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my views do not represent those of my employer @zinelib.bsky.social · 18m

For all the olde librarians: ChatGPT should be like Dialog, where you have to pay per search. The charge should be equivalent to the environmental damage of the query. 📚

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sorry 💔💔💔

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10h

US artist Tracey McCracken Palmer uses wet felting and needle felting techniques to create landscape artworks #WomensArt

Textile pictorial artwork featuring a landscape with purple heather on a hillside with a lone tree at the top under a dramatic sky

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Chicken the Friendly Ghost 👻 @vermontchicken.bsky.social · 9h

I'm like a sleeping princess tucked away deep inside a castle on the top of a mountain, surrounded by brambles and patrolled by a fire-breathing dragon except I'm just trying to limit my exposure to mainstream media.

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muhr-eerie @marie.likes.earth · 8h

my brain is like "ok but hear me out. what if we work harder not smarter"

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 6h

Mums aplenty, mums galore

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 7h

From the archives (and the botanical gardens in Pittsburgh) 1996?

A whole bunch of smaller spiky orange mums

Some purple roundish jellyfish-looking mums

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 7h

He stole Spinal Tap’s little Stonehenge

NPR @npr.org · 8h

On Wednesday, the president showcased models for a grand new monument to be added to the gateway of the National Mall: a large, neoclassical arch topped with eagles and a gilded, winged figure.

President Trump envisions D.C. arch to mark 250th anniversary of U.S.

On Wednesday, the president showcased models for a grand new monument to be added to the gateway of the National Mall: a large, neoclassical arch topped with eagles and a gilded, winged figure.

n.pr

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 9h

It’s actually pretty cool that in this time where our birth control access is threatened, men help out by buying cybertrucks

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 9h

Yesterday was busy

Today was super busy

This afternoon and evening will be shitty*

*starting my colonoscopy prep in 1 hour

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 11h

Remember those innocent times of the dawn of the era of the bright industrial shiny renaissance and our darkest fear was that a job would take our robots

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 15h

It’s usually tomorrow

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Tusk Jenkins @tuskjenkins.bsky.social · 22h

Look right into your fire and ask it how it started and it will never tell you. Not that it doesn't know, it just doesn't believe it I believe I also believe life originated from rubbing two beliefs together, there that's two and this is a single-celled campfire

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d

Went to Costco for sensible things like toilet paper and cheddar cheese. Came home with six boxes of TimTams, two bottles of scotch, and two kilometers of plastic wrap.

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

a penguin holding a sign that says hello on it

Alt: a penguin holding a sign that says hello on it

media.tenor.com

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

As long as he follows that up by praising your work productivity while on the meth, you should be golden

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 1d

my phone autocorrected “our government” to “known enemy” and that feels right.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for these Moon Moth Wings.
Costume idea for introverts who will be reluctantly dragged to a Halloween party: Wear moth wings, stand by a lamp the entire night, talk to no one.
collabs.shop/p2dhn1

A mannequin with green moth wings on it.

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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the world is really close to that point where I can just pour bags of M&Ms straight into my mouth several times a day

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 1d

🤞🤞🤞

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 2d

Meow x 2

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 2d

Meow

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

But that 120 year legacy changed on October 1st, when US customs announced a phase-out of Canadian access to the library.

Canadians with existing cards could still enter via an emergency exit until October 1st, but now must go through border control to enter their library.

Are we the baddies, etc.

Locals feel a loss as the U.S. limits Canadian access to cross-border library

Canadians will no longer be allowed to freely use the American entrance to the cultural building that sits on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.

www.npr.org

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

There's a little library that straddles the US-Canadian border:
the "Haskell Free Library and Opera House".

Since 1904, it's been free to use for people in Stanstead, Quebec & Derby Line, Vermont, with just a black tape line to indicate the international border.

(📷: Don Emmert, AFP, 2017)

Black tape marks the U.S.-Canada border inside the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in 2017.
Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

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Boo-greenia 👻 @eugreenia.bsky.social · 2d

Costco did ok with my progressives, but you have to be a member

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