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becca
@beccaquon.bsky.social
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exploring gardens, gaming, mental health, history + culture. supporting research and education at the metro ny library council.
posting about 📚ny + 🌲pdx
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trying to hype myself up to sign up for a beginner weight-lifting class at a very welcoming-sounding local gym and I am still SO SCARED! (letty for strength)
Michelle Rodriguez leans over a car engine with a screwdriver in her hand. Her arms look like she could pick up Vin Diesel and toss him over her shoulder—goals.
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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we’ve been in our house about 2 weeks now and Olive is really exploring *every* corner.
a black and white cat sits in a drawer with wide eyes the same black and white cat balances on the range hood high above the stove
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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oh! and for the past couple months, I've been playing Stardew Valley every Sunday with some younger family members. we've gotten to the point where it's just a given that we'll all be logging on at 2pm. it's my favorite game ever, and so fun to share it with them.
a screenshot of four Stardew Valley characters standing together
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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we may need to camp out in our rental after all our stuff is moved, while they patch things up! on the plus side, in one corner of the kitchen, I can finally get a glimpse of what it will be like it’s finally all done. 😍
a close-up of green tile and wood shelves in a kitchen a wider view of the kitchen shows the space where the stove will be installed at any moment!
October 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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four days before we were set to move into the house we’ve been renovating for 5 months, the first big rain of autumn hit and created a leak through the ceiling. 😬 a plumber and roofer working together ID’d a faulty 100-year-old lead pipe as the culprit. they‘re going in through the closet today.
above a white closet door, a brown water stain creeps in along the seam between the wall and ceiling an old lead pipe leads to water-damaged wood
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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spotted this flyer over the summer in portland and i’ve been occasionally pulling up the photo and cackling to myself, ever since. 💖
a laminated flyer stapled to a telephone pole reads “portland oregon loves hot mayor zohran” with a photo of zohran mamdani smiling broadly in the middle of it
October 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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every year I hire an artist to draw my family for our holiday card and the process makes me so happy! this year it feels even more meaningful because ai is everywhere.

here are 2021 + 2018. 💛 credit to @schrill-art.bsky.social + @ghost_puff on instagram
A digital illustration of two smiling figures holding three adorable cats, standing against a cheerful blue-green background A colored pencil drawing of two figures holding two cats, framed by a sweet fall-themed border of branches, logs, and little red mushrooms
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A screenshot of a tweet that reads "I would love a passport booklet for public libraries across the country with cute stamps at each stop, national parks-style." posted by Becca Quon
September 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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ooh! this grant opportunity from the portand institute for contemporary art is exactly what i'm looking for, but on the other coast. wish new york had something similar! funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation.
A screenshot from the PICA Precipice Fund website describes the program
August 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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good cats of portland:
A tuxedo cat with a black chin splotch and yellow eyes stares at the camera a white cat with brown ears lays on rocks under a nursery table a black cat with a red collar lies on the sidewalk a black and white cat stretches out on a sidewalk
August 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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gonna try a little harder to get off Instagram in the second half of this year. a lot of my favorite features are gone or messed up — including my hashtags for my cats and plants, which don’t even show up anymore. here’s what I see when I click on a hashtag now (left) vs what I used to see (right)
A search result for a hashtag, showing an AI-generated result the previous result for the hashtag, showing Becca’s plants over the years
June 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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last weekend was portland’s thai festival. it rained on saturday, so most people (including me) went on sunday. the crowds made it hard to try a lot of things, but I had these amazing ‘hotcakes’ with green onion, ube, and corn. so, so good.
a photo of a plate with delicate, perfectly fried round rice and coconut cakes with various filling An asian woman cooks hotcakes at a booth
June 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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we've just posted an upcoming event from METRO: a book talk with @abelantara.bsky.social and @edrabinski.bsky.social, the editors of Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create. July 16, 1pm ET! metro.org/events/book-...
A screenshot of METRO's website showing the event page with a description and links to register. A screenshot of the cover of the book Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create.
June 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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the only way I can accurately depict the week since our offer was accepted:
A person on a luge races down the track. Wearing a helmet, they look down and ahead while bracing themselves for the next turn.
May 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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i’m in the Arizona desert for #netinclusion25 this week! honored that gila river indian community is hosting us and excited to connect about digital inclusion in this amazing place.
The stems of a dry, grey-green desert bush at dusk with a blue sky behind. Water stretches out towards a pink-tinged sunset sky with an elegant red building in the middle distance. a cactus with many arms grows almost as tall as the trees behind it, with grey gravel scattered all around A dark red adobe building and curved wall continue past the frame with desert trees in the foreground with branches reaching in all fire tions. The trees have different colored bark that starkly contrasts with the building behind it; some are dark green, and some dark brown.
May 20, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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wow, so a bunch are from my trip to the Oregon coast in 2023. they managed to capture the magic of the light there, in a way my phone camera didn't.
A photo of a beach with dunes rising up and a sandy path through the middle. Dramatic lighting and grainy texture are reminders it was shot on film. A large clump of pampas grass waves in the setting sun.
April 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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today’s Buy Nothing bounty 😍
a hand holds a cardboard box full of smalll succulent plants a closeup of different kinds of stonecrop succulents
April 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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today I learned about nyc's Trash Academy: "a free educational series tailored for New Yorkers passionate about creating a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable city." there's a waitlist for the 2026 program available now.
academy.sanitationfoundation.org
Screenshot of the trash academy homepage, which has a tablet showing a collage of sanitation-related photos with "The Crash Course for a sustainable city" in bold black text to the left.
April 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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one small, wonderful thing today: a potting soil delivery from a local nursery. ready for spring.
bright yellow bags of soil are piled up outside becca’s house, delivered this afternoon by a lovely local nursery soil stacked next to empty terra cotta plant pots, ready for spring.
March 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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This session from NNYLN will highlight findings from BPL's research project to collect and study cardholder signup policies from public libraries across the nation + provide an opportunity to learn about the policy framework under development. Just signed up!!
nnyln.org/2025/02/03/c...
A graphic for the event shows card catalog drawers with overlying text with the name of the event and the date/time: March 27th at 11am ET
February 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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in 2022 I changed my relationship to the word 'quitting' by leaving a job with nothing else planned. it changed how I'll think about quitting forever. this upcoming workshop for library workers has the same vibes.

A Beginner's Guide To Failure, March 7 at NYU
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-beginner...
A list describes the learning outcomes of a workshop happening March 5.
February 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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love to see this!

"For Open Data Week 2025, BetaNYC is receiving funds from Governor Hochul’s ConnectALL initiative via the New York State Digital Equity Plan to highlight organizations and activists with a focus on digital equity." 2025.open-data.nyc/digital-equi...
A graphic with a purple background has the open data week logo underneath text that reads "suggest digital equity session ideas!"
December 23, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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A reminder that tomorrow (Dec 20) is the deadline to apply to attend a 2-day forum in May in Chicago to help create a research agenda and framework for SAA:
www2.archivists.org/news/2024/cr...
A graphic says "creating a research agenda for the archives profession" with decorative arrows to the left
December 19, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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my succulents have been moved into our tiny ADU under grow lights for the winter. let’s see how they do!🤞🏼
large jade and agave plants sit on the floor with smaller succulents above them on a counter. two grow lights shine brightly in each direction. plants sit on bamboo shelves in a small shower with more clustered on the floor. bright grow lights shine down above each shelf.
December 11, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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last friday i bought a membership to the oregon zoo, and I’ve already gone three times since then. i don’t have mountains to hike in my neighborhood like I did in california, but watching mountain goats graze is pretty good nature therapy too.
a cheerful holiday light display at the zoo welcomes visitors with big sprawling starfish around the entrance to the harbor seal pool. a shaggy white mountain goat grazes in bright sunlight on the side of a hill
December 6, 2024 at 8:20 PM