The Progressive Librarian

Nic - 33 - INFJ - Queer - Reference Librarian and Local Historian

[batmanlesbian]

Last night, two earthquakes hit the city of Caracas in Venezuela. So far, reports show a death toll of 164 people, with nearly a thousand injured. Multiple hospitals and health centers have begun taking in patients and continue to expand their capacity to serve everyone in the area, and Interim President Delcy Rodríguez has declared a State of Emergency.

If you are able, please consider donating to the Venezuela Humanitarian Fund. They dispense donations out to local organizations on the ground in Venezuela, and you can donate as little as 2 dollars. If you know of any local organizations who are able to take donations online, please share them.

I am lucky in that my friends and their families from and in Venezuela are okay, and my heart is with everyone affected by this disaster.

[fadedlovemp3]

The death toll has risen to 589 dead and over 3,000 injured with hundreds of people still missing.

There are, of course, tons of local organizations and efforts ongoing. These often involving donating through Zelle or other mobile pay apps and I know that many people are less likely to donate if there are ‘extra steps.’

In light of this, I’ve added a few larger, “easier”organizations providing aid in Venezuela rn that you can donate to.

I Love Venezuela

World Central Kitchen

CORE

Direct Relief

International Rescue Committee

If you’d like links to some local orgs/action feel free to reach out.

[pavlover-boy]

happy canada day. please consider donating to an indigenous-led charity. fuck colonialism.

indian residential school survivors society (BC)

toronto indigenous harm reduction (ON)

native women's resource centre of toronto (ON)

water first (nationwide)

indspire (nationwide)

miskanawah (AB)

ma mawi wi chi itata centre (MB)

manitoba indigenous cultural education centre (MB)

native women's shelter of montreal (QC)

native friendship centre of montreal (QC)

first light (NL)

list of indigenous charitable organizations sorted by cause (nationwide)

[natalieironside]

I don't wanna sound like mean or nuthin but a lot of y'all have been trapped in a vortex of suffering for so long that you've come to identify with the suffering as an aspect of your personality and ideology and thereby to covet suffering and to mistake debasement for enoblement and humiliation for virtue

[natalieironside]

The brief rush of moral superiority might be enough to sustain you for an hour or a day but in the long term it's a very very unhealthy coping mechanism and in the very long term it's where stuff like Christianity comes from

[trans-ralsei]

[trans-ralsei]

[caughtthedarkness93]

I love my job, but reblogging employment jelly for someone else I love.

[themadmorrigan]

9 reasons to read The Saint of Steel series

Just spreading The Good Word here about a criminally underrated series...

(1) The paladins are both badass men and women that come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

(2) The love interests are a perfumer, a lay-priestess, a CORONER (ILU Piper), and a spy respectively - no "LI must be a badass warrior" energy.

(3) The romances are sweet and not full of bizarre abuse masked as love.

(4) For you 30+ folks: everyone has lower back and knee pain because they're all adults with plenty of lived experience behind them. The paladins have undergone horrors unimaginable; the LIs have had bad divorces, things gone wrong in their plans and lives, or are in possession of useful but horrible powers.

(5) Bishop Beartongue. No more needs to be said.

(6) The Church of the White Rat is just amazing. A church built entirely on helping others that... actually does it? Also, I LOVE the concept of a Solicitor Sacrosanct (aka, a holy lawyer).

(7) The worldbuilding is superb, and intentional and consistent.

(8) EARSTRIPE!

(9) The fantasy horror T. Kingfisher injects into the series is topnotch. The hivewarren? NOPE. The Smooth Men? NOPE. Demonic possession? NOPE. Horrible labyrinths? NOPE. Get to the story with Stachys and you'll see what I mean.

[closet-keys]

I think at bare minimum all medical professionals need to make sure they are treating patients with more kindness and respect than grifters. if you go to a doctor and they treat you like shit, humiliate you, and send you home without any information on your body or access to treatment, then health-grifters' offers will start to feel more tempting by simply giving the most basic performance of taking you seriously and caring about your well-being. grifters should be condemned for manipulating and exploiting sick people, and doctors also play a role in whether grifts thrive or are successfully identified and rejected. genuine baseline human respect, and beginning a relationship with a patient by earning (rather than demanding) trust, goes a long way.

[krill-joy]

PBS just set up a youtube channel where you can watch full documentaries!!

https://m.youtube.com/@pbsdocumentaries

[mckitterick]

PBS Documentaries

Welcome to the PBS Documentaries channel—presented by PBS Digital Studios and Independent Television Service (ITVS), dedicated to documentin

^ live link to their channel! looks like it's been live since 2012, and has 213 videos plus tons of playlists

[fruchtfliege]

NFB (National Film Board of Canada//ONF in french) is also a great place to find free documentaries + lots of animation movies. Their youtube channel is here but they also have a website thats wayyy easier to use. They even have an app!

National Film Board of Canada

Watch quality Canadian documentary, animation and fiction films online

[gracehasaspacesuitquestion]

Please read this because it is EXTREMELY important me (a transgender man) and to other trans individuals.

The US Government is currently trying to pass an incredibly dangerous national law for trans youth called HR 2616.

This bill would ban all Federally funded schools from teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation, prevent teachers from using the correct pronouns and names for trans students, remove books with any trans representation in them, and even go as far as to prevent teachers from acknowledging trans identity AT ALL.

Any school that does not follow this will lose all federal funding. This bill would also require teachers to forcibly out trans students to their families, which would be fatal to any trans student with a transphobic Family or just hateful family in general. Trans people are already a group that already has some of the highest rates of being victim to suicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault.

This bill actively makes teachers put those innocent children at such a big risk. This bill has rapidly passed the house this week with support from all 209 republicans, as well as 8 democrats. But, it's still being voted on in the senate, which means there is still time to help stop this.

To help stop this, you can visit 5calls.org (look up 2616 in the search bar), one of the most top issues filed Oppose Attacks on LGBTQ+ Students. Once you put in your general location, it will pull-up contact information for your senator, and give you a script for calling them.

If you are a minor and/or do not feel comfortable doing this, PLEASE repost this on here, or any other platform you are on/can find! This needs to be heard and fought against.

Thank you for reading this, my lovely people!

(My moots/friends that I'm tagging: @syrupppppppppp @s4pphicfurryr4ve2769 @starstarstarrystar @histrynerdss @billiloveyouso @ultimatebikergangleader69 @trixthemagemain @otlantispearlxox)

[trixthemagemain]

(gonna tag some people get this shared around that is so so shit)

@ghostofafruitmain @hi-just-existing @thatdamhobbit @forgetthefall @yourlocalfandomfriendo @a-lua-da @sexy-people-contests-2 @satan-offical @no-one-offical @unyieldingsilence @thisistransphobia

[a-lua-da]

where is the usa individuals arround here⁉️⁉️ MAKE SOME NOISE GUYS

taggin for spreading: @catherine-clover @umbrie @thisisallcameronsfault @bloodless-scorpio-33 @realgayofhyperdeath @yourlocalfandomfriendo @halfofafeatheredcat + anyone i forget but pls ho sharing‼️‼️

[bloodless-scorpio-33]

@queerbookbitch @phinksyhxhfan everyone else!! please

[moxxyandthekat]

Aaaa

Reblog pls @ultimateprussiatickler @phinksyhxhfan @vyzoi @ultimateprussiatickler @aph-meowlexiis @rudzcrudz

[leviathaneidolon]

GET everyone involved @chr0nsuperintendent @2doceater @hoshizu @slovo-reblogs

[toroposting123]

Normally this would remain just torocentric, but I am directly affected by this. @ray-toro-in-a-situation could you help a fellow toroposter out? Everyone who sees this reblog it. Killjoys, make some noise.

[pupfettipaws]

happy pride month to those in the closet. to those who went back into the closet. to those who have unsupportive families, friends and relationships. those who were bullied and harassed because of their identity. those who were killed because of who they truly were and loved.

you are loved and appreciated.

[the-bar-sinister]

So, the other day, when I was discussing AO3's policy on solicitation, a tumblr user came at me saying that AO3's "no monetization/solicitation" rules were "bullshit" because nexus mods allows fan created mods to get paid.

Look at me.

Look at me right now.

AO3 protects you.

AO3 protects you and your works. 

It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.

It protects your work from advertisers.

It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.

It protects your right to post adult content.

AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.

Please respect AO3 and its mission.

[ao3cassandraic]

AO3 protects fandom from payment processors.

Mastercard has no reason to mess with AO3. Visa doesn't. PayPal doesn't. Stripe doesn't. There's no compensation-for-porn exchange happening. By design. BY DESIGN.

AO3's founders knew that AO3 needed to be set up to protect us from any and all avenues of attack on fanworks. They've managed it quite successfully.

All y'all who thought they didn't need to? Sit the fuck down and SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[unspeakablearchives]

Yeah no this is just quite tasteless. I don't know why you say the tip of the iceberg books are boring even though the books you want being shown in the public are genuine offensive material. I don't know why you(I bet you're white) would want some actually racist and pedophilic material showing in the public eye. Somebody needs to wipe this site off the planet

I got a couple of these recently, not sure why:

I don't think you actually understand what I'm doing.

So I'd like to point out a couple things:

I made an iceberg chart for suppressed books, based solely on how hard they are to find. Actual suppressed / "banned" books are almost always shocking and offensive, pretty much by definition.

I have NOT made the books on the iceberg chart available to ANYONE, although I easily could have. Notice that I wrote about books like Virginbride.net WITHOUT making it available. The very few that I did make available are of major, serious value to a wide number of people in many different fields, and I made sure to provide lengthy, detailed explanations for the context behind them.

Perhaps one day I will find a safer way to make some these works available, while putting them in the correct context, but right now I'm unsure of how to do so.

Documenting and discussing something is NOT the same as endorsing it. When we erase things that are offensive, we are falsifying the record of human experience, which can sometimes be profoundly dark. A culture that is unwilling to confront its own capacity for cruelty, delusion, or depravity can never hope to understand or restrain it.

There are many, many reasons to preserve and document disgusting, offensive literature. I list some of them in this post.

[criminalizegolf]

> read library book

> it's good

Thank you library

[fiercestpurpose]

> read library book

> it's bad

Thank you library for saving me from buying it :)

[official-library-posts]

official library post

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's not a single example I could give that's better than this

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

anyway rn my notes are full of a lot of "you should never try too hard to befriend people because you might make them uncomfortable" and "you should never tell people you're attracted to them because you might make them uncomfortable" and I guess I'm just wondering why we're acting like a little social awkwardness is the worst thing that could happen to a person

[s-leary]

Amazing moments in Dads: my friend’s dad’s critique of Frankenstein was, “I just don’t think the author had read science fiction before.”

[strangeexx]

[dykieran]

also sorry i just don't find the trope of "woman who hates men learns to love men again because she met one really sweet dude" very compelling. at best i think it's boring and eye-rolling wish fulfillment for people who never got over their lesbian crush and at worst i think it's actively and purposefully misogynistic

[insert-witty-user-name-here]