve had a chance to turn the corner together, business-suit swindlers would froth up racism and distrust all over again to force us back into our corners," Donna Ladd writes.

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Saw it - posting. Matilija poppy. Started from a one gallon pot 3 years ago now taller than me.

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Offloading govt responsibilities to AI can encourage "discrimination, provide patently wrong advice, and limit access to valid claims of asylum and movement,” write @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social in THE AI CON excerpt published @thebulletin.org thebulletin.org/2025/05/gove...

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Californians, you can call Newsom at (916) 445-2841.

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I don’t miss too many things about living in Texas but HEB is near the top of that list. Vons is completely unserious.

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OF COURSE cars suck, but so many white anti-car urbanists are folks with no concept of how existing public transit infrastructure makes it all but impossible to navigate the city safely with kids UNLESS you have a car. ESPECIALLY if you aren't in a wealthy neighborhood. And guess who that impacts.

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Attended an excellent and informative webinar on water availability data from the USGS today. Federal scientists, still being thoughtful and generous public scholars in the face of crazytimes, WE SEE YOU!

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Libraries are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle IMLS - Libraries across the United States are cutting back on e-books, audiobooks, loan programs, and laying off staff apnews.com/article/inst...

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Make an observation about your pantry that also sounds like the title of a novel. SOMEONE IS HOARDING THE GOOD IMPORTED PASTA AHEAD OF A GLOBAL TRADE WAR.

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I love everything about this. 🩷

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40 years ago on this date, police dropped a bomb on a West Philadelphia neighborhood

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Local newspapers are invaluable for historical research. For smaller papers particularly, digitizing them is a lower priority for commercial vendors and they become increasingly difficult to locate as years pass. Losing a public program like this is a tragedy.

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An icon

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“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden This is a Dr. Hayden appreciation post.

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She was also the director of Baltimore's library system when Freddie Gray was murdered by police and kept the libraries open during the "riot" because community members needed a safe place to go. That ethic of care is just not welcome in our federal government anymore.

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I was fortunate to hear her speak and shake her hand at UCLA a few years ago. She made a roomful of cynical academics feel hopeful and inspired. This is awful.

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