Mary Grace
@emgeekay.bsky.social
Retired archivist, librarian, linguist, feminist, reader, mom, grandma, pacifist, socialist, supporter of trade unions, the welfare state, and Amnesty International. I like digital preservation. Banner: Andrew Nicholl. https://heritageadvocacy.ca/
Repatriation is beautiful. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Royal Alberta Museum returns artifacts dating back thousands of years to Fort McKay First Nation | CBC News
The Royal Alberta Museum is returning more than 17,000 artifacts collected north of Fort McMurray, Alta., to the Fort McKay First Nation.
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Rest in peace Lloyd. My memories of childhood are reading in bed with a flashlight way past my bedtime, and when I’d hear your signature sign off after the 11pm news, “And that’s the kind of day it’s been.” I’d turn off the light and pretend to be asleep, since I knew parents would coming up to bed.
The U.S. is blocking 7,000 shipping containers bought directly by Cuba. They are preventing food, medicine, equipment for water and electricity from getting to Cuba. This is collective punishment. This is genocidal.
How cool would it be to work as a librarian park ranger?
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor a bit more context: Here’s our 2025 field report: libraryfield.org/fieldnotes/l... And here’s info about our flora inventory and more: libraryfield.org/fieldnotes/ And here’s my Library Field Syllabus :) syllabusproject.org/library-field/
I took four days off and did absolutely nothing constructive. Tomorrow I pay for it because I have to work like mad on a survey of Canada’s cultural heritage community. But it was fun being a sloth 🦥
I am truly amazed that I'm growing stuff 😁 My family is flabbergasted 😂
As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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Carbon pricing not only lowered emissions it gave more money back to the majority of people, especially to the poorest Canadians. Shame on all the cynical politicians who repeated lies about it. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...
"Maria" is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves and sleeves to protect herself against the lemon thorns. She shares, "I will work any job to feed my children." Today Coachella temps are predicted to reach a high of 118°. #WeFeedYou
“…summer was an immaterial treasure and joy that belonged to all of us...Robbing us all of the immeasurable joys of summer as it was is part of that theft.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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Keep feeding fossil fuel companies until there is no future for our children and grandchildren. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C. https://cheknews.ca/devastation-chief-says-about-230-homes-destroyed-by-b-c-wildfire-1340190/
‘Devastation’: Chief says about 230 homes destroyed by B.C. wildfire
The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C.
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WOMENSART blog: Käthe Kollwitz, A Vision of Humanity womensartblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/k...
Käthe Kollwitz, A Vision of Humanity
Käthe Kollwitz was born in 1867 into a large Prussian family, whose religious concerns and passion for socialist politics would hugely influence her future work as an artist. As a child Kollwitz be…
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I think we may have eaten most of the ripe blueberries on this bush out of hand. But there are more to come! Yay blueberries. And we have a neighborhood gathering tonight, so little kids will strip the front bushes clean. #Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #OurNeighborhood #Blueberries
Boycott Tim Hortons. 🏳️⚧️💗
Mel Woods@melwoods.me · yesterdayBig thanks to @thewalrus.ca for reprinting my takedown of Tim Hortons Canada's new Harry Potter collab ✨ "No one wants this. Even the people who haven’t given up Harry Potter—none of them were banging down Tim Hortons’ door specifically to demand this." thewalrus.ca/nobody-asked...
SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes. n.pr/4w5XSc9
Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP
SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes.
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If we weren't so broken, divided and led by corrupt rapists, this would be the biggest story of the week. But barely a blip. apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering.
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President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
