I know the Library of Alexandria comment sounds like an exaggeration. It absolutely is not. As of May 7, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 7.9 million movies, videos and TV shows, 842 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 237 thousand concerts, and over 682 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. It’s been operating since 1996, the loss of knowledge would be impossible to ever completely come back from.
The lawsuit from Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley Sons, and Penguin Random House alleges there have been significant revenue losses because of their controlled digital lending program. For context, most libraries in the US also use CDL to distribute books to their patrons wherever they are but those programs are run through for profit companies and the libraries are often paying a very high fee to so their patrons can have access to digital books. The Internet Archive’s program is completely free but they have a policy of not digitizing and lending anything less than 5 years old.
The lawsuit goes on to note that authors often own larger shares of their revenue of digital vs. print copies of their books. So the publishing companies, seeing that they’re underpaying their authors, are essentially blaming a library for being free instead of bumping up what authors earn on print copies. The Internet Archive’s 5 year policy is designed to protect authors anyway as that’s when books typically make the most money.
Hey by the way The Internet Archive is also one of the most cited places on Wikipedia. If it goes down a good chunk of Wikipedia will go back to “citation needed” or citations will lead to dead links.
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so the guy who uploaded all those neros day at Disneyland and other music videos (drunkyokai) needs ur help. Pls donate if u can.
Here’s a kofi link too: https://ko-fi.com/drunk_yokai
This one isn’t a hotbutton issue for Republicans vs Democrats so dont assume that just because you live in a blue state that your reps will definitely vote for it. Make the call.
Boost the heck out of this. It is bipartisan legislation, Sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and co-sponsored by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH). The bill number is S. 4102 and I don’t think it has a House equivalent yet. If you tell your reps to vote for S. 4102 sponsored by Sen. Brown and co-sponsored by Sen. Portman, you could be completely changing the game for disabled married couples. (The Senate has a drop-down menu by state at the top of the website https://www.senate.gov/)
As of now (31 May 2022) this bill is in committee in the Senate. It was sent to the committee of finance. If your senator is listed below, it is ESPECIALLY important that you call them to express your support for S.4102 - SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act.
i see keith haring art nowadays and just start smashing shit. stop making me look at his art please <3 he was a pedophile i know he was very important to many of us (myself included) but he slept w black and latino minors and like... no thanks! stop rb'ing his shit thank u
you transid mfs cannot be fucking serious, why would you want trauma? that shit disrupts your daily life, everyday activities are more challenging, constantly thinking about trauma, you stay awake because you cant stop thinking about it, trauma fucks you up- if you actually identify you should honestly delete tumblr, delete everything and dwell in sunlight and make actual irl friends.
imagine being so lonely and desperate to be the center of affection you made/identify with labels like "racefluid" or "transautistic"
fuck ya'll, idc if you go apeshit in the comments- its kinda fun to see what you dumbasses have to say lol
Hey y'all this post includes a bit of discourse which I try to avoid but as I get more followers I would like to include this! So scroll if those sorts of topics make you uncomfy!
Also CW for: grooming, abliesm, trauma, injuries, abuse, bodily fluids, pedophilia, suibaiting, sa mentions
Hi, so I just. Need to address a couple things really quick!
(Scroll to the bottom for the discussion of transx/transid "identities" ,, in quotes bc they aren't valid)
1- sending death threats or doxxing someone is NEVER okay EVER. It puts people in danger and is downright illegal. Idc what your beliefs are in this instance, it's basic law and safety.
I've been told to kms over being a Dissociative system aka formed by trauma. Not funny!
2- capitalism is corrupt and always will be. No exceptions. (I could go on and on all day.)
Few more things for now; it's fucking weird and messed up to:
-disclude a-spec identities from LGBTQIAP+
-tell a minority group that they aren't allowed to say how they feel about something affecting them.
-suibaiting anyone, ever. No. Exceptions.
-proship kids x adults,, dude that's pedophilia.
-assume that all cluster b folks are violent or bad (including the term narcissistic abuse)
-say you can become a system for fun/by intentionally willing it into existence
-using disorders as an excuse to be a shit person [Ex: "oh he has autism he doesn't know better.']
Or
-taking the ignorant stance of "radinclus" (we all know you are supporting identities that aren't in good faith. Things that harm people and/or put them in danger aren't good faith.)
Now for the transid/transx shit.
Trace, transage, transabled, transspecies, transheight, transweight, are. Very odd to me. (The exception being transspecies, however I think this would be the wrong term and something like otherkin/therian/etc would fit you better!)
These terms are wrong and inherently abliest and dangerous. Most of the people using these terms feel like trolls, however after having met some before, I'm suddenly extremely aware of the fact that they aren't all trolls. Which is disappointing to say the very least!
I would first like to say that I can't speak in depth on trace(formerly transracial, however that has a double meaning, also means adoption into a family that is not your bio race)
or include my own opinion, as I am white. I can say that it's messed up, from the fact that I've seen 100s of POC say it's racist and wrong.
Moving onto the others! Transage is a crappy term! I think if you age regress, then you're age regressing not transage and you aren't actually that age. I think role-playing another age doesn't make you that age. I also think that most instances I've seen of people using it is an excuse to be a shitty person. It isn't a trans identity.
Transabled. God. Why. I fully know there is a disorder called BIID but transabled isnt the disorder. The disorder is BIID. "Transabled" ppl are mocking actually disabled and mentally ill and hurting people. BIID is not transabled should have NEVER been associated. BIID is a disorder. "Transabled" is a mockery. There is genuine support and therapy, and that is why that should be the step taken. Not claiming to be "transabled" and coining terms like trans-trauma or trans-autistic or trans-POTS.
This is HARMFUL. There is a validity to feeling like you want your *current* issues you actually have to be worse so you could get help or be "bad enough," however that is not the same as entirely just... wanting a disorder. Wanting your current disorder/trauma/condition to be WORSE is a symptom, not a new thing.
Trans-grooming and trans-trauma are terms I've ACTUALLY seen. They both mean (respectively) Wanting or feeling like you should have been/should be groomed/traumatized.
This is so incredibly HORRIFIC on so many levels.
I have been repeatedly groomed/preyed on by over 15 people, there is NOTHING good that you get from these. I would not wish this on anyone. Grooming is horrific manipulation, mental controlling to a degree, gaslighting, trauma. It's not some fun identity.
Transtrauma is awful. There are zero instances where identifying as this is valid/healthy in anyway. Again, wanting to have worse trauma is a symptom, not trans trauma and if you're confusing those two that doesn't make transtrauma valid! It means you're a bit confused.
I would like to add in here(probably a few times), though, that healthy people do not fake/want disorders. If you feel like you're ANY of these identities I truly suggest you seek help for your own safety as well as everyone else's.
You aren't ever just "meant to have been traumatized" that's not how it works. I do not think, in this instance, whatever divine being, angel, power, or lack thereof, you believe in impacts or changes this. If you were to be traumatized at a point in your past, you WOULD'VE been. It doesn't just, randomly not occur to cause you "trauma dysphoria."
Transabled in a physical sense also disgusts me. Again, not BIID, these are not the same thing. Wanting to aquire a disability isn't an aesthetic. Illnesses and disorders aren't an aesthetic. I am physically disabled and use a mobility aid and I wish, I wish so fucking badly, that I could just be healthy AND normal. /srs
Does not wanting to be sick suddenly make me "Transcissick?" I'm "transcured?" (/satire.)
Again wanting to have a disorder or faking disorders is not something a healthy person does, this is important to be added.
Regardless, these actions/terms are STILL HURTING people.
A recurring theme I've also noticed is that all of the disorders/trauma/illnesses people want are "trendy" or "controversial" or super extreme(not saying these aren't all horrific, by extreme I simply mean the cases tend to be more fatal/altering). Something that will make people ask questions and shower you with attention. (Healthy/stable people don't constantly use attention seeking behaviors.)
You never see things like:
Trans-STD, Trans-IBS, Trans-Anxiety, Trans-Concussion, or Trans-Nocturnal Enuresis(this one can actually TIE IN with trauma, but people using these terms only seem to want the popular symptoms, right?)
Strange, huh? Only choosing the popular things. Yall dont want to be trans-ibs? Shitting all the time because of your weird bowels and stress and emotion issues?
Transheight and transweight make no sense at all.
If u identify as transabled you're abliest.
That's all for right now. Have a good morning/day/afternoon/night.
Be sure to (if you're able/if it applies:)
Drink
Eat something
Clean yourself a little
Do something you enjoy <3!
Did people not learn from HIV? When you blame queer and trans people you’re just making it more likely to spread because most straight people will seriously believe they can’t get it because they’re straight! Guess what?! Queer and trans people’s HIV numbers are going down while straight people's are going up! That’s how monkeypox will be! Stop saying it’s a gay disease! It’s not a sexually transmitted infection! You don’t have to have sex to catch it! That means everyone can get it!
oh my god i’m so tired psychotic does not mean violent it does not mean angry or erratic. it refers to a person suffering from psychosis, a loss of touch with reality that includes hallucinations and/or delusions. psychotic people are not inherently violent and y'all need to understand how much stigma you create when you again and again incorrectly use the word psychotic without even thinking about it
My uncle is autistic so he has sensory sensitivities, and he's largely nonverbal so he can't tell you what those sensitivities Are, so what he does is, if you give him a shirt that is a bad texture, he goes and gets his scissors and he cuts it into tiny little pieces so no one can ever ask him to wear it ever again, and the thing is is that he is so totally right
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