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[makingqueerhistory]

Queer Your Library

Reminder to request queer books from your libraries!

[scifigrl47]

And hey.

Check them out.

Libraries have limited shelf space. If the books don't get checked out or don't get checked out often enough, the can be 'weeded' as unnecessary.

Borrow books you've already read. Put them on the reshelve cart to show in library use. Ask the librarians if they can recommend something else 'like this.'

Every librarian I have ever met is willing to march into hell with a baseball bat and a smile that could cut steel to defend their patrons right to access info. But you make that INFINITELY easier for them if they have numbers.

If they can say, wow, this section has a lot of turnover, we can fight to keep it in the budget. This program got a turnout, we need more like it. This display keeps getting emptied, it needs to be expanded.

Give them the tools to fight with. Use your library. Support your library. Join the Friends, attend events, suggest events, ask for books, use Hoopla and Libby and Canva and everything they're spending their budget on. Go to the book sale, go to the website, go to town/city meeting if you have that ability.

Be a patron. The books you request could save someone you may never meet.

[1968bullittmustang]

Whenever a new banned book list comes around, I add all the books to my hold list for my library. That way the library will either order the book or put in a loan request from a neighboring library that already has it.

I admit rarely read them all simply because many are not to my taste as I'm extremely narrow in my reading. But I always keep a book for a few days before returning it, and then request a new one from the list.

I can't fork over the money to purchase these books myself, but I can ensure they get checked out in our library system and give them a better chance of staying on the shelves longer.

And if there is an LGBTQIA book I desperately want and no library in our system has it, I'll purchase it. I've got a good relationship with the circulation librarian in my town and if I ship the book directly to her, she'll add it to their system, and I'll just check it out. This is a win-win for both of us. She gets a new book at no cost to the library and I get to read a book I really want but don't have room for at home.

Also, I recommend using Libby, Hoopla, or whatever Ebook system your library has. The more it gets used, the more money they are allocated to support it in the future.

And that goes for all Library services. The more traffic a service gets, the more money they are allocated for it in the future.

If you don't know what your library offers, go inside and ask. Every librarian I've ever met loves to help and answer questions. And some libraries have the coolest and most esoteric things on offer.

So try to support all the services your library has to offer!

Happy Pride! 💖🧡💛💚💙💜

[wholesome-animal-images]

[pangur-and-grim]

cleaning him

[pangur-and-grim]

those aren’t their names!!!!!!

[samirasystole]

sometimes i think about how samira's dad dying launched her career into an endless loop of being extremely thorough to prevent mistakes like the one that killed her dad -> being told she's too slow -> speeding up to be a good resident and ending up making a mistake -> making herself feel incredibly guilty for her mistake because in her head that means she's causing someone the same grief that she's felt since she was 13 -> deciding that she has to be better to prevent this from happening -> becoming more thorough to prevent mistakes -> figuring out that it's impossible to prevent mistakes and that any attempt is futile -> beating herself up over it and trying anyway -> ♾️

such a devastating loop. and she can't get out of it until she forgives herself and separates herself from the mistakes she's bound to make, which is only possible if she forgives the doctor that failed her father; which is also basically impossible because the grief and anger and upset that her father's death has caused, is the reason she got this far in medicine in the first place. she got into medicine to not make a mistake like that doctor and found out it's impossible. mysamira :(

[thememedaddy]

[theprofessional-amateur]

The library (aka me and a quarter time person) are making the AI department sad and frustrated because we aren't coming up with a good project for a "tool to relieve some of the day-to-day burden of our work" and yeah man.

Like, 80% of my work is physical materials, 10% is research that I actually enjoy most of the time and would need to double check all the ai results, and like 10% the most basic email and data entry.

"but we want you to use it!" but it can't do anything I need help with and everything it """can""" do would add extra work

[theprofessional-amateur]

Can it move boxes? Can it deal with the 14,000 boxes of backlog in the warehouse? Can it research in the microfilm collection? Can it shelve this stuff in the library stacks? Can it take even one of the “hey can you deal with all these files in this office/closet/cabinet” I get? What about shipping materials from regional offices? Can it reformat any of these media types? No? Ok well those are the areas that I need assistance. I already have templates created for the emails and data stuff

[beezlebutch]

"Pride month is over"

WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition

[jehandant]

Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of "Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?" and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.

This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it's been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.

Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:

Red: Physical disabilities

Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities

White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities

Blue: Mental illnesses

Green: Sensory disabilities

If you're autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it's your pride month. If you're hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.

[turnpikeghosts]

what do you do with clothes that you’ve worn a couple times but aren’t dirty or smelly

put them in hamper with dirty clothes for washing

put them in a separate hamper or basket etc with other ambiguously dirty clothes

put them away/hang them back up w clean clothes (??)

hang them up NOT with clean clothes somewhere

the Chair™️

big pile on floor

something else that I am going to put in the tags to help everyone else ❤️

I also don’t know what to do with these clothes sorry op

Remaining time: 19 hours 2 minutes

[creatingblackcharacters]

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ trust me, if white people know you aren't safe to be racist around, we'll notice! Your ACTIONS will speak for you!

[patrochillesvibes]

[aru]

Tumblr Code.

[geekishchic]

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

[hobbinch]

This is an absolute tumblr relic. I feel like an archaeologist right now. This is incredible that this is on my dash.

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 2nd of july, 2012.

[blingblingboy-kinnie]

Bro what it’s the second of July 2020. Happy 8th anniversary of this classic tumblr post!!!!

[tumbalendar]

Happy Birthday Tumblr Code!

[darkmatters-world]

[tearsovercaprisuns-deactivated2]

how is the kentucky derby not trending on here?? the horse with the lowest odds wins and immediately starts biting everything in its sight, that sounds like a tumblr legend to me

[sneakyspades]

oh my fucking god

[phantom-cosmos]

This horse wasn’t even supposed to be in the race. Horse number 20 (can’t remember it’s name) dropped out the day before for whatever reason, and Rich Strike was just barely able to sneak a spot into the derby before the deadline. Not to mention that this was just some garbage $30,000 horse that didn’t have any kind of impressive breeding (yes I am aware $30k is still a lot, but for a Kentucky Derby horse, that’s chump change). He was the second biggest upset in the history of the Derby, with one other horse (Donerail) winning with 91-1 odds before in 1913 (Which, for reference, I’m pretty sure Donerail with his 91-1 odds still holds the record for the worst odds in the history of the race. Just for context of how shit Rich Strike’s 80-1 odds were. Not THE worst, but definitely up there).

I am in love with this shit horse who wasn’t even supposed to be there, had some of the worst odds in the history of the race, and had the worst starting position who completely destroyed all of the favorites to win. Watching him come up to first right at the last second was THRILLING.

[jackhawksmoor]

This story is fucking hilarious

So Rich Strike has barely won a race, but he ALWAYS shoots up in the last stretch. He goes from 11th to 4th, from 8th to 3rd. Rich Strike hits the final corner and suddenly gets flashbacks to his previous life as a Klingon warrior. He starts snarling curses and heads for the finish line like it insulted his ancestors and must PAY, that's just how he runs races

And this was a blisteringly fast time for the Kentucky Derby- one of the fastest races EVER. When the announcer realized the time when they hit the halfway point he was like "Jesus CHRIST" It was incredible. Which means the lead horses, the favorites, were sprinting as hard as they could the entire race. By the time they got to the end they were exhausted

And here comes Rich Strike, turns the last corner and his vision goes red. The lead horses can't pick up the final sprint like usual- they already ARE going flat out. Rich Strike comes up on the inside, NOT exhausted by fighting for the lead spot, howling "DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR" like the complete fucking lunatic he is and just blows past everyone

He's ready to kill. He wants to tear into some Romulans and destroy the Federation, and he wins everything

Then the guy on horseback whose job it is to help slow the running horses down after they cross the finish line comes up and Rich Strike LOSES HIS SHIT

He bites the other horse, he bites the rider, he bites himself. He's like "oh you think you can slow ME down?! I'LL KILL YOU. QAPLA!"

He's completely insane and I love him

[thesylverlining]

Hail to the KING. I watched this happen on TV last year, Best shit i have ever seen and the only time I have cared about the Kentucky derby.

He screams out of nowhere with the fires of hell at his hooves, and the audience started BOOING THIS HORSE as he went to collect his roses. A thousand rich fucks mad as hell, hating the guts of this insane rando who has ruined their party. Huge Lokasenna energy (look this up lol).

[xanaxfarts]

Hidden messages found on various circuit boards

[jimmyhoffathecat]

How active is Mr. Jimmy the Pickles? He looks like he gets around a lot.

[kosmogrl]

[trans-masked]

Transmascs of the world I need you to not be sad and instead be really fucking angry. Do you remember when you were like 8 or something and first realized that the adults around you had way way higher expectations for you than they did for the little boys and you felt more angry than you’d ever felt before. I need you to channel that instead of letting the sadness eat you. And I need you to go eat a mango.

[pangur-and-grim]

trying to couch nap but they’re observing me