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papayajuan2019

must feel so good to be soil absorbing rain

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

gudamor

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

disgruntledexplainer

Whatever science breaks, science can fix. so long as people don't twiddle their thumbs and actually work to fix things.

renthony

American libraries continue to be targeted by Trump and his cronies. Via the American Library Association:

The White House has once again used its budget request to attempt to eliminate funding for critical library programs. We have the opportunity right now to urge Congress to reject that request by including robust funding for library services in next year’s budget (FY27). Senators only have until April 17 to add their signatures to letters asking Senate budget leaders to support funding priorities (like library services), so we need them to act now. Make a call today to urge both your Senators to sign onto the letters in support of the Library Services and Technology Act, operated by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program, administered within the Department of Education! As always, please consider taking a few seconds to personalize the call script.

Find & Call Your Senators (+ sample script)

Other Ways to Help

josilverdragon

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

fuckyeahxfactor-blog

New 'Bootcamp' boyband.

According to sources a new boyband has been formed at Bootcamp with 5 solo contestants thought to be more promising as a group.

The boyband made up of auditionees: Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik

(Liam being one of this years re-auditonee’s) The boyband are yet unamed.

Previous groups formed at Bootcamp have usually been doomed from the start and although usually making it through to the live shows don’t go much further. Futureproof, Hope and Miss Frank to name the most well known,

jasper-rolls

did anything happen with this

fandom-trash-goblin

we've got a life to love living.

teaboot

advice that has literally saved and improved my life

serlyonel

𝔏𝔶𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔩 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔬𝔫 𝔵 𝔗𝔢𝔵𝔱 𝔭𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔰

crokitheloki

everyone say thank you ao3 volunteers you're the best ao3 volunteers ily ao3 volunteers

raisedbylibrarians

hopelessvalentines

i am asking you to endure it

castielsharp

noah-wyles

oh my girl is poorly

isuggestusingyourlocallibrary

It's becoming clearer that sometimes when I say "use your local library" it's taken as "use a public library" and while that is definitely something you should be doing if you can, I'm usually talking about any library that's accessible to you!! Lending libraries, online libraries, school libraries, all of these are important to use as well!! If you have access to them, use them!! "Your local library" means any library that is local to you!

academic-vampire

It’s always a great day to check out a large stack of books from the library

birdlord5000

next year james patterson is slapping his name on a book called "the secret lives of booksellers and librarians," which is real bold considering that every bookseller and librarian that i've met in my time as a bookseller and librarian absolutely loathes him. including me.

birdlord5000

"rowan if you hate james patterson how come you know about a book of his that's coming out seven months from now?"

I Must Keep The Scope Of My Sniper Rifle Trained On The Beast At All Times

foxofninetales

Okay, I feel the need to explain just why James Patterson is so hated by librarians.

See, it's not just that he writes mediocre, churned-out thrillers; there are many, many authors of mediocre, churned-out thrillers out there, he ain't special.

It's also not that he "writes" them with "coauthors" and slaps his name on them - again, this is not unique.

It's not even - though this is starting to get there- that he chases every publishing trend and creates His Version of everything from Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Nicholas Sparks, which nobody likes as well as they like his thrillers but still buy because they have His Name on them like a summoning charm.

No, what makes James Patterson uniquely loathed is the combination of the frequency of publication and his popularity. Because, to be honest, I'm not sure that anyone even likes his books anymore, but it doesn't matter, because if they have the James Patterson name on them then readers will be queuing up like zombies desperate for a fix of decaying cerebral matter. Which would be tolerable if he had the decency to only write one book a year like most other bestselling authors, but "James Patterson" (quotes VERY intentional) puts out roughly two books per month. So as a librarian, not only do you have to buy every new book James Patterson puts out, you have to buy multiple copies in order to fulfill demand. Somewhere around 5% of my fiction budget is spent ENTIRELY ON JAMES PATTERSON. Every new James Patterson that comes out means a dozen or more queer romances, inventive sci-fi novellas, unique cultural viewpoints, etc, etc that you can't buy because YOU HAVE TO BUY JAMES PATTERSON INSTEAD. (See also, you just weeded and shifted the Ps in fiction to make room and now it's full again oh god why.)

And the clincher - the absolute clincher - is the knowledge that the publishers will be "finding" "unfinished manuscripts" by "James Patterson" for a minimum of fifty years after his death, so even if some right-minded bibliophile with a claymore takes one for the team, we will never, ever be free.

And that is why we hate James Patterson.