I am their fury.

Dionne. she/her. queer writer. probably procrastinating.

[moltentundramountain]

Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is getting exclusive rights to them.

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

[moltentundramountain]

According to this article on The Verge, it's been happening since at least 2021, but if I were to make a guess, Amazon has doubled down recently in response to the boycotts: if there are specific books people want, particularly ones only available digitally available, they now have the monopoly, and you are forced to scab, which often also means remaking your account and breaking your boycott altogether.

Now more than ever, support your local libraries, support authors directly when possible, and support your local used bookstores!

[meowmachine-56]

garf :3 💜💙

[samasaur]

the full strip

[jimmmachintosh]

That makes it WORSE

[quasi-normalcy]

Boy, I sure hope that that assassination doesn't give fascists a pretext to do all of the things that they're already aggressively in the process of doing.

[quasi-normalcy]

Like, yeah, you know what, I bet that there will be a really harsh crackdown in response to this, which will in turn provoke more violence. But let's not fucking pretend that the crackdown will involve anything that the regime wasn't already planning to do, and that they wouldn't have been able to do without the assassination. I'm fucking sick of the "only leftists have agency" view of history where the only possible stance in the face of fascism is lying in the fetal position, or else you're "provoking" what they're already going to do to you.

[helpingwoodenhand]

A whole lot of people in the US right now are doing the equivalent of saying "If only the jews had denounced International Bankers, Communists and Criminals harder".

It doesn't matter how many Democrats denounce violence right now. Their guilt is being decided outside of any realm of evidence or logic or reason. It's an article of faith for fascists.

[quasi-normalcy]

The fact that the fascists are already laying the blame on trans people when there's zero evidence that the assassin was trans should tell you everything you need to know about their commitment to truth or accuracy.

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah, this is just a signpost for the fact that America's descent into tyranny and civil war is about to enter a new accelerated phase. No victories here.

[rylandsgrace]

#Happy Labor Day to Shrek I guess

[crippled-peeper]

every single school teacher should get paid $300,000 a year minimum and ICE agents should all die simultaneously in agony. this is my congressional budget plan

[lislemons]

the pitt characters as posts that reminded me of them part 3

[animentality]

[somesortapunk]

Without due process, everyone is guilty the moment they are arrested. Because due process is how you prove your innocence.

Without due process for rapists, all it takes is the government saying you're a rapist and suddenly you can be guilty of whatever they want. It won't matter, because you don't get your day in court anymore. You don't get to argue for your defense, or know what evidence they have against you, or have a lawyer to help you understand the legalese and what options you have, or ANYTHING.

We don't even need to say that women lie about rape to any significant degree (because statistics show they so rarely do), because the government could just make up a woman and claim she made a report. You wouldn't know, because you don't get due process and therefore do not get to confront your accuser.

No due process for anyone means no due process for EVERYONE.

[thelawfulchaotic]

Hi. I defend Those People and I am not Following Orders. I chose this job with my eyes open and stuck with it past the point that I gained enough experience that I was trying serious violent felonies. Got my first murder case earlier this year.

I don’t choose my clients, but I Chose to not choose my clients. That’s the point. The point is it’s everyone who needs the help, no matter what they’ve done, no matter what they’re accused of doing.

If I chose my clients, that means deciding who is worthy and who is not, and I am simply not interested in making that choice. I refuse to place one life above another. That’s what cops and fascists and racists and oppressors do.

Don’t tell me I’m just following orders. Anyone who says that doesn’t understand the first thing about why I choose what I do. I will not stand for the carceral system as it is.

[ceasarslegion]

Ouran high school was my favourite anime when I was like 14 which is really funny because thats also the age I basically was in a Haruhi fujioka situation. Not like fully literally but the meat of it was the same

I was the one single middle-class kid in a super high-end rich kid private academy with like pressed uniforms and building wings and everything. I didnt get any sort of scholarship, my dad just got a job as a teacher there and teachers kids got to enroll for free because the tuition was like 30 grand a year and you arent affording that on a teacher salary. So I understand her on a very visceral level and perhaps enjoyed OHSHC so much because she was SOOO me fr. These damn rich people

[ceasarslegion]

One time I convinced my classmates that I had never had sushi before because we were too poor to afford it just so they would pay for my sushi dinner and it worked. They were so out of touch that they thought I didnt have the money for anything more expensive than fast food. I did in fact take advantage of this partially because every teenager is a shithead and I was not exempt from that rule and partially because I knew they had more money than god so it was a totally victimless crime. A classmate once bought 2 copies of The Last Guardian on release just because they thought I "deserved a new game." They thought I couldnt afford a new video game and I said nothing

[ceasarslegion]

This experience also made me utterly immune to the "rich people shit is when [middle class thing]" discourse on this site. Because ive directly experienced rich people shit and its NOT when someone goes to NYU or gets Starbucks on their breaks at the job they have to work to afford their mortgage.

Rich people shit is when I had to yell at my classmates that we are not spending tens of thousands of dollars ON BALLOONS for our prom when we had a DJ to pay and their response to me was "thats only 700 dollars per person."

Rich people shit is when I went to go tutor one of my classmates little brothers who was struggling with history and it took him 10 minutes to go get his tablet from his bedroom and come back to the kitchen table because their house was that big, which was being cleaned by a live-in maid while their private chef made us snacks the entire time I was tutoring him. And then their parents paid me 500 bucks and told me "sorry I seem to have misplaced my other wallet, is this enough? Its not a lot :(("

Rich people shit is when the other teachers kids and I breezed through school with high GPAs because all of our peers had so much money that they never had to care about getting into a good university or having careers or budgeting or anything, so they never tried.

Rich people shit is when youre invited to a little get together on the weekends and get told to bring an overnight bag because their definition of a little get together is an overnight yacht trip. And then you get there and find out that your middle class definition of what's needed for an overnight trip is VERY different from a rich persons definition of the same thing: you have some pajamas, clean underwear, toothpaste, and some soap and face wash, maybe some moisturizer. They bring half their wardrobes and designer personally-commissioned serums that cost more than your house and then tell you that youre "just so quaint."

So much discourse around whos rich and whos not comes from people who have never been in a rich persons reality and so they end up shooting directly above them and calling that rich. But I tell you from personal experience that rich people are uniquely disconnected from reality and anybody who has to work for a living is by definition NOT rich. I dont care if they have a big suburban house and 2 new cars and go on vacations a lot, thats not RICH. Rich is when their kids think 700 dollars is pocket change for prom balloons and have their own personal yacht to take their friends on whenever they want, not when someone goes to fucking NYU.

[heathens-and-kings]

I've never seen anyone talk about how it feels to not be someone's best friend. like, I don't even really care for the idea of hierarchies in relationships, but I know I'm not anyone's closest person. the people I'm closest to have best friends who aren't me. I don't think I'd be anyone's first choice to call or text with news...maybe a second, definitely a third.

idk. is this my fault? have I kept people at an arms length, or did I meet all my friends too late in life to become anyone's closest friend? it became really obvious during covid when everyone made pods and I didn't have anyone to make one with bc everyone was partnered and had friends they were closer to than me.

[onlinebeast]

What was your obscure chatroom/forum that you used before social media? Don’t say Gaia Online or Club Penguin. I’m talking obscure.

[heathens-and-kings]

I was on Habbo Hotel like every day and I feel like I hallucinated it because literally no one ever knows what I'm talking about

[i-am-a-fish]

you're cute and it's tuesday

[glassvase]

I'm cute and it's tuesday

[heathens-and-kings]

because I hate myself, I started Attack on Titan a few weeks ago after putting it down ten years ago because it gave me horrifying nightmares and anxiety lmaaaaao

I've somehow avoided spoilers and I'm now on the final season... if anything happens to Levi or Jean I'm singlehandedly bringing back nuclear war

[heathens-and-kings]

great news: nuclear war avoided

bad news: I've never burst into tears so many times watching a show. a masterpiece. and it was also absolute hell to go through. I'll never watch it again 🩵

[heathens-and-kings]

young Japanese people supporting that far right party after watching 90 episodes of Attack on Titan's anti-xenophobic, anti-nationalist propaganda is insane

[ydotome]

Aira Shiratori (白鳥 愛羅) - Dandadan - Episode 17

[ducktollers]

u know besides the million other reasons i hate generative ai i also refuse to use it bc i dont trust anything being pushed on me this hard. why does every company desperately want me to get on the bandwagon. whats in it for you. whats in it for me. if ur pushing this shitass product into my life so intrusively u must have nefarious intentions. i dont trust anything being shilled like this

[100493503004422]

I've gone fifteen years on this website without absorbing any information about homestuck and I'm not about to start now

[heathens-and-kings]

because I hate myself, I started Attack on Titan a few weeks ago after putting it down ten years ago because it gave me horrifying nightmares and anxiety lmaaaaao

I've somehow avoided spoilers and I'm now on the final season... if anything happens to Levi or Jean I'm singlehandedly bringing back nuclear war