sqwid squad

neither a squid nor a kid 31, pisces, she/any drummer nintendo A:TLA cat mom my photography blog: @twentifyve

[cansu-m]

[rosellea]

Liana S

[mollybeenoel]

[chewbacca]

Matilda (1996), dir. Danny DeVito

[ammnontet]

my nothing

[marisatomay]

Sometimes in a professional setting you’ll come across someone in their 60s who just cannot open a PDF in their email. And the thing is. They’re lowkey not old enough to be acting like that. You guys were in your early 30s at the latest when email took off. You’ve actually been doing this for longer than I have. Get real and click on the damn attachment.

[sqwid-kid]

this will be me in 30 years but instead of PDFs it’s AI

[thefuturebat]

I did another one of these! For @poketcg-art's redraw thing but for Johto pokemon this time. OG card is by OKUBO (Under the read-more (it's a pretty dang good one)).

[okapiaconcolor]

By Tyros.andi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link

[memeclassheroes]

[saucefunk]

dirty dirty dirty

[rubbrcat]

[birbliophile]

made a thing.

[poketcg-art]

Rhyhorn -- sowsow

[spaceorphan18]

Is it bad that I feel slightly bad that I keep coming to the library to use its quietness and its desk space and its pleasant atmosphere for writing but I never check out books?

[ckerouac]

Why would you feel bad? You’re using the library for one of its intended purposes. The desks, WiFi, space etc are LITERALLY there for you to do exactly what you’re doing AND each time you go in you add to the foot traffic numbers that prove hey people are coming in to use our stuff mr. government so keep funding us.

[surroundedbybooks]

Confirmed by another public librarian. One of the stats we track is "WiFi usages"

That is, we track number of sessions/devices using it over time.

The library is not about snooping on what you're doing with that WiFi. Libraries respect privacy.

[rosefyrefyre]

We literally have a door counter at my library. Congratulations, you just added to our statistics.

[chaosfrisur]

I think it's a bit sad that with more and more public spaces vanishing, people are feeling bad about not "buying" stuff to "earn" their time at a library.

A library is like a park, you're allowed to just. Exist in it.

I check out books every 4 weeks, when the learning period from my current books is up, but I go much more frequently with my kid to just sit there and read to them, and that's okay. In my school days, we'd go and do our research for presentations there, just reading, never checking out.

A library is a space to just exist.

[foxofninetales]

So a year or so ago, we added some new desklets at our library, in areas where we noticed that people gravitated to but didn't have the right furnishing to use them in the way they wanted to.

The first few weeks of having the new furniture were absolutely filled with excited librarians whispering to each other, "Look! Someone's using the desklet in the back corner!" and "casually" walking by to enjoy the sight like wildlife researchers who had successfully baited a particularly elusive rare bird. Nobody cared if those people checked anything out or not. There was a need! We saw the need! We filled the need! Hooray!

WE PUT THE THING THERE TO BE USED. USE THE THING.

[iihrrtme]

[fluffysheeps]

Winds and waves babies 🥺!!

[dogpuppy]