Early stroll. My slowly disappearing apple. The gate of the empty house has swung open. Birdsong is morning’s ringtone. Light’s bottle is slowly opening. I measure out my life in strolls.
03.03.2026 06:19 —
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Flesh-fly egg, Lepidolite, Sweet-scented Violet -- What's your Werner Purple colour today? Follow the link in our bio to see more of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours in our Digitised Special Collections. #NatureInArt
03.03.2026 10:00 —
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Bundles
All our ebook bundles contain books significantly discounted from their standalone prices. And naturally they're all DRM-free, and come with our lifetime free replacement guarantee.
...So in local news: I still need to get some more heating oil for the house before the prices, uh, do what they're going to do. Want some pretty-low-priced #ebook bundles that have never been anywhere near AI slop? Grab one of these and help keep a writer warm! 🙂 dduane.link/EBDBundlesLi...
03.03.2026 13:00 —
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A gothic castle in the transylvanian mountains.
A great bear of a man, waring a stovepipe hat and carrying a cane: "Now that you are my bride, you will never leave this castle!"
His new bride replies "Wow! Your library is amazing!"
He continues "Beyond the castle is a high wall with no gate, and beyond that is a deep. Dark forest with no path."
She pulls a volume from a great bookcase, "I suppose it's my library too, now we're married."
He goes on "The forest is crawling with ravenous wolves, malignant birds and the spirits of long-dead travellers."
Ignoring him, carrying a pile of hardbacks "So many books! I can't believe My luck!"
He has sprouted wings, claws and cloven hoofs.
"When the sun sets, I transform into a wild beast and soar into the night, seized by a terrible bloodlust!"
She sits, examining her books as he flies out the window "Ok. I'll stay here and read. See you in the morning"
'Castle'
One of the limited-edition prints in my shop
www.tomgauld.com/shop
03.03.2026 13:55 —
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That building one of my faves, a real treasure trove of details…
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THREAD. 😡
02.03.2026 18:21 —
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Tuesday, March 10, 4pm. FREE.
"how can concerned observers broaden their resistance to Canada’s contributions to ICE in order to mitigate and prevent complicity in violence around the world?"
02.03.2026 14:59 —
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8-inch (200 mm), 5.25-inch (130 mm), and 3.5-inch (90 mm) floppy disks
George Chernilevsky - Own work
Three floppy disks of decreasing size arranged overlapping on a white surface. The largest, at the back left, is a black flexible square disk with a silver label reading "EC5274 SS/SD" and Cyrillic text. The middle disk is orange-red with a white label reading "boedem FLOPPY DISK 5,25" HD,DS". The smallest, at the front right, is a rigid blue plastic disk with a black sliding metal shutter and a label reading "WRITE ENABLE / WRITE PROTECT."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#/media/File:Floppy_disk_2009_G1.jp
The archivist preserving decaying floppy disks
It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.
by Mack DeGeurin
www.popsci.com/technology/f...
#computerscience #publicdomain
02.03.2026 08:49 —
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!["The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art.[1] Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials.[2] Valadon depicts a modern 20th-century woman, clothed and smoking a cigarette, in a pose traditional to female nudes, particularly 19th-century images of odalisques and prostitutes, such as Edouard Manet's Olympia.[3]" - wikipedia.org](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:53dildgigsgky47b45hm4lbz/bafkreievyhjp33ag6gkhpp7eb7eetyukhkyhuvuet6eyideuhfyqrhsfwi@jpeg)
"The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) is a 1923 painting by French artist Suzanne Valadon. One of her most recognizable works, it has been called a radical subversion of representation of women in art.[1] Like many of Valadon's later works, it uses strong colors and emphasizes decorative backgrounds and patterned materials.[2] Valadon depicts a modern 20th-century woman, clothed and smoking a cigarette, in a pose traditional to female nudes, particularly 19th-century images of odalisques and prostitutes, such as Edouard Manet's Olympia.[3]" - wikipedia.org
8 Famous Women Painters Who Shaped Art History
www.thecollector.com/famous-women...
Books about women artists at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje...
#art #womenshistory
02.03.2026 12:27 —
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Libraries are the best. Hard to believe their funding has been unchanged since 2010 and the BC NDP refuses to increase it.
02.03.2026 05:23 —
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When I present on Culturally Responsive Leadership, I talk about Tamika! One of those folks I've known forever and someone who's always walked the walk for librarianship. Tamika is running for ALA President! Please consider her for this important leadership role. She's got my vote!
01.03.2026 14:46 —
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I would prefer not to do this, but the profitable content writing gigs that used to boost my income dried out in 2025.
Paid subscribers support not only my random musings, but my capacity to continue to write full time across publications.
If you value my work please consider subscribing.
01.03.2026 14:56 —
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Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?
Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.
The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.
01.03.2026 16:21 —
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Skull season
And some book news (No. 191)
"The aim of this new 📘 is to blend nature writing, tech criticism + memoir to explore the landscapes of 21st century capitalism through a natural history prism, seeking out pockets of biodiversity and adaptation at a moment when machine intelligence seems on the verge of taking over the world..."
01.03.2026 17:55 —
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Three panels showing a bench on a small hill in London on a grey drizzly day. A man in a fedora carrying a suitcase arrives, then he is joined by a woman carrying an umbrella and a man in dark glasses reading a newspaper. They all look shifty and hurriedly converse:
"Good."
"Very."
"Agreed."
Then they all walk off down the hill.
Caption:
Every month, the Espionage Book Club discuss a classic work of spy fiction at a clandestine meeting. To minimise the risk of exposure, infiltration or surveillance by hostile agents, conversation is restricted to the essentials.
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
01.03.2026 11:50 —
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Two bookshelves with many hardback and some softback books
Today's DP (Distributed Proofreaders) blog, "My 25 Years at Distributed Proofreaders", is about one DP volunteer's experience.
blog.pgdp.net/2026/03/01/m...
#dp #dpblog
01.03.2026 13:36 —
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YouTube video by 500 Days in the Wild
500 DAYS IN THE WILD
Tonight’s film: 500 Days in the Wild (2023): a Canadian documentary filmmaker documents her attempt to walk the Trans-Canada trail
youtu.be/40X4cnwc9Ug?...
01.03.2026 03:35 —
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Week 3: You Are Here: Self-Reference and Situated Knowledge - Search & Discovery - Cross-Reference Coalition Spring 2026
In this week's class we're exploring the past/present/future of reference resources — dictionaries, almanacs, field guides — and the kinds of search + discovery they made/make possible. Feeling lots of nostalgia for their analog completism, the absence of algo's delivering tailored results, etc 🥹
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The Free Library Art Dept was one of my favorite things about Philadelphia — such a ✨ array of prgms + creative wrkshps activating the collection. I love this note of assurance abt their collage workshops: we are not sacrificing our own magazine clxn :)
myemail.constantcontact.com/MARCH-2026-N...
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