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I love the library

i recently went to the library, picked out a giant comfy chair in the middle of the place, sat down and just read for an hour. it was a genuinely pleasurable and cathartic experience. i highly suggest going just to be there. you don't have to check your books out and leave. hell, you don't have to check anything out at all. just browse, pick something up, start it, put it down, pick something different. just exist in a space built specifically for your community.

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Libraries are a great way to spend time in public (regardless of reading/not-reading preferences)

Bc Third Spaces (places you can exist that aren't home or work/school) are endangered--and libraries are currently our most thriving species of Third Spaces. Natural characteristics of Libraries include:

free wifi and outlets!

quiet! peace and quiet!

comfy seating

not crowded!!!

you get to be left alone in peace! personal space is sorta sacred at a library

BUT there's also super friendly staff/patrons if you're feeling social.

How To Enjoy A Library (without reading anything if u don't want to):

pack a laptop + thermos of Beverage + maybe some snacks? and just...go and hang out. sit in a comfy chair. stream a movie on the wifi. jam out (with headphone duh) while browsing socal media (or magazines!). luxuriate in being allowed to exist! in public! without being charged by the minute.

(p.s. many libraries lend phone/laptop chargers, headphones, and even entire laptops. plus there's always the public desktops. if you're ever stuck with a few hours to kill...the library is comfier than the nearest starbucks)

IN CONCLUSION: libraries are just very comfy and convenient places to exist. you can go there, not glance at a single book, and still have a chill time w/ fun (and free!) public resources.

sexy sexy free public resources

Hello it’s been a bit since I have posted but I am doing a social media break because well I’m facing information overload. I wanna so badly to fix everything and I can’t control the world. My brain can only take so much of everyone’s pain. The protests/riots, covid19, it’s all just a little too much and I have to take things at my own pace. I find myself checking Snapchat and other social media sites for updates and just browsing the feeds searching for something I don’t understand. If I continue to try to take on everyone’s pain I’m gonna break eventually. I know it’s not my job but I feel with everyone suffering and I can’t help but want to make it stop. So I need a break.

ultrafacts

Whittier, Alaska, is a town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in a 14-story former Army barracks built in 1956. The building, called Begich Towers, holds a police station, a health clinic, a church, and a laundromat. Its hallways resemble those of a school . One can often find residents shuffling around in slippers and pajamas.

Because the winters are so ferocious, the town’s only playground is indoors.

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letloosethekraken-deactivated20

This is some dystopian young adult novel bull.

jmindigo

To be fair pretty much all of Alaska is some dystopian young adult novel bull in one way or another.

walkingoutintherain

I have only been to the outside of Whittier, that one time I took the ferry from Valdez, and it’s grim-looking as hell.

This also neglects to mention that the only ways to reach Whittier are either the aforementioned ferry, bush plane, or a 2.5 mile-long, approximately 15′x15′ tunnel through a mountain that looks like this inside:

The AKDOT website reassures us that “During the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake (the greatest magnitude earthquake ever recorded in North America) the tunnel suffered no significant structural damage and no cave-ins.”

Also please note that though most of the population now lives in the Begich Towers, the townspeople used to reside in the Buckner Building, which is now abandoned and just. Sitting there. Empty. The building that used to be a whole town. Looking super fucking haunted:

“The constant sound of cascading water echoes throughout the complex. Bears have been reported both wandering the upper floors in the spring and hibernating on the lower floors during winter.”

tiffanarchy

that last building isn’t abandoned, it literally says the bears live there now.

lullabyknell

“Before their marriages, Mr. Dearly and Pongo had lived in a bachelor flat, where they were looked after by Mr. Dearly’s old nurse, Nanny Butler. Mrs. Dearly and Missis had also lived in a bachelor flat (there are no such things as spinster flats), where they were looked after by Mrs. Dearly’s old nurse, Nanny Cook. The dogs and their pets met at the same time and shared a wonderfully happy double engagement, but they were all a little worried about what was to happen to Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler. It would be all right when the Dearlys started a family, particularly if it could be twins, with one twin for each Nanny, but until then, what were the Nannies going to do? For though they could cook breakfast and provide meals on trays (meals called “a nice egg by the fire”) neither of them was capable of running a smart little house in Regent’s Park, where the Dearlys hoped to invite their friends to diner. And then something happened. Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler met and, after a few minutes of deep suspicion, took a great liking to each other. And they had a good laugh about their names. “What a pity we’re not a real cook and butler,” said Nanny Cook. “Yes, that’s what’s needed now,” said Nanny Butler. And then they both together had the Great Idea: Nanny Cook would train to be a real cook, and Nanny Butler would train to be a real butler. They would start the very next day and be fully trained by the wedding. “But you’ll have to be a parlourmaid, really,” said Nanny Cook. “Certainly not,” said Nanny Butler. “I haven’t the figure for it. I shall be a real butler- and I shall valet Mr. Dearly, which will need no training as I’ve done it since the day he was born.” And so when the Dearlys and the Pongos got back from their joint honeymoon, there were Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler, fully trained, ready to welcome them into the little house facing Regent’s Park. It came as something of a shock that Nanny Butler was wearing trousers. “Wouldn’t a black dress with a nice frilly apron be better?” suggested Mrs. Dearly-rather nervously, because Nanny Butler had never been her Nanny. “You can’t be a butler without trousers,” said Nanny Butler firmly. “But I’ll get a frilly apron tomorrow. It will add a note of originality.” It did.”

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The 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith

…so… I had this read to me as a kid and I remembered something of it, but heh, why aren’t we talking about Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler?

(via still-intrepid)

lostinhistory

I mean…

alexseanchai

because Disney isn’t about to put queer ladies in their movies except as villains without love interests

…wait there’s a book?

bisexualbaker

[Image: Ink drawing of Mr. and Mrs. Dearly walking down the street, followed by Pongo and Perdita, then Nannies Cook and Butler.]

There were two books, in fact! A book and a sequel that was a lot more sci-fi. (The Dog Star wanted friends, okay?) Also, remember the cat, Tibbs? Mrs Willow in the book.

Also also in the book, there was a female liverspotted Dalmatian that the Dearlys adopted to help nurse the pups, since fifteen was a bit much for a single dog. (She’d recently had her own, likewise liverspotted, pups taken from her, but was eventually reunited with both them and her beau, yet another liverspotted Dalmatian).

At the end of the first book, the Dearlys move into Hell House (originally Hill House, and changed back when they move in) and basically start a Dalmatian rescue. While they eventually end up adopting out a lot of dogs, they always make sure to have at least 101 at all times. (It’s also mentioned that Patch never takes a mate so he doesn’t pass on his “bad genes”, since Dalmatians aren’t supposed to have patches like his.)

Oh, and Mr. Dearly is independently wealthy because he’s so good at math, he helped the government out of a snarl and as a reward he doesn’t need to pay taxes anymore. Later, he helps them out of another bad math situation, and they start paying him a stipend in thanks.

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why am i dressed slutty you ask? to read classic literature alone in my room. mind your own business.

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liberalsarecool

Corporate business models are built on under paying workers and letting the government subsidize the difference. Also, let's lose the 'poor people' trope, this is more mainstream than we want to admit.

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Lara Hacker on Instagram / Etsy

zachsgay

Sorry boys I’m gonna stand with the ladies on this one

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I remember when the London riots happened and someone pointed out that the media's emphasis on looting is always funny because not paying for something is such an oh so unforgivable crime while giving people money so they can pay for things is unthinkable.

argumate

it always comes down to context and framing, doesn’t it.

if you see someone setting fire to cars and smashing windows then without further context that’s pretty fucked up, but if you broaden the frame a little bit and see it as a response to someone getting choked to death or shot without any recourse suddenly the property damage looks like a moderate and reasonable method of raising the cost of brutality, as well as an unmissable signal that the local government has lost its monopoly on violence due to being perceived as illegitimate.

“if these protests continue they will damage the fabric of society / someone might get hurt” rings false when the protests only started due to someone getting hurt in a way that damages the fabric of society.

the-greatest-genderqueer

*uninstalls default gender and installs gender that runs three times as fast*

genderlich-deactivated20211204

#free and open source genders

darksteel-relic

*uninstalls default gender and does not install a replacement*

crazyrichxplainr

Actors of color often get typecast. Two photographers asked them to depict their dream roles instead.

How Hollywood Sees Me … And How I Want to Be Seen

ratfuck

The arsonist who set fire to the Autozone (video below) in Minneapolis has been identified as officer JACOB PEDERSON, a COP and NOT a protestor attending the Justice for George Floyd protests, by his ex wife. Pigs are framing arson on protestors demanding justice for the murder of an innocent Black man by killer cops.