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[localstarboy]

Being drunk vs Being high

[teamnowalls-deactivated20180918]

i saw this on twitter and i cant stop thinking about it cuz its literally mania vs depression 

[niambi]

#it’s funny cuz they are both going through it

[rainy-autumn-day]

[logarto]

eww why are you having salad

are you five years old

[moonmoon-aint-stalk]

a friend of mine is allergic to salad, when he eats salad he literally throws up

[logarto]

ok. i am not your friend who is allergic to salad though

[ayatstudies-deactivated20211215]

types of academics: tag yourself

nocturnal: messy notes, never sleeps, wakes up after noon, sarcastic, coffee addiction, turns everything in late, sweats, netflix, needs a lot of naps, deep cleans their room maybe once every 2 months, messy buns, says they’ll be productive but never is until it’s past 2 am

“perfect”: balances work, social life, and health, never sleeps past midnight, aces everything, pretty notes, coffeeshops and libraries, cardigans, makes their bed every morning, mom friend, skincare routine, organized playlists, neat handwriting, autumn, coffee with cream and sugar

extroverted: loud but beautiful laugh, twirly handwriting, polaroids, colorful pens, skirts, wants to/does dye their hair, goes to parties but leaves early, summer, travels a lot, teacher’s pet, throws sleepover study nights, paints nails while reading for homework, leather jackets

chaotic: amazing music taste, probably good with technology, doesn’t bond with professors, has few close friends but lots of acquaintances, parties a lot, never focused (but when they are they’re really productive), really bad at reading people, cram sessions, bad sleep schedule

independent: has only one friend per class, gets everything done on time, prefers office hours over asking questions in class, rain, print-out lecture notes, one yellow highlighter, beautiful smile, the color green, painter, likes studying outside, sensitive to high-energy people, striped sweaters

[onceiwashere]

if jk ‘love is the best thing unless its gay love which makes you a fascist sympathizing danger to your family’ rowling ever presumes to speak for actual gay people ever again to validate her odious fucking anti-trans midlife crisis vendetta on line. i will swim to england. and i will knock every one of her teeth into her gums like it’s crocodile fucking dentist 

[barbienefertiti]

219 Ways to Say "Beautiful": A Word List for Writers

#KathysLists: Too many instances of "beautiful" in your narrative will dilute its effectiveness. Try these alternatives.

Good for affirmations

[guerrillatech]

[rainy-autumn-day]

[imsoglitter]

What your favorite horror musical says about you

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Librarians must resist trumpism

Radical librarian Jason Griffey (previously) wants librarians to continue their 21st century leadership in the resistance to surveillance and persecution – a proud record that includes the most effective stands against GW Bush’s Patriot Act – by pledging to make libraries safe havens from trumpism and its evils: electronic surveillance; racial and gender-based discrimination; and the assertion that ideology trumps empirical reality.

Neutrality favors the powerful, and further marginalizes the marginalized. In the face of the current political climate, with the use of opinions as bludgeons and disinformation as the weapon of choice for manipulation and intellectual coercion, it is up to those who value fact and believe in the care of those in need to stand up and positively affirm that to do otherwise is evil.

For libraries and librarians, that means:

1. Making the physical space of the library safe for those that need it by publicly stating your stance on the targeting of marginalized communities and then following up with actions and policies that back up those statements

2. Protecting your patrons from targeting and oppression, even in the face of possible governmental pressures, by resisting calls for information about your patrons at every level

3. Making your digital spaces safe for you patrons by limiting the data you collect, eliminating the data that you store, encrypting your communications at all levels and importantly insisting that your vendors do the same

4. Running programs that actively provide support for your at-risk patrons, whatever that looks like in your community

5. By being the voice of reason and compassion when dealing with your city or county government, and by modeling the same by advocating for those at risk

These things are vital and necessary. Especially now.

https://boingboing.net/2016/12/20/librarians-must-resist-trumpis.html

[bipolar-bubbeleh]

ok but that sign is SO COOL. It is illegal - fucking fuck - for a library to say it has been approached by the FBI. The workaround is that a library can say they have not been approached until, ya know, that’s a lie and they take down the sign. That is also actually why a lot of libraries no longer keep records of what a person checks out. Like they take broad stats but a lot of computer programs don’t even have the capacity to log what a person has checked out. You can’t disclose what you don’t have. tldr, librarians can be awesome when we stop doing this neutrality lie.

[cycopompadour]

Why in the hell is that illegal? That’s sketch af guys. Someone in the law making business is shade. Shaaaaaade.

[athenadark]

the FBI used to maintain watch lists of books people took out, and librarians didn’t like it, so they told their patrons to work from a book in the library so they didn’t go on the watch list, or took the books out themselves, so the FBI got really pissed at them and got the lawmakers to make it illegal to warn them

but librarians are smart wily fuckers - the FBI didn’t stand a chance

[thraginsufferable]

The signs were originally made by librarian and all around good egg Jessamyn “not the author” West, who writes about it at librarian.net.  

[greenjudy]

Librarians are quiet front-line fighters when it comes to authoritarianism. When I worked as a librarian, I had to take an oath to protect and to serve the public’s access to knowledge and right to privacy. 

These guys are serious.

[tashvi]

Librarians have always been quiet, steadfast heroes.

[stayatsam]

this might be a hard pill to swallow for college students but getting drunk all the time isnt a personality trait it’s alcoholism

[wingedcatboy]

Here’s another pill: companies and ad teams know that your 20s are extremely stressful and they purposely target you because they don’t care about making us all alcoholics as much as they care about profiting off of us.

[attractive-nuisance-esq]

cooler pill that I’d wish I’d known about when I was younger: if you’re struggling with alcohol, AA isn’t your only option. AA can be a bit dogmatic and sometimes hostile to certain communities, especially the LGBT.

there’s a group called SMART Recovery that has free meetings just like AA, but it’s all science-based and secular.

and here’s the thing for college students: unlike with AA, it’s okay if your goal is moderation and not abstinence. no one is going to make you feel like a bad guy for being young and just wanting help getting healthier, but perhaps not wanting to commit to being totally abstinent. google SMART Recovery, guys. they’re awesome. :)

[tachyon-at-rest]

Reblog for non-religious version of AA

[juju-fisher]

Just be careful to avoid these groups. The Church of Scientology loves to use substance abuse support groups as a front.

[solarpunksoftie]

SMART recovery is seriously good, and not just for alcoholism. You can go for any addiction and they’re very accepting and understanding. I’ve seen people go in for opiates, marijuana, self harm, uppers, gambling; it’s very much group talk and CBT and you can take it at your own pace. Moderation isnt frowned upon, they are just concerned that you’re not using as a way to cope and that you can live a healthy life without the vice.

[notyourdaddy]

I’m definitely ready for summer. The cabin looks so much better when it’s got on it’s summer drag.

[lunareye]

Missing Oregon so much.

Insta @lunreye

[thestateonmtv]

as a camp counselor i was told to never comment on a child’s looks even as a compliment (such as “oh i love your hair/shirt today!”) bc then they will think that is all their self is worth… it’s much better to notice an action that they took that you admire and point it out and compliment them on that… because their actions are something that they can actually control… i try to keep that in mind always, the way a person looks such not be the main vehicle through which you channel your contempt or appreciation for another human being

[virgosunpiscesmoon]

if I may add I’ve learned this also applies to smart/ dumb, in addition to pretty/ ugly. it can be easy to internalize smartness as an intrinsic aspect of your personality, leading kids to believe they either have it or they don’t. focusing on behavior (like oh your worked so hard on that! I can see how creatively you approached that! rather than you’re so smart!) encourages a dynamic mind frame (I forget what they’re calling it now, someone made a new more whole phrase for growth mindset lol) and makes them more likely to process failure than hide their mistakes.

[quiltocalypse]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[cerastes]