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Mari
@margoose.bsky.social
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I do research for a living.
💗 science, social justice, ttrpgs, music, accessibility
I'm pan, poly, and I don't put up with bigots.
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Washington State Library has been defunded.

"On the final day of the 2025 legislative session, the State Legislature passed the 2025–2027 Operating Budget without including the $6.7 million requested to support library operations."

www.sos.wa.gov/library/abou...
Washington State Library closure Due to loss of funding, the Washington State Library in Tumwater is closed to the public starting July 1, 2025. We will respond to phone and email messages within one week. Learn more about services beginning July 1, 2025.
June 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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LOL. LMAO.

May this happen to every petty dictator.
Picture of a white boat with a caption that says Kim Jong Un's New Warship Capsizes at Launch Due to 'Absolute Carelessness'. The mishap is a major setback to the North Korean leader's dream of modernizing his country's outdated naval fleet.
May 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Nightmare material courtesy of The Brief from Bloomberg Law.
Top D.C. Prosecutor Published Trump-Themed Coloring Books Coloring books published by Washington’s top prosecutor feature versions of President Donald Trump breaking handcuffs with chiseled arms, his fist raised in front of a map of the US, and as a friendly Santa Claus. (Broken link to read more follows)
April 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Screencap from AXIOS says "Why it matters: Everything from how we allocate Congressional seats to the weather app on your phone relies at least in part on accurate government data. If that data becomes unavailable or is seen as untrustworthy, it could have far-reaching consequences across politics, business, health and beyond. Government data collection is taxpayer-funded — Americans have paid to collect this knowledge, so we're all entitled to use it. Driving the news: A wide array of government data and reports have been inaccessible through normal channels since Trump directed federal agencies to cull certain topics from agency websites, documents, etc. Trump's primary focus was to quash gender and transgender language. But the order appears to have swept up, or chilled, plenty of other information, including previously released Census data and economic reports. The number of datasets available through Data.gov has fluctuated wildly since Trump's second term began."
February 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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This sounds fun. One like = one fictional crush.
Made by Kobanya. A light pink background with a dark pink font, box border, and illustration of flowers and leaves on the upper left and lower right corners. Text reads “one like equal sign one fictional crush”.
December 27, 2024 at 4:03 AM
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Four panel comic. First panel: Brain asks "Are you sleeping?" Second panel: girl in bed replies "Yes, now shut up..." Third panel: Brain says "You are the result of infinite cosmic variables that create a beautiful point of singular uniqueness, and this grants you the power to prove love is real by simply being yourself." Fourth panel shows girl sleeping peacefully with a smile on her face.
June 19, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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Proof of donation. I'll have to think about what I might want entries for.
GoFundMe donation link screenshot
June 12, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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I get it, but if someone tries to enforce it...
Meme of DW from Arthur looking at a sign on a door. Text reads That sign won't stop me, because I can't read!
April 18, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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Reposting with alt text:
Screenshot says: "There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment about the nature of sin, for example," said Oats. "and what do they think? Against it, are they?" said Granny Weatherwax. "It's not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray." "Nope." "Pardon?" "There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That's what sin is. "It's a lot more complicated than that..." "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes..." "But they starts with thinking about people as things..."
February 16, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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They include the definition of genocide in the article.
In December 1948, in the aftermath of the second world war, the un adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The convention defines a genocide as acts intended “to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. Contrary to the common understanding of the term, the un says not only killing counts. “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction” does too, as does inflicting “serious bodily or mental harm”, “measures intended to prevent births”, and “forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”. Categorising atrocities as genocide has legal implications. The International Criminal Court is able to indict someone for the crime, for example.
December 1, 2023 at 7:18 PM
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Bandcamp was sold to Songtradr just last week. Staff union Bandcamp United was in labor negotiations with previous owner Epic Games until the sale.

Sign the petition to help Bandcamp United with leverage & momentum as they fight for workers rights & to put artists first.

bit.ly/songtradr-bcu
Text on green background says Bandcamp United OPEIU Local 1010. Above text is the union's logo, shaking hands that look like mountains behind which a sun with a cog in the center rises.
October 4, 2023 at 11:44 PM