WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.
ALT A hot mess of colorful scribbles all over a map of Washington, featuring doodles of iconic Washington features like mountains, orcas, ferries, cherries, onions, and other produce. The map emphasizes the busyness of the Seattle area, I-5, I-90, US 2, and the U.S./Canada border during the World Cup games.
I’ve been informed by folks on this site that The Hobbit and now Jane Austen are too difficult for teens. I can’t stress enough how condescending this is to teenagers. You’re taking away all the things that might bring them joy and leaving them with no pastimes but scrolling.
I just ran our newish car into a concrete column in the library parking garage dropping something off. #IYKYK (Did I mention right in front of my spouse?)
ALT Five cut-out-and-keep bookplates
Each reads ‘ex-libris’ then has a space for the owners name. The design reflects the genre:
Sci-fi:
Nanotechnology tracks the book, monitors its condition and summons a retrieval drone if necessary.
Horror:
An ancient curse creates feelings of unease, rising to apalling, abject horror unless the book is returned.
Romance :
Acts as an invite to the county's grandest ball, but revoked if not returned in a polite and timely manner.
Crime:
Tailed by a dishevelled Gumshoe who Seems cynical, but loves books more than dames and bourbon.
Fantasy:
A fellowship of heroes lead the borrower on an epic quest to return the tome to its Rightful shelf.
I know it is a small thing, but, in these dying days of the open web, it is lovely that such a large proportion of famous poetry is online, mostly due to a $100M gift from Ruth Lily, who loved poetry (even though she never got any of her own published) poetryfoundation.org/poems/g…
For #WSU Pokémon aficionados - all @Nature journals are available to the #WSU community via the #WSULibraries (just search "Nature Pub. Group" in Search It)
Pokémon turns 30 — how the fictional pocket monsters shaped science nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
If you live with someone who
has ADHD and you hear them say,
“I’m going to put this somewhere safe,”
you need to stop them immediately.
Because that item is about to disappear
into another dimension. You will not
see it again. Start the search party now.
Every five years I remember my @CSPAN#CSPAnniversary, and this year it's been 30 years! Where do the years go? It was along ago, during my @VoteSmart time....
WSU’s community engagement efforts across the state are nationally recognized by the Carnegie Foundation. WSU is one of only 277 institutions recognized by the national organizations and first earned the illustrious distinction in 2008. news.wsu.edu/news/2026/01/13…