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Joshua (raˈko͞on) 🦝 n. 1. a 30-year-old poly queer in Seattle, Washington. Developer, designer and maker. Museums, libraries and education. Disabled, autistic. Any pronouns.

[memories]

This is a museum of metaphoricallyaraccoon.

[animentality]

[toastbutteregg]

i feel this on every level

[fembutchboygirl]

The ADHD urge to not

[fembutchboygirl]

To just not

[fembutchboygirl]

I have several overdue assignments

[foone]

ahh yes, the two genders:

lizard

lizard

[cannibalchicken]

[pinene]

I’m getting sick of it. Is anyone else getting sick of it?

[brinstarboy-deactivated20231231]

Clap if you’re getting sick of it!

[funnytwittertweets]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[oneheadtoanother]

[stayuglystayangry-deactivated20]

do not meet up with anyone from Massachusetts in real life

they could very well be a medium regular ice coffee from dunkin donuts

[freedominthedarkmp3]

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

[elasticitymudflap]

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

[umjammertammy]

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.

[hsavinien]

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.

[rosebramblewolf]

they were prohibited from telling us when the fbi had been through to check who was reading what. so they told us when they hadn't been. anyway librarians are heroes for privacy and freedom of information

[cadoized]

does anyone else

[cadoized]

oh darling ive been looking

[cadoized]

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

[cadoized]

and ADHD, you say

[bethfuller]

the first forest.

follow me on instagram! :)

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i want all my friends and followers and mutuals and acquaintances to know from the bottom of my heart: i don’t respond to your messages because i’m an insane person, i am insane medieval hermit software running inappropriately on modern queer hardware and social media scares me. it is not your fault

[cheaphalloweencostume]

when i get a notifications on my phone i try to kill my phone with a rock

[oamisoa-deactivated20160323]

I love it when people tell me about me because I have no idea who I am

[neropathic-deactivated20180820]

I like to hear their interpretations of the persona that I’ve shown them

[lesbiankermit-moved]

i feel like my continually deepening preference for identifying with terms like transsexual, dyke, faggot, is in part because theyre the least likely to be marketed back to me by old navy