Reposted by Meg Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself. 8432158
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 03/05/2025There’s a four-year-old (mine) chanting “RIFC!” by himself. This is the best. Let’s GOOoOoOoooo!!! 180
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I wrote a piece for the @thepvdeye.bsky.social about Downtown Providence and its community: pvdeye.org/at-providenc...pvdeye.orgAt Providence’s Laboratory Schools, The City Becomes A Classroom.While getting ready for bed one evening in December, my four-year-old said to me, “Mommy, did you know that not everyone has a house?” A dialogue ensued: Me: “Oh yeah? [...] 165
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 01/04/2025HAPPY 401 GIVES DAY to all who celebrate!! I am helping raise money for the Community Libraries of Providence to further the incredible work they do for and with our community. Please consider donating: clpvd.networkforgood.com/projects/248...clpvd.networkforgood.comSupport our Community LibrariesLibraries are magic. Our libraries and the teams of people who make them magic tirelessly uplift our neighborhoods, with welcoming spaces and offerings for all ages, as well as free services that ever... 021
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 28/03/2025My favorite spring return is the @riaudubon.bsky.social Peregrine Falcon Cam atop the Superman Building (THERE ARE EGGS!) asri.org/view/peregri...asri.orgProvidence Peregrine Cam | Audubon Society of Rhode IslandWatch a live feed of Peregrine Falcon hatchlings in a nestbox located 26 floors above the city in Providence's Superman Building! Brought to you by Audubon Society of Rhode Island. 141
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Thank you, Jessica, for the call back the light community liturgy tonight ❤️ @jdinri.bsky.social 140
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 05/03/2025My mom texted me asking if I’d like to get a mani/pedi with her or go with her to Costco while she’s visiting. I’m not sure why this is an either/or question. This is a surprisingly hard decision. 110
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Lessons in Trying 2 Save the World -Nikita Gill If you name it hope instead of impossible If you hold it w/tenderness If you call it the blessing ofyour ancestors If you look around &see thefaces of everyone youlove trying to save theworld w/you Then this work becomes love &even mountains will move 000
Reposted by Meg Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/02/2025NATIONAL ARCHIVES UNDER ASSAULT: They’re coming for our history. The US archivist & staff resigned after Trump officials pushed to replace them w/loyalists. Not just records you’d expect—slave records, immigration records, Native American treaties—all at risk. Will they rewrite or destroy history? 28937042162
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 17/02/2025We are finally overcoming the stigma surrounding anxiety and depression - acknowledging that ADHD presents in a wide array of ways and not just something 8 year old boys have. And now men with power are garnering more power to force their conspiracy theories and make life harder for others. 143
Reposted by Meg Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other 16265289653
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I had the most magical time on the @savethebayri.bsky.social Seal Cruise today. Look at these chonky bebes (photo taken through my binoculars). 270
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 27/01/20254 yr old: “Mom. Mom. Here. You need dinosaurs for your upstairs office. They will have effic [sic] adventures. We can talk about them at bedtime.” 110
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I split my coffee inside my purse this morning. It ruined my planner and now I do not know how to function (no idea if it ruined anything else) 140
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 16/01/2025A must listen on @globeri.bsky.social's Rhode Island Report podcast www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/16/m...bostonglobe.comAfter 23 years behind bars, the R.I. man behind Mario’s Law talks about the capacity to change - The Boston GlobeOn the Rhode Island Report podcast, Mario Monteiro talks about the 2021 R.I. law that gives youthful offenders a chance at parole after serving 20 years. 031
Reposted by Meg Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away. 11625562516301
Meg @megblack.bsky.social · 01/01/20252024 was a exhausting but a good year. Professionally, it was one of my more exciting years. Here’s a favorite photo with some magical former coworkers/forever friends, at the annual meeting of my favorite organization 040
Reposted by Meg Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/12/2024Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it. 9076092367
Reposted by Meg The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 02/12/2024Of all states with food waste bans, “Massachusetts alone has reduced landfill waste,” according to a study published in September in the research journal Science.bostonglobe.comMass. is the only state in the nation to significantly cut food waste. How did we do it? - The Boston Globe“Massachusetts alone” has successfully reduced the amount of food sent to landfills, researchers wrote in a recent report. 118533
