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scones & macarons, photography & genealogy, books, & my cat Fred PNW library defender for life Library Assistant for money

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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 🔗 www.404media.co/directfile-o...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Buddy system! One person to read the map and one person to drive and ignore “turn here! Turn here!”

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“ProPublica found last year that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year.“ But rather than remedy the problem, the Trump administration’s budget would devastate the colleges, tribal education leaders said.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Damn it! Pocket and Kobo work together way better than send to Kindle. And I really want my Kobo to replace my Kindle. The Pocket add-on was one of the things that I liked, whereas there are quite a few things about my Kobo that are frustrating for me

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Parent Steller’s Jay in nest at the Library (ie: at work!) The nest is at eye level, and the chicks are pink, eyes still closed. 🪶🐦🪶#pnw #birds

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

No one needs this shit

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“Libraries in TX, MS, and LA can now remove any book, for any reason, and no one can question it … what is lacking in the Fifth Circuit’s opinion, any understanding of the institution of the library.”

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Practice guilt-free reading. Read whenever you want, whatever you want, and in whichever format you prefer. #BookSky

submitted 14 days ago • 57 comments

How Interlibrary Loan can help you access all the titles on your book and movie bucket lists.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Thirty seconds of Oregon rain

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Macarons underway

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“IMLS has determined that your grant is unfortunately no longer consistent with the agency’s priorities and no longer serves the interest of the United States and the IMLS Program. IMLS is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President’s agenda.”

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

submitted 28 days ago • 705 comments

Trump wants to cancel Veterans Day. But Dwight Williams II, whose family has served the U.S. for generations, says replacing Veterans Day with Victory Day erases their sacrifice. wordinblack.com/2025/05/trum...

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I’d be inclined to say that the “easy win” is that the government works

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶

submitted 33 days ago • 15 comments

On the Columbia River, north end of Sauvie Island

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I miss reading aloud to my kids. Was still reading aloud to my eldest when he moved out (we were enjoying a long series of chapter books from about middle school on. They grew with us)

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

#InverteFest is over, but it’s still prime crab spider watching season #PNW 🕷️

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