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kiwi ♪ '93 ♪ social justice ♪ psa

[skygemspeaks]

btw there's nothing wrong with intergenerational friendships and it is in fact super important for teens to have healthy, respectful relationships with the adults in their lives because it will help them more easily identify when an adult is being toxic, manipulative, or otherwise unsavory if they have healthy relationships to go off of.

"A grown ass adult shouldn't have anything in common with a teenager" okay so you're either operating off of an assumption that either teenagers don't have anything of worth to contribute to a conversation, or that adults aren't allowed to have fun hobbies.

I talked to my teenage cousin for like an hour the other day about character motivations and the core themes of one piece and had a blast talking to her! She had some real insightful things to say!

Teenagers are fully realized and complex human beings! You can talk to them about music, books, video games, hobbies, etc. Stop being weird about it

[depsidase]

[ahotknife]

maybe i’m a joyless bitch but i actually do NOT think it’s funny to see women being like “the house is just in my husbands name” or “my husband makes all the money” or “i don’t even know who our mortgage is with” or “the only bank account/credit card is his and i get an allowance” like i do NOT find that cute or romantic and i am begging these women to Stand Up. you should at least be named on the deed to your house and the title to your car and the bank accounts even if you don’t pay for them/earn all the money. you can’t stop existing in the eyes of the law and the credit unions simply because you have a husband. if you’re raising his children and washing his socks half of everything he’s got is yours and it needs to be yours LEGALLY BY NAME. "he takes such good care of me :)" girl you are a PRISONER!! that’s all

[sexhaver]

the sigh of relief i let out after clicking on the last block of spoiler text

[soberscientistlife]

The fact that homelessness is controversial tells you everything you need to know about conservatives.

[thebibliosphere]

Audible just announced to creators that they are lowering prices to “drive more sales,” but retaining the current policy of paying authors 20% royalties while taking 80% for themselves.

So now we’ll be getting less money for “hopefully” more sales 🙃

If it didn't provide an important accesibility feature for kindle whisper sync that so many people asked me for, I would never sign another project up for Audible ever again.

[thebibliosphere]

“In tandem, as the vast majority of Audible content is purchased with a credit, you should expect your average royalty per unit for credit sales to remain steady.”

I love how that’s thrown in like the credit doesn't drastically undersell work and Amazon used to push the “refund and use your monthly credit again” model of using credits, while not telling customers the refund was taken from the authors.

(This was seperate from the tiktok ebook thing btw. Amazon never pushed that.)

Like don’t worry, while we undersell direct purchases, you’ll still get your pittance.

How kind.

[odos-amorphous-dick]

Question, if you have the bones to answer- are other audiobook sites better? If so which ones. My girlfriend has trouble reading due to eyestrain so audiobooks are much easier for her. But also fuck Amazon.

[thebibliosphere]

Across the board, royalty payments for audiobooks are pretty abysmal for authors, but other platforms do pay slightly higher rates.

Libro.fm has a similar monthly credit system to Audible and pays authors between 30-40% in royalties. They also make donations to local indie bookstores in the process, which I like about them.

Kobo also provides similar rates (I think mines is 30%), and their library is rapidly expanding to hopefully rival Audible soon.

Library apps are also a great way to listen to audible books because while we get a very small amount for books checked out, libraries typically pay a MUCH higher lending license fee when they buy the book. (Usually double to triple the retail price.) So please do keep using library service apps!

Scribd is pennies; I think my last royalty rate for them was $1.50 for 7 "purchases," but I'm also not going to tell people not to use Scribd if that's what they can afford.

You can also check to see if authors sell their audiobooks direct from their own storefronts. I have all of mine up on Payhip and am currently uploading secondary files with all the chapters merged into one giant audio file because that's what people have asked for.

I know I earn the most from personal sales, but I also know some others prefer the sales rankings on other sites and the reviews it enables.

But yeah, there are other options. They might not have the same titles as Audible as some authors opt to do Audible exclusives (it gives you a slightly higher royalty, but then you can't sell through any other platform or library), but a lot of them are expanding.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[weezeryuri]

[kisses you tenderly on the lips while holding you like my lover] don’t eat any food with mold on it even if you cut the moldy part off ok?

[weezeryuri]

seriously babe i’m not joking you won’t just get an upset stomach mold poisoning can literally shut down your liver. you also absolutely do not want listeriosis. i am autistic about foodborne illness

[tockthewatchdog]

the older i get the more frustrating i find it how little people recognize or acknowledge it when massive problems start to get solved... i get the concept of focusing on unsolved problems and injustices to keep up the pressure of public opinion, but we should also acknowledge it when great things are accomplished. we just started rolling out the first-ever malaria vaccine which will likely save millions of children's lives. about half a million people die of malaria every year and over half of those deaths are children 5 years old and under. ive seen literally no one i know talking about this huge triumph for humanity

[astronomalyy]

we're also on track to completely restore the ozone layer. we have averted one horrifying environmental catastrophe and we can do it again. our planet is not doomed

[opalcrow]

[despicabledeadpool-deactivated2]

“The U.S. Department of Defense remains to be the nation’s and the world’s biggest polluter, producing 750,000 tons of toxic waste annually. This rate was higher than the toxic waste generated by five of the largest chemical companies combined.” 

https://pollution.news/2018-09-27-why-the-us-military-is-the-worlds-largest-polluter.html

[opalcrow]

Your addition is much appreciated ❤️

[murray-wrathbard]

Some good news among all the bullshit

Hell yeah kings

[yourboykurt]

Hell yeah

[homochadensis]

go dads go

[killy-deactivated20241228]

Between the barbenheimer shit and the grimace shake tiktok trend (e.g., social media users creating organic viral marketing for these products), I don’t think most people hate corporations nearly enough

[killy-deactivated20241228]

This kind of thing where people promote products for free is a corporate wet dream btw. Word-of-mouth (and the memes have the same impact as traditional word-of-mouth) is more convincing to consumers than actual ads, and the corporation doesn’t have to pay for it. Everyone making Barbie memes and shit is doing Warner Bros’s job for them!!!

[headspace-hotel]

Y'all ever get so excited about a scientific paper you're reading that you get chills???

So I thought to myself

Huh, a lot of our invasive species come from China and Japan

And then I thought, huh, I should look up what Kudzu is like in its natural habitat

And I found this article by a team of scientists investigating the history of Kudzu in China

And ohhhhh my goddddd. I'm vibrating with excitement over how cool this is.

The first bombshell that turned my brain inside out:

KUDZU IS NOT WILD. IT IS SEMI-DOMESTICATED.

In China, Kudzu has been a fundamentally important plant for food and textiles throughout history. We have Kudzu cloth that is 6,000 years old!

THIS PLANT CLOTHED AND FED ONE OF THE MOST POPULOUS AND MOST ENDURING HUMAN CULTURES ON EARTH

and in turn

HUMANS SHAPED AND SELECTED FOR ITS TRAITS

*AND*

in its natural range, humans are the main "predator" of kudzu

"Harvest by humans appears to be the major control mechanism in its native areas."

Kudzu is like that because it co-evolved with humans.

WHAT

[headspace-hotel]

YALL

This means

That Kudzu is so highly invasive because—just like most plants evolved to be grazed by herbivores and/or eaten by caterpillars, keeping them in balance with everything else—Kudzu basically evolved to be harvested by humans

The other half of the ecological partnership that keeps Kudzu in balance with everything else isn't a caterpillar or a hoofed beast. It's us.

[depsidase]

[anotherknifeinmyhands]

"EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL TO THE POINT OF STERILE UNFUCKABILITY. " 1 . // 2. // 3. // 4.

[transpondster]

“[Keanu] Reeves said a recent conversation about “The Matrix” with a 15-year-old put things into a terrifying perspective. The actor explained to the teenager that his character, Neo, is fighting for what’s real. The teenager scoffed and said, “Who cares if it’s real?” “People are growing up with these tools: We’re listening to music already that’s made by AI in the style of Nirvana, there’s NFT digital art,” Reeves said. “It’s cool, like, Look what the cute machines can make! But there’s a corporatocracy behind it that’s looking to control those things. Culturally, socially, we’re gonna be confronted by the value of real, or the non-value. And then what’s going to be pushed on us? What’s going to be presented to us?” “It’s this sensorium. It’s spectacle. And it’s a system of control and manipulation,” Reeves continued. “We’re on our knees looking at cave walls and seeing the projections, and we’re not having the chance to look behind us.””

—

Keanu Reeves Slams Deepfakes, Film Contract Prevents Digital Edits - Variety

[invertprivileges]

[unpretty]

oh my god did the texas judge just override the cap on the alex jones judgment

[unpretty]

In Texas, Sandy Hook parents get full $49M award from Alex Jones

A Texas judge disregarded a state law capping punitive damages at $750,000, ordering...