Notices by Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us), page 4

A few photos, southbound (i.e. leaving Vermont)

A few photos, northbound (i.e. coming into Vermont)

After having lunch with my best guy, I went to our local overpass protest. For THIRTY MILES of our interstate highway this afternoon, people leaving or coming home to Vermont would see people on every overpass (n=5) waving American flags and anti-Trump banners. Unlike most overpass protests I've been to, only one person gave us the finger, nearly everyone waved and honked and gave us the thumbs up. It was a nice way to recharge the resilience batteries for the work ahead.

@evan This is so interesting! My alma mater is closing. My town is the place I spend most of my time, volunteer my time, and occasionally get paid to work here. I do not belong to a political party though I definitely feel loyal about the IDEA of continuing that tradition, and I really like my fediverse instance, and I probably identify the most with them, but I could see belonging to another more than I could see moving.

Librarian.net: Oral testimony for the Vermont data privacy and online surveillance bill

I was invited to give testimony in front of this committee about S.71, An act relating to consumer data privacy and online surveillance. This is what I said

https://www.librarian.net/stax/5856/oral-testimony-for-the-vermont-data-privacy-and-online-surveillance-bill/

@anildash Thanks for writing this. NASA has (or has had in the past) over thirty Flickr accounts for various things. They're not all active (though some are) but it's a huge number of public domain or CC-licensed images. If you start from this query you can see some of them up top (further down, just people using the name or talking about something else altogether).

https://www.flickr.com/search/people/?username=NASA

@genehack @igb @evan Band's been gone nearly 40 years and I still listen to them every week.

Today is National Library Workers Day. The library where I work has a knitters group that meets on Monday. I've never been interested in learning to knit, until now.

https://ravel.me/library-card-vest

It's National Library Week. We still care about your privacy at the library. The Library Freedom Project has a great set of resources to help you do things like:

- strip AI from your Gmail
- avoid digital scams
- understand Big Data
- reduce harm from doxxing
- using Signal as safely as possible

They're written in plain English and try to help you do things better acknowledging that there's no such thing as perfect privacy.

https://libraryfreedom.org/resources/

Literally spending the first day of National Library Week bugging #brands (and others) on Bluesky to include alt text with images if they're saying anything at all about how they like libraries. Libraries are for everyone. Posts with images and without alt text are not.

@evan As a woman on the internet, I block often and usually only mute when someone is temporarily making a lot of noise about a thing they are enthusiastic about (which I can't keyword filter). I mostly block because I feel someone's either being creepy to me or being creepy to someone else and I never want to have a conversation about it b/c creepiness. People have told me they're going to block me on occasion and while I'm fine with that I'm also a little confused why they told me.

Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. We've got the Mud Season Variety Show coming up this weekend and while I am not in it, I am practicing to be a good audience member. Also planning a neighborhood block party. Community is where it's at, folks. Try to be a good member of yours.

Image credit: Costică Acsinte archive, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/costicaacsinte/15853664508/

Emily Sweeney does news clips on Insta for The Boston Globe where she's been a staff writer since 2003. She's from Dorchester, has a thick Boston accent. I found that she also writes a lot about Massachusetts crime and authored a book about John "Dropkick" Murphy, an amateur wrestler turned rehab host (yes, where the band got their name). Oh and she was the first woman to play hockey at Boston Latin (on the boys' team) and played four years at Northeastern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Sweeney_(journalist)

The Framingham Eight were women serving time for killing their abusive spouses/partners in Massachusetts. They sought commutation of their sentences in the 1990s saying they were acting in self defense because of battered person syndrome. Seven of the eight received commuted sentences; many had difficult lives afterwards either in or out of the spotlight. A short documentary about them won an Oscar. They had no Wikipedia page. Most news articles about them are by women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framingham_Eight

I know Fraser Metzger's great grandson who lives up the road from me. He has talked to me about his ancestor's role in the town. I'd been meaning to look him up and wow, that guy did a lot of stuff. Eschewed the family hardware business to go to divinity school, ran for Governor of Vermont as a Progressive and was the first Dean of Men at Rutgers. I started the article yesterday, ran out of steam and was delighted to see that someone else filled in the blanks overnight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Metzger

I used to write a lot about Stadium Organists when I was listening to Josh Kantor's Seventh Inning Stretch livestream regularly. I'd gotten out of the habit but then I saw Josh Langhoff saying somethingorother on Bluesky and was like "Oh hey there's another one!" Not a lot of public detail about him but he's done a lot of cited music reviews (he's into Christian music and regional Mexican music) and has a nice personal website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Langhoff

Wikipedia work begets Wikipedia work. Reggie Ramos is the executive director of Transportation for Massachusetts a coalition of groups working to improve transportation in MA. She thinks high quality and affordable and accessible transportation is a civil rights issue. She is from the Republic of the Philippines where she was Undersecretary for Transportation. And she's a lawyer and international negotiator. She's quite cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Ramos

I'm reading a book about the human body. They discussed the work of a not-well-known poultry scientist who discovered what would become known as B cells from a little gland called the Bursa of Fabricius, written up in the Journal of Poultry Science. I went to read about him and noticed that there were a lot of articles but no Wikipedia page. Science is a little out of my wheelhouse, but I did my best. Meet Bruce Glick, one of the reasons we have decent cancer treatments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Glick

Bobby Gosh was a local musician and producer who you may know from such hits as Dr. Hook's song "A Little Bit More" or Bjork's music box pieces on Vespertine. He may or may not have opened for Streisand during her happening in Central Park. He definitely wrote the Honeycomb Hideout jingle. He was an art collector. An unapologetic weed eater, Gosh's life is full of amazing facts and what I suspect are some embellishments. Definitely a local legend who will be well missed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Gosh

When I started this article about Rice Estes, it's because I thought he was a Black librarian raised in South Carolina committed to ending segregation in public libraries in the South. As it turns out, that article was wrong and he was all those things, except he was white. He was married to well-known author Eleanor Estes. She had a long Wikipedia page, he had none. He did not do a lot of public activism after the 60s (that I found) but what he did then was important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Estes