Melody Joy Kramer, MLIS

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I had some onions on a piece of homemade wheat bread with melted cheese on top. It was very good.

We stopped. Tomorrow: a pot of beans. Then: mix, maybe make some lentils and rice as well.

these were the sheets I had growing up!

I think our game plan is a little here a little there - maybe a bean and rice thing?

um when is it done

hour 5

going to attempt to put lid on, turn off heat, and restart efforts after birthday endeavor.

onion

hour 4. have a children’s birthday party in an hour so may not have timed this well.

onions

hour 3

would totally join a social media network that was limited to people posting very slow caramelized onion pictures

onions

hour two

onions

hour one

i have five hours, three new yorkers, and one book. (also: two children currently quietly playing together but who knows what the future brings)

Land-grab universities - High Country News Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

Five years after it was published, I still think about this @highcountrynews.org project that connects land-grant universities back to the land they were granted, what tribe owned it immediately prior, how much it was worth then, and how much it’s worth now. A complete reframe of land grants.

I think maybe even less!

caramelizing 8 pounds of onions

The place where the first report of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in a cohort of gay men revealed the disease that came to be called AIDS

I spent five years working alongside demographers and population researchers before joining @propublica.org - info below on how to reach us.

children have requested to listen to hype album on the 4 minute drive to the fields.

a man in a suit and tie is standing at a podium and saying way too early for that . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing at a podium and saying way too early for that .

8:15 carrboro rec league little league game

seems like there’s a lot of good card and dice games on that channel. good for an upcoming rainy weekend!

YouTube video by Riffle Shuffle & Roll How to Play Collapsi: NEW two player abstract game with playing cards!

goofballs and i learned a new card game called collapsi which is great because it involves a deck of cards and two other objects and that’s it youtu.be/6vYEHdjlw3g?...

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Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.

Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Last year a @merrillcollege.bsky.social grad student told me she wanted to build a news app about evictions in DC. Given the schedule and amount of work, it was an ambitious project.

Taylor Nichols not only did it but got it published by a DC news org!

streetsensedc.github.io/evictions-ap...

taking my goofballs on a field trip this weekend to see the world’s oldest long leaf pine tree

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has been accused of nearly 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

The state COULD have fined the company more than $3M...

BUT

Regulators are only seeking a penalty of $242,800.

By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler

I didn’t know about your post but it was very accurate!

tagging @jesszimmerman.com because this is very funny to me