Duangjai 🌸
@duangjai.bsky.social
Languages, learning, libraries and more stuff not necessarily beginning with L
Aotearoa New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand
January 26, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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Indentures are contracts, usually for terms of labor, that were written in duplicate on a single sheet that was cut in half, creating the indentations that give them their name. Each party kept one half. These are from 1797 & 1800 and were issued by the Boston Overseers of the Poor 🗃️
January 24, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Indentures are contracts, usually for terms of labor, that were written in duplicate on a single sheet that was cut in half, creating the indentations that give them their name. Each party kept one half. These are from 1797 & 1800 and were issued by the Boston Overseers of the Poor 🗃️
January 24, 2026 at 4:16 AM
January 23, 2026 at 12:59 AM
January 22, 2026 at 4:08 AM
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So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
January 21, 2026 at 7:16 AM
So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
January 21, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Theme for tonight: let sleeping dogs lie - literally. #CanineCognitiveDysfunction #DoggieDementia
January 20, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Theme for tonight: let sleeping dogs lie - literally. #CanineCognitiveDysfunction #DoggieDementia
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i think about this every time i look at the latest Overdrive or Hoopla or Kanopy invoice. unless prices or demand stabilize, our budget and thus our library will soon be describable as “lessee of digital content with a legacy dead-tree side concern.” 📚
No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL:
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
$28.99 hardcopy
$59.99 ebook
$69.99 audiobook
DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.
Libraries can't afford e-books. D.C. lawmakers have a plan.
The demand and price for e-books is up — and it’s busting the D.C. Public Library budget.
51st.news
January 17, 2026 at 8:34 PM
i think about this every time i look at the latest Overdrive or Hoopla or Kanopy invoice. unless prices or demand stabilize, our budget and thus our library will soon be describable as “lessee of digital content with a legacy dead-tree side concern.” 📚
January 19, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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Tens of thousands of New Zealanders live with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. For the first time, and study reveals the cost of these conditions - NZ$22.6 billion per year - with the largest economic toll not for treatment but the inability to work theconversation.com/chronic-pelv...
Chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis affect thousands in NZ – a new study reveals the staggering cost
For the first time, research has put a dollar figure on the medical and economic toll of these relatively common conditions in New Zealand.
theconversation.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders live with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. For the first time, and study reveals the cost of these conditions - NZ$22.6 billion per year - with the largest economic toll not for treatment but the inability to work theconversation.com/chronic-pelv...
January 19, 2026 at 12:32 AM
January 18, 2026 at 3:57 AM
The awkwardness of getting a message on Facebook saying so-and-so has accepted your friend request... and you don't remember asking them or really know them. #SocialMediaWhileSleeping is the only thing I can think of 😴📱 Or should I blame the pup?
homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in the grass looking at something .
Alt: Homer Simpson from The Simpsons slowly disappearing in a hedge
media.tenor.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:59 AM
The awkwardness of getting a message on Facebook saying so-and-so has accepted your friend request... and you don't remember asking them or really know them. #SocialMediaWhileSleeping is the only thing I can think of 😴📱 Or should I blame the pup?
January 17, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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January 12, 2026 at 12:39 AM
January 11, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
January 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
January 10, 2026 at 2:11 AM