The Public Library

He/They/She ~ Call me Levi ~ Writer etc. ~ Shakespeare enthusiast ~ various semi-obscure fandoms ~ Reads a lot ~ Often silly; sometimes serious ~ Increasingly verbose ~ 😎

[fairuzfan]

Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

[only-cat-memes]

[soapdispensersalesman]

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[zevveli]

StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.

[redpandarascal]

stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.

[musashi]

bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.

[lesbiassoon]

mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."

[no-one-offical]

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[totally-cis-offical]

I used to love take me to a useless website

[transtenzin]

not to be maya on side but please do not call someone or something “mayan” when talking about our people, culture, etc. “mayan” refers to our language family (a language FAMILY, in which there are plenty of unique languages). we are the maya, not the mayans. i am maya, not mayan. it is the indigenous maya community, not the indigenous mayan community. 

[transtenzin]

you can reblog this 😔

[meanbuddhist]

identifying a maladaptive coping mechanism is so bitter sweet like that’s great now i know what i need to stop doing. but that’s literally my something

[scarletbees]

hi im a 19yo trans girl in southern michigan. i was kicked out a month ago by my transphobic grandparents and now im living out of my car with my fiancée. she has been in the er four times in the last three weeks and we need money to survive.

pls donate

Donate to help homeless trans woman and her fiancée find stability, organized by scarlet lovelace

Hi, I'm a 19 year old homeless lesbian trans woman in souther… scarlet lovelace needs your support for help homeless trans woman and her fia

[nyancrimew]

please help my friend stay safe!

[medievaljournalist]

scientists have made a breakthrough in the cultivation of christobacteria from samples left on the holy grail, bringing us one step closer to a vaccine against divinity

[sandersstudies]

I think it’s actually essential as elective GLP1 companies continue to glamorize malnourishment that I never shut up about being a girl who eats and loves food and enjoys food and enjoys being FULL and satisfied and satiated

I am a human being who enjoys carbs and sugars and grease and fat and salt and big portions because my prehistoric ancestors LIVED by it and put those cravings into my genes

[sandersstudies]

Went out and got the most DELECTABLE flautas today my friends. Everyone (but ESPECIALLY girls, women, and fems) tell me your most recent incredible food experience, or a food experience you are looking forward to.

[rainbowgaez]

evil great lakes

lake inferior

lake normal

lake offtario

lake hurton

lake michigan

[jackiefactotum]

I don’t even know. I’ve been having a really bad day. Have some sharks.

[truelovevip-deactivated20190324]

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Wait… Isn’t Ed Balls day coming up? ED BALLS DAY, I HAVE TO GET READY TO CELEBRATE 

[thewalrusfrompingu]

What’s Ed Balls day?

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Omg, okay explanation time. 

On the 28th of April, 2011, Ed Balls got a Twitter account. He decided (as most people under the spotlight do) to attempted to look up his own name. However, all he did was tweet “Ed Balls”. This, for some reason, got retweeted by THOUSANDS of people. On a global scale. And because he didn’t know you could delete a tweet it stayed. Every year since then,the 28th of April is Ed Balls day. 

This is the infamous tweet

and here are some gems to celebrate that have followed the years, including last year where they framed the tweet and got him to sign it for charity

There are also LOADS MORE in this article from the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11566593/Ed-Balls-Day-fourth-anniversary-of-that-tweet.html 

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2017 WOOOP

[never-a-good-thing-to-have-deac]

Now that the clock has struck midnight…

HAPPY ED BALLS DAY 2018 WOOOOOOOOOOP

[lavender-and-red]

IT’S HERE

[flapjacques]

[officialyoda-deactivated2024050]

does anybody else remember that reality show where they gaslit a bunch of americans into thinking they were competing to marry prince harry but it was really just some guy

[officialyoda-deactivated2024050]

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[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Humanity in War

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

[cryptotheism]

Infohazards are not real

[cryptotheism]

Information cannot infect you. It cannot make you do something you don't want to do.

[chechula]

Hobbits are coming back to the Shire ♥

[chechula]

@christinefromsherwood

but Jiří Trnka illustrated Hobbit… well, he made few concepts for movie but those are great:

[cryptotheism]

Natural non-affected dialogue is one of the most difficult parts of writing imo. These mfers all sound like they're in a book.

[cryptotheism]

There's just so many things it's your job to represent! Just through dialogue you have to show every layer of a person; how they present themselves to the world, how they act when unobserved, the tension between their thoughts and speech, what they reveal unintentionally and intentionally, how they say one thing when they mean another. Half the time what comes out the other end sounds like garbled effusive nothing-speak, or the ridiculous melodrama of a team shooter character with their ult gauge filled.

[cryptotheism]

All dialogue exists on a spectrum between "okay." And "I can't wait to use my poison blast!!"