The kids lost their basketball in this building site trench yesterday. But last night while walking the dog we found it placed by the courts. The workers retrieved it!

This is such a bummer. There's so much money floating around the Triangle and very little of it goes to support the arts.

WUNC News@wunc.org · 2d ago

The CAM Raleigh is selling its building at 409 W. Martin Street, where the museum has been housed for 15 years. www.wunc.org/arts-culture...

Elvis voice: 🎶 In the spaghettoooo 🎶

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 2d ago

A single piece of confetti is called a ‘confetto.’ spaghetti = spaghetto graffiti = graffito

What I like is that it's a microscopic view of small unkindnesses. None of the characters are "bad" per se, but all lean into their minor foibles, which collectively create an oppressive situation for Fanny.

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 4d ago

Jumping into Mansfield Park.

@wfmu.bsky.social - Love hearing American Water. ❤️❤️❤️

The Mitch McConnell.

Boa noite.

The Haunting of Hill House is an adaptation of Mansfield Park.

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 4d ago

Jumping into Mansfield Park.

BOLACHA AMERICANA.

This guy gets it!!

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d ago

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

Jumping into Mansfield Park.

And even more so when you ask a library to get a copy in!

Andrew Jack@andrewjack.bsky.social · 5d ago

Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.

FINISHED. The most radical thing about that book is that Tolstoy allows Natasha to get stout and to let herself go.

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 5d ago

So close to the end of War and Peace and treading water through this second epilogue.

Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.

Really excited to read this.

huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am a product of this system. I loved it and, in some ways, I still do. I cherish a lot of those memories. But it’s all braided with several poisonous strains of thinking that have cast a shadow over my life and, in many ways, my whole generation. This is my attempt to reckon with that legacy.

We biked to the Vouga River on some very rickety boardwalks. We haven't had rain for a while and the water was extremely low on the salt flats.

Which one are you?

Walt Whitman@skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 5d ago

Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality,

So close to the end of War and Peace and treading water through this second epilogue.

my new favorite website is the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social, in case anyone is looking for cool & endless distractions

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne ...

publicdomainreview.org

Yes, definitely. But also: the 1974 edition that my family had possibly also helped save my life, thanks to a calm and non-judgmental article on "Homosexuality."

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

Today's tiles.

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · last wk.

Today's tiles.

I read the Woman’s Day Encyclopedia of Cookery instead, as we did not have the world book  I still have my mother’s copy all 12 volumes

I fear there is probably a dangerous personality type associated with those of us who read Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable for fun...

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

No but I read the shit out of this

My family couldn't afford one because it was so expensive back then in the Philippines. But a couple who lives next door have their own encyclopedia. Whenever we come over, I promptly ask to have a browse in their set. I make sure to spend some good time there. I also do this in the school library.

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

I had a Junior Encyclopedia from the 1940s. The outcome of WWII was not known. The entry ended with a request to pray for allied victory. Apparently it was donated to our high schools annual flea market at some point. Hope whoever got it notices.

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

We did not have "encyclopedias at home money" BUT my mother was a librarian; I'm sure she thought that expense uneccessary. I was fortunate enough to go to the library any time I wanted, sit, pull a random volume & just peruse. This is why my brain is a repository for all sorts of useless facts 😂

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

It was the only way I had of understanding the Doonesbury books I was getting at the used bookstore run by cats. It was a 1964 set so it only helped so much.

Yes, but also, when I was 17 I spent the summer in a hospital bed after a bad accident (long story). To pass the pre-internet time I quizzed myself on Trivial Pursuit cards. It was time well spent, but no one would play the game with me after I had "studied" the questions. I guess they had a point

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

That, and something called the Lincoln Library of Essential Information. It had two massive volumes and was essentially an abridged encyclopedia. A childhood staple.