Archibrarian/librarivist (MLIS, MAS). Knitter of socks, thinker of thoughts. Views my own. She/her.
Musqueam Traditional Territory
Joined September 2009
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"Data can be a weapon or a tool. And we want to make sure it's a tool, because it's been used as a weapon before." - Gwen Phillips
#ARMAKelowna
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Up bright and early for #armakelowna! Come visit us at the ARMA Vancouver booth that we're sharing with @ICRM_crms when you get a chance! We have swag!
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the holy trinity of desk drinks is a big water, a two-hour-old iced coffee and a flavored seltzer.
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🧵 Update thread: Today @UBC intend to ignore 18,000 people and remove a pair of breeding bald eagles from their nest on campus to make way for luxury (non-student) housing. A peaceful protest is taking place at the nest on Ross Drive/Birney Ave throughout the day. #saveUBCeagles – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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The existence of Chicago style pizza implies the existence of MLA style pizza
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A “razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making.
The most powerful razors I’ve found:
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in a culture awash in cruelty and outrage, it takes real courage to cultivate gentleness, to love others, to pursue justice, to memorize poems, to read thick books, to bless and not curse, to build up instead of tearing down.
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THERAPIST: what do we say when we’re afraid of getting out of bed?
ME: “for Frodo”
THERAPIST *nodding*: for Frodo.
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Watching Putin's attack on Ukraine play out, I am struck by the thought that Putin learned the lesson from the wrong Afghanistan war. And he has also vastly misunderstood post-Zelenskiy Ukraine. 1/?
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Dylan Thomas when you try to go gentle into that good night
![A still image of Michael Scott from The Office looking troubled; the caption reads, "[Softly] Don't."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKyJ9IcXEAE4l79.jpg?name=orig)
ALT A still image of Michael Scott from The Office looking troubled; the caption reads, "[Softly] Don't."
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I prefer to read Edgar Allan Poe's works the way they were meant to be read: at midnight, in my chamber. Thinking about lost love. On the verge of being harassed by a bird
