Skip Navigation

grysbok

@ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

Posts
3
Comments
194
Joined
3 yr. ago

I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I've had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.

  • Pete Hegseth’s Personal Signal Chat Phone Number Is All Over the Internet

    Jump

  • What's your pain med of choice? I like children's chewable ibuprofen because I already have too many pills to swallow.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Why not share it with teacher?

  • Judge halts parts of Trump’s overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirement

    Jump

  • Lucky! My local DMV doesn't take people without an appointment, and the only way to make an appointment is online. If you try over the phone they'll tell you to ask the nice people at the local library to help you.

    Btw, they didn't tell the library about this policy. As a librarian, I do not like being an extension of the DMV, but I try and help my patrons. Including the dickhead that argued for the defunding of the library but now needs help making an appointment.

  • Judge halts parts of Trump’s overhaul of US elections, including proof-of-citizenship requirement

    Jump

  • I don't think you understand what the Census is in the United States.

    Every 10 years, each household gets a long form to fill out. In it, you voluntarily list a ton of information about your household members. If you don't fill it out people (census workers) come around and try and get this information in person.

    The census is only as accurate as the people filling it out.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • My impression at the time was the superintendent acted on his own. Not even the board of education was involved, and they weren't happy to be blindsided.

    My guess is the

    1. superintendent had a student in that grade,
    2. student came home with new textbook,
    3. superintendent saw the 'blasphemy' in the new-that-year textbooks,
    4. superintendent was his own Karen.
  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

    Jump

  • The thing that got me to significantly reduce my dairy consumption was

    1. Being exposed to vegetable milk (first soy then almond) by my roommates
    2. Not keeping fresh milk in the apartment because it kept going bad
    3. Losing the ability to gracefully digest lactose

    I eat much less cow now because of cute internet cow videos.

    Anyways, I think if 5 people reduce their consumption by 30% that's more impactful than 1 person reducing their consumption by 100%. (Math caveat: assuming each person has the same baseline level of consumption. 5 vegans reducing their consumption by 30% won't do squat).

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • In middle school our new science textbooks were recalled the first week of school. The textbooks discussed (horrors!) the big bang theory without also talking about the theistic theory. The books were returned with those pages rubber cemented together. The teachers were upset (upset enough that middle-school me noticed), but it was by order of the superintendent.

    My parents got me a copy of A Brief History of Time in response. Also, rubber cement is fairly easy to pry apart.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Of course, having to teach science instead of their myth really upsets them too.

    In my experience, it was in addition to. My high school biology teacher was a creationist who "taught the controversy".

  • In how many languages can you count to 10?

    Jump

  • 4:

    • English (native)
    • Spanish (school)
    • French (school)
    • Korean (Taekwondo)

    Hopefully next week I'll add Polish--I'm on day 3 of learning it in an app.

  • Trump administration takes a step toward defying Supreme Court order

    Jump

  • And like when I had to move offices to make room for a temporarily displaced group that's still there 2 years later. They were supposed to be gone by summer.

  • Trump is trying to deport a Purple Heart veteran. You could be next

    Jump

  • Military service is one of the ways out of poverty we dangle at young people. I can't blame an 18-year-old for wanting in on the GI bill. Student loans suck.

  • GOP megadonor rages at Trump’s ‘bulls**t’ tariffs

    Jump

  • My local Lowes turned me off by having their music blaring way, way too loud for some event. Like, needed earplugs on that half of the store loud.

    Now Home Depot has turned me off by not having any human-run checkout counters anymore, and all the self checkouts have incredibly distracting "we're recording you" screens. Plus, you know, the politics.

    The Ace hardware is still awesome and has a store dog (no outside dogs allowed). Store dog is a friendly, happy lab.

  • Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’

    Jump

  • And the Wii can be Linuxed, if you get creative enough. Source: former roommate did it

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • It's spring (your hemisphere may vary) and time to set out tick tubes!

    Tick tubes are cardboard tubes stuffed with cotton fluff soaked in permethrin. Mice use the cotton to make nests. The permethrin kills ticks on the mice, reducing the tick load of the area. It doesn't hurt the mice, and is much more targeted than just spraying the whole yard for insects.

  • US egg imports meant to drive prices down could be hit by tariffs

    Jump

  • Bob's Red Mill makes a powdered, shelf-stable egg substitute for baking purposes. I keep it on hand because I can't be arsed to keep real eggs in stock.

  • US egg imports meant to drive prices down could be hit by tariffs

    Jump

  • Nothing like something that sounds like a woman screaming to really liven up the neighborhood. Beautiful plumage, though.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Bots lie about who they are, ignore robots.txt, and come from a gazillion different IPs.

  • FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

    Jump