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Do people realize that Israel is so unrestrained that itâs now launching attacks in Lebanon and Syria as well. Do people realize how little Arab people mean to these genocidal maniacs that they are now killing people in three Arab countries. Can genocide apologists pause their pure hatred for Arabs to at the very least admit this. Or are we going to pretend that Israel has a reason to be intensifying attacks in Damascus right now
Love love LOVE the focus on Joelâs boots during his rampage in the hospital. Because itâs not in a fit of rage, or desperation. Joelâs face is blank. Heâs not thinking about consequences of his actions. Heâs thinking âyou took away my daughter and now Iâm getting her back.â Itâs a skill he picked up from Tess. He knows whatâs coming. Thereâs no need to get emotional about it. Itâs the simplest thing in the world to him: âYou donât get to take her away from me. Not again.â Hell, he doesnât even look at the doctor when he shoots him! Heâs looking right at Ellie, his entire focus and purpose laying in front of him! Mans is straight up on autopilot!
Joel is a unstoppable force in his grief. And Ellie is the immovable object that keeps him from walking straight over the ledge.
sorry but I am officially a joel miller apologist. the fireflies knock him out & as soon as he regains consciousness marlene breaks the news to him that âyah sorry youâre never going to see your daughter again bc the surgery is lethal. but hereâs her knife as a keep sake <3âČ iâm sorry marlene but u thought that was going to go over well? you thought the insanely dangerous and firearm proficient man was who obviously bonded to ellie was going to go calmly? she should have sent ten men to escort him out. thirty. she should have just shot him in the head while he was unconscious. but of course she underestimated how much he cared. what he would do for ellie. bc she knew mean gruff self serving survivalist joel not father joel. she didnât even let joel and ellie say goodbye to each other. was planning on killing ellie without even telling her for an experimental procedure they had no proof would work. didnât even give joel the option to see her one last time. âwould u kill 1 person to save 100?â they didnât even allow a fourteen year old the agency to answer that question. team joelÂ
Sometimes I think about how Ellie starts standing on Joelâs left side more after he confirms he canât hear very well on the right, but while also sticking *exclusively* to his right when Henry and Sam first show up and theyâre not sure what to make of them.
Itâs not a complete switch and probably a coincidence rather than a deliberate blocking choice. But I noticed. And itâs totally something Ellie would consciously do. Stay on his good side when things are safe so talking doesnât take any effort. Stay on his right when thereâs trouble to act as a shield and hear what he canât.
Just. Tiny acts of accommodation and familiarity. Love it. Here for it. Feed me more.
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When with Tess, she either stays on his left or is ahead of him, and turns toward him before speaking.
When he approaches someone, he puts them on his left.
When he joins conversations happening to his right, he doesnât quite jump in with the right timing or says things that donât exactly line up. Itâs *very* minor and again, could be unintentional.
When turning to something behind him, majority of the time heâs turning to the left.
When reloading the revolver in the museum, we the audience can hear the clicker walking closer, but Joel doesnât realize how close itâs gotten until it clicks again.
On top of the Yankees field cat there was a praying mantis on top of the nationals players hat tonight. Huge night in baseball
He was keeping the mantis updated on the number of outs, too
the mantis is making him good at baseball ratatouille style
not that I don't love the cursed bio facts, but do you have any blessed bio facts?
HYENAS CAN LOAF LIKE HOUSECATS
YO HOW THE FUCK DID THIS GET 12,000 NOTES IN 14 HOURS
Because it is well and truly blessed.
That is because a hyena is, in fact a cat! âOh, Glynn,â you say, âFeliforma is kind of a ways back there on theâŠâ No! Cat is cat! I bet they sit in boxes, too.
Could someone kindly provide a Hyena with a box and see what happens? Iâll wait.
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Ok I reblogged this with a long talk in tags recently but this is for all you fuckers in the notes, as a librarian whose library has gone fine-free since the last time I reblogged this post:
YES, going fine-free encourages returns. I can tell you that from my own experience at the check-in desk. In the weeks after we went fine-free, we got SO MANY returns on books that were hella overdue.
YES, library fines disproportionately impact poor people. Here's how it works: you're a single mom who checks out 10 picture books for your kid. For whatever reason, you're unable to return those 10 books on time. In fact, you're unable to return them for a long time. Each of those books hits the maximum fine. In my system, this was $5. When you return the books, you owe $50. If you can pay off the $50, fine. If you can't, then you feel like you're fucked. Maybe you've had a bad experience with owing money before. Maybe you've had a bad experience with an incompetent or bigoted librarian. Either way, you don't feel like you can deal with the cost of returning the books. But eventually the books go into billing, and now you're on the hook for the full price of each book. Even if you return them, you still owe $50. An account with $50 or more in fines/fees is considered delinquent, meaning you can't even use the computer or printing services, let alone check out books. So now you're stuck with these books and these fines and no library access and you're fucked. It doesn't matter how you got here. Rich and poor people alike wind up here. What matters is that for rich people it's not a big deal, and for poor people it's a REALLY big deal.
YES, libraries do everything we can to avoid this situation. We send reminder emails. We offer payment plans. We cap fines at $50. This prevents MANY people from ending up in this situation, but it doesn't prevent EVERYONE from winding up here. Libraries serve a LOT of people!
NO, fine free doesn't look the same everywhere. In my library system, we've eliminated late fines on every type of item, but we still charge replacement fees for books that are very long overdue (60 days I think). The replacement fee is cleared if the book is returned. But if you look at the notes, you'll see other libraries using different fine-free systems. This is because every library is different and has to work within its own context. Which brings me to..
YES, libraries need the money they get from late fines. HOWEVER! Fine free IS possible for every library, if their parent organization chooses to fund it! Libraries are government entities. They exist to provide services, not to make money. The last time I reblogged this post, I didn't believe my library would be able to go fine free for a very long time. Then, we made a proposal to the government we work for to use a special fund to replace what we typically collect in late fines. We were able to go fine free because we got the funding from our parent organization - you know, the guys who collect taxes and fund social services with the taxes they collect (at least in theory).
THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE MEAN WHEN THEY SAY DEFUND THE POLICE.
(That's right motherfucker this was an anti-cop rant all along!)
City and county budgets are finite, but they CAN fund fine-free libraries. The question is always, what funds are going to be used? What might they have funded instead?
When people call to defund the police, it is in part because police are funded by public money. (It's mostly because the police are an inherently oppressive and racist institution, but bear with me here.) The exact same money that arms and empowers police officers is money that could be used for fine-free libraries, fare-free buses, or better supplied classrooms. It's money that could go to health departments or senior centers or parks. NONE OF THESE ENTITIES EXIST TO MAKE MONEY, but some of us have to because we're underfunded by our municipality's budget.
UNDER-FUNDING SOCIAL SERVICES IS A GRIFT. It directly displaces the cost of living in a society from rich people (homeowners and landlords who pay property taxes) onto poor people (the single mom in our thought experiment above, or someone who can't afford a car so they pay but fare, or the kids whose classroom doesn't have pencils).
If you're unhappy with social services where you live, look at your city and county budgets. Find out how much money your local governments have and where it's going. If you want to agitate, agitate. If you want to run for office, run for office. If you want to take direct action, then I would certainly never advocate for anything illegal hahahaha
TL;DR Fine free is great, it's in line with libraries' mission of public service, and it is doable, but only if governments choose to fund it. If they say they can't, look at where their money is coming from and where it's going.
I'm not sure if this has been the case everywhere that's gone fine free, but in the case of Chicago, my understanding is that the money saved on replacement costs more than made up for the lost fine revenue.
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I would be so fucking smart if I werenât a dumbass.
I havenât cross stitched in 25 years, since my first daughter was born. Today, I gave her this! by tifshu
Babyâs first cross stitches! Havenât gotten around to framing any yet but Iâm pretty pleased with them đ„°
Grabbed this from a cross stitch group I am in on FB. This applies to so many things not just cross stitch. Gate keepers on any art be it needle or fiber arts are terrible. Donât let the nasty words of other turn you away from a craft you love. Support and encourage each other, no matter the time of the season. We all had to start somewhere!
My latest cross stitch finish, a cowboy bee on 18ct opalescent aida.
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