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A collection of my favorite grace and slimecicles interactions on Twitter
"so what kind of music do you like"
how the fuck do I explain to real actual people that my current favourite song is about fucking jorts
I can literally never interact with another person again
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
I would enjoy some good luck from the potato.
I need some luck right now, so all hail the Lucky Potato. Do your magic, Potato. I respect you so much I am capitalizing the “P” in Potato.
hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)
brennan and lou being PCs on the same side of the table means that we get moments like this for FREE
Allow me to assure you, as a librarian, that if you as a concerned citizen present us with a list of Books that are Bad and should Not Be In Our Collection and which you Require us to Remove At Once, we will scan it for titles that we don’t have yet to add to our purchase list.
Ah, the “limiting access to information is okay if they’re takes I object to” squad has begun to appear.
This is your helpful reminder that:
a) There are legitimate information access needs even to bad information (one cannot, for example, study and deconstruct erroneous information about climate change if you don’t know what people are saying) and it is actually part of my vocation to provide ACCESS to even books I vehemently disagree with. Sometimes I even get to bond with the person checking it out over how appalling it is! Sometimes the reason they’re checking it out is because they need to read it but don’t want to buy it.
b) The presence of a text in a library collection does not imply agreement with or endorsement by the library as an entity; it just means for one reason or another it fits in our collection management policy. Often it’s based on patron requests from community members.
c) The absolute last thing you EVER want is your librarian to be empowered to decide whether your information need is Good Enough to be “allowed” access to the text. You, personally, even you reading this who knows you share the same values as me, do not want your access to be subject to my judgement as to whether or not your information need is “valid”; to be subject to my assessment whether you can be trusted to have access to a text.
I’m not your mom. I’m not even your teacher. I’m your librarian; it’s my job to help you access information YOU need, and YOU decide what that need is. If you ask for my help then sure it’s also my job to help you assess it based on my training and experience, but it is not my job to ARBITRATE your access to information based on my decisions about the legitimacy of your reason to seek it out.
So yes even when that list of books has books on it I think are full of lies I’m probably checking to see if it’s something someone in my community might need access to without having to buy it or expose themselves to the malware risks of pirating.
Because while I kinda hate him Jordan Peterson’s bullshit is RELEVANT to understanding a lot of shit going on today. And you do NOT want to live in a world where it’s my job to test and see if you have a good and pure enough reason for wanting to check his book out.
I’m ages late but:
Excuse me a coworker caught me making a warding sign at fuckin’ Ted Cruz’s piece of shit book the other day, I feel very called out right now.
If you’re concerned that your local library “platforms” a Horrible Perspective too much, one thing you can do about it as a library user is request purchase of books that refute, debunk or answer that perspective. Public libraries in particular very often place “purchase requests from community members” relatively high on the list of reasons to add a book to the collection. You want more queer positive, trans positive, anti-racist, marginalized-author/perspective books on the library shelves? Go request them! Request lots of them! Request them in multiple formats! All the moreso if these are things you’re a domain expert in, because then you know where to start.
Also shout out to all my wonderful sharers-of-field in the various tags and so on y'all are hilarious and everyone needs to buy the law librarians a drink. XD
last month i asked my local librarian how i request she buy things and she was like ‘ahhhhhh well emailing me directly sometimes works? i have all these little pieces of paper with requests on them but they tend to get lost.’ i would never have figured that method out on my own and i don’t think i have the nerve to utilize it.
Your library may have a form for requesting that they buy specific books. Check their website. It’s usually in About Us, or Collections, or Policies.
who wants to see a picture of baby Tommy
damn. super fucked up.
oh, it wasn’t a phase for Miss Girl
she committed to the bit permanently
I love her.
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