“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year
file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever
no, i dont lose hyperfixations. theyre just moved to a different, slightly less used, shelf in my brain.
"On April 17, 2025, Ibrahim shared moving messages about his terrifying experience after surviving an Israeli shooting attack while on the beach with his friends—"the little ones," he called them—who did not survive. He says he lives in a constant state of fear and has lost his home, his school, and the places he loved to spend time.
He has been displaced several times and lost many relatives in bombings. Adding to the pain, his parents suffer from health problems due to the lack of proper care, which is beyond the capacity of any child to bear.
Prices in Gaza are extremely high for everything: food, medicine, and even evacuation are expensive. Ibrahim dreams of completing his studies, but this dream is now threatened.
If you can help, your donation can help save his family and help them survive until the borders open and they can leave."
too sleepy to elaborate at this time but I miss the old fandom culture of interacting with fanfic writers and fanfic artists as members of the fandom community who enjoyed engagement and discussion and feedback instead of the modern trend of seeing us as content creators up on a pedestal who don't need positive feedback but DO need to churn out constant content to feed the a03 machine
Troy and Abed
I got art block what should I do
Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:
• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.
• Baby Gronk was mentioned.
• We discussed the Rizzler.
• “Cunty” was nominated.
• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.
• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”
• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.
• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”
Devil on my shoulder: We have work in eight hours if we go to sleep right now we'll be reasonably rested in time to do labor
Angel on my shoulder: We need to see more of this canned fish reviewer guy's youtube channel. He's got something special going on.