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Quiet reminder that in the US of A, libraries are struggling with funding and competing with Kindle and other pay-venues.

Every library book you check out on your library app is valued because it is another vote for the service.

Also, I'm asking you to open up the Libby app and read it as a Libby app instead of on your kindle app

library understanders in my phone I have a question. can I keep abusing the ebook system of my hometown library once I move away? can I collect local library cards from towns nearby to where I move to and use them all? is this logistically or morally acceptable. do they still receive goods or services for this

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I understand that museums have to be dark because light can destroy fragile artifacts. That said, I’m always afraid to walk around the blind corners because what if there is a skeleton

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join the praxis discord - sign up - github

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imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday

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so was anybody gonna talk about the new ecology paper proposing Ethiopian wolves as potential pollinators of native nectar-rich flower inflorescences positioned on stalks conveniently within wolf enjoying height AND that it includes photos of said wolves doing said unconfirmed alleged pollination (delightful) AND that it has observational evidence suggesting some wolves do like 1 flower and are done and other wolves just get really into it and spend upwards of an hour going between 20 and 30 flowers for up to 4-5 minutes per cluster just utterly going at it, lost in the nectar sauce? because I cannot BELIEVE I haven’t seen something on this webbed site about it yet. it just has everything this site enjoys

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Slow train journeys in rural England sure are an experience. You're going ten miles and it takes a day and a half because it stops at every lamp-post and the announcement says "The next station stop is Ferretley" or something and you think "I didn't know that was a place" and you get there and it isn't

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https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2024-12-06-cbo-22-million-consumers-will-lose-insurance-2026-if-aca-enhanced-premium-subsidies-expire

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hundreds of beavers is free on youtube even as we speak

you will not regret spending two hours watching hundreds of beavers

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Tumblr's 2024 Year in Review has arrived!

Another year’s worth of sweet, sweet data brought to you by the folks behind weekly Fandometrics. Visit the link below to see where all your faves landed this year. ⤵

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As The American Prospect so aptly put it, "only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO."

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https://www.thekitchn.com/did-you-know-you-can-eat-pumpkin-leaves-tips-from-the-kitchn-207383