The Books I Haven't Read

my currently-reading shelf: 

[feypact]

public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):

brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)

seattle (13-26yo us residents)

boston (13-26yo us residents)

los angeles (13-18yo california residents)

san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)

these cards (part of the books unbanned initiative) get you access to each library's complete libby/overdrive collection (unless otherwise mentioned), no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.

ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!

i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!

i use library extension (firefox/safari/chrome compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.

spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.

[visual-infinity]

Ocean Ramsey and her team encountered this 20 ft Great White Shark near the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is believed to be the biggest ever recorded

[toothybabies]

She’s so beautiful!! 💙💙💙

[ayellowbirds]

SO lovely!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

LORGE PAL :D

[bunjywunjy]

FRIENDS HOLD HANDS

[terrible-tentacle-theatre]

God, I’m obsessed with this video. The way you can see all the scars and craters on her skin, the way the gill slits wave in the current, the sense of just how massive she is compared to that diver… it’s incredible. Just this enormous animal lazily swimming by the camera.

When 99% of the time you only see sharks in sped-up footage accompanied by threatening orchestral music and some narrator dude ominously intoning that it is “the most perfect killing machine the world has ever seen”, you tend to forget sharks are such beautiful creatures. This video doesn’t show a “monster shark” or a “killing machine”. It shows an animal - and a fucking beautiful one at that.

[inscrutablereynard]

@pragnificent

[pragnificent]

She’s so beautiful I’m going to cry. 

[bundibird]

I lose my shit with absolute unfettered delight every single time I see this video. It makes me speechless every time, and I watch it at least 3 times in a row, and there’s a 50/50 chance that I’ll cry, because fuck. Look at her. She’s beautiful. And she’s just,,,, SO peaceful. There’s three swimmers in the water around her, swimming along beside her, and she’s not even a little bit phased. The peace and beauty in this video just. Gets me every time.

[kipplekipple]

I told my daughter that there was a video of a 20 foot shark and she very calmly and deliberately said, “how did it get so many feet? It’s a water animal”

[jaubaius]

A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

[serialreblogger]

!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.

Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food. 

i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!! 

[verdantvulpus]

They’re incredibly smart! And kind!!!

[iamjapanese]

Elizabeth Goddard（American）

1. Wave Action Ⅱ    2. Playful Sea II　3. Circular Wave  2003   4.  Winter Wave Beats Upon the Shore  2006     monotypes   here and here

[ispyspookymansion]

spotify is selling audiobooks now…..once again tapping the sign:

dont give them your money when you could be supporting your local library!

[ieailu]

it’s so crucial that i lay down for a bit

[artisticlog-deactivated20231213]

A new world ☁️💫🌙

[jellyfishstardust]

[bakwaaas]

tea isn’t just a drink it’s a handwarmer it’s an experience it’s a love language it’s a friend it’s

[chromaticabrasions]

caramel frappe give me the strength to clean my room

[chromaticabrasions]

caramel frappe PLEASE

[chromaticabrasions]

#this art is so evocative. it feels like a goya painting 

thank you so much this is the highest compliment

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

Saturn Devouring His Caramel Frappe

[chromaticabrasions]

oh i love this

[tomaspablog]

Casual Teen Titans | Gabriel Picolo

[huariqueje]

Liquid Sunshine   -    Jeanne Rosier Smith

American , b. 1966  -

Pastel , 24  x  24 in.

[highball66]

Nightwing #92

Batdad Moment #1

[antique-symbolism]

What's up Amazon haters! Bookshop.org is doing free shipping to combat Prime Day. Purchases on Bookshop help support the indie bookstores in your location!

[pagesinmylife]

I feel like public libraries don’t get enough hype. Like, you’re telling me all I have to do is give you my name and address and promise to bring the books back and I’m allowed to take as many as i want??? And I can check them out over and over again if I need to??? And I only pay if I damage or lose the book???? If this is where my tax money is going then please keep on taxing.

[everythingfox]

nibble nibble

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[shiveringsoldier]

it’s just that anti-industrialization is one of the strongest themes in Tolkien’s works as a whole and a corporation that’s destroying the environment and is headed by a man who hoards ungodly levels of wealth while surveilling his workers constantly and refusing to pay them a living wage now owns the rights to his works and is treating them as another commercial property and making Tolkien’s works part of the very machine that he condemned