Meg
@megblack.bsky.social
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
"Your job is snack time and honesty."
Love doesn’t mean people get to scream at you.
Even if they say
they scream because they care.
No, pal.
That’s just noise
in a cardigan.
Even if they say
they scream because they care.
No, pal.
That’s just noise
in a cardigan.
If Charles Bukowski Wrote a Children’s Book About Emotional Regulation
Sometimes you feel like a fist. Other times, you feel like the ashtray after a party no one invited you to. Both are fine. Just don’t throw the fis...
buff.ly
June 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Your job is snack time and honesty."
There’s a four-year-old (mine) chanting “RIFC!” by himself. This is the best. Let’s GOOoOoOoooo!!!
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There’s a four-year-old (mine) chanting “RIFC!” by himself. This is the best. Let’s GOOoOoOoooo!!!
It’s an exciting day — MR LEMON OPENING DAY!!!!!!
May 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It’s an exciting day — MR LEMON OPENING DAY!!!!!!
I wrote a piece for the @thepvdeye.bsky.social about Downtown Providence and its community: pvdeye.org/at-providenc...
At Providence’s Laboratory Schools, The City Becomes A Classroom.
While getting ready for bed one evening in December, my four-year-old said to me, “Mommy, did you know that not everyone has a house?” A dialogue ensued: Me: “Oh yeah? [...]
pvdeye.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wrote a piece for the @thepvdeye.bsky.social about Downtown Providence and its community: pvdeye.org/at-providenc...
HAPPY 401 GIVES DAY to all who celebrate!! I am helping raise money for the Community Libraries of Providence to further the incredible work they do for and with our community. Please consider donating: clpvd.networkforgood.com/projects/248...
Support our Community Libraries
Libraries are magic. Our libraries and the teams of people who make them magic tirelessly uplift our neighborhoods, with welcoming spaces and offerings for all ages, as well as free services that ever...
clpvd.networkforgood.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
HAPPY 401 GIVES DAY to all who celebrate!! I am helping raise money for the Community Libraries of Providence to further the incredible work they do for and with our community. Please consider donating: clpvd.networkforgood.com/projects/248...
My favorite spring return is the @riaudubon.bsky.social Peregrine Falcon Cam atop the Superman Building (THERE ARE EGGS!) asri.org/view/peregri...
Providence Peregrine Cam | Audubon Society of Rhode Island
Watch a live feed of Peregrine Falcon hatchlings in a nestbox located 26 floors above the city in Providence's Superman Building! Brought to you by Audubon Society of Rhode Island.
asri.org
March 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My favorite spring return is the @riaudubon.bsky.social Peregrine Falcon Cam atop the Superman Building (THERE ARE EGGS!) asri.org/view/peregri...
Thank you, Jessica, for the call back the light community liturgy tonight ❤️ @jdinri.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Thank you, Jessica, for the call back the light community liturgy tonight ❤️ @jdinri.bsky.social
I second this endorsement.
Today is a good day to preorder @cosbrarian.bsky.social’s debut book from @heartleafbooks.bsky.social - trust me on this one, im a professional 😎 📚
F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics
Bawdy, shocking, and hilarious interpretations of classic and rare fairy tales from a beloved TikTok storyteller. Based on the wildly popular TikTok series, F*cked Up Fairy Tales presents modern retel...
heartleafbooks.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I second this endorsement.
My mom texted me asking if I’d like to get a mani/pedi with her or go with her to Costco while she’s visiting.
I’m not sure why this is an either/or question. This is a surprisingly hard decision.
I’m not sure why this is an either/or question. This is a surprisingly hard decision.
March 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
My mom texted me asking if I’d like to get a mani/pedi with her or go with her to Costco while she’s visiting.
I’m not sure why this is an either/or question. This is a surprisingly hard decision.
I’m not sure why this is an either/or question. This is a surprisingly hard decision.
Lessons in Trying 2 Save the World -Nikita Gill
If you name it hope instead of impossible
If you hold it w/tenderness
If you call it the blessing ofyour ancestors
If you look around &see thefaces of everyone youlove
trying to save theworld w/you
Then this work becomes love
&even mountains will move
If you name it hope instead of impossible
If you hold it w/tenderness
If you call it the blessing ofyour ancestors
If you look around &see thefaces of everyone youlove
trying to save theworld w/you
Then this work becomes love
&even mountains will move
February 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Lessons in Trying 2 Save the World -Nikita Gill
If you name it hope instead of impossible
If you hold it w/tenderness
If you call it the blessing ofyour ancestors
If you look around &see thefaces of everyone youlove
trying to save theworld w/you
Then this work becomes love
&even mountains will move
If you name it hope instead of impossible
If you hold it w/tenderness
If you call it the blessing ofyour ancestors
If you look around &see thefaces of everyone youlove
trying to save theworld w/you
Then this work becomes love
&even mountains will move
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history.
The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists.
Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?
The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists.
Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?
February 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history.
The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists.
Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?
The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists.
Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history?
We are finally overcoming the stigma surrounding anxiety and depression - acknowledging that ADHD presents in a wide array of ways and not just something 8 year old boys have. And now men with power are garnering more power to force their conspiracy theories and make life harder for others.
"People should not have to suffer the anguish of being denied life-saving drugs because a couple of guys have decided to apply conspiracy theories instead of established science."
An excellent piece from @marisakabas.bsky.social.
An excellent piece from @marisakabas.bsky.social.
You can pry my antidepressants from my cold, dead hands
A new executive order announced an "assessment" for the use of these meds in children. Adults aren't far behind.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We are finally overcoming the stigma surrounding anxiety and depression - acknowledging that ADHD presents in a wide array of ways and not just something 8 year old boys have. And now men with power are garnering more power to force their conspiracy theories and make life harder for others.
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The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
February 14, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
I had the most magical time on the @savethebayri.bsky.social Seal Cruise today. Look at these chonky bebes (photo taken through my binoculars).
February 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I had the most magical time on the @savethebayri.bsky.social Seal Cruise today. Look at these chonky bebes (photo taken through my binoculars).
4 yr old: “Mom. Mom. Here. You need dinosaurs for your upstairs office. They will have effic [sic] adventures. We can talk about them at bedtime.”
January 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
4 yr old: “Mom. Mom. Here. You need dinosaurs for your upstairs office. They will have effic [sic] adventures. We can talk about them at bedtime.”
I split my coffee inside my purse this morning. It ruined my planner and now I do not know how to function (no idea if it ruined anything else)
January 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I split my coffee inside my purse this morning. It ruined my planner and now I do not know how to function (no idea if it ruined anything else)
A must listen on @globeri.bsky.social's Rhode Island Report podcast
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/16/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/16/m...
After 23 years behind bars, the R.I. man behind Mario’s Law talks about the capacity to change - The Boston Globe
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Mario Monteiro talks about the 2021 R.I. law that gives youthful offenders a chance at parole after serving 20 years.
www.bostonglobe.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A must listen on @globeri.bsky.social's Rhode Island Report podcast
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/16/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/16/m...
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$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
January 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
2024 was a exhausting but a good year. Professionally, it was one of my more exciting years. Here’s a favorite photo with some magical former coworkers/forever friends, at the annual meeting of my favorite organization
January 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
2024 was a exhausting but a good year. Professionally, it was one of my more exciting years. Here’s a favorite photo with some magical former coworkers/forever friends, at the annual meeting of my favorite organization
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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
December 27, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
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Reposted by Meg
Of all states with food waste bans, “Massachusetts alone has reduced landfill waste,” according to a study published in September in the research journal Science.
Mass. is the only state in the nation to significantly cut food waste. How did we do it? - The Boston Globe
“Massachusetts alone” has successfully reduced the amount of food sent to landfills, researchers wrote in a recent report.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Of all states with food waste bans, “Massachusetts alone has reduced landfill waste,” according to a study published in September in the research journal Science.