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Beth Guay (she/her)
@dcdogs.bsky.social
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Librarian, aspiring humanitarian living in Occupied DC
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Loved this guy love children friends family insects birds deer squirrels everybody except the voles they got the castor oil treatment
a big white short haired dog lying down in the green grass with bushes and a tree in the background
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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#trumpmustgonow @refusefascism.bsky.social
Michael Fanone speaking at the Sylvan Theater in DC
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Peaceful People still coming on Strong! #NoKings This is what Democracy looks like!
People at the Navy Memorial Archives metro stop coming to the #Nokings march on the Capitol.
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#nokings This is what democracy looks like! #dcstatehood
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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#nokings this is what democracy looks like!
Powerful people marching against fascism down Pennsylvania Ave ro the Capitol
October 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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#Nokings @uam-umd.bsky.social @aaup.org #dcstatehood
October 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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on Indigenous Peoples Day I'm spending time restoring the Land towards its pristine state when stewarded by the Nacotchtank people before it was stolen by settler colonists. I'm finding creatures I haven't seen in the 30 years I've lived on this land.🌿
A green fern surrounded by brown mulch and shredded pine needles that returned after a hundred years or more a big black beetle wandering through green grass surrounded by shredded pine needles and a nearby brown pinecone
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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66° and partly sunny on an early October day in NE DC. The pollinators and hungry caterpillars are having a good day. 🐛🦋🐝🌤
pollinator bees and white and yellow asters flowers in the garden yellow and black caterpillars munching on green parsley that's in a pot on the patio, with a yellow marigold in a white urn leaning towards them
October 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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When you live in DC and you're in Rehobeth at the Henlopin Oyster House
Bryce Harper at bat in the Phillies game on Friday night
September 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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native flowering plants 🌱🐝🌼👊🦋 in my big back yard and front yard
a red cardinal flower behind green partridge pea leaves in the foreground and lots of yellow brown eyed susans in the background a native plant, boneset, with tiny white flowers and green leaves a brownish moth sitting on a partridge pea plant with a yellow flower yellow flowers of the evening primrose in the foreground and in the background, fading purple ironweed going to seed
August 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Bumblebee bees are living it up in the #wildflower garden today 🐝🌼
August 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The bumblebee bees are terrorizing DC
A big bumblebee on a red cardinal flower in Washington, DC
August 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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This protest march to the White House led by @refusefascism.bsky.social was Inspirational. I hope to see a million people at the next one in July!
People protesting Trump and his fascist minions in Lafayette Square at the Refuse Fascism March for Humanity on June 14
June 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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today's NYT Headline from History: Librarians Told of Computer Aids

#MARC #cataloging "is still in use today"
A Headline from History LIBRARIANS TOLD OF COMPUTER AIDS May 31, 1967. Novel predictions were made at the Special Libraries Association's 58th convention in New York, The Times reported: "Researchers in the future may browse through library catalogs in the comfort of their homes or offices," and there will be "intercontinental exchanges of information between libraries via satellites." The predictions were made by information expert Joseph Becker, "one of the first to develop information technology," The Times wrote. Mr. Becker pointed to Project MARC, an experimental "Machine Readable Catalogue" program the Library of Congress started the previous year, as an example of computer technology already being applied in libraries. The goal of MARC was to "make all bibliographic information accessible through centralized databases." The system was named the international standard for electronic cataloging in 1973, and is still in use today.
May 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A screenshot from yesterday's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." I record his show 🌾
A screenshot from the May 19, 2025 episode of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell: The Wall Street Journal: Will Anyone Take the Factory Jobs Trump Wants to Take Back to America? Manufacturers usually assign workers with shifts with rigid hours and pay 7.8% lower on average than the private sector as a whole, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1980, manufacturing wages were 3.8 % higher.A decline in union representation in the sector hasn't helped.
May 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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🌱 a shooting star plant in my native plants garden with golden alexanders in the background. I didn't plant the Golden Alexanders! and I have to work to prevent them from overtaking the garden every year! 🦋
A shooting star plant with white petals in the foreground with a blurry image of golden alexander plants in the background of a native plants garden.
April 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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trump.1.zero from Manne, K. (2017). Down girl: The logic of misogyny. Oxford University Press, p. 7: "At the time of this writing (May 2017), the first 100 days of Trump's presidency have indeed strained credulity.".
"... Nobody speaks for Mr. Trump but Mr. Trump," said his spokesperson (Santucci 2015). Ivana now denies her previous account (and sworn testimony during divorce proceedings) vehemently enough for both of them, on the face of it. She maintains her own story was "totally without merit." Upon publication of the Daily Beast article above, she issued a press release: "I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of." (Santucci 2015) ... ... This is the man she had once described as tearing out fistfuls of her hair in a rage for recommending the surgeon who botched his scalp operation--which was apparently unsuccessful, in addition to being painful. Thereafter, Ivana wrote that her husband "jammed his penis" inside her without warning (and ipso facto nonconsensually.) She wrote of him smirking the next morning and asking, "with menacing casualness: "Does it hurt?" The implication being, he had wanted it to. It was payback for making his head hurt. Trump denies just one thing: having had the procedure to address a nonexistent problem--his bald spot (Zadrozny and Mak 2015). Ivana's press release concluded: "I have nothing but fondness for Donald ..."
April 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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A protester at DHHS with a tote bag that says Workers Over Billionaires.
March 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The last issue if the post that I will ever have delivered to my front door. Bezos the Nazi destroyer strikes again.
A section p. A8 of the @wapo "In unprecedented step, White House will decide which journalists get access."
February 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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They can't take this away from me 👊
Safe Person Safe Space postcard from the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equity, UMD, with an image of black and pink triangles in a circle. Text reads: "The pink and black triangles were worn by prisoners in Nazi Germany whose only 'crime' was being homosexual. It has been adopted by the gay and lesbian movement in memory of oppression in the past and as a symbol of hope for a better future. "
February 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Yes! RIP Sean Taylor! #RaiseHail
Ticket to the December 6, 2007 Washington Redskins Chicago Bears football game, with a picture of Sean Taylor.
January 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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When you're so happy the print vols. in the Stacks haven't been discarded so you can use them to describe content providers' e-versions that stripped the preliminary pages, you must be a cataloger.
cover of the 1st issue of the journal Sociologie et sociétés  Content provider's presentation of the 1st issue of Sociologie et sociétés. No preliminary pages!
January 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Without downloading any new pics what's your energy going into 2025?
Clip of op ed from Elisabeth Rosenthal in Washington Post May 17, 2023, "Denials of health-insurance claims are rising — and getting weirder"
December 28, 2024 at 4:09 AM
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Perry Bacon Jr: Opinion. Don’t doomscroll about Trump. Do these five things instead.
"You might be angry and fearful of another four years of Donald Trump being president. That's how I feel. I want to encourage you to channel some of that frustration into these five actions: 1. Join the union at your workplace ... " -- Perry Bacon Jr.
November 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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I'm calming myself with a cup of chamomile tea tonight
a cup of chamomile tea in an orange "Jack Attack" mug
November 2, 2024 at 12:22 AM