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my friends are always trapping me in a cup and putting me outside in some grass. i just wanna hang out u know

#owl #porttownsend #deer

Washington post article link

A landslide in Greenland created a 650 foot megatsunami and the wave made a seiche in the fjord that lasted for 9 days! The seiche created a mystery seismic signal detected worldwide.

I'm pretty sure that's the second largest wave recorded in history behind Lituya Bay (depending on how you measure stuff). That's taller than the space needle!

It seems like the slide may have been destabilized by glacier melt due to accelerating warming in Greenland.

At the beach.

Also non book stuff too, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, ebooks, 3d printing (not everywhere but more places than you'd think), computer access, bathrooms!

And lots of libraries have self-checkout now if you don't want to interact with anybody! Although it's good to get to know your library staff if that's an option since they're great resources.

Libraries are such an incredible resource and as a voracious reader I am so thankful we get to enjoy them!

...I had a guy come in today asking about how to get his kids library cards. I told him. He asked me how hard it would be for them to get them, and I said that all it took was their presence and his government ID.

He told me about how nice the system was here, where it was so easy to get a card; he said that there was a beautiful public library in Beijing that was top of the line and everything, but that the only way to access it was if you were a high ranking government official or a top professor or something. Instead, our library "serves the reader." His kids will be able to take chapter books home at no cost. He'll even be able to get books in Chinese here so that his native language skills don't atrophy.

I didn't even really know what to say, so I told him how to ask us to buy books for him that we don't already have so that he can still read them at no extra cost. I don't know how to shore up what it must feel like to know that there are books out there you can't read; I've always grown up with a good library nearby. It reminded me of working in my old library, though, where families who spoke Spanish were startled to find out we took any government ID with a formal address in town— even foreign IDs— so that their kids could get access to all of our titles in all the languages we offered.

Ah. Anyway, I hope you check out a library book with this thought in mind. I checked out the first volume of YJ98 today with that thought in mind. I didn't have to pay anything. I put it on hold, and there it was.

isopods :)

Oh yeah if you're a big ferry nerd like me you should know that 2117, in addition to cutting money for a bunch of other cool stuff (and making the climate and air quality worse), will cut money to be used for the new ferries which we so badly need

No on 2117! (And 2066, 2109, & 2124)

Washington State folks: remember to vote no on all of the voter initiatives, they're all trash!

They'll cut billions from a strained education system, kill programs like free youth transit passes, and dismantle the state long term health care system.

Just vote NO