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Imagine a hobbit herbalist librarian. Libraries, books, herbs, gardens, pre-1650, fantasy-sf, middle grade fiction, tech support/training, Victoriana. Omnivorish interests & reposts. [She/her cis, trans-affirming]
Yay!
Sending good thoughts
Yet more unacceptable targeting of trans people from this admin, weaponizing their shock troops against trans people just as they have done against communities of color and people who don't bow down to 'Dear Leader'
Penn Station to Secaucus and vice versa is the worst section ever!
My semi-disabled self never takes NJ transit trains anymore because that stretch requires aggressively leaping for the doors to get on, then usually having no place to sit.
Either that or foster fails...
I think about this a lot.
Much better in the country where guys with homes are peeing outdoors, of course.
Wasted sports fans on the way to/from the Meadowlands stadium are a menace to all forms of transportation, sadly.
Medieval Markets & Fairs in England & Wales: remember the excellent dataset published back in 2003? I've given it a snazzy new interface, incorporating various updates which were made following publication.
Separately, I'm working on extending it to 1846...
ihr-digital.github.io/markets-and-...
The Picts carved many different beasts on their stones in the Early Medieval. Some real, some imaginary, a few somewhere in between. I set out to learn how to use the style to draw a few animals that they never did...
In cases you were wondering . . . this is a photo that annoyed Pete Hegseth so much because he thought it was "unflattering" so he got the photographer barred. I encourage all of you to use it as often as possible.
Send pictures maybe?
Send pictures maybe?
My absolute favorite Carrot line is, "Personal's not the same as important."
My absolute favorite Carrot line is, "Personal's not the same as important."
This is from 1975.
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
"Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid."
Wtf.
Old Mikvah in the basement of a restaurant across from Sta María la Blanca in Sevilla. Restored and can be visited!
The unqualified have no reason to argue with Don Trump.
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
It me today
Unless you are ripping dispensers off the wall or pilfering the housekeeping cart, taking home the in-room toiletries isn't theft!
Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages:
Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’
www.ft.com/content/7cab...
archive: archive.is/wXvF3
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My son's father, who is from Germany but left there 30 years ago, once had to go through the embassy (I think) because he kept getting emailed shipping invoices that belonged to a guy in East Germany with his first & last name.
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I'm sorry
Meanwhile affirmative action "meritocracy" manosphere tech bros wasting our taxes:
"OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
bsky.app/profile/masn...
The last art history question I helped someone with (before getting laid off from my last ft academic job) was the Mackintosh Library at Glasgow school of Art.
radar.gsa.ac.uk/3804/1/Macki...