#introductions/#reintroductions

👋 I'm Ruth, a #librarian at Penn State. I work on our library's catalog, which means I come across all kinds of fun, terrible data issues that I enjoy sharing. I care deeply about #labor issues in libraries.

I'm a #quilter, I write sometimes for RPGs, and I do other sewing/gardening as I can find time.

I'm disabled but not likely to talk specifics on here.

I have a small terrier mix named Sterling. (RIP 7/13/23)

I'm impossible to represent in 500 characters.

“The simple act of walking through a schoolhouse door that had been barred to me, and all people of my color, by the governor of this state - that simple act represented an end to legal segregation in the American South.”

#OnThisDay, 11 June 1963, Vivian Malone defies the Governor of Alabama to become the first Black female student at the University of Alabama.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Big Banks Have Funded Climate Crisis With Nearly $7 Trillion Since Paris Agreement

https://www.desmog.com/2024/06/11/big-banks-have-funded-climate-crisis-with-nearly-7-trillion-since-paris-agreement/

King’s face replaced with Wallace and Gromit character in animal rights protest

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/kings-face-replaced-with-wallace-and-gromit-character-in-animal-rights-protest-376713/

Spent a couple of days in Southport, which you might call living (well, dying) proof that sucking up to the royals isn't a long term strategy for a prosperous and thriving polity.

(Everything in the centre of Southport is named after the royal family in some way, it seems. Yet I swear I've never seen such urban decay, and I live in N15 and grew up in miner's strike Derbyshire)

Tories vow to end rough sleeping and no-fault evictions… again

They've had 14 years. Don't believe a word of it.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tories-vow-to-end-rough-sleeping-and-no-fault-evictions-again-376711/

Nigel Farage and an ‘Extraordinary Lack of Curiosity’ from UK Government and Intelligence Services Over Possible Russian Interference in Brexit 

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/nigel-farage-and-an-extraordinary-lack-of-curiosity-from-uk-government-and-intelligence-services-over-possible-russian-interference-in-brexit/

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the first €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) in revenue from frozen russian assets will be transferred to #Ukraine as early as July, in line with international law and while ensuring financial market stability.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/06/11/now-we-make-russia-pay-eu-to-transfer-first-1-6-bn-in-frozen-russian-assets-to-ukraine/