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Gavin B

@ghostflaneur

Leabharlannaí Ireland, Canada, Etc. MLIS and migraines. Pronouns in bio just in case someone feels a need to shoot me on the street.

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I remember the night before being in Loblaws and wondering should I get some toilet paper. There had already been stories from Australia.

But all the on special rolls were sold out already and, meh, I thought, this would all probably blow over.

11.03.2026 16:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
white text on black 

City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected mobility lane?
City: No, we'll lose parking spots

white text on black City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected mobility lane? City: No, we'll lose parking spots

An emergency

11.03.2026 14:04 👍 194 🔁 51 💬 5 📌 14

🎯🎯🎯

“Decades of bipartisan deregulation, privatization, union-busting, and welfare retrenchment dismantled the public infrastructures that enable people to experience themselves as participants in collective life and”

11.03.2026 14:01 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

11.03.2026 11:57 👍 90 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1

new therapist did not appreciate my trepanning suggestion

11.03.2026 04:23 👍 88 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 0

The biggest grift the country's elite ever played is convincing middle income/poor people that *poorer* people buying seafood with food stamps is a crime but the wealthy not paying their fair share of taxes and the government funding endless wars isn't.

11.03.2026 02:10 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

THIS. FUCKING THIS!!

10.03.2026 23:48 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Right now would still be a good time to ensure that your downspouts are still draining away from your foundation after this very snowly freeze and thaw winter.

10.03.2026 23:52 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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10.03.2026 23:55 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Abolish the Home Office and every Home Secretary

10.03.2026 20:50 👍 37 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Slowly, two shadowy figures come into focus, one behind the other with their hand on the other's neck.

The Not Ready for Opsec Players present

"Fucking hell! My blood doll is a LEFTIST!"

Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll (Dark Pack)

https://blooddollpod.com

Slowly, two shadowy figures come into focus, one behind the other with their hand on the other's neck. The Not Ready for Opsec Players present "Fucking hell! My blood doll is a LEFTIST!" Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll (Dark Pack) https://blooddollpod.com

Imagine if you will, not one, not ten, but over twenty trans voice actors coming together for an audio drama written, directed, and edited by a trans woman!

Vampire: The Masquerade: Blood Doll is a Gormenghast-style epic romantic tragedy featuring a trans leftist & an enby Ventrue:
blooddollpod.com

10.03.2026 20:17 👍 97 🔁 35 💬 2 📌 2

It's snowing.

As it does, in Vancouver, in March.

10.03.2026 16:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

also relevant to my interests.

10.03.2026 16:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The problem is a bunch of journalists are working class people hustling through a dying industry but then there's the trust fund kids who can afford to do it as more of a hobby and get money from other rich people

10.03.2026 14:54 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

Once again I would like to request all academics make their output titles at least 4 words long, preferably unique ones, with no punctuation

10.03.2026 15:53 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Concur. Have long said that the hardest critical writing is to lucidly share and explain one’s passion for a work. Not ‘Wow, this is great!’ but detailed explanation of why one finds it so.

Negative is easier.

10.03.2026 15:47 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1

that seems to have been the most common story - and without medical guidance, or general societal understanding, it leave the person struggling through alone.

10.03.2026 15:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a very good friend of mine just finished their PhD on it and the stories they can tell of people's struggles with it, and the silences surrounding it are heartbreaking.

10.03.2026 15:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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a teenage mutant ninja turtle is sitting under a tree in the woods and saying woosaah . ALT: a teenage mutant ninja turtle is sitting under a tree in the woods and saying woosaah .

Speaking of EBSCO, just got an email they're doing some survey on how people, especially in Library Land, perceive them.

Given their recent #fuckery, I may need to take a deep breath before I do it, if I do.

10.03.2026 15:19 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

10.03.2026 13:19 👍 9402 🔁 1892 💬 176 📌 39

I have always gotten the sense that all the serious GOP players hate the president, in different ways, but they all have a wishlist. If they can just get him to do a few things on the list before he's impeached/drops dead/whatever, then it's a huge win.

So they'll put up with all else, untol then.

10.03.2026 14:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have honestly never understood how anyone in the UK affords to live, and my sister has lived there since 2005

09.03.2026 21:12 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

What I gather from this ancient Babylonian dialogue (and others) is that we have grappled with injustice for millennia. We've talked about it with our friends, and we've felt understandably depressed. How can we not?

But we will keep fighting, and the smoke will clear one day...

10.03.2026 10:49 👍 442 🔁 40 💬 10 📌 0
🎨 Antoine-Ignace Melling

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🎨 An Ottoman #Wedding Procession, Istanbul, c. 1790

10.03.2026 13:49 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Yep. And in many places in the US where public transportation *could* be better, white people voted *against* public transit to keep Black and other POC (and the poors) out of their neighborhoods. America really could be great at a lot of things if it was less great at racism. 🤷🏾‍♀️

10.03.2026 06:59 👍 13 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
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Brevity's got soul.

09.03.2026 23:41 👍 251 🔁 17 💬 14 📌 2
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The decline of Facebook, as seen in the percent of @LibraryThing members who sign up using Facebook button—15.6% to 1%, 2014–2025.

10.03.2026 04:28 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Rather a lot, too

10.03.2026 07:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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New historical plaque in Montreal's Little Burgundy (Petite-Bourgogne).
it was a historically black neighbourhood, and among others, jazz giant Oscar Peterson was born here.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...

10.03.2026 02:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0