Silence in the Library

Blog for myself, to make me smile

[classycookiexo]

[capricorn-born]

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

[weaselle]

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[vmohlere]

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[derpyfins]

Hell yeah I'd love a future with more money

[sicklesium-moved-deactivated201]

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

[damncommunists-deactivated20180]

my white friends that have reblogged this give me life

[zelda-tempest]

4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP

[lallamariamhabibi]

If ur white and like this post I fux with u

[birdpapi-deactivated20171121]

^absolutely

[verdant-witch]

5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.

[blackpoeticinjustice]

i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this

[sm0k3-ring-deactivated20160109]

6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death

[satyrical-prince]

Waits for my white mutuals to reblog😌

[anar-tea]

yesyesyesyes

[tomuratoons-moved]

👀

[diangelo-supporter10]

As a white person, I wholeheartedly agree with all of this👆👆👆

[1zashreena1]

I recognize that even tho I’m actively fighting to fix the fucked up system,

unfortunately

I

am

still

benefiting

from

it

[fireflyxsky]

Why yes, please do make fun of us. It makes me happy in lots of colorful, beautiful ways XD

[theoneandonlyredrobin]

This post. All of it. Just. Yes.

[grooveland]

[cricketcat9]

💖💖💖👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This atheist approves

[legowerewolf]

yeah ok I like this take

[memewhore]

[bananahomo]

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

[minakittengaming]

This is huge. Sharing for my US friendos.

[valtsv]

i know it's a little bit toxic but nothing is more satisfying to me than when a fictional character who is generally very dignified, polite, and calm even under pressure is finally persuaded to unleash their anger and it fucking explodes out of them with enough molten volcanic rage to level entire cities

[valtsv]

*holding back the fury of a thousand suns with gritted teeth and clenched fists* i'm fine

[saywhat-politics]

[kautsky-hateblog]

hey so the Democrats are in charge at this very moment. They could enshrine abortion rights in the constitution at this very moment. Why would they wait until after midterms to do something, and if they aren't gonna wait until after midterms, wtf does this have to do with midterms?

[fandomsandfeminism]

The only way to "enshrine it in the constitution" would be to make it an amendment. This requires a 2/3 vote from both the House and the Senate.

Which... wouldn't pass.

I know this is shocking. But "being in charge" doesn't actually mean unlimited power.

This post mentions the midterms because it 1. Could give us a super majority needed for this kind of amendment and 2. Would affect STATE governments which could safeguard abortion on a state level.

[deehellcat]

this. The Democratic edge right now is razor-thin, and the system is not set up to work in that setting. To nail this down, and all the other rights that are in the right-wing's sights next, we need to get rid of ALL Republicans we can, at every level of government. We need as many Dems as humanly possible.

Yeah, I'm pissed at Dems over stuff too, but we cannot afford that right now. And I've always prided myself on voting for whoever I thought was best whatever their party, but at this moment? anybody with an R after their name, I see them as a threat, to my autonomy over my body, people's freedom to marry who they want (oh and not just same sex couples either. Repubs have openly said they think the freedom to marry somebody of a different race should not be allowed either!), birth control, the general right to privacy (like, over what you want to read, what you look at online, et cetera). There are concerns the right will eventually come for the rights to education and the vote, and those are not exaggerated.

VOTE, PEOPLE, VOTE BLUE.

[naonic-blog-deactivated20230221]

John Oliver Buys $15M of Medical Debt for $60K and Forgives It All, Because He Could

Once again John Oliver proves that you can do anything with money and lawyers

[partisan-by-default]

Oliver then proceeded to detail how with $50 and knowledge of the law he was able to successfully apply online to create a debt buying company named “Central Asset Recovery Professionals,” or as Oliver put it, “CARP” named after “a bottom-feeding fish.”

After setting up a rudimentary website for CARP, the satirical, but still real company was offered a $15 million package of medical debt for $60,000.

Oliver explained that the debt was out of statute, which means it is the kind of debt that a collector can only continue to collect, but not sue the debtor for.

Then, instead of chasing down the 9,000 debtors in the debt package as a normal collection agency would, Oliver decided to stage the largest one-time giveaway in television history and work with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to forgive the $15 million with no consequences for the debtors.

[helloquirks]

Okay but now I know what I want to do of I get rich?

[beabaseball]

You dont have to be rich to do a bit of this actually

RIP Medical Debt is a charity (and therefore takes donations). They buy the rights to medical debt and then forgive them. So far they’ve forgiven over 1B in medical debt.

So a little ray of hope for someone out there today.

[shayvaalski]

Donating $10 buys $1,000 of medical debt. This is real, it works, and we’ve done it ourselves. You can too.

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

Incredibly fucking crucial information for Americans where period tracking digitally is concerned: DELETE YOUR DATA, DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND DELETE YOUR APPS

[ikolanatari]

[moonthymes]

anyway jeff bezos could eradicate homelessness. he could literally give each homeless person 100k and it would only take less than .5% of his entire wealth. what the actual god giving fuck

[the-prolefeed]

Why do you think they deserve it

[killin-the-machine]

Well shelter is a basic need, and would at the very least allow them a place where they can get back on their feet. Food water and shelter are necessary for a healthy body and psychology. There’s also the fact that they’re people too, and a little help goes a long way in making a decent community. There’s plenty of reasons

[the-prolefeed]

Yeah they need stuff, but why does every homeless person deserve 0.5% of someone’s income

[teaboot]

You have five hundred apples, and just one day to eat them all. 

You pass by a small crowd of hungry children, and decide you’d rather 455 apples go rotten than give them to some snotty brat who isn’t your problem.

It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for your 500 apples, or that you aren’t the parent of any of those kids. in the moment you decide to walk away, it doesn’t matter why they’re hungry, or who owes who what.

You had the opportunity to help people, you had the ability to help people, you had the resources to help people. You had everything you needed to make a small, tiny little difference in someone’s life, and you decided not to.

What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity?

[just-queer-things]

What are you going to buy in your lifetime that’s worth more to you than your own humanity

[i-sold-my-soul-to-thefandom]

Reblogging for the very, very important lesson

[smarter-than-the-republicans]

Sometimes I wish there were a Hell if only for the visuals of a bunch of rich shit heads wandering around on fire asking “Where’s my money?!”

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

[dduane]

“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

[critter-of-habit]

Passing time in hyperspace

[rudolphsboyfriend]

COVID RESOURCES LINK FOR TAMIL NADU (especially Chennai) AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST

Hey guys, i just wanted to come on here and rant about the covid situation in india for a bit and provide a resource also.

So, it's pretty obvious that the situation in India is absolutely appalling. There's a LOT of posts by other people, even on my own dash that explain the situation far better than i do, so please go check them out if you haven't already, but there's one particular thing i wanna talk about.

It's the fact that a lot of high-school students, around ages 15-18 are coming together and doing a LOT of work to help spread information and resources about contacts and suppliers of oxygen, remdesivir, testing centers, and things like that. I'm in a whatsapp group like this myself and i know just how much work these people are doing so that they can spread the CORRECT information. And while what they're doing is good, its just so SAD to see literal CHILDREN. TEENAGERS. STUDENTS MY AGE. having to step up and do the jobs that adults and especially our "leaders" are supposed to be doing. It is so frustrating and maddening to see the desperation and the necessity that is driving this. They're spending hours a day calling people, collecting different resources and suppliers, verifying these suppliers, contacting offices and corporations and businesses to see if they can provide any help. I'm so glad that we are stepping up to do what we must, but i am simultaneously fuming at everyone who's allowed the situation to escalate to this extent.

I'm sharing a link to an instagram page that has a linktree for a lot of resources in TAMIL NADU, especially around CHENNAI. From what i know, it's run by highschoolers but it's info is pretty up to date and good. Its an insta link but it's public so you don't even need an account the resources are free to check. PLEASE do share even if you don't live around Tamil Nadu, it's so important to get this to as many people as we can.

This is the link for the page

Normally I don't care about how many notes i get but this is possibly my most important post yet so I'm tagging some ppl, moots or no doesn't matter. (No pressure or obligation of course, you don't have to, but if you want to,please share it)

@justa-pipedream @cirishere @klutzyfox @the-stars-love-me @catsandcrabs @ladysminou @whythefuckdoiexist @scintillatea @persephcned @mydogisgaytoo @ohboyimadeactivate @fluffyblanketssupreme @ginasholtsoundboard @notsofabulouslife07

[acti-veg]

https://bookshop.org/

[caniscaballus]

They are making audio and digital books available now too!!

[cardenvondraken]

I found a hardback printing of the Voynich Manuscript on here. This place fucking rocks.

[tengubride-deactivated20241201]

Hey I’m so excited to see this on my dash! I work at an independent bookstore in NY and we were hit insanely hard by the pandemic, like so many other indie bookstores across the country. Bookshop has literally been helping us to keep the lights on. You using stores’ affiliate links to bookshop (you can support my store here) or just browsing it on your own directly impacts our ability to remain in business. Overall Bookshop has raised over 10 million dollars for independent bookstores across America. This site really works!

If you want to buy books from the comfort of your own home without supporting Amazon, please please consider using Bookshop! We are all so thankful for your support!

[acti-veg]

https://bookshop.org/

[caniscaballus]

They are making audio and digital books available now too!!

[cardenvondraken]

I found a hardback printing of the Voynich Manuscript on here. This place fucking rocks.

[tengubride-deactivated20241201]

Hey I’m so excited to see this on my dash! I work at an independent bookstore in NY and we were hit insanely hard by the pandemic, like so many other indie bookstores across the country. Bookshop has literally been helping us to keep the lights on. You using stores’ affiliate links to bookshop (you can support my store here) or just browsing it on your own directly impacts our ability to remain in business. Overall Bookshop has raised over 10 million dollars for independent bookstores across America. This site really works!

If you want to buy books from the comfort of your own home without supporting Amazon, please please consider using Bookshop! We are all so thankful for your support!

[acti-veg]

https://bookshop.org/

[caniscaballus]

They are making audio and digital books available now too!!

[cardenvondraken]

I found a hardback printing of the Voynich Manuscript on here. This place fucking rocks.

[tengubride-deactivated20241201]

Hey I’m so excited to see this on my dash! I work at an independent bookstore in NY and we were hit insanely hard by the pandemic, like so many other indie bookstores across the country. Bookshop has literally been helping us to keep the lights on. You using stores’ affiliate links to bookshop (you can support my store here) or just browsing it on your own directly impacts our ability to remain in business. Overall Bookshop has raised over 10 million dollars for independent bookstores across America. This site really works!

If you want to buy books from the comfort of your own home without supporting Amazon, please please consider using Bookshop! We are all so thankful for your support!

[adoreyou]

anyway while america is taking over social media as usual, syria was literally being bombed overnight by israel. petitions don’t work here, only raising awareness and donating to organisations does so here are some organisations you can support:

Islamic Relief

Islamic Relief USA

Muslim Aid

please feel free to add to this, these are just some i found on twitter! also red cross isn’t a reliable organisation so please don’t donate to them.

[adoreyou]

anyway while america is taking over social media as usual, syria was literally being bombed overnight by israel. petitions don’t work here, only raising awareness and donating to organisations does so here are some organisations you can support:

Islamic Relief

Islamic Relief USA

Muslim Aid

please feel free to add to this, these are just some i found on twitter! also red cross isn’t a reliable organisation so please don’t donate to them.