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i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

its awesome because the longer this post circulates the funnier it will get

i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

its awesome because the longer this post circulates the funnier it will get

i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

its awesome because the longer this post circulates the funnier it will get

i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

its awesome because the longer this post circulates the funnier it will get

i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

#sobbingsobbingSOBBING #distantlandsspoilers #the small details is what gets me

its awesome because the longer this post circulates the funnier it will get

skiinny-witch

bubbline love story chronologically summarized in quotes and lyrics

erysium

You’re the pink in my cheeks ~ 💘✨✨

beloathedboygirl

Them

marcelinz

“I have always loved your songs”

doctorbluesmanreturns

I don’t hate the concept of ebooks per se but what bothers me is how our society is shifting from actually owning entertainment in tangible forms like books and CDs and DVDs and game discs, to having to download everything so basically we’ll get to the point where everything is intangible and all of our property can be taken away by a website crash.

fannish-snailien-deactivated202

#yeah this is mostly the problem#and stuff like. ebooks that can only be read on one companys app#music that can only be streamed from one place and doesnt let you actually download the files#stuff like that#like sometimes its like you cant tangibly have anything even your own digital file#idk where i was going with this but yeah its capitalism (via @ouidamforeman)

probablyasocialecologist

“Almost exactly ten years ago, you may remember, Amazon came stealthily along and deleted e-copies of 1984 (no seriously, they did) and Animal Farm from people’s Kindles — copies they’d already paid for and downloaded — because it turned out that there was a rights problem with the e-publisher. Jeff Bezos wound up apologizing all over himself and taking it all back and promising never to do that ever again, but the fact remains that Amazon has some kind of access to your Kindle files and can literally remove them, if they feel like it, which is downright creepy, and if it were your computer you would not like it one little bit.”

https://popula.com/2019/06/30/own-paper-books/

bookphile

I’m sure that someone already said this in the notes, but you guys are aware that you don’t actually own e-books, e-movies, etc. Right? What you’re purchasing is a license to have that file on your device. Not the actual object.

I’ve also posted about it multiple times.

Plus, Amazon, Google, Kobo, B&N are all explicit in their user agreements that they have the right to terminate your account, seize your library, and delete anything and everything off of your account at any time, for any reason, without giving you anything in return, including paying you back.

Like, it super scary that they not only can do that, but are legally allowed to.

I’ve seen people suggesting using the program called Calibre to transfer and convert your files from whatever program you purchase them on, so that if one of those companies do decide to be a dick, you will retain your e-copies safe and sound on your hard drive. Just don’t be an asshole and post those copies to pirate sites.

So read your content agreements and digital ownership laws cause they’re not great.

rsfcommonplace

Paper books still have their uses.

branch-and-root

And that very fact, my friends, is why products like Epubor Ultimate DRM removal tool (my personal choice) are legal to write and sell and use.

https://www.epubor.com/drm-removal-tools.html

Because yes, the terms of service sure say that. But every time they’ve /tried/ on a significant scale, they’ve been challenged and backed down. And every time they tried to stop DRM removal tools from being made and sold, they’ve failed. What they’re doing relies on keeping off enough toes that a significant bloc never gets pissed enough to push through a class action suit.

So, yes, absolutely, know this and, if you (like me) have book-gasms over having my library of 2000 books always at my fingertips to read whatever I like, get Calibre (https://calibre-ebook.com/) and then get one of the DRM removal applications. Jailbreak your library, back it up in at least three locations, and then pass this tip on in the joyful knowledge that all the major distributors are praying you don’t tell anyone else how easy this is.

feywild-songbird-deactivated202

it also sucks that this is the case becaue ebooks are a great option for some people

you can find cheap books by independant authors, a wider selection of books by independant authors, and i always get money off my book purchases with the honey extention.

so for people with small book budgets online book purchasing is a great idea. but then we don’t actually own that book. and if it ever gets taken away from us, then we spent money for nothing in return.

tryclops

i don’t know if dollblr has found out about this yet but LOL Surprise made a doll that looks exactly like artist Amina Mucciolo without paying or consulting her.

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it’s also worth noting that back in october Amina was evicted from her apartment after Lisa Frank & Hotels(.)com stole her home design for a pop-up hotel and still to this day neither of them have issued an apology or compensated her for this

riot-dog

Is their anyway I can support her?

leolaroot

Linktree. Make your link do more.

this is her linktree!

kropotkindersurprise

June 14 2020 - Students at Jefferson High School in Portland tore down the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of their school. Thomas Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal“ in the US declaration of Independence, but he was a life-long slave owner who enslaved over 600 people throughout his lifetime. [video]

sunwukxng

you love to see it

teaandtimepieces

The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen

drowninginblox

Yknow Jefferson made a draft of the constitution that outlawed slavery but due to southern support, he kept in the clause of slavery.

rat-mlm

Did southern support also force him to personally own slaves? He willfully had over 600 slaves in his lifetime. Idc that “he wanted” to free them. He didn’t. Not legally, nor the ones he personally kept. So his sentiments mean shit all

drowninginblox

Dude I’m not saying that he’s a saint, I’m just saying that like it or not he’s important to our history. George Washington owned slaves, Benjamin Franklin basement stored the bodies of black people.

Given the time, slave owning was the standard. I’m not saying that it’s right tho. It’s disgusting to know that men like them separated families at the seams for financial gain. But like it or not- without them- the United state’s of America would’ve remained a British colony

fandomsandfeminism

Thomas Jefferson repeatedly raped a 14 year old slave girl for YEARS and then kept the resulting children as his own slaves. This is not standard “product of their time” shit. This is EVIL.

Slave owning was EVIL. Abolitionists existed at the time. They knew it was evil.

Statues are not how we teach or preserve history (that would be…books?????) Statues are how we honor and celebrate figures and events who we believe represent our values. If the statues don’t accurately represent our values, we should not have them. And I don’t think a racist, rapist, slave-owning pedo really represents what we should value as a country.

drowninginblox

Dude. I not saying he’s great. I agree, these people are evil but you can’t deny what they have done for this country.

What would the world be like without America’s reveloution!? And like it or not- Thomas Jefferson played a key role in it. He was the second president for god sakes! Let’s not forget that 1) he’s human and 2) the time period. Boys as old as 13 were considered men! And back then, using a slave as a object was comment because like it or not black people were thought as lesser because of their skin! Of course he’s gonna do some shit we don’t approve of! I bet he didn’t think actions like that would be uncovered by the people.

fandomsandfeminism

Oh, of COURSE he was going to rape the enslaved half sister of his wife while she was still a child and then keep his OWN FUCKING CHILDREN as Slaves.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? The TIME PERIOD??? This is not “Well, EVERYONE was doing it” like drinking their cocaine and canning their food with lead. This is RAPING AN ENSLAVED CHILD and then ENSLAVING YOUR OWN CHILDREN created through that rape.

Listen to yourself. You’re sitting here justifying not just slavery, but rape and pedophilia on top of that. I PROMISE you, even Jefferson’s contemporaries would have been NOT CHILL with this, which is why he kept it a secret.

Slavery was evil. Slave owners were evil. Even if it was legal, even if they inherited their slaves, even if they weren’t as physically abusive as they could have been- all slave owners were evil.

Abolitionists existed in America before, during, and after the American Revolution. Folks KNEW. Folks knew that owning other human beings was evil. It wasn’t fucking an unheard of idea that you shouldn’t OWN PEOPLE. And you definitely shouldn’t RAPE people. And you absolutely shouldn’t rape CHILDREN. And owning your OWN children was really fucked up. That wasn’t NEWS. That wasn’t some novel Post-War Modernist revelation.

Listen, Thomas Jefferson absolutely WAS human. Not a god not a legend not some abstract personification of the promise of an America free from the yoke of colonialism. He was a person, and he was a shit one.

autisticexpression

There never was a time when adults fucking 14-year-olds was normal either. That’s a retroactive historical pedo fantasy.

amuseoffyre

Lafayette was a good friend of Jefferson and spoke out against slavery. In fact he left a bunch of money to Jefferson with the express instruction that said money was to be used to buy the freedom of some of Jefferson’s slaves and set them up with jobs and livelihoods.

Do you know what Jefferson did? BUGGER ALL. No slaves were freed with Lafayette’s money. Lafayette’s dying wish ignored because Jefferson didn’t want to. Oh and you can bet he kept the money too.

Also, he kept Sally Hemmings as his chattel for decades with the promise that when their children reached maturity he would free them. Free his own children by his wife’s enslaved half-sister, who he only kept as his sex moppet because she was white-passing enough for his tastes.

And when the children reached maturity, do you know what he did? BUGGER ALL AGAIN. They had to escape and the only thing he did for them as a father was not send slave-hunters after them.

Just because Jefferson talked a good game and was voted for on the facade he presented did not mean he was anything less than a scumbag who did what would be financially, politically, and sexually satisfactory for him.

pondnaravit

one-time-i-dreamt

shrylia

Princess & knight meet-cute! Wanted to try drawing a comic :)

"I was unhappy with my service, and I will not be coming back!"

Cool. Don't

"Be sure to pass my complaint along to management." I won't. In fact, I'm going to tell him you left a compliment. Eat ass

"You've lost a customer!" No. No, I wouldn't call this a loss

Ma'am I know this may come as a shock to you but the reason you're unhappy everywhere you go is because every time you go somewhere, you are there. And I can sympathize. Because I'm experiencing this problem right now, too. But together. I believe we can make it through this