I'm on my Vigilante Shit... Again.

I don't start shit but I can tell you how it ends don't get sad, get even

[eelizabit]

Ok girlies time for our prescription 1-2 hour walk, imagine we r all in line like Madeline

[eelizabit]

in an old website on the internet all covered in vines, lived some lovely little mutuals in two straight lines..

[thememedaddy]

[thememedaddy]

[alphatelescopii]

[blorbo-begonia]

*in a southern accent* "I never did find a lot of gold, but I DID find a fanny pack of casino chips in the Daytona speedway parkin' lot."

-tylerbenderr

[thememedaddy]

[thememedaddy]

[darkangelofglory]

I sure love being sick and having to take cough syrup in such fantastic flavors as

limes at their own funeral

the festering corpse of a cherry

the broken hopes and dreams of various berries

sunshine twinkling on the apocalyptic wasteland of a post-nuclear war hellscape

death

[wirrrp]

you can’t cough if your throat is paralyzed in horror

[darkangelofglory]

very very true

[sacred-portal]

[iraqnroll-deactivated20241123]

[manycrows]

[saeriibon]

[forepop]

my dad, trying to explain the concept of money to me: say you have a sandwich, and i need your sandwich. but i don't have anything to give you. you're not just gonna give it to me.

me: i would just give it to you.

my dad:

[androfembot]

in elementary school we had. basically an immersive economics lesson that was "playing City," with different jobs and businesses; it was mostly semi-free time for socializing and selling/buying toys and snacks from each other. one of the lessons we were supposed to learn was the importance of paying a small amount of money into health and/or business insurance, because you had a chance of being hit with the Daily Disaster and a huge bill.

anyway, some kid who didn't buy insurance got hit with a "medical bill" early on, so he was supposed to be bankrupt and have to sit the rest of the game out. the 8 year olds were not having it and spontaneously invented crowdfunding so he could keep playing with everyone else.

kids who don't 'get it' are right, actually

[sonnetscrewdriver]

endlessly, morbidly fascinated by how when you're a kid you're constantly having parents, school, religion, media, all drumming it into your head that Sharing Is Good And You Need To Do It, and then you grow up and suddenly they're all like right never mind all that, this is The Real World and it's every bastard for himself

[stupidcupid06]

When I was 10 or so I remember asking my dad how the stock market works. My dad's a socialist but he thought it would be a good teachable moment.

So we sat down with some monoply money and he made up some stocks. and then we both bought stocks. and then i was like "so how does more money get in the system, how do the stocks go up?"

That's how my dad learned he doesn't know how the stock market works.

[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.

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[thememedaddy]

[thememedaddy]

[thememedaddy]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[girlbossjodiarias]

#all they serve is cunt

[lovingrot]

viciously and fatally attacked by an unknown animal at Claire’s

[wherehipposdrome]

that was no animal, that was Claire herself

[regbian-moved-to-lezbianz]

the claire witch project

[candyredterezii]

[thememedaddy]