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Everything and nothing.

[booksinmythorax]

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

[knottahooker]

Please, PLEASE use Libby. OverDrive. Hoopla. CloudLibrary. Kanopy. Flipster. Freegal. Transparent Language. Mango. Jstor. Your library would not offer it if they could not afford it, and we afford things by reporting the number of people who use that service, so if you don't use the service we can't afford it. It's a cycle. Keep it going, keep using it, and we'll keep providing because we'll be able to justify the cost to the bean counters in government.

[olderthannetfic]

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

[zz9pzza]

Warming up a new database server….

[elfwreck]

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

[animentality]

[verysadpaper]

small victories people, they can get you through a lot!

[roll1uptwice]

[dinovia-grant]

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS BRILLIANT!!

[ketenkusu]

Nigerians steal the show at Vienna Fashion Week with dance moves

Nigerians have created a new norm on the runway at the ongoing Vienna Fashion Week happening in Austria. Meant to be a display of latest fas

[adorkable-blackgirl]

I’ve been looking everywhere for this 😭😭😭😭

[smallspes]

[afurioushawk]

From a combo of how things have just fundamentally changed since the election, and MAGA screaming crying throwing up about whatever new culture war thing that triggers them every six days, I think on the liberal side you're going to see less of "public canceling" and just a lot more "quiet canceling."

Like when some celebrity does deranged conservative shit or whatever, I don't see a lot of calls to "cancel" them. Just a more quiet understanding of "Okay, fuck you then" and moving on to ignoring them, removing them from the conversation entirely. Like how people are trying to get others to understand that no amount of calling out JKR's transphobia is going to move her, and no amount of publicly shaming people for reading Harry Potter is moving them, so the only way to really move on is to stop talking about her and her properties. Same with Dave Chappelle, etc.

We saw this play out most recently with Sydney Sweeney and her "good jeans/genes." Cons wanted to make this into a public canceling because that's what they've learned to respond to. But the overwhelming liberal response to that was "Whatever" and then a possible quiet boycotting of American Eagle that led to a 8% sales decrease after the ad.

In a lot of ways I think this could be a positive change. It's ultimately better to not have these people have so much rent-free space in your head, so it's better to be able to say "Ok, bye" and move on. It also makes the cons look like the hysterical ones to the normies. These people long to be martyrs. We don't have to be the ones to put them on the cross.

[smallspes]

I like that last part, I could not have said it better "It's ultimately better to not have these people have so much rent-free space in your head"... We have wasted more than enough time and energy on these people.

[dropoutdottv]

time is running out @samreich

tick tock tick tock

[gamechangershow]

samalamadingdong

[calligraphy-creature]

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Poem @chucktaylorupset

[ruinedchildhood]

A guy in China built a fully working subway system and station for his cats

[donsdawn]

GUYS I FOUND HIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR ANYONE INTERESTED ITS

Xing's World

Hi, I'm Xing, I spent two years making a mini home for my pets. I love making and tinkering! Please subscribe to see all the cool miniatu

[telekitnetic-art]

Don’t see anyone on here talking about it yet, but if you’re in Canada: that aggravating age verification bill that got pushed through in the UK? Well, we have a similar one that failed in Parliament a few months ago, but now it’s being pushed forward again.

We’re seeing how that stupid bill is being implemented in the UK, so if we don’t want this bill sneaking it’s way in, we gotta start talking up too.

Hey Fellow 🇨🇦 Miscreants The Senate's trying to slip Bill S-209 through on the down-low, and it's basically a photostatic copy of the UK's

[scoobydoosuggestion]

Maybe there’s someone in this abandoned clown factory who can help us

[sexycraisinthanos]

this is what companies say every time they try to buy tumblr

[smallspes]

[mindblowingscience]

Jupiter-Sized 'Cannonball' Planet Discovered With a Density Greater Than Lead

Astronomers have just found a cosmic cannonball.

Around a star some 730 light-years away orbits an exoplanet the size of Jupiter, but with a density that boggles the mind. Astronomers have determined that the world, named TOI-4603b, has a mass of nearly 13 Jupiters.

That means it’s nearly 3 times the density of Earth, and just over 9 times the density of Jupiter. And it’s really cuddly with its star, with a tight orbit of just 7.25 days.

This places it in a small but significant category of worlds that defy our understanding of planetary formation and evolution. This discovery, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, is available on preprint server arXiv.

“It is one of the most massive and densest transiting giant planets known to date,” write a team of astronomers led by Akanksha Khandelwal of the Physical Research Laboratory in India, “and a valuable addition to the population of less than five massive close-in giant planets in the high-mass planet and low-mass brown dwarf overlapping region that is further required for understanding the processes responsible for their formation.”

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[mindflamer]

The moment TikTok creators Mercury (mercurystardust) and Jory (alluringskull) reach their stretch goal to cover their own gender-affirming surgeries, after putting on a 32 hour livestream that raised $2 million for trans healthcare.

Donation link will stay up for 7 more days!

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Magnetic Soap Films

Soap films naturally thin over time as fluid evaporates and differences in film thickness cause surface-tension-driven flows. In this video, researchers experiment with adding magnetic nanoparticles to the soap film. (Image and video credit: N. Lalli et al.)

[akajustmerry]

kinda annoys me that criticisms of representation in popular media were intended as a means to point out how people of colour, lgbt people, people with disabilities and other marginilised folks were systemically kept out of creative positions of power in the industry which lead to the creation of media that further marginilised them - but those conversations were mutated and co-opted. now, "representation" is mostly used as a shallow metric by which ppl judge the media itself rather than the system and people that made it. it's insane to me that people say "I won't watch succession because there's no lgbt/poc representation" or they'll say, "you have to watch xyz show because it has xyz representation". Representation and it's mere presence (or supposed absence) is not an indicator of quality in any way. moreover, discussing representation so reductively completely ignores creative intention and disregards real issues of systemic inclusion in favour of using aesthetics as a scapegoat. I need people to stop asking, "is this piece of media diverse?" and start asking, "who is telling this story, why is it being told, and who benefits most from telling it this way?". don't do yourself, art, or the fight the disservice of being reductive.

[itgetsbetter]

“Today is the day to make sure that the trans community is visible for who they are and what we stand for. Today is the day to make sure that a trans person in your community feels seen and that their opinions and ideas are heard. Today is the day to make sure that the trans community is seen and most importantly heard in any level of legislation, especially if our rights are up for debate.” 

Kiki (she/her), 14 yo Youth Voice from New Jersey

🏳️‍⚧️ Today is #TransDayofVisibility.

So, what exactly does that mean in a year when we've already been made VERY visible by lawmakers, school officials, and in the media? We asked around in our community. This year, it means...

🟣 Intentionally LISTENING to trans people (including trans youth) about our own personal stories, feelings, and experiences is so vital.

🟣 Allies need to stand UP and speak out alongside us - sometimes it's not safe for us to do so.

🟣 We need to engage with and share more trans content and uplift trans content creators to learn from each other and educate allies - we have amazing streamers weekly on our Twitch, tons of stories on Youtube, and a whole trans and nonbinary playlist on TikTok!

🟣 We need to share resources to support one another. We have an entire database of over 1,000 LGBTQ+ organizations on our Get Help page that you can filter by issue area and location, including a page just for trans and GNC people at itgetsbetter.org/gethelp. Save it for yourself and share with friends.

🟣 We're not going to stop celebrating trans joy...

🟣 And while we know hate is being projected by a vocal minority, there are still plenty of people who have our backs.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[legorockraiders]

literally the bill provides a penalty of $250k and a minimum of 20 years for *using a vpn to access a website*. the list of banned websites can be updated at any time be an unelected appointee with no oversight or warning or even public announcement

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

A lot of people have been pointing out it's only specific countries like this person so I want to clarify that the bill allows the US government to change which countries it considers a threat. They could add more countries as an excuse for more censorship if they wish.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Also banning people from accessing websites from The Bad Countries with 20 years in prison is fucking insane and fascist and you should hate it even if the list of countries was fixed in stone

[moreorlez]