Qualified library tech📚Looking for work in Australia 👩💻 Media junkie 📺 Passion for research 💻 She/herlibrarythoughts.home.blog Melbourne, VictoriaJoined February 2019
A great article by @vanbadham - “After all, Australia’s lockdowns, masks and social distancing have kept total nationwide deaths from the virus under 1,500. With its slightly smaller population, Florida … has lost 57,000 already.”
nytimes.com/2021/10/14/opi…
Girls, ladies, women, don't let the bully boys silence you. We all should have the right to feel safe and respected in our workplace, our school, and even our parliament.
You don’t have to put up with the sexist rubbish.
Please, if you can, speak up, call it out, demand better ❤️
Thank you so much for all the well-wishes on my 18th birthday!
Tonight you will find me down at the local pub exposing all the dark secrets behind the climate- and school strike conspiracy and my evil handlers who can no longer control me!
I am free at last!!
J. R. R. Tolkien: this axe has a 2,000-year history which I will now share
C. S. Lewis: Father Christmas charging into battle alongside the Greek god of wine and *spins bingo wheel* a minotaur
Oh no! Iconic Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company is in trouble 😔 They’ve lost 80% of their revenue this year. You can help! Check out their new ‘Friends of Shakespeare and Co.’ programme 🤩 #books#bookshop #parisfriendsofshakespeareandcompany.com
it’s bizarre and harmful that we’ve collectively decided that being vulnerable, emotional, supportive, a good listener are “feminine traits” rather than signs of an emotionally healthy person.
After Chicago canceled late fees for library books:
*83% increase in books returned
*11,000 people got their library card back
*7% growth in books checked out
*Lost $900k in fees - 0.009% of city budget
Amazing what happens when you decriminalize poverty
chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/11/215…
Dear America,
It’s that time of year when you throw the pumpkins out.
There’s a festering orange pumpkin that needs removing from the White House.
Do the right thing. The World implores you.
#ElectionDay#2020Election#VoteHimOut
a woman’s place is on the battlefield defending her dying uncle, removing her shining hauberk and plunging her blade straight through the helmet of the Witch-King of Angmar
Not sure who needs to hear this, but your choice to give up your normal life for the last 7 months may have saved someone's life and I don't want you to think - for one second - that it wasn't worth it.
A student who plagiarized off the web and ran it through software that paraphrases to conceal the theft referred to President Ulysses S. Grant as Ulysses S. Award. Kids, don’t cheat.
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