"WAIT. THIS ISN'T HELL?"

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[storybookprincess]

hi!!!!! i’m an actual librarian who has encountered this very situation before!!!!! and while i commend & admire op’s willingness to help another patron, this is why you really really should have a library worker, not another patron whom you don’t know, assist you with tech & information related issues in the library!!! because we are trained in how to handle this exact sort of thing

tl;dr: use proton mail. i’m not gonna gatekeep this info. it does not require a cell phone number, so it’s my go to for patrons in this situation!!! while i am acutely aware of the harm done by the digital divide & how many people are getting left behind as our world gets increasingly tech dependent, the situation is not hopeless. there ARE provisions in place to help the people most affected, and those provisions are usually wearing glasses & cardigans & sitting behind the circulation desk

librarians are not glorified bookworms!!!! we are information professionals who are highly trained in how to handle these sorts of seemingly impossible binds!!!! ask us for help!!!!!! as i always tell my patrons, that’s what i get paid the big bucks for

[girl4pay]

should they make sad scrub daddys

yes

no

Voting ended onJan 5

[girl4pay]

do you care about the sad scrub daddy issue more as a facet of labor rights or as a facet of women's rights

labor rights

women's rights

i don't care about workers or women

Voting ended onJan 5

[girl4pay]

if presented with the option of a sad scrub daddy and a happy scrub daddy which one would you purchase

sad

happy

Voting ended onJan 5

[girl4pay]

a man opts to purchase a scrub mommy rather than a scrub daddy. thoughts?

feminist

sexist

oedipal

Voting ended onJan 5

[thelawfulchaotic]

If I want to support people who have been arrested by ICE, is it worth donating to a highly rated immigrant legal defense org? Do they do different work than public defenders?

Yes, absolutely they do!!! They do the real work keeping people in the country; all we can do is some Brer Rabbit fuckin tricks to avoid ICE shipping them off immediately.

(And to the FBI agents reading this in court in some future universe as an indication of an intention to break the law, nonono!! Nice try! I adhere to the duties of a lawyer without breaking federal law, even the unconstitutionally expanded anti-harboring statute that has been used to target lawyers.)

I’m feeling some resentment these days towards immigration lawyers, but here’s the thing.

1) Immigration law has eliminated all fee waivers.

Previously if you were poor and were doing, say, an asylum case, you didn’t have to pay thousands of dollars in court costs because you were poor and seeking asylum. All fee waivers like this are gone. Everyone pays. If you can find an organization taking donations to pay those costs too, jump on it.

I’m sick and sad and tired of my clients not being able even to pay court costs to get a tiny chance.

2) I’m often mad that they can’t take my clients’ immigration cases. This is because they’re flooded and overwhelmed. I try to keep the anger aimed where it belongs but it still hurts.

Go ahead and donate.

[polytropic-liar]

Slight correction: the July 4, 2025 budget bill eliminated several of the most commonly-used immigration court fee waivers and created several new fees that can't be waived, but many fee waivers still exist and can be applied to many immigration processes!

Suggestions for orgs to donate to:

Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project

Black Alliance for Just Immigration

Al Otro Lado

Haitian Bridge Alliance

National Immigrant Justice Center

Immigration Equality

The Florence Project

Disclosure: I work with, or have worked with in the past, all of these orgs. I am not paid directly by any of them. However your donation may benefit me indirectly by making my job and my clients' lives easier.

[thelawfulchaotic]

My mistake! This is good corrected info.

[nonaferatu]

This would have had me crucified on tumblr 10 years ago but maybe we are ready for this conversation now:

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

This is a PSA to about 3/4s of the Portland Youth populace

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[scramratz]

outing myself in the men's restroom by washing my hands

[skygenders]

turning point usa is kinda performance art like lets consider that the other founder died from covid in 2020.

[geminisee]

>two people start a conservative organization to push covid conspiracies and pro-gun ideals (among other things)

>one dies of covid

>the other dies of gun violence

it’s so on the nose that it’s actually cliché

[eatpussypraylove]

I kinda love when I take a picture of something beautiful and it looks like shit because it humbles me and reminds me to stay off my phone

[daily-prompts]

“And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.”

― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

[carnage-cathedral]

I am BEGGING people to actually learn the true definitions of abuse terms like gaslighting, dogwhistling, lovebombing, grooming, etc. because yes, they are often misused and to some degree have lost all meaning, but they are still legitimate terms for abuse tactics and people need to learn what they actually mean so that they can better understand what victims are trying to say, instead of just going "that's a tiktok word!!!" and completely discrediting someone's actual trauma

[aesthetic-otd]

Today's aesthetic is technozen

[rattiefluffs]

https://ift.tt/wBu27Wb

[wordfather]

[aletheyass]

btw you should absolutely read stuff you don't agree with. you should think critically about it. you should reflect and find different stimuli and maybe even form your own thought based on or opposed to it. ideas aren't contagious and reading words someone else has told you are "bad" won't infect you like a virus and make you "evil". read with your own brain.

[grendel-menz]

I hope you know that it’s always this

[stay-human]

I remember when I first found out the truth about “Somali pirates” I got chills because of how horrific the truth was and how insanely creepily well the media had twisted the situation. Every single fucking article making it seem like these “pirates” were just after money or something holding innocent people hostage and I never gave it a second thought, why would I? There was no indication that people were trying to legitimately fight off disgusting imperialism that left nuclear waste in their waters, that over 300 people have died from radiation sickness, that Europeans have been stealing Somalia’s seafood because they overfished their own waters and the indigenous fisherman are starving and so these “pirates” emerged to deal with those stealing their country’s natural resources. The truth is enough to make anyone sick to their stomachs.

[thebicker]

This is a great article about the truth about Somali pirates, in case anyone wants a source.

[charlieism]

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-you-are-being-lied-to-about-pirates-1225817.html

[butchspace]