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Kirsti
@kst.bsky.social
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Librarian. Geek. Music is life. I block early & often. “Always fight for the user, never for the system.”— Cory Doctorow.
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celebrating picking up my ebike with a pot of "besos de cacao" (black tea with cacao nibs) & chai molasses cookies from Friday Afternoon Tea.
Photo of a table with a glass container of black tea, a tea cup, & a package of molasses cookies
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Best friend from high school texted me this from a trivia night. She said she didn't think the question was accurate. I-- and every other librarian my friend knows-- agreed the question was WRONG. It's so wrong in so many ways.

#Skybrarians 📚
Photo of a large TV screen with a trivia contest question: Question 6 - Identification Standards What four-letter international numbering system used in most library barcodes ensures books can be tracked and cataloged the same way across different libraries?
November 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Photo of a golden retriever holding a plush bat toy in its mouth.
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Laszlo thinks I have better things to do than work.
Photo of an orange tabby cat sitting on someone’s lap & getting his head scratched.
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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El Quetzal has added a little something to their horchata for día de los muertos
Photo of a small plastic skeleton on a bed of ice cubes on top of a large cup of horchata
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Tried to pick up a package at an Amazon *locker* yesterday to find the locker empty. Amazon won’t let me report it until 5 pm today because they want me to look around my *porch* (several blocks away from the locker) for the package.
Photo of a completely empty Amazon locker that was supposed to have a package in it.
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Kid has some appointments on the Eastside at a business park right on Mercer Slough, so I’m getting to watch a heron eat fish while I wait.
Photo of a riparian area with a heron standing in the center of the photo
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Wishing I could share this heirloom variety Newtown Pippin apple cider in person with @mathonwy.bsky.social
Photo of a bottle of Hood River Newtown Pippin single variety heirloom cider
October 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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I’ve set my work laptop with a high-contrast color theme for my failing eyesight. This is what Microsoft considers “high visibility”. This color isn’t part of the theme & I don’t think I can change it outside the Windows Registry.
Screenshot of an MS Teams window using a supposedly high-contrast color theme where the selected menu option is highlighted in neon yellow with the white text. This is not actually high contrast and is impossible to read.
October 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I think it was @mythopoetica.bsky.social who posted a link to a mango cake recipe recently. Kid just made it! We have to wait until tomorrow to eat it.
Photo of a mango cake topped with chopped pistachios & mangos.
October 16, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Spouse got his COVID + flu shots yesterday & they had lollipops. He picked out one with the colors of the Irish flag (or Côte d’Ivoire when flipped) to give to me.
Photo of a tri-color lollipop with the colors of the Irish flag— green, white, orange
October 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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I learned yesterday that the opera I’m seeing today (Das Rheingold) has a 2 & 1/2 hour run time & is usually performed with no intermission. 🥶I’m still having this Thai iced tea with lunch. Middle-aged bladder be damned.
Photo of a glass of Thai iced tea inside a restaurant
October 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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It’s a beautiful day on Puget Sound! There are a bunch of seals out today but they’re hiding from the camera.
Photo of Puget Sound near the Vashon Island ferry. It’s a beautiful, sunny day & the sky is deep blue with fluffy, white clouds
October 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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It definitely makes haircare easier. I enjoyed having it ultra short in 2018.
Photo of a white woman with short-cropped light colored hair, wearing mod-style sunglasses
October 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Am I going to have trouble falling asleep after having this cave-aged white tea from Friday Afternoon Tea this late in the evening? Possibly. Will I regret it? No.
Photo of a blue gaiwan painted with white dragons on a plate with a small tea cup, & a glass tea pot with tea in it, in front of a goose-neck electric kettle.
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The concert series runs at Seattle’s Black & Tan Hall on assorted Sunday afternoons through June. “Pay what you wish”

Concert schedule in the photo (with alt-text). 5/5
A Meeting Place: Early Music at the Black and Tan Hall Location: 5608 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118 Dates: Various Sundays Time: 3:00pm Tickets: Pay as you wish There's a new music series at the Black and Tan Hall. Gus Denhard, the long-time Seattle-based lute player, will present seven Sunday afternoon concerts between September and June. The concerts will continue down the path of decolonization that Gus has taken with his previous work, as artists from many ancient traditions take the stage in a spirit of sharing and mutual respect. Supported by a Culture Individual Art Projects grants, the program advances Gus longtime commitment to re-defining Early Music as an intercultural dialogue, challenging the historically Eurocentric confines of the genre. The concert lineup includes many of his collaborators spanning three decades: November 16th Delaram Amiri and Friends: An afternoon of Persian early music January 18th Münir Nurettin Beken and Gus Denhard: A Meeting Place for Turkish oud and European lute March 22nd Early Music Access Project: Benjamin Hunter and David McCormick perform music from Monticello's Black fiddlers April 26th Lisa Maria Rodriguez and Gus Denhard: El Mal de Amores - 16th and 17th music for voice and lute May 17th Tomoko Sugawara and Gus Denhard: Music of the Tang Dynasty for kugo harp and biwa lute June 21st Kim Pineda and Gus Denhard: The Rhetoric of Freedom - Mercurial expressions from Italy, France, Transylvania, and New Orleans, for flutes and lutes.
September 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Went back for more pastries
Photo of 3 different kinds of Armenian pastries on a red napkin.
September 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Spouse & Kid went Halloween shopping this weekend & Spouse found the perfect Halloween decoration for him. It plays the intro to Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in D-minor along with a clip of a screaming goat. Spouse is ecstatic!
Photo of a plastic green goat wearing a witch’s hat & black dress with purple collar, and standing on top of a pumpkin. The goat’s mouth is open like it’s bleating.
September 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I have a yellow mat that rolls up for storing the puzzle when I’m not working on it. It only goes so far though.

I call this “Laszlo slumbering atop his hoard.”
Photo of an orange tabby cat curled up on top of a pile of puzzle pieces on a cookie sheet. The cat looks utterly content.
September 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I did 🤣
Photo of a plate with 2 breakfast tacos that have scrambled eggs, green pepper, tater tots & pico de gallo on flour tortillas.
September 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Here's the screenshot with alt-text
Since 1978, foreign students, or F visa holders, could stay in the U.S. for their “duration of status,” meaning as long as they were enrolled as a full-time student. The proposed rule set to publish Thursday would allow for foreign students and exchange visitors to stay up to the duration of the program they are participating in, not to exceed a 4-year period.
August 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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After I took a photo of the salad, this was my view to the left. 🤣
Photo of a very attentive golden retriever who thinks the watermelon salad on the counter (off camera) smells really good. He’d be happy to have some of the salad if I feel like sharing!
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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It’s going to be hot (90+ F/32+ C) for the next 2 days, so I made a salad with watermelon, cucumber, mint & feta cheese, in an olive oil & red wine vinegar dressing.
Photo of a blue bowl on a kitchen counter. The bowl is full of a watermelon, cucumber & feta cheese. Behind the bowl is a hot pepper drying on a cookie rack.
August 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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The stage
Photo of a theatre stage set up to look like a jazz club bandstand during the Harlem Renaissance. A set of wooden steps leads down from center stage to a ground floor area with small round tables & chairs, like a nightclub seating area.
August 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Attended Diana Ma’s reading from her new YA novel “Force of Chaos” about the Yellow Power Ranger. I wasn’t ever into the Power Rangers, but having heard the 1st chapter, I think I want to read the whole book. #WorldCon2025
A Chinese American woman with shoulder-length black hair wearing a yellow Power Rangers t-shirt, a skirt with a yellow Power Rangers panel, yellow high top shoes, holding a book about the Yellow Power Ranger with a yellow cover. Next to her on a chair is a yellow backpack & a yellow water bottle.
August 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM