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[zivyx-deactivated20200628]

Witch Tip

the-eye.eu is a huge public database that has countless free PDFs of all sorts of occultist books and grimoires. Go forth and read.

[mahigxn-deactivated20200629]

It’s a really good source for lots of older occult texts, in multiple languages too.

[metamorphesque]

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

[petralemaitre]

I have switched to using DuckDuckGo for my search engine, but I can’t talk about because makes a really crappy verb. “I ducked the information” is what the company wants us to say, but it doesn’t work for my language sense.  It would be taking over a preexisting term and I don’t want to teach my autotypo that I meant to say “duck” any more often than I can possibly help. Besides, it’s not the full name of the company. “I duckduckwent the information” is too damn long. “I duckduckgo'ed the information.” No, I bloody didn’t, because English doesn’t do that, and it’s too long. “I duckwent the information” is my favorite postulate.

Sticking to a three letter acronym is goofy because it’s still three syllables. You can’t pronounce DDG productively in English.

“Doozh” (rhymes with zhoozh) already exists in my dialect as an onomatopoeia for punching someone. Anything is better than duckduckwent or, god help us, duckduckgo'ed.

Other theories?

[curlicuecal]

“I quacked it down”

[frankenmouse]

Most companies HATE when their brand names become interchangeable with a category of product or action (e.g., kleenex, bandaid, photoshop, google) because it weakens their trademark and might actually cause them to lose it. It’s called a proprietary eponym. Laundromat, cellophane, aspirin, and escalator were all trademarks that lost their trademark status. (Here’s an interesting story about it).

In other words: Go ahead and say that you googled something. If only because google probably really doesn’t want you to.

[ambassadorquark]

[redpandarascal]

Her husband (husband? boytoy? Idk) is literally an environmental activist of course she would

[spookygirlfriend]

excuse me, did you just call Kermit the frog an environmental activist and boy toy?

[red-mercer]

He's manifestly both

[dragona56]

i felt like tumblr needed to see this

[milfcitymayor]

[everydaylouie]

happy halloween! here is a ghost duet

[everydaylouie]

ghost choir 👻 🎵

(soundcloud!)

[dragonsaccumulated]

What do we say to the god of death?

[persephoneboleyn]

Persephone: knock knock

Hades: who’s there?

Persephone: it’s September hope you’re ready to bang like a screen door in a hurricane

[lauras-happy-place]

I love nothing more at this point in life than these videos coming out from Nick.

[writeroffates]

I did not think that Blue's Clues would be the highlight of my adulthood.

[rojo-todd]

[singular] y’all

[plural] all y’all

[mixedapocalyptic]

3. [alternate plural] all'a y'all

[simplessence]

4. [possessive pronoun] y’all’s 5. [future tense] y’all’ll

[the2headedcalf-archive]

i love letterboxd because there are so many lists that cater to very specific, yet somehow universal moods. here are my favorites:

120 lesbian films to watch before saying all lesbian cinema is the same

the absolute beauty in everyday’s mundanity

add spice to your romance

autumnal harvest - movies that give you that warm feeling of fall and its surroundings

befriending the lyrical loneliness…

candy cinema

chaos, loneliness, madness, and desapair in the apathetic world of capitalism

crises of childhood

distinctive films that fill the void when you’re lonely or completely destroy you when you’re happy

film recs: female character studies

films that are kind

girlhood

horror as a vehicle

melancholy as a breathtaking aesthetic emotion

movies where female friendships are the scariest concept on earth

“nothing happens” yeah but the vibes

quiet little female character studies

quietly brilliant

snuggly wuggly flicks for anxiety driven chicks

soft horror

two lost souls find comfort

what we talk about when we talk about love

[kesstielarchive]

SCREAMING

[kesstielarchive]

Every year I am reminded by a massive spike in my notes that this happened on my dash~

[catgifcentral]

Failed Prank

[bunjywunjy]

I like how that cat obviously avoided the tape on sheer autopilot and it’s wondering what the fuck just happened

[petermorwood]

That was a “Wait, what?” if ever I saw one.

[prolifeproliberty]

[socialistsephardi]

[thetearsofunfathomablesadness]

mutuals do this

[a-method-in-it]

I am dead serious: If you are a Walmart employee, at any level and in any store — like if you are a high school kid with a part time job stocking shelves — message me any question you have about unions. Like ask me “What’s a union” if you want. I will explain it to you. I am a grievance chair for a white collar union whose workplace only unionized within the last five years and whose management fought as every step of the way, but in the end we fucking won. It can be done, and I can tell you how.

[yorkshirereaper]

Rb to kill wal mart

[notanothercashiercomplaints]

Unionizing is our wet dream I promise you.

[vbartilucci]

I like how it’s described as a union could “cripple American Capitalism” when more precisely it’s just that a union would be so powerful as to force WalMart (or any other company) to pay their workers like human beings. That’s not going to break Walmart. They’ll barely notice.

They’ve successfully convinced us that the unions are the greedy monsters. For so many years, the companies have painted unions as “we want you to pay janitors three million dollars a year and if you don’t we’ll set your stores on fire”. 

But it’s more like “We want you to take an almost imperceptible fraction of your bountiful profits and use it to make your employees’ live marginally better, and maybe give them medical benefits, y’know, so they don’t die”.

Big companies did not stop hiring ten year olds to work in coal mines because they just woke up one day and said “my god, we’re monsters”. They did it because their workers stood together and said “really, enough of this crap”.

Companies are not going to give people raises unless it’s economically necessary that they do so. Anything they can do to lower their expenses, and raise their profits, they are going to do. And no one person can stop them.

But thousands of people, millions of people? Better chances.

[moonybyte]

To anyone that wants to claim it wouldn’t work:

Just another reminder that Walmart Germany was a spectacular fail because of ver.di (which is a national service trade union that has it’s control over almost all trade and service companies in Germany) among other things.

Like, ver.di essentially came up to the CEO of Walmart Germany and was like “Hi, welcome, we wish you the best and that we can work together well :)” and the dude was like “hahaha no” and tried to pull the american concept here so ver.di pulled out a list of all the breaches of german law that Walmart was doing (underpaying workers, trying to avoid paying health care by using part-timers, trying to be open for more than 80 hours per week, firing people on short notice without warning or exit payments, etc) and long story short, they got some massive hefty fines for it. They also set up a list of demands for the workers and organized national strikes to push them through, making the employees of 85 hypermarkets neatly stand in front of the store doors with signs, whistles and chants (and certainly not the “Wallmart! Wallmart!” chant). In the end, that plus other things caused them to bail after 9 years with a gigantic loss (almost a billion just from sales) from one of the best retail markets in the world.

So all those issues like “no healthcare” or “work full-time and need food stamps” or “work on sundays and holidays” and shit? Unions are there to set their foot down against that for you. They are there to keep you safe from the corps wrath while fighting for your rights.

Cause if you, an individual, complain, they just fire you and laugh about it. A union is a collection of hundreds up to MILLIONS of people, supported by lawyers, going against employers for you.

[zvaigzdelasas]

In Denmark, due to union negotiations & refusal to work for slave wages, the McDonald’s basic pay comes out to about $20 US / Hour. The big mac there costs about 60 cents more.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

the best way to support libraries is to use libraries. go get a card, check something out. not a big reader? they got movies. they got games. yes, like botw and fallout and let’s go eevee. they also have cds that yes, we workers know you take home and rip to your computer. we also do it. 

if you have a well funded library you might even have access to maker spaces that have 3D printers. or video/audio recording equipment. libraries aren’t these tomb silent homes for books any more. they’re community spaces. they’re full of life and things. 

put a middle finger up at jeffrey bezos and support your local library

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

did i mention we have printing services that are significantly cheaper than anywhere else? printers are evil, let us handle them for you.

[queenqueso]

Library worker here and can confirm all of these! I’m at a small-to-medium library and we offer ALL of this:

- wifi hotspots that can be checked out for weeks so you can have internet on the go or at home

- CDs, DVDs, blurays including usually multiple copies of new stuff

- A tech lab with a 3d printer, computers for graphic design and game dev focus, VR headsets, and a soundbooth for recording

- Study rooms for solo or groups

- Printers, copiers, faxes, and scanners for just about anything you need taken care of.

- Including a new printer big enough to make giant posters, maps, and business-grade ads.

- A seed library, both floral and food-related.

- A computer lab programed to erase your data and reading history so you’re never at risk while visiting sites like domestic abuse hotlines

- Laptops pre-programmed with Adobe and Office software so you don’t have to buy them

- Monthly author visits

- Ebooks including comics on tons of various platforms

- Classes for those who want to learn how to or better their computer skills

- Art you can check out to hang on your wall for as long as it’s available, including the work of local artists who get paid for their art, especially if it gets popular and we want even more of their stuff.

- Monthly papers ranging from local newspapers to multi-national magazines on just about any topic you can imagine.

- We used to offer food and drink at a loss but You Know ©

- Notaries with extensive legal knowledge including renters rights, getting you in contact with immigration protection, and contacts with pro-bono lawyers.

- A connection with all the libraries in the state, so if we don’t have something, we can have it shipped to you within a matter of days.

- Books translated into multiple languages

- A donation bin for old books/DVDs/VHSes that often turn around and get sold for two or less dollars

- A food donation site for local food banks

- A “suggest a purchase” section on our site where you can support your favorite indie writers/musicians by suggesting their work if we don’t already have it

- We’re growing butterflies this year, and in prior years we hatched chickens! \o/

- An outreach program for the elderly and disabled who hand-deliver almost everything I’ve just mentioned

That’s a huge list and again I have to stress that I work at a library that’s not considered to be very large. And one of the biggest things we get rated by is not how many books we own but by how many people use all of those services I mentioned. They exist for YOU! Use them!

[hekatontarch]

[weaver-z]

Other slashers must be so jealous of the Candyman. Imagine going to your monthly slasher meetings in your weak little human skin mask while Daniel Robitaille strolls in with his massive fur coat and chiseled jawline purring about his victims. How lame would you feel...

[primordialsoundmeditation]

Mercury Stations Retrograde! Are you Ready?

Mercury stationed retrograde at 25° Libra today, September 27th, at 1:10 AM EDT. It will remain retrograde until October 18th. There is much unnecessary concern, misinformation, and even fear around Mercury retrograde. It is really very simple to learn to work with these times.

What to do today and over the coming weeks:

- Make a list of plans and projects that have been left unfinished since late June

- Work only on your list of unfinished plans and projects

- Slow down to manage stress

- Wait until after October 18th to buy electronics or big-ticket items

- Wait until after October 18th to sign any contracts

- Give yourself and other folks extra time to show up

- Double-check all communications making sure you understand and are understood

Think about the large and small projects that have been left undone since last June. Look through calendars and notebooks to find reminders of what you have been thinking about and working on since then. Dig deep; there are probably more things than you are aware of. What about that appointment you have been meaning to make? And how about the project that you finally tucked into a drawer because you couldn’t find the time to complete it? I suspect you have communications that have fallen through the cracks, I know I do. You can get so much done in the coming weeks if you only stick to this list.

It is important to also note that Mercury is square Pluto and trine Jupiter as it stations retrograde. A great deal of your mental rethinking over the coming weeks will bring you into deep and powerful issues that will ultimately expand your understanding of your life and purpose. Be cognizant of the importance of your conversations and your need to go deep. Make sure you give your partners and friends extra time to explain themselves. We will all need to offer and ask for extra patience and kindness.

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