Maybach Music

The artist formerly known as Kristen

[palesoftangel]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[wowwforever]

if parks and rec was still being made they’d do a bit where ron swanson has to wear a pronouns name tag and it’d just be “???/???” And it’d cut to a talking head of him going

“I’ve been a fool all this time. It’s bad enough the government knows my name, but now they want to know my gender? So I’m not letting them know my preferred pronouns. As far as I’m concerned, no one in this building should refer to me at all.”

[iwilleatyourenglish]

“get a job” as an insult: piddlin. implies one’s value is determined by employment. feeds into capitalistic ideals

“get a hobby”: strong. cutting. implies that instead of feeding your soul and potentially creating something beautiful, you are here bothering me.

[sweetlikeacherry]

sometimes being out of the loop is self preservation

[skatalite]

so far my favorite moment in Reykjavík was when I saw this guy just leave his little ginger cat with the id checker outside a liquor store before he went inside as if it was like a backpack or something

[stevie-crossing]

The cat was probably underage

[oneheadtoanother]

[severalbadpunslater]

[kittygallore]

“Take a picture of me in my new home”

[liberalsarecool]

Language matters. Change the narrative.

[seymour-butz-stuff]

[guooey]

[commradequestions]

That is the cutest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen

[red-berin]

[txttletale]

it's very very funny that george orwell tried to imagine a fucked up dystopia and came up with 'what if there was a big evil state apparatus that left the poors alone but oppressed and tortured specifically only middle class intellectuals'

[girljeremystrong]

why is this so funny

[freedominthedarkmp3]

I miss when library books used to have little paper pockets inside with a list of all the people who borrowed it and when... I hate that this is now exclusive knowledge of librarians. I do care that a miss Mariana borrowed this book in 1985 and then Dario in 1997. They're my brothers and sisters

[elasticitymudflap]

but really, there's a million reasons why it's an issue for users and staff of the public library to have immediate access to a record of who has borrowed a specific item and when.

and that's not even about keeping the information "privileged" to the library staff, these days they don't even keep a digital record of an item's history of borrowers; once you return a book, there isn't a list of everyone thats ever taken that book out that your name gets added to (though they probably take a tally of how many times it is checked out for circulation statistics).

i think the card system is a remnant of a culture that could only exist in the world before the internet as it exists today, where this identifying kind of information wasn't always readily at your fingertips, even for those at the "information professional" level.

don't get me wrong here, i do understand the nostalgia factor to it as being part of a different time, but i think it's always important to understand why this kind of system has its flaws and has been (at least in north america) taken out of practice

[umjammertammy]

bear in mind that US public libraries spent most of the past twenty years fighting off lawsuits that they were prohibited from disclosing to the public because when 9/11 happened the federal government wanted a list of every person who read certain books and the librarians had a really bad feeling about where that kind of policy would end up going, for some reason.

not keeping the records in the first place is a way for the libraries to protect themselves when they stand up for your privacy.

[hsavinien]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_FBI_has_not_been_here.jpg

This was a thing in multiple libraries. We really want to protect your freedom to access information.

[rosebramblewolf]

they were prohibited from telling us when the fbi had been through to check who was reading what. so they told us when they hadn't been. anyway librarians are heroes for privacy and freedom of information

[toastbutteregg]

[kittygallore]

Apology accepted

[toastbutteregg]