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Introducing: Rae |lvl 21|♀|psych major| Princess of Erebor

[drraemccoy-archive]

I got xkit for my phone finally and this was the best decision of my life

[drraemccoy-archive]

drraemccoy has moved to naracalamme

so don’t be surprised when naracalamme follows you

go follow that blog if you wanna keep up with her

[drraemccoy-archive]

hey hey hey guys look at this i've moved

[morenavbby]

As a random thought...

So in the comics Hawkeye has 80% hearing loss.

The Black Widow is Russian.

Can you imagine when they’re on a mission and something goes wrong; the police are about to arrest them and they fall back on Plan H.

Black Widow, “So remember, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English”

[askclint]

Successful 92.6% of the time.

[goesboldly]

#the real reason they never have an extraction plan (x)

[thelittlestfitz-deactivated2016]

fenris my man,…….

[this-machine-k1lls-fascists-dea]

Really happy to see this at my local library

[oracleanne]

OOOOH. *happy YA librarian dance*

[thessalian]

I want this in every library, everywhere. After all, some kids won’t even google this stuff because they don’t want parents/siblings checking their browser history.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

ALSO.  HEADS UP TO ANYONE WHO IS CAUTIOUS.  One of the biggest, most hardcore rules circulation people have/know is that freaking no one has access to your checkout record.  When it’s checked out on your record, YOU are the only one who has access to that info outside of circ staff.  In most libraries (barring teensy sizes), even reference staff can’t access your record unless you give them login information.  Additionally, once you check something back in (return it), most (if not all) library circulation software completely removes title/author data from your record.  It just lists a statistic that ~something~ has been checked out, and not what.

There can be SLIGHTLY different rules regarding people with “children’s” accounts (ask your local circ desk!), but generally if you’re over the age of 13, those rules don’t apply.

THAT SAID.  Please double check this info!  One of the reasons I lost my damn mind at the Chicago Public Library earlier last year, when they redid their webpage and implemented/integrated with BiblioCommons as a third-party software management company.  Initially, there was no opt-out policy included and they didn’t include access to their legacy website/catalog system and this was a really bad thing because as per their privacy statement (which was only posted after I made several angry calls and sent a few letters, and I’m not saying I made the difference, but righteous rage and cited policy of other websites (NYPL) tend to stick in the mind), BiblioCommons - as a third party institution - could and would collect personal information if you registered with their service to ‘make your library experience easier’.  SOMETIMES EASIER DOESN’T MEAN BETTER.  Especially if the only ‘easier’ is that you don’t have to remember your damn library card number and a pin/password you make up.

Because the #1 thing that made me go :| about BiblioCommons becoming A Thing is that, as a third-party service provider, they explicitly state IN THEIR PRIVACY STATEMENT that they will collect data on who you are, what you check out, when you do it, and the volume of genre you circulate.

So!  DOUBLE CHECK with your public library a couple things.

1. If you are under the age of 18, what is the circ policy on accessing your record.  (Ask the circ person.)  If you’re all “If someone calls to renew how do you verify it’s me?” and the person is all “We just need your name!” CAUTION.  But if they’re all “Library card # or nothing.” be cheerful.  Other questions to ask is “Do you match face to name if someone comes to renew in person?” and their answer is “Oh, nah!  You can send that with Person X!” CAUTION.  Most places I’ve been to demand face to name, and that’s actually important!

2. If you use online resources/content, is there a third-party company that you have to ‘register’ with to use the online databases/catalog. (Ask the circ or reference person.)  Generally, if all you need to login to the catalog is your library card # and a password, you’re fine.  If you have a “register with a username!” DANGER SIGNS.

Anyway, for the most part, libraries are pretty big on privacy and access of personal information, but these are a couple things to look for if you’re wanting to keep your reading/education/mental health research private.

[mxlabradorite]

^^^^

INFO.

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

Another note from your Friendly Neighborhood Librarian: if you DO need to check out with a human being, go to someone who is busy. Usually we’re so busy we have absolutely NO idea what people are checking out because we’re in THE CHECKOUT ZONE. While it is not really nice to staff, if you feel like you need to hold onto a book and keep coming back to read it, and you don’t want to be seen pulling it on and off the shelf, go into a section of non-fiction books that look pretty old, or have been recovered, and are on some topic that doesn’t appear at all interesting, and maybe the lighting is a little dodgy. Slide the book BEHIND the old and crusty books (make sure it doesn’t fall down the shelf) and REMEMBER where you left it. make a map. Or be that one weird kid who goes up to the front desk and asks where the Kansas Genealogy books are. I, your friendly neighborhood librarian, want you to be safe and informed. As a YA librarian, I want you to have ACCESS. As the assistant director, I really don’t care if a book goes a “little missing,” as long as it reappears soon for other people who may also need help.

[yikity-yak]

[atlas-shrugged-it-off-deactivat]

This is real.

[old-japanese-men]

[nirbara]

- nayyirah waheed (nayyirahwaheed)

[thesmithian-blog]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a woman in a burka, and…she’s fighting the…Taliban, one book and pen at a time. Introducing Burka Avenger, Pakistan’s first animated superheroine, who, like her American counterparts, leads two lives. By day she’s a “mild-mannered school teacher,” but her secret avatar is the “lady in black” who is always there to save Pakistani girls from the members of the aggressively conservative, anti-literacy Taliban.

more.

[lizwuzthere]

YOU GUYS there is an entire episode on BurkaAvenger.com go watch it’s adorable and this lady is a badass

[officialmoviegoer]

Agony! Far more painful than yours. (x)

[notlostonanadventure]

I’ve never seen Chris Pine act more like William Shatner 

[fragileblackx-deactivated202002]

d’aawww

her smile though!

[groudonknowles-blog]

That is so nice omg

[froml-withlove]

Adorable.

[crissle]

she really is gorgeous

[outofcontextdnd]

GM: [to barbarian]  "Roll to make your mother proud."

[deep-space-diver]

You know what doesn’t fuck around?

Australian children’s books on animals

[camwyn]

The children’s TV series Peppa Pig ran an episode in 2012 that incited an Australian viewer complaint; the viewer said that the episode’s content was inappropriate for an Australian audience because it said that spiders were not to be feared.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation thought about it a bit, agreed, and ordered it removed from online access as well as banning it from ever being shown in Australia again.

[brotherlycompany]

Muslim Man Gives Needy Bus Rider The Shoes Off His Feet And Walks Home Barefoot - Because there is good in the world. Surjit Singh Virk has been driving buses for sixteen years and has seen it all. But what he witnessed on Saturday on the No. 341 route touched his soul in a way that he’s never experienced before. A man sat alone on the bus with two plastic hairnets covering his feet instead of shoes. Another passenger, upon noticing his footwear, promptly took off his shoes and socks and gave them to the stranger, hopping off the bus barefoot, reports the Toronto Sun. “It made my heart melt,” Virk explained to QMI Agency. “He just took his shoes and socks off and said, ‘You can take these, don’t worry about me — I live close by and can walk.’” When reached by phone, the kind-hearted man asked QMI Agency not to identify him, because his Muslim faith teaches that charitable acts should be anonymous. He is a 27-year-old resident of Surrey, British Columbia in Canada and was coming from the nearby B.C. Muslim Association mosque. Source: Huffington Post

[musaafer]

I have to constantly remind myself that people are at different stages in their political/social identity building. I often catch myself being overly critical of peers for not having entirely on point politics when, in reality, their heart is in the right place and they’ve just not had the space/experience/exposure/time/resources to refine/develop their views.

I remind myself of what it took for me to become aware in the way I am now, of the journey it took. For so many of us, it took excessive hardship to become aware - whether it be financial hardship, exposure to racism, sexual violence, abuse, illness, etc… for a majority of us, it took something that heavy to catapult us into out concerns with social justice. And this is valid. What I’m saying is that not everyone goes through that, not everyone experiences life on the same trajectory or even faces the hardships that brought us literacy in this the hard way. So they have to learn through other ways, and those take time. Our ways do, too, for that matter. I’ve said incredibly problematic things just one or two years ago and I continue to mess up. It is the patience of fellow activists, organizers, concerned social justice advocates, friends and loved ones that keeps me growing and learning. And yes, of course, it’s also the justified, righteous rage that teaches. 

I remind myself, if I were to draw out the trajectory of my identity formation and of how I got to all the labels I take on today, it’d be a long, convoluted mess. For others, it’s very straight forward - “born to Afghan parents in America -> Afghan-American,” for example. It’s important for me to remember that others haven’t had the place/need to develop in this way and that that isn’t a bad thing; after all, I wouldn’t wish on anyone to go through what some of us did in order to be where some of us are. 

I’m not saying that we owe those around us education; it’s a micro-aggression to demand that. I’m telling myself that on the long run, it’ll take a less heavy toll on the heart if I learn to not write people off immediately, to see in them what those who taught me saw in me. I can’t keep writing people off and wonder why no one’s down with the cause. People come from different places and learn in different ways and while it may not be on me to teach everyone everything, it is on me to be patient with at least some, as they take time to learn, grow and understand. 

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Black Excellence

[thetrillestqueen]

She’s so beautiful. I’d buy all her lemonade.

[agirlcalledchris-deactivated201]

Her name is Mikaila Ulmer, and she’s only 9! 20% of their profits goes to organizations to save the honeybees! Go girl! 

[coolbeebsie]

SUPPORT THIS BEAUTY AND HELP SAVE THE HONEYBEES

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Science enthusiasm in kids and teenagers, more two stories of year 2012 | Picture edited via Sci-Tech

10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class

Clara Lazen is the discoverer of tetranitratoxycarbon, a molecule constructed of, obviously, oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon. It’s got some interesting possible properties, ranging from use as an explosive to energy storage. Lazen is listed as the co-author of a recent paper on the molecule. But that’s not what’s so interesting and inspiring about this story. What’s so unusual here is that Clara Lazen is a ten-year-old fifth-grader in Kansas City, MO.

Kenneth Boehr, Clara’s science teacher, handed out the usual ball-and-stick models used to visualize simple molecules to his fifth-grade class. But Clara put the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen atoms together in a particular complex way and asked Boehr if she’d made a real molecule. Boehr, to his surprise, wasn’t sure. So he photographed the model and sent it over to a chemist friend at Humboldt State University who identified it as a wholly new but also wholly viable chemical.

16-Year-Old Egyptian Scientist Finds Way to Turn Plastic Waste Into $78 Million of Biofuel

Sixteen-year-old Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad has found that an inexpensive catalyst could be used to create $78 million worth of biofuel each year. Egypt’s plastic consumption is estimated to total one million tons per year, so Azza’s proposal could transform the country’s economy, allowing it to make money from recycled plastic.

What Azza proposes is to break down the plastic polymers found in drinks bottles and general waste and turn them into biofuel feedstock. (This is the bulk raw material that generally used for producing biofuel.) It should be noted that this is not a particularly new idea, but what makes Azza stand out from the crowd is the catalyst that she is proposing. She says that she has found a high-yield catalyst called aluminosilicate, that will break down plastic waste and also produce gaseous products like methane, propane and ethane, which can then be converted into ethanol. Speaking about the breakthrough, Azza said that the technology could “provide an economically efficient method for production of hydrocarbon fuel” including 40,000 tons per year of cracked naptha and 138,000 tons of hydrocarbon gasses – the equivalent of $78 million in biofuel.