Thoth and the Distant Goddess

Ra’s daughter ran off to distant lands gathering novel ideas. Thoth was sent to bring her home & was responsible for integrating the learning, finding balance for the people in light of these ideas. I love the thought of finding equilibrium. We all play the role of the goddess and Thoth. It's good stuff: a chance to learn, to share. “The fastest thing in the universe isn’t light, it’s mind”

[thothandthedistantgoddess]

Art by Phuoc Nguyen

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[soluksuret]

Ömürlük.

[phill-o-soph]

… darf ich bitten😉 💃🕺🏻

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u.k.

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misterlemonzlime.tumblr.com/archive

[thothandthedistantgoddess]

Very TARDIS-like indeed as the contents can take you to a thousand places and different times.

[ymutate]

Kawase Hasui

"Yanagawa River, Chikugo," 1949

woodblock print

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[thothandthedistantgoddess]

Put another way: A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

(John A. Shedd: Salt In My Attic or possibly, Grace Murray Hopper)

[thehopefulquotes]

“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

— Voltaire

[remanence-of-love]

[philosophybits]

“I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life

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[partisan-by-default]

Illinois bill would stop publishers from charging libraries more than public for e-books and audiobooks

Illinois librarians are asking lawmakers to intervene in e-book and audiobook licensing as they say publishers are making libraries pay more

Public libraries offer readers the chance to enter into worlds of horror through classics such as Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” or Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” But Illinois librarians say a real horror story haunts them: e-book and audiobook licensing.

Libraries in Illinois pay more and receive less, said Monica Harris, executive director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System. Some are being charged up to seven times more than the general public for identical e-books and audiobooks.

Unlike physical books, e-books and audiobooks are not owned by libraries but instead are temporarily licensed to them. After a set time or number of checkouts, libraries must repurchase the item or lose access to it — a repetitive and costly cycle that eats away at budgets.

“More and more taxpayer-funded library budgets are being eaten up by this licensing at unreasonably high prices,” Harris said. “The hold list gets longer and longer for the constituents who are trying to, you know, use these materials and many libraries are now spending almost 50% of their collection budgets on e-books and audiobooks.”

That growing cost is why librarians are pushing lawmakers to pass legislation that would prohibit publishers from offering electronic licensing agreements that restrict what they call “customary” library functions.

[thothandthedistantgoddess]

Good Stuff!

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Only 350k notes? tumblr: we can do better! This should have over a million notes, just out of principle alone. Get crackin’!

[mollybyrd]

A Swedish Library Forgot to Close Its Doors and Something Beautiful Happened

They say a reader does not steal and a thief does not read. In the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, that's definitely true.

[groovysarity]

[kangamommynow]

Yes, fairly often.

[justsayin59]

yep

[tachyon-at-rest]

Yes, and I've been quixotically trying to bring back "whippersnapper".

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[thothandthedistantgoddess]

Any proposed argument suggesting that I do not use these terms is simply, freighted with boushwa and balderdash! It is total flapdoodle!

[thothandthedistantgoddess]

Samantha Harvey’s 2024 Booker Prize Speech for her book, Orbital. This turns out to be a quiet, yet forceful argument that reminds each of us that we are the universe and we are connected to every aspect of life on Earth.