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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Ummmm, today’s Strands may not be a good idea if this weekend’s tragedy already has you down. #nyt #nytgames #strands

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Haven’t set foot there since the end of January. Turns out I can shop other places.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

You’re welcome. I had gestational diabetes with both pregnancies and my body has never been the same. No one else in my family has it or has had it.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It’s not your fault. I know the feeling and it’s why very few people I know know that I have it.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Correlation is not causation, but yeah, seems it had to have contributed.

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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

People often think of the Catholic Church as being out of touch, but very few things are more relatable than losing the will to live after interacting with JD Vance.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It's not discussed in all the stories. But a key feature of the revocation of student visas is that there's no notification. This has forced universities to do regular online reviews of current visas to see which have disappeared since the previous query. The lack of notification is by design.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Joined the big crowd at the Hands Off! protest in Hartford, CT today.

Drone photo taken of the crowd at the Connecticut state Capitol on April 5th.

A person in a yellow rain poncho holding a sign reading Morons Are Governing America.

Crowd scene at the Hartford, Connecticut protest, featuring a wordless sign with penguins on it.

My sign for today’s protest. It reads Hands off libraries.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Ahhh, we’re moving to a different vendor because I don’t play.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My husband has several email doppelgängers as does a close friend and it’s always amazing to me how these other people just don’t seem to care? Like, other people are receiving reasonably important emails that belong to you and you aren’t doing anything about it?

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

(Word is that the CSL employees normally paid through IMLS grants are being covered through funds that the State taps when there are government shutdowns.) Otherwise there’s a page listing what LSTA covers and that’s what we’ve got. libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/dld/Federal-...

libguides.ctstatelibrary.org

LibGuides Home: CT State Library | Federal Library Funding in Connecticut: Overview

Federal funds are provided through the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS) in support of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Grants to States Program.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

with state and federal offices to respond to this situation, and we continue normal operations. We do not have definitive answers for you yet, but we will keep you apprised as this continues to unfold.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Project grant through the National Endowment for the Humanities has also been terminated. We do not yet know why our three states were singled out for this decision, but our colleagues across the country are sharing in our concerns and sending their good wishes. CSL continues to work closely

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Very limited here in CT. Yesterday, in an email to a statewide listserv: Good afternoon, everyone, Connecticut, Washington, and California were notified last night that our LSTA/Grants to States awards are being terminated, effective April 1, 2025. CSL was also notified that our National

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I noticed that too, but it makes sense. We save it for family viewing and there’s so much basketball to watch too!

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

What’s hilarious is that because we’ve been in a baby bust since at least 2007 our higher ed institutions desperately need foreign students to fill their seats. It’s only going to get worse from here.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

If you’re white and cisgender don’t bring anything else. We need these stupid systems to be a pain in the ass for everyone all the time. We need these things to fail so often that they gum up the system and reduce profits and efficiencies.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

So, so many nice white middle class people do not have Real ID yet. They want to go to Disney.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Omg, my 21-yo has a learner’s permit test next week! COVID derailed everything for her.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Too many grandparents denied flights to Disney to be with their grandchildren. Too many people who can’t get on a plane to visit a dying relative/attend a wedding/meet their new grandchild. It’s going to be bad.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

In January 2024, only about 56% of driver's licenses and IDs in circulation across the country comply with REAL ID. The Department of Homeland Security estimated that only 61.2% of driver's licenses and IDs will be REAL ID-compliant by the May 7 deadline.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Real ID has supposed to be “required soon” for a dozen years. Why hasn’t it gotten there before? Because not enough people have gotten it and a bunch of states haven’t really implemented it. It’s going to be a _lot_ of people getting stopped/denied travel and it’s not gonna fly. ✈️

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We ❤️ Canadians, but please stay away! You have economic impact and we need you to not spend money here for the foreseeable future!

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Scan your bc and passport and Real ID to pdfs and save them on multiple flash drives that you leave with multiple trusted people to bring to an attorney if you get disappeared. The metadata on pdfs is very useful.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The only thing that I have to say is that I hope that it scares some yt people into realizing that the leopards are absolutely coming for them too.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Many years ago when I was a wandering college student, I went to a party at Katherine Kurtz’s castle/house in Ireland where she explained the tax benefits she enjoyed as an expat.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Waiting for the rest of the family to come home!

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These are the same Senate Democrats who lectured the base for years about the importance of preserving the filibuster so it would still be available when Democrats were in the minority

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

today is a great day to go use your library card. right now. immediately.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It’s a wackadoo problem, and there are wackadoos throughout the political spectrum.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A reminder that hospitality and care for the stranger in your land is a religious duty throughout the Bible.

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

You’re not kidding! Quote from the Wikipedia article about scurvy: “The knowledge that consuming certain foods is a cure for scurvy has been repeatedly forgotten and rediscovered into the early 20th century.” (I’m low-key obsessed with scurvy at the moment because I just read _The Wager_.)

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She Blinded Me With Library Science @katebyroade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

My younger daughter and I went to the symphony tonight, and it was lovely, and I honestly wondered how many more concerts will be held there as our country collapses.

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