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.
It however does not cast Social Services in a bad light. Cobra Bubbles does a lot to try to keep Lilo in Nani’s custody and I hate how overlooked that is. He legit shows remorse when he does try to take Lilo, which he only did because of her very reasonibly alarming phone call and the destruction of their house. Point is they didn’t make social services into a heartless judgy entity
they actually made a good point about how a system originally designed to be consistent and fair can also lack the sensitivity and flexibility needed to deal with complex situations. this is shown both when Stitch is labeled a monster and when Nani is judged for not being able to earn a living and constantly watch Lilo at the same time. Neither happened because the people making the calls were cruel–Bubbles and the Grand Councilwoman seem to mean well, but both were expected to make judgments very quickly by their organizations… and both used loopholes to make kinder, fairer decisions for our heroes.
Also community support. Bubbles is still around being friendly with Nani and Lilo, and tbh once Nani got the help she needed she was fine. Tbh when I watched the movie I got HELLA frustrated with those that turned Nani down for a job due to the shenanigans of Lilo and Stitch. Did they think that would be all the time? Surely they understood that Nani wouldn’t always have them. And what about those around her that were friends and family? Could David not have stopped surfing for a day to watch Lilo while Nani went out job hunting? It really hammered home how if you know someone needs help maybe a day of helping them would be all they need.
Found family, community support, no real villain…Lilo and Stitch was perfection.
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