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hilary 34 she/her i’m an academic

i like old novels old paintings old cities and old men, and also art films and an encyclopedic catalog of music.

i stand with ukraine and with palestine and with all resistance to colonization

Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the l

#this seems like one of those so obvious of course no one’s done it before things #wonderful though

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I wanted to post about this because I know many of my mutuals are avid crafters and I don't know how much attention this endeavour is getting outside of end-of-life spaces-

The Loose Ends Project matches crafters with a project that is unfinished because of death or disability. They offer help with a spectrum of textile mediums in over 80 countries. One project I find particularly lovely: “My mom was making this octopus for me. She was 67 years old when she passed away from COPD. She was hospitalized for pulmonary rehab several times and would always take it to work on while she was there and loved to talk about it with people."

(the red heart marks the last stitch made by this person's mom) Anyway, if something like this is something you'd like to be involved in, they are always looking for more crafters <3

the-fibre-stuff

My favourite recent finishing project that they posted about wasn't precisely something that the crafter left unfinished. The knitter in question had had dementia, and thought she was knitting scarves. So a finisher was found to piece all the little bits of knitting together into a blanket.

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catgirlforeskin

Have any of those mechsploitation traumadoll authresses done anything clever with the fact that tramadol is an opioid that's among the pharmaceutical drugs most abused by special forces. Do the girls who write that fiction have intimate knowledge of the real world war criminals they're imitating? <climbing into your lap> would those girls like to hear my reading list

transcendingirl

Tell me more, beautiful. :3

catgirlforeskin

catgirlforeskin's "let's hate US special forces with mama" reading list

-Kill Everything That Moves by Nick Turse

-Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill

-Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill

-The Assassination Complex by Jeremy Scahill et al

-The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp

-Alpha by David Philipps

-On Killing by Dave Grossman

Supplemental

-The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

-Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko

-What Have We Done by David Wood

-Targeted: Beirut by Jack Carr

Non-Books

-podcast Blowback History

-youtube channel GDF

The last two books in each list have good information but take pro-US stances at times so, read at your peril. These are all the most relevant of what I've read, I can give 20th/21st century memoirs and histories but they're beyond this immediate scope

somewhereoutinthedarkness

I would also recommend "American Sniper". The text itself is both bad writing and pro-special forces (as it was written by a guy that made 'SEAL with the most sniper kills' his entire personality and career) but reading it with an ounce of critical thinking was a deeply interesting experience that made me hate the US special forces a lot more.

Chilling anecdote example:

During the last stage of SEAL training, the trainees are split up into squads and do a competition! The winning squad gets to go to Afghanistan a month early to kill civilians sooner. The author is in a losing squad, and is devastated. He thinks this a morally neutral and normal response to have.

The entire book is basically like that.

catgirlforeskin

It's worth reading paired with Alpha, recommended above, which follows the life of SEAL platoon lead Eddie Gallagher, who takes a lot of inspiration from Chris Kyle (bad thing to do!!!!) and has some broader history of the SEALs and jumps between various perspectives, as opposed to purely memoir like American Sniper.

Likewise, this video by GDF goes over ways that American Sniper, the book and movie adaptation, serially lie to the audience. I'm generally apprehensive to give YouTube as a source but GDF gives minimal commentary and primarily quotes directly from primary and secondary sources, all of which are cited, giving highly informative videos that serve as good jumping off points for further research into a subject, a bit similar to the references section on a Wikipedia page

devilhoused

you can’t give lana del rey more than 50 all time classics

baerensohn

marilyn monroe at the hollywood bowl in 1953, photographed by bruno bernard

#marilyn monroe

hydrachea

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

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derovalfnolem

#genai in 8 months god willing

You quite literally cannot get anything done in this fucking world anymore we have bloated our technology with so much garbage that nobody asked for and nobody likes that at this point it doesn’t work and no one can fix it and I’m going to fucking kill myself bro. Why are things that were simple so fucking unnecessarily complicated.

parkchanwoohoo

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue