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beSpacific

#FDA #Layoffs Could Raise #Drug Costs and Erode Food Safety No mission, no research, no science, no knowledge. #FDA is eviscerated. In many areas of the #FDA, no #employees remain to process payroll, to file #retirement or layoff paperwork and to help overseas #inspectors who are at risk of maxing out agency credit cards. Even the agency’s #library where researchers and experts relied on medical journal subscriptions that have now been canceled, has been shut down. archive.is/NBha8

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SignalEleven

My local #library gives me access to an English books and audiobooks lending network. And the first book I checked out can be downloaded DRM free (despite being a recent sci-fi book).

DRM Free.

If I return it immediately so someone else can check it out, but keep the epub and keep reading it... Is that piracy? (For the sake of argument, i woukd delete it once read. I am not concerned about it, just idly wondering...).
It seems like a victimless "crime"

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Terri K O 🍁

Library books returned April 6, 2025 (today! I'm as caught up as I intend to get!)

My books:
Catfish Rolling - my mom recommended this one. I liked it but it took forever to read because it messed with my head a bit when I was feeling out of it so I had to stop a lot. The gist of it is that an unknown disaster causes time to run differently in different parts of Japan. Loved the tie to the trees and the seasons and the shrines, even if the dementia and the fast/slow time made me weird.

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess manga 6-9. Continued to love this series. The expressions are so delightful, and the art was good enough that I didn't find the fight scenes boring. You can really tell the difference 20 years of experience made for the writing and drawing.

Games:
Little Gator Game was a huge hit with my kid. Very Zelda inspired in the "kids are making up pretend games based with that as the start of their imagination play" and it very much worked.

Sequence for Kids - fun and simple. We got a bit of fun out of it but I don't know if it would get regular requests if we owned it because it's pretty simple.

Snug as a Bug - cute but too young and i think kiddo didn't love that it was all random. Sort of; our spinner definitely seemed to have preferences which was a problem.

Kid books: mostly beloved repeats and some early readers I didn't read with my kid (Dad has been working on the reading)

Dog Says Cat Says - cute but kiddo wasn't super engaged the day we read this.

Library books returned April 6, 2025. Titles and reviews in post.
A picture of Link from Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess manga looking surprised and saying "What?!"
#Library#books#bookstodon
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Terri K O 🍁

Library books returned March 30, 2025

My books:

I only read the top 3 because the longer novel I was reading was slow going. I'll probably get the others out some other time.

Sherlock Bones 1 - Sherlock Holmes reborn as a grumpy shelter dog. Cute but not really what I was in the mood for.

The Curie Society - nerd girl superhero style. Wish fulfillment for me of 3 decades ago. I liked it but felt like I was too old to be the target audience. This is more of a "gift to a precocious teen who's run out of xmen comics" kind of book.

How Could You - queer relationship drama, again written for young adults and would probably have hit harder if I was younger.

Kid books:
Hocus and Pocus and the Search for Home - this was a HUGE hit and marks the only time my kid has wanted to read a early chapter book, and got him excited about trying others. The character designs for all the witches after adorable and the art is fantastic. We're waiting for the library to get the next book because the bookstore didn't have it.

The Queen's Hat - kiddo loved the corgi and the tea guy.

When You Are Brave - I liked this one about a kid moving but kiddo wasn't as into it.

Little Pea - cute! Apparently peas eat candy and Little Pea doesn't want to.

Dreaming of Mocha - very sweet story about a girl finding a lost dog

Bundle Up Little Pup - so many adorable dogs in snow gear!

Library books returned March 30, 2025. Titles and reviews in post.
Library books returned March 30, 2025. Titles and reviews in post.
#library#bookstodon#BookReview
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A Sweet Gentleman

There's a very famous quote from a French movie that says: "Les cons ça ose tout. C'est même à ça qu'on les reconnaît."

In English: "Morons, they do anything they feel like doing. Actually that's how you spot them."

Republicans certainly fit the definition.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Rightwing groups across US push new bans to limit ‘obscene’ books in librariesBy Eric Berger
#USpol#republican#freedom
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