Mémère

@Memere
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Food bank volunteer.
 Retired digital librarian, technical information specialist and open science evangelist. Former content manager for ROSA P, the National Transportation Library's #OpenAccess digital repository. 
#gardening #gardens #nativeplants #pollinators #beesofmastodon #floweringfriday #flowers #knitting #sewing #libraries #librarians #bannedbooks #openscience #transportation #washingtondc
ORCiDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1791-068X
Science.govhttps://www.science.gov/
Digital Repositoryhttps://rosap.ntl.bts.gov
Support the Capital Area Food Bankhttps://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/

@Mrfunkedude You meet the best people when you volunteer!

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Food Bank for the Washington, DC, Region | Capital Area Food Bank

The Capital Area Food serves the entire Washington, DC, metropolitan region, providing meals to thousands of people a day while also addressing the root causes of hunger.

Capital Area Food Bank
The Onion is one of the things keeping me alive.

If folks in small cities and towns can’t assemble and protest Republican Fascism, the U.S. will never be rid of it.

Newspaper coverage of the situation in #SantaFe #NewMexico. https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/onetime-organizer-of-next-no-kings-march-in-santa-fe-calls-city-fees-for-event/article_1a692563-5058-4536-a4b2-4eb08d99850b.html

Screenshots of paper’s print version in photos.

Braille edition of 'The Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My latest for The Nation. For those of us in healthcare, public health, science resisting is a duty born of our commitment to serve, make the world a better place. But our institutions don't make it easy. But we still have to do it in large and small ways. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/health-workers-resistance-trump/
#BBCNews - Jeffrey Epstein had two key aides - why do they still control his money and secrets?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjm7rxjxneo
Epstein had two key aides - so why do they still control his money and secrets?

Richard Kahn and Darren Indyke administer Epstein’s estate - court filings allege complicity in his crimes.

BBC News

Update. Here's a #DOGE bro testifying in the lawsuit about terminating #DEI-related #NEH grants. He's being asked: What is DEI? If that's too complicated, what is your understanding of DEI?
https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mgpkttntsk2t

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

404 Media (@404media.co)

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Bluesky Social
Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab

The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

The New Republic
Interesting to think that Donald Trump may have, completely inadvertently and at a horrific cost, finally woken up the world to how urgent it is we get off our dangerous addiction to fossil fuels.
Electrify everything.
Ban the production of gasoline-powered vehicles.
Tax oil companies dry.
Subsidize all renewables and EVs.

On March 18, 2026, The Marshall Project will be holding an online workshop on investigating #prison #book bans.

"Journalists, researchers and volunteers interested in examining book bans in prisons across the country are invited to join this hands-on event. Attendees will hear about the history of these bans from the authors of PEN America’s in-depth report on prison #censorship and learn how to request and examine banned-book lists in their community."

https://www.themarshallproject.org/events/workshop-on-investigating-prison-book-bans

Workshop on Investigating Prison Book Bans

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to request records, clean up data and shed light on carceral book bans.

The Marshall Project