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All I’m saying is that they bring out the pepper spray, rubber bullets, and riot gear for Black people gathering to peacefully protest on any given day, but I ain’t seen NONE of that to disperse all these white kids on spring break in Florida during a global fucking pandemic…

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Not a damn PEEP!!

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Manny Jacinto photographed by Sela Shiloni (2018)

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the left just wants mass amounts of illegal immigrants to live in the usa so that nice straight white boys like me are the only ones signed up for selective service and that way the next time there’s a big war we get exterminated so women and minorities can take over the country once we’re gone

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Not to be a commie slut but STI screenings should be free and easily accessible to everyone

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Public Domain Day was yesterday, but you were probably hungover, so here’s how to download the tens of thousands of books that became legal to download for free in 2019.

Starting at midnight on January 1, tens of thousands of books (as well as movies, songs, and cartoons) entered the public domain, meaning that people can download, share, or repurpose these works for free and without retribution under US copyright law.

Per the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, “corporate” creations (like Mickey Mouse) can be restricted under copyright law for 120 years. But per an amendment to the act, works published between 1923 and 1977 can enter the public domain 95 years after their creation. This means that this is the first year since 1998 that a large number of works have entered the public domain.

Basically, 2019 marks the first time a huge quantity of books published in 1923 — including works by Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Robert Frost — have become legally downloadable since digital books became a thing. It’s a big deal — the Internet Archive had a party in San Francisco to celebrate. Next year, works from 1924 will enter the public domain, and so-on.

So, how do you actually download these books?

It largely depends on what site you go to, and if you can’t find a book on one site, you can probably find it on another. For instance, ReadPrint.com, as well as The Literature Network (mostly major authors), and Librivox (audio books), Authorama (all in the public domain), and over a dozen other sites all have vast selections of free ebooks.

There’s also a handful of archiving projects that are doing extensive work to digitize books, journals, music, and other forms of media. A blog post from Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain listed some of the most recognizable works published in 1923, as well as links to download these books on digital archiving projects Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and the Gutenberg Project. The books include:

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links

Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis

Robert Frost, New Hampshire

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay

D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo

Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization

Carl Sandburg, Rootabaga Pigeons

Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front

P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith

Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

E.E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys

In total HathiTrust, a massive digital archiving project, has also uploaded more than 53,000 works published in 1923 that just entered the public domain. Over 17,650 of them are books written in English. Similarly, Internet Archive has already uploaded over 15,000 works written in English that year.

Project Gutenberg, which has over 58,000 free downloadable books, has digitized five works that entered the public domain in the new year: The Meredith Mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, The Golden Boys Rescued by Radio L. P. Wyman, White Lightning Edwin by Herbert Lewis, The Garden of God by H. De Vere Stacpoole, and The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. I’m going to be perfectly honest: I recognize exactly zero of those books. But like most if not all digital archives, Project Gutenberg had some books from 1923 available for download before January 1, 2019 (like Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf.)

If you’re interested in academic papers, Reddit user nemobis also uploaded over 1.5 million PDF files of works published in academic journals before 1923. Your best bet for actually finding something you want to read in there is to know which academic paper you’re looking for beforehand and check the paper’s DOI number. Then, search for the DOI in one of nemobis’s lists of works — one list includes works published until 1909, the other includes works published until 1923.

It’s worth noting that projects like Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg rely on volunteer efforts, so there’s going to be disparities in the number of books available for download depending on where you go. But over the next several days and weeks, it’s safe to expect many more books will become available legally and for free across the web.

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When you suffer from depression but lowkey know how to deal with it and you’re beyond grateful that you’re not having any suicidal ideations.

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crush — Richard siken

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me and my friends bonding over shared trauma™️:

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SHES A VIRGO

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I AM TELLING YALL SOMETHING IS FISHY! We have got to get to the bottom of this… CLEAR EVE’S NAME!!!!!

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THE SIGNS AS I KNOW THEM (excuse the shade):

ARIES: sometimes intimidating, extremely confident people with crazy desire to share their opinions and ideas with the world, massive flirts, loud mouths, independent and super funny. They tend to hide away their true feelings and pretend they don’t care about anything. Intriguing personality that can make anyone fall in love with them almost immediately.

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TAURUS: perssistent, easily manipulated, great listeners, romantic —low-key would do anything for their loved one—, classy and natural beauty and sense of style. They associate friends with family. Fun to be around yet stubborn and independent. They love learning new stuff.

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GEMINI: artistic —even if they aren’t artists—, big eyes filled with joy and hope, whimsical minds, bad puns that somehow sound hilarious when they tell them, exotic minds, witty —they know something about everything and have a large range of information and facts—, actually loyal. Can be a little over-dramatic but that doesn’t mean they’re lying. Usually stereotyped as two-faced but in reality they are just honest —thing that bothers people—.

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CANCER: trying to seem arrogant, overwhelmed almost all the time, in need of attention and approval, artsy —they’re aesthetically pleasing and have good taste in all kinds of art—, secretive before they know they can trust you, shy when it comes to confessing love, trying to be something they’re clearly not. They handle criticism with sarcastic humor; they know they’re better than you.

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LEO: doesn’t need approval from anyone in anything, goal-oriented, can make their way out of any kind of situation by simply using their charm and intelligence, uses a variety of memes to describe their feelings. They don’t easily fall in love but when they do you’ll know it’s real. #extra without even trying. CONFIDENT.

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VIRGO: resting bitch face but deep down sensitive and caring for those who are close to their heart, grammar cops, pretty sexual —pretty much—, party animals at night, robots functioning on caffeine during the day. Minimalistic sense of style that reflects the art of simplicity in which they strongly belive just like aliens belive in taking over the world. (This description is a mess but so they are sometimes. Shh, you don’t know it from here).

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LIBRA: fashion masters, goofy and weird, the real trash talkers just because they’re bored and, honestly, better than you. Overall peace-makers and cheesy. Cute instagram feed, delicate manicure and light makeup. They know A LOT of people —sometimes it’s annoying because they bump into people they know, all the time they step outside the house—. Charming and flirtatious, showing their intelligence through fantastic humor.

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SCORPIO: somehow scary —but honestly, they wouldn’t even be able to kill a fly—, too proud of themselves to admit shit they’ve done wrong, wanna be cool, actual softies, sexual creatures who can eat you alive with just their eyes. The definition of possesive. Paranoid and moody —one moment all hot and sexy, next second cooler than ice—, more intelligent than you think. They can be bold when showing affection, just because they want to warn others that you belong to them and only them.

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SAGITTARIUS: rarely freaks out FOR REAL, sassy kings and queens, original, naturally born with a dramatic side that makes them extraordinare actors, passionate. They inspire by using their intellect —which btw, yes, they have haha, you haters—. Literally good at anything they do (tell me your secret, please). Showing love might be hard just because they generally feel unsure of their true feelings.

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CAPRICORN: dark humor, actual selfish people who only think about themselves, masters ar stressing over minor problems, the real foodies, probably the coolest people in school/on instagram/at work —or whatever environment you’re in—, attractive in an unexplainable way. Touchy —plain and simple touchy—. Protective. Born smart. Easily hurt by negative comments but would never EVER admit it.

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AQUARIUS: their charm makes them appear fake —which they might actually be, not gonna lie—, plain and simple weird, angry at their unlucky destiny, daydreamers, softies who hide their desire for true love, probably dreaming of the idea of soulmates —right now—. Their kindness usually makes them look like fools and that’s why people don’t give them credits for important stuff they make in this world. “The best friend”. Crying at movies and SUPER clumsy and awkward. Tired of being labeled as “not important” or “the cold one”; they kind of love attention.

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PISCES: more selfish that you may think, attention whores and tea spillers. They want to look and act cute all the time and are hurt if someone says it looks fake. Always up to impress intriguing people they are attracted to, by using their most valuable talents. Family guys —and girls—, food lovers, sports oriented, extreme love for alcoohol. Sort of mysterious and hard to figure out. Bubbly flirts who don’t play hard to get.

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Hard to excuse myself after this amount of shade but keep in mind that this is my personal opinion and, also, my personal experience with the signs. I’m an Aqua and I just called out bullshit on myself sooo… haha anyway every sign has it’s good and bad traits, view this as a chance to find out more about both of them, perhaps?? ♒️🤭