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Rome Demands Stone
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Yes, it's me. The cocktail loving, board game playing, data librarian with a wall of games🇨🇦🍁
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“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”

—Anne Herbert

Support your public library in any way you can—this includes using it.
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Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
November 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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As @lastweektonight.com covered tonight, local public media stations across the country are in crisis. You can help out by going to adoptastation.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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97 years ago today, Steamboat Willie paddled onto the screen. In 2024, this iconic cartoon entered the public domain, opening new possibilities for sharing, remixing & reimagining.

Follow us for Public Domain Day 2026 announcements!

👀 Full cartoon ➡️ archive.org/details/stea...

#OTD #PublicDomain
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Explore #ICPSR #data at myumi.ch/D8qE6. These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions! Find out if you're at a member institution: myumi.ch/ICPSR-Members.
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I'm not minimizing any of the countless other reasons he should be drafting his resignation.

It's that he said this to a woman. In her workplace. In front of her colleagues. While she does her job.

It's a disgrace. He owes her an apology, and so do all of his voters, frankly.
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I feel seen.

“Welcome to what I call the Great Unfuckening—that point in midlife when your capacity to pretend, perform, and please others starts shorting out like an electrical system that’s finally had enough.”
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I don’t want to live in a world where people believe that others are incapable of change. What does that say about our own capacity for positive change? That’s it’s a lie? A fantasy?
November 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Is it Friday yet?
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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NIXON_R1.BMF
November 14, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Ah yes, in Germany they called this "lebensraum"

But one thing that's important to note: this was their policy back during the campaign too even as people believed for some reason that they would only deport crininals
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Conifer Hill
Kurt Swinghammer
2022
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Umm al Kheir is at imminent risk of forced displacement after mass demolition orders from Israel civil administration. MSF calls on Israel to end coercive measures aimed towards annexation including settler violence, often carried out under army protection and home demolitions.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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We get questioned a lot on why aren't hacking X, Y or Z. We've done that. In an era of lies, it doesn't seem to concern them as much. Your raised fist does! We don't need to hack sh*t for you to know that your fist should be raised. Raise it high and bring these f*cks to the justice they deserve!
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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#aurora ribbons from cockpit of a flight heading to Fort MacMurray #alberta as major solar storm hits earth.
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Just watched John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness and then looked up the WH official website to verify the Door Dash stat reference and, folks, I felt like I was still watching that movie. That is not normal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 AM
D is making sours—one with the dregs of our Wild Turkey and one with the excellent Okanagan Spirits Distillery's BRBN.
I love me a good sour and blame-er-thank @janis.bsky.social for the introduction to this excellent cocktail.
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Read, "Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it" published on the Conversation and written by ICPSR's director Margaret Levenstein and John Kubale at: myumi.ch/P3ND4.

#ICPSR #Data
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Just came across a pre-print paper that analyzes an AI boyfriend subreddit. There are images from the subreddit that appear to be real people. (Since you can use generative AI to create a new image based on a photo.) There's an ethics statement: "public subreddits carry no privacy expectations" :-\
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This👇but ANY public facing social media site including comments on news articles, help forums and, of course, BlueSky.
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Another species no longer on the global Endangered list:
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).

A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
a man with a mustache says there be whales here in a dark room
Alt: Scotty from Star Trek Original Series (played by Jimmy Doohan) says there be whales here in a Klingon vessel's cargo hold.
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Fresh logo, fresh ice 🥶

The Vancouver Goldeneyes have unveiled their new logo at center ice - catch it all season at PNE!
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I am an ARTIST
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM