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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
trying on a metaphor
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
titsay
@theartofmadeline
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Show & Tell
Three Goblin Art
JBB: An Artblog!
cherry valley forever
hello vonnie
Stranger Things
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Cosimo Galluzzi
we're not kids anymore.
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RMH
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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@knightsmybeloved
“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
I love you I take you everywhere with me
Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
in every book in the house / notes from you fall out / all the love that came my way / i found a way to push away / i don’t wanna be afraid anymore / i don’t wanna run from love like i had before
but then comes the work / the resentments / and the hurt / picking at your haircut / and that stupid bad t-shirt
Bitter Water Opera by Nicolette Polek
“what’s your dream job” im so glad you asked. picture this. i am the lone employee of a strange and mysterious tchotchke/bookshop in the middle of nowhere, full of fun and interesting things that i am allowed to take for the low low price of free of charge. i get one, exceedingly interesting, customer per hour. i work no more than twenty hours a week and am salaried 3 million dollars
the thing about nonfiction is you come out of it with several more books to put on your to be read list and it's only gonna branch out from there so really the only solution is to read every book in human history starting at the beginning
Dos Cervezas - Pepe Baena Nieto , 2025.
Spanish , b. 1979 -
Oil on canvas , 41 x 33 cm.
Office, 2007
it's really gross how you can be self aware enough to know what's going on in your head but you can't actually stop it from happening. i need to grab it like a pigeon that got stuck in a house and throw it out the window. be free
i feel like a lot of fandoms pride themselves on being gayer than the source material but have they considered being less racist and less misogynistic than the source material as well . could be revolutionary
(no beers in) do you guys think i'm redeemable
doctor prescribed 60 years of birdsong through a morning window
I miss when library books used to have little paper pockets inside with a list of all the people who borrowed it and when... I hate that this is now exclusive knowledge of librarians. I do care that a miss Mariana borrowed this book in 1985 and then Dario in 1997. They're my brothers and sisters
but really, there's a million reasons why it's an issue for users and staff of the public library to have immediate access to a record of who has borrowed a specific item and when.
and that's not even about keeping the information "privileged" to the library staff, these days they don't even keep a digital record of an item's history of borrowers; once you return a book, there isn't a list of everyone thats ever taken that book out that your name gets added to (though they probably take a tally of how many times it is checked out for circulation statistics).
i think the card system is a remnant of a culture that could only exist in the world before the internet as it exists today, where this identifying kind of information wasn't always readily at your fingertips, even for those at the "information professional" level.
don't get me wrong here, i do understand the nostalgia factor to it as being part of a different time, but i think it's always important to understand why this kind of system has its flaws and has been (at least in north america) taken out of practice
bear in mind that US public libraries spent most of the past twenty years fighting off lawsuits that they were prohibited from disclosing to the public because when 9/11 happened the federal government wanted a list of every person who read certain books and the librarians had a really bad feeling about where that kind of policy would end up going, for some reason.
not keeping the records in the first place is a way for the libraries to protect themselves when they stand up for your privacy.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_FBI_has_not_been_here.jpg
This was a thing in multiple libraries. We really want to protect your freedom to access information.
Certified Library Post
"i asked chatgpt" okay i asked the magical sentient forest that i sacrificed my eyes and hands to... we r not the same
Yeah, we got to third base last night (I kissed his palm and declared no holy authority stood above him).
honestly yall just gotta be comfortable reading books that make you feel stupid
read books that you don't understand. read books where you have to pay attention. read books that make you reread a page eight times to figure it out. read books that you need to take notes on. read books with words you have to google. read books that don't make sense without research on the setting. read books that make you feel stupid because otherwise you'll just be stupid.
