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albaharu:

Me, reading GTN for the first time, biased for the Gideon POV narration: why everyone is so mean to Gideon why arent they befriending her when she is so cool???

Gideon most of the book:

“Gonna spend my time not talking and standing in the shadows full in black”

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marlinspirkhall:

orcboxer:

orcboxer:

orcboxer:

Should go without saying but never date a cop and christ never marry one. Rule of thumb if he’s legally untouchable he’s ethically unfuckable. You don’t like that cop, you like buff men in tight clothing. I can show you more of those, better ones. Take my hand.

Hi guys. This post ain’t about stereotyping random professions (farriers????), it’s about how cops are effectively legally untouchable and if they hurt you, you have virtually no recourse. A quality that none of those other professions have. It’s the inherent power imbalance of being bound to someone who can’t be prosecuted.

The “firemen cheat” thing is actually a myth, union workers are both hot and professionally stable, paramedics are stressed out but otherwise fine, physical workers are not inferior to “thinkers” don’t be fuckin classist, and “watch out for Farriers” is maybe the funniest thing anyone’s ever said on this post.

like the fuck are they gonna do lmao

Having beef with the horse cobbler is objectively hilarious

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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.

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paiveus:

some Azula sketches I really liked

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anarchoecology:

hater-of-terfs:

redshoesnblueskies:

hater-of-terfs:

Solidarity with children is often neglected or even made a joke of, so I wanna take a second and tell y'all what I wish I could go back in time and tell myself:

You’re right. School is bullshit, homework is bullshit, waking up early is bullshit, going to bed early is bullshit. Some adults are just pointlessly cruel, even those in positions of authority over you. Sometimes adults are wrong, and, in fact, sometimes you are right

You were born with an innate sense of justice and fairness and adults have spent your entire life trying to beat it out of you so you’ll shut up and do what you’re told in an unjust and unfair society. Don’t let them. Many of us have to take effort to relearn the wisdom you have right now, the ability to tell when something is bullshit even if you can’t articulate why yet

You deserve happiness, fulfillment, and liberation just as much as any adult. Those first 18 years are just as important as any other time in your life, and it’s time you’ll never get back. Don’t let anyone take them from you just because you’re too young to fight back

Question everything, and never take “that’s just the way it is” as an answer. Sometimes when things don’t make sense to you it’s because they just don’t make any goddamn sense

Pick your battles, and be strategic. Don’t take this post as permission to go starting fights for no reason. But remember that you have worth, and our society tends to not respect that. And you’re right: that is bullshit

(also, read Anarchy Works)

also also, read The Teenage Liberation Handbook

Haven’t read it myself, but if it interests you then you can read it here for free in case paying for a book online and having it shipped to your house isn’t an option for you

Also check out No! Against Adult Supremacy

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the-jesus-pill:

Teaching children thinking bad thoughts about someone is the same thing as murdering that person is fucked up. 

Thought crime doesn’t exist. No one has ever been harmed or killed by someone thinking negative thoughts about them. 

You know what has harmed people though? Teaching them they are evil for things they can’t control. Especially those who have intrusive thoughts. 

Here’s for everyone who has been taught their thoughts make them evil.

• Intrusive thoughts are not your secret desires. 
• They are involuntary. 
• You don’t need to be ashamed of them. 
• They will pass.
• You are not committing taboo. 
• No one can read your mind.
• No one will ever know what’s in your thoughts unless you feel like telling them.
• No one can judge you for what you are thinking, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
• Your thoughts are private
• You are not a bad person.

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astraltrickster:

This post is your reminder that you are not obligated to blog about current events.

Things are bad. Really bad. Do not let people guilt trip you into tormenting yourself even further over the fact that things are bad. Doomscrolling is not activism.

If you’re just on tumblr to blorbopost or reblog pretty pictures, you are not harming people by inaction.

You are not a bad person for not dedicating every aspect of your life and leisure space to whatever disgusting mask-off attack on human life and dignity some government has decided to enact.

Take action where you can, but don’t confuse doomscrolling and digital self harm for action.

If you need to lose yourself in blorboposting, go for it.

If you need to log off for the day, whether it’s to take irl action or to protect what little sanity any of us have left over the past 7 years, then by all means, do.

Morale is important. Hope is important. Small joys keep us from burning out completely in times like this. Do not let any “if you don’t reblog this I’m judging you” guilt trip convince you otherwise.

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ratatoskrr:

Update: finished my sea themed denim jacket

It’s got the knitting octopus on the back, and waves on the front. It’s made entirely out of old jeans. I like that you can see the wear and tear from its previous life as jeans. It’s inspired by my DnD character, Tidal, a cheerful sea elf.

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f0rgemaster:

tropijcal:

Uruk, Iraq 

The sorta literal translation from the arabic is so much more beautiful

“From here rose the first written letter, (finding its way) to every point on earth”

I like this version more

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hotcupoteckla:

msaprildaniels:

fuzzynecromancer:

whetstonefires:

Okay also I’ve been driving electric cars long enough now to be really emphatic that the fact that they’re not all automatically built with solar panels in the roofs is a scandal.

And somehow almost every time I tell anyone this they roll their eyes and attempt to explain to me that this would not create a perpetual motion machine because of the limitations of the area relative to the power draw of the motor, which is incredibly annoying because that’s not the point.

Yes it’s possible that driving in the sunshine with a solar collector dripping into the battery would net you a little more mileage on that trip before needing recharge, but the usefulness of a solar-topped electric car is that if you drive it someplace–say, to work–and leave it outside in the sun all day, you’ll definitely have more range available by the time you’re ready to head home.

Also if you fuck up your calculations because of the inefficiency induced by cold weather or something and get yourself stranded without anywhere to charge, like halfway up a mountain or, more likely, six miles from home, you can call for rescue or walk away, come back later, and it’ll be able to move again.

This is important because unlike running out of gas you can’t really go get some electricity.

like imagine if some of the energy that turns into face-melting air when you first turn the AC on was stored as electricity instead of going to waste

Imagine if electric cars were designed and sold on their merits as practical devices and not toys for the rich.

Rebloging to scream that last bit to the back

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apas-95:

night’s sleep for 12+ hours: i want to lay here forever if i have to leave this place terrible things will happen

night’s sleep for 9 hours: i am a human animal and i will eat a meal and exercise while engaging in social intercourse

night’s sleep for 6 hours: im up im awake im doing stuff I’m good

night’s sleep for 5 hours: the world is fundamentally an evil place

night’s sleep for 4 hours: the world is an uncaring place

night’s sleep for 3 hours: the world is made of a thin film of breakable craftpaper

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wigdevil:

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assassinregrets:

20th-century-man:

Lucy Lawless

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only-tiktoks:

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mikkeneko:

focsle:

For people in the US, Jewish Voice for Peace has created an easy way to contact your representatives to push them to support Cori Bush’s Ceasefire Now resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, de-escalation of violence, and urgent humanitarian aid. You put your info in, receive an automated call with a script, and when you’re ready it connects you to your congress member. It takes max 3 minutes.

5calls.org also has a script for this.