Everything but sorry

[maja-paja]

[iamaplan]

John, did we just witness you looking for a grape in a can of chickpeas?

[an-atlas-or-other]

Soccer players are the horses of sports. They run around in fields for hours on end. They stub their toe and they die. They fall and they die. They run into each other and

[niuniente]

Looks Don't Really Matter Much At The Job (仕事に見た目はあんまり関係ないよねって話 ) by Takaki Tsuyoshi

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[glorious-spoon]

anyway the thing about fanfic is that it's not essentially bad or good; it's essentially amateur. some people are absolutely out there writing award-worthy prose (some fic writers ARE award-winning writers IRL!), but that's not the point. the point is that we're all telling campfire stories. it's a community, and it's a way to spend some more time in the worlds and stories that we love.

[romchat]

Source

[knifefightscene]

[jinnybinghamsghost]

i don't know how to say this without being all 'kids these days' BUT kids do seem more sheltered nowadays regarding reading. all the kids' chapter books are called something like 'sir poops-a-lot and the massive fart' and people are absolutely vehement that a teenager can't read wicked because of its (nonexistent) smut and on threads right now people are seriously having a debate about whether 12 year olds can read ya books. when i was in year seven reading flowers in the attic was a rite of passage and now people are afraid of preteens knowing about the existence of sex.

[sugaredwhimsey]

This is why- no joke, everybody- joining a school board or a Site Council at your child's school is such a big deal. While some children access books at libraries- yay libraries!- a great many children will only receive access to literature at their public school. We need to make sure our school libraries are: A. Not Banning Books. B. Stocked with books like Speak, or House on Mango Street, Catcher in the Rye, YA or Tango Makes Three or anything else that makes some people 'uncomfortable'. C. Not placing restrictions on which kids can take out what, outside of appropriate age or reading level limits. D. That you hold the administration's feet to the fire NOT to cave to loud parents who scream that their kid read about a dick, or another kid being sad. You don't even have to have a kid in a school, so long as you live in that district. Serving on a Site Council is a great way to start; Site Council helps decide the ways schools spend some monies, but it also talks about dress code and other cultural matters. I cannot stress enough how much we need people who are NOT conservative lunatics in these spaces, people who resist. If you believe in access of materials for children, make sure the cornerstone of your community does that.

[sleepy-bebby]

[themoonandmyman]

to whom am I squeaking

[livijoyann]

A timeline of Ilya and Shane's relationship as it goes public, so post-The Long Game. Enjoy!

[hotvampireadjacent]

Um. Thanks h

[t-800]

feh

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Three yaks dance in Lhasa city (cr 情满拉萨，吉吉)(If you do not reside long-term in a high-altitude environment, please avoid intense physical activity at high altitudes, as it may trigger altitude sickness.)

[nyxkaikaos]

[Three musicians in astonishingly good chubby yak fursuits dance to the tune of Michael Jackson's "Beat it"]

[gunpowdercarousel]

Me: They're probably dancing to some traditional folk music or something.

Me: *unmutes it*

Me: AH.

[clonerightsagenda]

My mom is jobhunting because their ACA premiums went up so much, and she interviewed for a public library job where she asked them to describe the kinds of reference questions they got. The interviewers paused for a bit and one of them said, "Well I'm thinking of a really weird one but I'm not sure we should say it..." and my mom said "was it the spanking man?" and they said "YES it was the spanking man". Good to know 8 years later his legend lives on

[clonerightsagenda]

isaacsapphire Wait what

I could have sworn I'd told the spanking man story on here but I can't find it when I search, so here it is again:

Back when I was a graduate assistant in library school, I did a reference desk shift at our main university library. We got a surprising amount of community users, including phone reference. (I had one guy who said he called us because his kid went there and thus he paid my salary.) So one day I get a call with a Wisconsin caller ID. I pick it up and a man asks "What information do you have on adult spanking?"

"What about spanking?" I ask, businesslike, since that's how we're trained and honestly at this point the question isn't that weird. "Debates over the ethics? Statistics about frequency? Something else?"

"Frequency," he says.

After I determine that he's not a student and thus does not have access to our databases, I do a quick Academic Search Complete search and start sharing some stats with him. He seems dissatisfied. I mention we have one audiovisual result and he perks up at that, but he can't access it as a non-student.

I probably should have caught on at this point, but I'm in reference librarian mode. I'm on a mission. I am going to find this man his spanking information. Since he's not a student, I suggest we switch to Worldcat to find materials he might be able to access. I try to refine the reference interview to figure out exactly what he wants, but he keeps repeating the phrase "good old fashioned across the knees adult spanking."

A light bulb belatedly sparks to life in my brain. "Sir," I ask on the phone, very carefully. After all, librarians are not here to sit in judgment. We just need to know what we're looking for. "Are you talking about disciplinary or... recreational?"

"Disciplinary," he insists. I have my doubts.

We spend a bit more time on Worldcat before I tell him that I have students waiting but recommend he search Worldcat on his own and check for libraries near him. This is before Worldcat sucked. At our next GA meeting I mention this weird call I got, and every GA starts yelling that they also got the spanking man. Except, I will note, the one guy on staff. It later comes out that his end goal is to get women to read Amazon summaries of books about spanking to him and he managed to convince one of our older employees to do that for quite some time. Sigh.

Anyway a year later I was at a state library conference and mentioned the spanking man and several librarians from across the state went THAT GUY and one of them mentioned seeing him discussed on an ALA facebook page so. It's not uncommon for callers to get banned from one library and move on to the next. He may still be out there. At the very least his legend is.

[baetology]

Sometimes it blows my mind that there are people that don’t wear glasses/contacts. Like they can literally see with no aid. Like they wake up and just be out here seeing. What a wild concept.

[bumblebeebats]

And people say stuff like ‘lol don’t you hate it when you look up in the middle of the night and see a spider on your ceiling’ like bitch (!!) i could have Nicholas II last czar of Russia hangin from my ceiling fan and i would be none the wiser

[maddiebiscuits]

huuuughhhhh yahoo selling scraped data from tumblr to AI sloo probably uughhhwaaauuwghhhhhh

[maddiebiscuits]

Tumblr user? Here's what to know about Tumblr selling your data to OpenAI and MidJourney

Parent company Automattic will reportedly sell Tumblr content to OpenAI and MidJourney for training data. Here's how you can opt out.

bwwaaaughhhhhhgggh enshittification continues

[the-barn-rat]

this is what you're looking for to opt out!!!

[cappuccinoandglitter]

It's under Visibility, noy Privacy like I assumed at first.