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Hello, you can call me Beetle, I write things sometimes and put them here, if you don’t like them please don’t tell me 💖 I also want to make this abundantly clear: Under no circumstances do I want any Racists, Homophobes, Transphobes, terfs, or anyone who sympathizes with them or their beliefs to interact with me, stay away you are not welcome here. That’s it! Have fun doing what you were doing

[the-reblog-squad-deactivated202]

Reblog if you don't use Generative AI to write fanfics/original fics or to create fanart/original art.

[perplexed-penguin]

If you’re an American federal employee and got an email saying “it’s ok to quit your job.” Do not, for the love of everything, quit your job. This is purely a scare tactic to get rid of as many people as possible without legal consequences.

[iamnmbr3]

Obviously, Trump has realized firing everyone in the government will be harder than he thought because of robust legal protections so he’s trying to scare or trick people into leaving instead because he knows they can block and slow his fascist agenda. Don’t let that happen. If you’re in the civil service, your country needs you; stay in your job and protect the constitution. And if you’re not in civil service, do what you can to support the civil service, including calling your representatives and asking them to protect civil servants.

[afurioushawk]

Also, he's not going to pay you that severance he's promising. He stiffs everyone with the bill.

[comicaurora]

bro we're so fucked they just integrated a ticking clock into the background music

[comicaurora]

broooo we're cooked the foley designers are integrating a boiling kettle into the soundscape

[comicaurora]

bro they just cut out the soundtrack entirely and focused really hard on the sound of my breathing and heartbeat we gotta get the fuck out of here

[rekas-bitches]

I love, love, LOVE it when I can tell a fic author has integrated their specialized knowledge in a fic. I was reading a fic that at some point included the character going to visit an art therapist, and it's so clear that the author is an art therapist themself, and the details included are just immaculate and I love it. I've previously read about a character doing fencing for no other reason than the author clearly wanting to write a sport they understood. A character being given a hyperfixation on bugs just so the author can infodump themselves.

I eat it up every time, it brings such a smile to my face

[seven-winged-liar]

save me bitching

[seven-winged-liar]

whining save me

[seven-winged-liar]

save me complaining

[seven-winged-liar]

you heard him!!! never give up!!!!

[peachdoxie]

I bought a desktop laminator using money I got for my birthday and by god if this isn't the sexiest piece of office equipment I've ever had the pleasure of owning

[peachdoxie]

@sapinelle okay

[peachdoxie]

👍

[littlewebtreasures]

Wizard Gifs by Animation Factory

[freedominthedarkmp3]

I miss when library books used to have little paper pockets inside with a list of all the people who borrowed it and when... I hate that this is now exclusive knowledge of librarians. I do care that a miss Mariana borrowed this book in 1985 and then Dario in 1997. They're my brothers and sisters

[elasticitymudflap]

but really, there's a million reasons why it's an issue for users and staff of the public library to have immediate access to a record of who has borrowed a specific item and when.

and that's not even about keeping the information "privileged" to the library staff, these days they don't even keep a digital record of an item's history of borrowers; once you return a book, there isn't a list of everyone thats ever taken that book out that your name gets added to (though they probably take a tally of how many times it is checked out for circulation statistics).

i think the card system is a remnant of a culture that could only exist in the world before the internet as it exists today, where this identifying kind of information wasn't always readily at your fingertips, even for those at the "information professional" level.

don't get me wrong here, i do understand the nostalgia factor to it as being part of a different time, but i think it's always important to understand why this kind of system has its flaws and has been (at least in north america) taken out of practice

[umjammertammy]

bear in mind that US public libraries spent most of the past twenty years fighting off lawsuits that they were prohibited from disclosing to the public because when 9/11 happened the federal government wanted a list of every person who read certain books and the librarians had a really bad feeling about where that kind of policy would end up going, for some reason.

not keeping the records in the first place is a way for the libraries to protect themselves when they stand up for your privacy.

[hsavinien]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_FBI_has_not_been_here.jpg

This was a thing in multiple libraries. We really want to protect your freedom to access information.

[rosebramblewolf]

they were prohibited from telling us when the fbi had been through to check who was reading what. so they told us when they hadn't been. anyway librarians are heroes for privacy and freedom of information

[fuckterfs-reactivated20252412]

reminds me of digital warrant canaries, like how the company running AO3 has this:

on their company page

[theweirdwideweb]

Matt McCreary

[avalynramsaygames]

When you're so good at parkour that you're bad at it.

[thistoowillpasss]

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[thistoowillpasss]

[tbposting]

[redstonedust]

a good way to inspire yourself to do more is to see yourself as the wacky sitcom B plot character in your friends lives, "wouldnt it be funny to tell the friends in my phone about it." has gotten me to do anything from going to a festival (excelent) to wild camping (it went badly) (coastguard called) to trying to get the train to stonehenge (stonehenge costs money so i ended up just getting lunch in sailsbury, it was okay.) i bought a bicycle today and 20% of my reasoning was "itd be funny to surprise my roommate by coming home with a whole bike." . life is for living. and baby i live for the bit.

[whumperofworlds]

Whump be like

[justnoodlefishthings]

my single prediction for 2021 is there will suddenly be a widespread increase in thyroid issues in wealthy upper and middle class people due to their obsession with uniodized pink himalayan salt

[justnoodlefishthings]

I was off by three years but I was right

Doctors worry that iodine deficiency — a dietary problem from the past — is coming back

People are getting less iodine because of changes in diet and food manufacturing. Most people are still getting enough, but researchers are

[genderqueerdykes]

people talking about "lesbian rights" going "U CAN'T BE A TRANSMASC/TRANS MEN LESBIAN THAT'S LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE YOU ARE THREATENING ALL OF THE LESBIANS AROUND U!!!!!!!" meanwhile i was at the library earlier and saw one of the staff members with a shaved head had a water bottle with a sticker saying "cultivate lesbian JOY!" and so i decided to go "hey nice i'm a lesbian too!" and that person & the transfem next to them both erupted with joy. nobody got mad about my beard. nobody got mad about how deep my voice is. those two, who are very used to seeing me there as that's where i print labels for my job, were overjoyed to see another lesbian.

i didn't get 20 questions. i didn't get "your voice is deep are you a MAN????" nobody bitched about my facial hair. nobody got mad that a person passing for a cis man at the time said it was a lesbian. instead i received nothing but joy, the others giggling and saying that we were the Lesbian Corner. nobody got mad, there was nothing but joy. a transmasc lesbian & a transfem lesbian shared the exact same joy it it bothered no one. no fighting. NONE. no being mad about my appearance or my voice. this is what lesbian community is REALLY about. diversity among lesbians. accepting lesbians no matter how they look, sound, or what their gender is.

this is the spirit of lesbianism, not getting angry when someone is a lesbian "wrong".

[oneheadtoanother]

[wilczak]

Wet Beast Wednesday

[marisatomay]

can’t have seasonal affective disorder if i say that winter isn’t real it was just invented by Big Vivaldi to sell all four of his seasons