"A Swedish Library Forgot to Close Its Doors and Something Beautiful Happened."
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/public-library-restoring-trust-in-humanity-repubz/

I love this story -- about libraries and the people who use libraries.

#Libraries

People who sleep through the night are such freaks.

What do you mean you don't wake up to go pee at 3 am, and then just lay in bed for awhile doing night math and thinking night thoughts?!

Does anyone really like leaf blowers? I don’t often use profanity. But in this case it is justified: Damn them and their noise pollution to fucking hell, especially the gasoline-powered ones! Buy a rake or broom, instead. Your neighbors and wildlife will appreciate it. As stated in the article, “Texass” has of course banned local governments from regulating them. #pollution #noise #stress

https://grist.org/solutions/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-bans-challenges/

When MTV News shut down, it felt like decades of culture vanished overnight 🕳️

But over 470,000 pages were already preserved.

That history didn’t disappear.
It was archived.

📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026
🛒 Purchase in print: https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record-9798995425014/new

#VanishingCulture #DigitalMemory #InternetArchive #MTVNews #Bookstodon

No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi could be the first.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2026/04/23/549974/corpus-christi-plans-to-declare-a-water-emergency-what-does-that-mean/

Happy World Book Day!

Enjoy your journeys!

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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