why are superheroes always so worried about using their powers for ‘unnecessary’ stuff like the world isn’t going to end because you used your telekinesis to float the TV remote over to your hand lol
if i had powers i would use them to levitate a few inches off the ground at all times so that i’d always be taller than whoever i was talking to and if anyone tried to tell me i couldn’t i would simply float above their head making rude noises and gestures every time they tried to speak for the rest of the day
Superman canonically uses his heat vision to shave and doesn’t buy oven mits because he can just hold scalding hot metal without an issue
i think in the wake of game of thrones season 8 being so mindbogglingly horrible, people tend to forget how stupid seasons 5-7 were as well. my favorite moment in the show still remains when cersei blew up the most revered religious building in the country with the most popular royals inside and it had zero - and i mean literally zero - consequence. not even a mildly negative reaction from the people of kingslanding. imagine if the president of italy blew up the vatican with the pope and the kardashians inside and no one batted an eye.
I hate people that are like “oh you shouldn’t curse. Use proper words. Only people with a small vocabulary uses curse words” like no Karen fuck is exactly the word I’m looking for.
Because saying you are and idiot is one thing
Saying you are a fucking idiot is another
Similarly, trying to be all fancy and calling someone a “blight on the world” simply has a different energy and weight to it than calling them a fucking asshole.
You wouldn’t use a rapier in the same situation you’d use a folding chair.
“You wouldn’t use a rapier in the same situation you’d use a folding chair.” Is the best allegory for using curse words and I’ve ever seen and I love it.
Radical librarian Jason Griffey (previously) wants librarians to continue their 21st century leadership in the resistance to surveillance and persecution – a proud record that includes the most effective stands against GW Bush’s Patriot Act – by pledging to make libraries safe havens from trumpism and its evils: electronic surveillance; racial and gender-based discrimination; and the assertion that ideology trumps empirical reality.
Neutrality favors the powerful, and further marginalizes the marginalized. In the face of the current political climate, with the use of opinions as bludgeons and disinformation as the weapon of choice for manipulation and intellectual coercion, it is up to those who value fact and believe in the care of those in need to stand up and positively affirm that to do otherwise is evil.
For libraries and librarians, that means:
1. Making the physical space of the library safe for those that need it by publicly stating your stance on the targeting of marginalized communities and then following up with actions and policies that back up those statements
2. Protecting your patrons from targeting and oppression, even in the face of possible governmental pressures, by resisting calls for information about your patrons at every level
3. Making your digital spaces safe for you patrons by limiting the data you collect, eliminating the data that you store, encrypting your communications at all levels and importantly insisting that your vendors do the same
4. Running programs that actively provide support for your at-risk patrons, whatever that looks like in your community
5. By being the voice of reason and compassion when dealing with your city or county government, and by modeling the same by advocating for those at risk
These things are vital and necessary. Especially now.
ok but that sign is SO COOL. It is illegal - fucking fuck - for a library to say it has been approached by the FBI. The workaround is that a library can say they have not been approached until, ya know, that’s a lie and they take down the sign.
That is also actually why a lot of libraries no longer keep records of what a person checks out. Like they take broad stats but a lot of computer programs don’t even have the capacity to log what a person has checked out. You can’t disclose what you don’t have.
tldr, librarians can be awesome when we stop doing this neutrality lie.
Why in the hell is that illegal? That’s sketch af guys. Someone in the law making business is shade. Shaaaaaade.
the FBI used to maintain watch lists of books people took out, and librarians didn’t like it, so they told their patrons to work from a book in the library so they didn’t go on the watch list, or took the books out themselves, so the FBI got really pissed at them and got the lawmakers to make it illegal to warn them
but librarians are smart wily fuckers - the FBI didn’t stand a chance
Librarians are quiet front-line fighters when it comes to authoritarianism. When I worked as a librarian, I had to take an oath to protect and to serve the public’s access to knowledge and right to privacy.
These guys are serious.
Librarians have always been quiet, steadfast heroes.
The keeping of knowledge and information is a serious job that requires someone who understands it’s importance and takes it deathly serious.
…dude, librarians are and will always be modern-day heroes and guardians. :O They’re SO COOL.
