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metadata nerd, librarian, not very social

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Shannon Mattern

This is so close to various early depictions of book cabinets, including this one from the Mausoleum of Galla Placida ~450 a.d.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

I was trying to get to the check-in at the New Orleans airport and he was hanging with the red caps, doing some dance/shimmy routine and making it hard to get through. In his tank top and shorts. The guy never stopped the shtick. It must have been exhausting.

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Blue Heron Farm

The money! Huge amounts of money spent - we could house the homeless, welcome the immigrants, and feed school children, but no, it goes to campaigns. More proof that the money is there but we don't use it wisely.

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Blue Heron Farm

I agree. Like many, I have blocks on unknown callers, texters, and emailers. If someone reaches out to me for a poll I definitely do not answer. I expect that I am not unusual in that regard. I would like to see the demographics of the respondents - age, local, education, etc.

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✨brit ✨

I cannot recommend this book enough for the history of the vibrator: Maines, Rachel. (1999). The technology of orgasm : “hysteria,” the vibrator, and women’s sexual satisfaction. Johns Hopkins University Press.

My favorite part was that one of the early vibrator machines, large and designed for doctor's offices, was called "The Chattanooga". The. best. name. ever. for an orgasm device.

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✨brit ✨

The one that blows me away is "Desertion by husband." Why does that conclude that SHE is insane? (Actually, she might be happy as a clam.)

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It was the worst of times, it was the even worster of times

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ryan cooper

I'm actually running an air purifier so my smoke alarms won't go off. That's how thick it is.

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Watching the British election returns I feel compelled to point out that the 650 person House of Commons represents 67 million people and the 435 person House of Representatives in the United States represents 333 million. Replace the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929. We deserve representation.

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Charles Louis Richter

I actually saw a copy of this cookbook from 1942 that gave recipes for Italian housewives. It is an amazing example of "do more with less" and included gathering greens in vacant lots, using old bread to create a broth. www.vallardi.it/catalogo/sch...

La cucina del tempo di guerra | Vallardiwww.vallardi.it Nel 1942 Lunella de Seta scrisse questo preziosissimo libro di consigli, espedienti e ricette per le donne Italiane che durante la guerra cercavano di mettere insieme i pasti quotidiani. Qui spiegava ...

There's also a book of a ancient Roman recipes, with very limited ingredients. No pasta, no tomato, no rice. Basically olives, sea food, rye, some wild wheat, various greens, and goat cheese. press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

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if Biden announced that he was ordering the IRS to end all audits of people making less than $100,000 and ordering audits of all billionaires that would be something he could do

Possible sabotage from the headline writers' union at the NY Times?

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post malone ergo propter malone

Yet I thought she was dynamite as a senator. Her questioning in hearings was a joy to see - informed, on point, and beating the pants off the opposition.

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Dave Karpf

two words: Mitch McConnell

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Stacey Burns

Something else: all those digital versions of journals and magazines online and in databases have the *articles* but are not cover-to-cover. Many don't have letters to the editor, and nearly all do not have ads. In terms of future study of these times, that's an incomplete picture.

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What if, for the good of the country, the NYT editorial board stepped aside and let serious people do that work?

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“The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Supreme Court Is a Joke. It’s Not Funnywww.rollingstone.com The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators.

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right. x.com/adambonin/st...

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What a great time to be trapped in outer space

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Too Big to Fail

Getting your medical advice from the Supremes is as bad as getting it from Gwyneth Paltrow. Then again, if Alito and Thomas decided to put Goop eggs up their butts, I'd probably watch.

Another win for libraries.

If you've ever thought Reader's Digest contributed nothing to society, let me tell you that two of the Klansmen in the Mississippi Burning conspiracy were badly beaten in the federal prison in Texarkana when fellow inmates read an article about them in a Reader's Digest in the prison library.

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e.w. niedermeyer

Prison which they are wholly convinced they will never be in, then one day ... they will be so very indignant, saying: "I didn't mean me!" Oh, hi, SBF.

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Ann M. Lipton

OMG - the library's moniker is HTML! How perfect is that?

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Maggie Astor

You can imagine how much the employees like this system. And, yes, this will be an excuse to close stores because they aren't "earning." Does anyone at these companies understand what the problem is? It's obvious to the (former) customers.

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Two West Virginia parents charged with attempting to teach history in Florida

Two West Virginia parents are awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges after adopting four Black children and allegedly using them for “forced labor” on their farm, court documents show. www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/u...

West Virginia couple charged with trafficking their adopted Black children to be used as ‘slaves,’ authorities allege | CNNwww.cnn.com Two West Virginia parents are awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges after adopting four Black children and allegedly using them for “forced labor” on their farm, court documents show.

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TIL the Bank of Canada once had to ask ppl to stop Spocking Fives. I, otoh, would like to request that y’all keep it up.

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Popehat

Think: "Lockerbie bombing" - a good example of the "mule" not knowing what she carried.