Mike Giarlo (he/him/his)
@mjgiarlo
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software for libraries, parent, Seattleite, GenX, Mastodon: @[email protected], Discord: mjgiarlo, mjgiarlo elsewhere; "a piece of work in progress"
Seattle, WA, US
Joined April 2008
the .real .repository .is .all .the .friends .we .made .along .the .way.
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RT @mattmillsphoto: I visited a tiny American exclave only accessible through land via British Columbia in Washington state this week to le….
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Very happy to read today that OCLC realized it was in the wrong and dismissed MM from its lawsuit v. Anna's Archive:
courtlistener.com
MOTION for Reconsideration by Plaintiff OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit) (Walker, Jeffrey) (Entered: 04/11/2025)
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there is a significant shortage of organs relative to the demand for medically necessary transplants. billionaires have organs they do not need, namely all of them. QED.
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but what percentage of good doggies employed by the executive branch successfully submitted their bulleted task lists to DOGE. drain the kennel.
Happy K9 Veterans Day to all of our heroic working dogs, including Conan who fearlessly participated in the military operation that ended ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. 🇺🇸
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I dream now of them taking an extended vacation together in a model S at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
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As the president and his pet billionaire sat in a swasticar on the White House lawn yesterday, I imagined the cozy couple taking to the open road, the greatest American tradition, a modern-day Thelma & Louise.
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I would like the president to instead consider a career as a florist, at a shop with high shelves so the flowers can be closer to the sunshine. Then he can push the daisies up there every day.
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The next time the president goes to a diner, I'd like him to be seated in the John Wilkes Booth.
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who named it the "pine barrens" when "Loréal forest" was right there.
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the clone wars but the clones are of luigi m and instead of droids on the other side, it's billionaires.
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RT @NickKnudsenUS: I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein. When I was a 20 year old college stude….
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If 0.015 is "big" to Donald Trump, well, that explains some things.
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The land area of Seattle is 53,113 acres (. Protestors took over 0.015% of the city.
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The protestors occupied part of the Capitol Hill neighborhood, ranging from 2-6 city blocks over the course of the 23-day protest. A city block downtown averages 1.3 acres (, so to be generous, the protestors "took over" roughly 8 acres of the city.
theurbanist.org
# Misunderstanding the size of an acre, floor area ratio, and the area of a circle ruins many conversations about the basic shape of where you live.
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For those of you who inexplicably believe #Trump is capable of occupying the same reality as human beings, let's fact-check one of his goofiest assertions from the debate on Tuesday: that protestors "took over a big percentage of Seattle" during the George Floyd protests of 2020.
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What narrative are the @SeattleKraken pushing other than that hockey is a welcoming place (which might not be obvious since ~85-90% of NHL players are white, non-hispanic men)?.
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I do not condone elder abuse but I quite enjoyed the debate.
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what dingus called it "copy cataloging" when "mutually assured description" was right there? #librarians.
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