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fostershyperfixator

My local library had a days since James Patterson last published counter.

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official library post

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Official ominous sign

idolprincessrinny

I worked at Barnes and Noble for a bit and my manager HATED this guy because whenever a book came out, and they did often, we would have rearrange shelves due to contracts on how the books were to be displayed.

This happened like, once a week.

#this fuckin guy #Spiders Georg of publishing

freshcuntgrass

Nothing has done quite so much damage to my internal vocabulary as the construction #MyNoun. I don't remember if it was from that "tour of my jar, this is my twig #MyTwig" or if it was from "inappropriate attachment to objects, my tuube #MyTuube" but either way it was one of you fuckers on here. I do it every time there's my noun #MyNoun

Me: Holy shit I'm tired. Doing so many things right after another. Month is booked up. Had to cancel session from not being able to get prep time. Doing 5 projects at once.

Also Me: What if I tell people in a music community server I sing

#donno if anything will come of it BUUUUT #been missing being in a choir but SO MANY OF THEM are very religious and I....do not want that.#these guys are video game musicians it would be so neat to sing gaming songs #what can i say i see an oppertunity I go 'fuck it we ball'#i can sleep when im dead

galileosballs

Something that gets really lost in a lot of discourse is that what we would now call 'going low-contact' or 'going no-contact' with your family used to be so completely within the normal range of familial contact that there wasn't even a term for it. Sure, in the pre-IM pre-social media days some people were calling their parents daily, but I'd wager the vast majority of people were not. Long distance calling used to be quite expensive, after all. If your kid went to the big city to seek their fortune you might hear from them every few weeks, or every month, or once a year, and that wasn't particularly odd. This was even more the case before telephones were common, of course - people would send letters, but definitely not more than once a week and probably a lot less. It was just a normal, accepted fact that you'd hear from some family members who lived nearby often, and some who lived farther away very rarely.

The minimum amount of contact with family that is expected of people in the groupchat-facetime-instagram era is so much higher than at any previous point in history. The ceiling is about the same, since then and now multiple generations often live under the same roof, but the floor is higher by orders of magnitude.

How many adult children who are 'no-contact' or 'low-contact' now would also have been the ones who moved to the city and sent a letter every three months then? Is family estrangement an actual current problem, or is it just an illusion caused by smartphones?

hyperlexichypatia

When I complain about increased surveillance, control, and infantilization of older kids and young adults, it's often a level of surveillance and control that wouldn't have been possible, or at least practical, in previous generations. At minimum, it would've been escapable.