szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

In rural Australia in the 1940s, my mother had rocks thrown at her and was branded a 'communist' because her father, a school headmaster, advocated for establishing a public library.

In the Canadian province where I now reside, the Catholic Church controlled libraries -- and thus access to information -- until the 1960s.

We forget how recent the democratisation of knowledge is -- how transformative such institutions were and how hard-won.

We should not part with them easily.

#SilentSunday #nature #landsape

Business has been booming in my backyard lately 😆
#backyardanimals #squirrels #nature #wildlife #animals

W końcu wiem jak poprawnie wymawia się Azure!
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus

I'll have a blog entry about it soon, but before then, you get to hear about it first: A full transfer of the USC Cinema sound effects library, which includes the work of Sunset Editorial and their hundreds of sound effects.

You can browse the collection here:

https://archive.org/details/usc-sound-effect-archive

“Women didn’t get the right to vote ...by voting.”
Sticker spotted in Paris

My fellow obsessive #GratefulDead fans will enjoy this history of "Ice Nine," the mysterious substance in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle" that gave its name to the Dead's publishing company. [via @NicoleCRust] https://www.ge.com/news/reports/cool-science-vonnegut-ge-research

Spring caribou losing its winter coat in Denali National Park.
More of my wildlife photos: https://photos.lwpetersen.com/Galleries/Alaska-Photos/Wildlife/

#wildlife #Alaska #FindYourPark

The Bee Guy shares some home truths about saving the bees

"If you really want to help native wild bees:

Don’t keep hives, keep flowers. Wildflowers. This will mean you will ultimately keep native wild bees.

... Don’t spray poisons on your patch and forget neat and tidy – it’s so last century."

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/bees-saving-bees-6071187-May2023

#WorldBeeDay #Bees #Nature #Bumblebees #SolitaryBees

Put the outdoor camera by pond and caught all kinds of birds getting a drink and then this squirrel, who got spooked by something.

Here is a fun little meadow I embroidered as a gift for my brother using yarn from our late Mom’s stash.

#embroidery #womensart

New work just dropped in MIT Sloan Management Review. We surveyed American office workers and found men were more likely to report that their organizations reward employees for supporting one another, even though women reported supporting colleagues more often. Want to guess the biggest correlate of job satisfaction? We call for an equitable return on social investment.

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-unequal-rewards-of-peer-support-at-work/

Me on Mastodon: Here is an important article I worked on for years that was just published in a significant venue

Mastodon: Yawn

Me: Here is an embroidery I made when I wasn’t working

Mastodon: This is amazing! Everyone look at this!

What’s the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to your computer and stores your data, the other is an IT industry standard.

True...