UPDATE: THE TE PAPA TONGAREWA (Museum of New Zealand) COLLECTION IS ARGUABLY BETTER collections.tepapa.govt.nz/search/berli...
Elizabeth Campbell
@whataboringname.bsky.social
Reader, artist, scientist. Hot Mad about climate change inaction and wicked pissed over fascist book banning and hatred. I am lucky enough to live in the best library system in the country. Columbus OH.
I’m packing my pulps to move to California. This is a daunting task. To keep myself moderately entertained I am going to post 4 random covers from each shelf I finish packing until I’m done.
The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...
Chaco Canyon public comment period opens, as BLM proposes reopening 336,000 acres to mineral leasing
A new federal assessment could reshape the future of development near Chaco Canyon. Here’s what’s in the plan and how long the public has to weigh in.
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Canada's boreal forest is the largest continuous intact forest ecosystem on Earth. Spanning 1.2 billion acres from the Yukon to Newfoundland, it is larger than the Amazon and represents 25% of the world's remaining untouched primary forest. Most people have never thought about it once.
My first card art reveal for the Magic the Gathering Star Trek set! 'Explore' features Captain Archer and his dog, Porthos, setting off on an adventure in an alien world. AD: Colin Boyer
One thing I love about Star Trek... Exploration isn't treated as conquest. It's treated as learning. That distinction matters.
The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Free link here, without a subscription: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/a...
Historians Reject White House’s Criticism of Smithsonian Museum
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It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
THE ODYSSEY BY ELON MUSK SING, AI BRO, OF THE BIOHACKING ABSOLUTELY LEVERAGED ONION-LAYERED CRYPTO CHAD HOW HE SELF-DRIVING CYBERTRUCKED HOME AFTER BUSTING UNIONS AND DEFYING TAX LAWS IN TROY
Boss Cat thinks Bossy thoughts in his Boss chair.
Grief is a funny ol' thing. Sneaks up & picks your pocket
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating
WASHINGTON—Calling the discovery the “clearest proof yet” of how the U.S. government was originally designed to function, archaeologists published new evidence Thursday that suggests the Capitol build...
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Zomg I’m in the National Geographic Museum Of Exploration! Go behind the scenes of my PBS series LIFE UNEARTHED WITH ARIEL WALDMAN and see the equipment I used to film it entirely solo in Antarctica. I’m over the moon with how cool the museum is and how awesome it is to be part of it.
One month later! Mostly finished except for touchups and cleaning some missed spots. It was fun to complete this task!
Goodnight. Alone (The Stroll), Gertrude Abercrombie, 1946.
Lookinge uppe wordes ys a moost delightful and pleasante part of readinge bookes. One of the best aftirnoones of my lyfe was spent consultinge the tomes of definicioun about everich worde yn "The Nursery Frieze" by Edward Gorey.
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
Origins game fair this weekend introduced me to this free book cataloging app/software for personal home collections. Has capacity for pre/non-ISBN. Easy to use and non-invasive. Good alternate (for me)to Goodreads and other data mining softwares which I am uncomfortable with. www.libib.com
Libib | Library management web app
Libib is a cloud based library management and circulation system for schools, organizations, and individuals.
libib.com
TOM BOMBADIL, TECH SUPPORTE: Hey dol, merry dol! Floweres and starres and rayne! Turne off your machyne and wayte, then turne it on agayne!
Spent the bus ride home looking at photos of cranberry picking in the late 19th to early 20th century in the Wisconsin Historical Society collection, including these two from the 1000s of photos by Charles Van Schaick of Black River Falls. Many of the pickers were Ho-Chunk, along with
Polish immigrants from Portage County and others. Left photo above is WHS ID No. W011HBI, right is W011HGU. Whoever got Van Schaick's photos into the WHS collections is an unsung hero. You can see some of them in People of the Big Voice. wisconsinart.org/product/peop...
People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families - MOWA
People of the Big Voice tells a photographic history of Ho-Chunk families including more than 300 images by Charles Van Schaick from 1879 to 1942. The book includes a biographical essay by Matthew Dan...
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@redgingersonja.bsky.social You may enjoy a stroll through this antique cookbook: www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7...
Two hundred recipes for making salads, with thirty recipes for dressings and sauces
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If you also could use some good news to keep the doom at bay, here's a whole compilation of hopeful news about climate change: www.dailyclimate.org/Good-News/
Good news on The Daily Climate's site
We push good journalism and science into public discussion and public policy on environmental health issues, including climate change
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So one of the reasons that I took up cross stitching again is because I wanted to see how well Winterthur’s album of 1840s Berlinwork patterns translated to cross stitch, and it does REALLY well!!
