“The police don’t target black people,” says the white person.
“LGBTQ+ people have plenty of protection,” says the straight, cisgender person.
“Women don’t feel harassed at work,” says the man.
“Poor people don’t need more government help,” says the rich person.
“Immigrants feel welcome here,” says the natural-born citizen.
Please stop invalidating the concerns of people who have problems that you’re not experiencing. Instead, listen to them, and learn what you can do to help.
“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
If this post persuades even one person to get a free library account and use it, my time on this hellsite will not have been spent in vain
Curriculum is about preparing minds to think and reason, it's not about parental control and subordination. Banning books is small-minded.
so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!
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Heading into a new year with k n o w l e d g e 🐢
Let's be honest, reading books and buying books are two completely different hobbies.
Can everyone who reads this PLEASE reblog it?!?!? Libraries literally saved my life as a child!
Being abused at home, bullied at school and lost in the world, the library and all the books I could escape to the most amazing worlds, kept me alive!
I would walk to the library, and spend all day, from 10 am to 9 pm reading there!! I got special awards for how many books I read, I wrote little blurbs on why i loved the books (probably why I love to BETA and do ARCs)
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE Just hit the green arrows and the reblog!!!
As a 50 year old woman, the library offers me so much. Digital art pads to borrow, 3D printing, book clubs that are face to face (yeah, the introvert likes face to face because a moderator will stomp on anyone getting snarky)
New books in LARGE PRINT! I’m visually challenged and as much as I love my kindle, The feel of a real book in my hands will always be a beloved feeling!
Our library also has quarterly books sales of almost free books!! For 5$USD we get in a day early and can buy as many as we want. Anyone else has to wait and there is a limit for the first 2 days.
Also many, many libraries have inter library loan(it may be called something different). This means if they don’t have the item you want, they can get it for you. This may include photocopy/pdf of articles. This can also include along with books and DVDs, microfilm/fiche which is also a huge resource. Check around for libraries that are listed as depositories if you want to look at government documents.
Remember that many colleges and universities have open stacks for the public. You will likely have to pay a membership fee but you will get to stuff.
I love the library ☺
The library was one of my favorite places to go as a kid and I still live to go and just. Sit and read. Or do homework. The university I’m at has a massive 8-story one I love to just wonder around in~ Great places
Rupert has had his Covid vaccination!
“Just got jabbed. Thank you Matt!! Very easy…”
Wonderful news (and as Susie said “Thankfully the mask covers the moustache”!)
ETA: and for those asking about the t-shirt, Rupert replied that it’s this Echo & The Bunnymen one:
The thing with telling “cliche” stories, but with representation, is… these stories aren’t cliche for us.
Picture this. The people at the table next to you have been getting chocolate cake as a dessert for YEARS. After every meal, they get a chocolate cake. Now, it’s been years, and the people at that table can barely stand chocolate anymore. They want maybe a cheesecake. Or lemon mousse.
But your table? Has NEVER had chocolate cake. Mousse is also good, but you are SO hungry for that chocolate cake, cause you never had it before, and it’s brand new for you, and you’ve been watching the other table eat it for YEARS.
That’s what’s like getting a “cliche” story that’s representative. Has it been done a million times before? Yes. Has it ever been done for US? Well… no. Maybe it’s the 500th chocolate cake in existence, but all the other chocolate cakes weren’t meant for us (girls/PoC/queer folk/disabled folk/etc)
So it being cliche is not a bad thing. You may not want chocolate cake anymore. But we want our slice too.
As The Office (US) on Netflix in the US returns to the UK and US’s NBC’s Peacock I would like to list my favorite episodes of each season. These are not all the most awkward, funniest, heart warming or memorable or even my favorites, but, for me they are the ones that I always go back to for a cozy, re-watch.
Cheers to a better 2021 and that we all use 2020 as an eye-opening experience for a better tomorrow.
Season One: Hot Girl
Season Two: The Injury
Season Three: A Benihana Christmas
Season Four: Money
Season Five” Lecture Circuit (Parts One and Two)
Season Six: Murder
Season Seven: Dwight K. Shrute (Acting Manager)
Season Eight: The Incentive
Season Nine: A.A.R.M.
1. Season Five, Episode Sixteen: Lecture Circuit part 1
When Jim and Dwight explain to the camera crew (and us) what happened with the Party Planning Committee and Kelly's missed Birthday Celebration.
2. Season Eight, Episode Sixteen: After Hours After Dwight first works to seduce Nellie and then changes his mind, partially prompted by Jim, and Jim spends all night trying to get rid of Crazy Cathy, they end up eating dessert together and watching TV.
3. Season Four, Episode Four: Money First, Jim empathizes with Dwight about Angela by explaining that he really left Scranton because of Pam. How he couldn't eat, food didn't have taste and how he wouldn't wish that on anyone--including Dwight. Here, the heartbreaking and also crucial Jim/Dwight moment is that Dwight reached out to Jim after and was equally willing to be vulnerable.
4. Multiple Episodes: whenever Jim realizes he knows more personal information about Dwight:
Important comparison, Jim does not remember Andy's grandmother's name is Ruth,
5. Season Nine, Episode Thirteen: Junior Salesman Jim knew that Dwight designed a uniform for Dunder Mifflin
Bonus: It's four uniforms: Summer, Winter, Jungle and Formal
6. Season Three, Episode Twelve: Traveling Salesman After giving in his resignation to Dunder Mifflin for Angela, when he sees Jim outside in the parking lot, first they pause and then Dwight goes up and gives him and hug.
7. Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Four: Dwight K Shrute Acting Manager After Jim comments that it was the right call for Dwight to no longer be acting manager, but adds that while Dwight was Manager " In your one week, every single one of the orders went out on time, and I think that is shagadellic baby” which we know cheers Dwight up as he pauses and slightly nods.
8. Season Eight, Episode Eighteen: Last Day in Florida When Jim continues to physically block Dwight from going to the Board meeting about the Sabre retail stores so Dwight won't be fired.
9. Season Five, Episode Seven: Customer Survey When Jim does make sure to emphasize with Dwight that he was "right" when it came to their customer service reviews, and that Dwight "Knew it the whole time, buddy"
10, Season Seven, Episode Eighteen: Todd Packer When Jim and Dwight team up to get rid of Packer.
PS--Yes, I see the majority of this list is Jim-action heavy. I wondered a bit about that and while Dwight didn't do much to 'mend' his relationship with Jim, he also didn't have to. While Jim mostly did things "in good fun" and continued to pull some pranks on Dwight, he was the one that had to do the more actionable changes for their relationship to thrive since he was the one who was childish in how he interacted with Dwight in the beginning.
Dwight's Best Moment: Season Three, Episode Twenty-One: Women’s Appreciation How he instantly runs out to catch who flashed Phyllis.
Dwight's Worst Moment: Season Five, Episode Two: Weight Loss When he drives, and abandons, Phyllis in 'a bad part of town' so she'll lose more weight.
Dwight's Best Line: Season Five, Episode When Jim attacks Dwight's decorating capabilities and specifically to the colors of the balloons being brown and grey balloons and he responds:
"They match the carpet."
Dwight's Most Memorable Moment: Season Six, Episode Nine: Double Date
After he spends the whole day trying to get everyone in the office to 'owe him one' but Andy keeps best him he gets frustrated and explains in the interview how he could've grown poison mushrooms that would be barely an inch high by now, but he puts it as a big deal because in reality they don't grow that much, because they're mushrooms.
Pam's Best Moment: Season Seven, Episode Two: Counseling
When and how she interacts with everyone in the office to get her Office Administrator Job--it's not the most moral but it does show that she would be good and knows the office well.
Pam's Worst Moment: Season Five, Episode Ten: The Surplus When she throws out the tiramisu Jim brought her because he wouldn't take her side in the chairs v. copier debate.
Pam's Best Line: Season Nine, Episode Sixteen: Moving On When she lives mid-day to interview for a job in Philadelphia and Andy asks her where she's going she just replies:
“Not on a three-month boat trip.”
Pam's Most Memorable Moment: Season Five, Episode Nineteen: Golden Ticket When going through Michael's list of prepared reasons for skirting a phone call (being at the civil rights rally, stopping a fight in the parking lot, an Obama fashion show, having a colonoscopy) and that's she's saving that Michael is “trapped in an oil painting”.
1. Season Three, Episode Twenty-Three: The Job How Phyllis, Karen, Pam and Angela genuinely try to help Michael through his relationship and encourage him to be remain broken up with Jan.
2. Season Three, Episode Sixteen: Business School
Michael putting Pam’s painting in the office.
3. Season Three, Episode Eight: The Merger When Ryan and Phyllis answer the Stanford branches concerns about how Michael usually is, how they get work done, and how they'll get home.
4. Season Three, Episode Ten: A Benihana Christmas When Pam gets Toby back the robe, or a replacement robe, they all got as Christmas gifts from corporate that Michael stole from him.
5. Season Nine, Episode Twenty-One: Livin the Dream
When Pam is upset that neither Jim nor Dwight are in her desk clump anymore.
6. Season Three, Episode Four: Grief Counseling When Jim insists that Karen gets her Hertz potato chips, before she start any other work.
7. Season Three, Episode Nineteen: Safety Training When they all start dropping cash off on Ryan’s desk as he bet how long it would take for Kelly to explain to him how Netflix works.
8. Season Nine, Episode Twenty-Three: Finale
When Stanley makes Phyllis that stand of her, with bird legs, and while she's showing it off to the camera crew she's bursting into tears.
9. Season Five, Episode Five: Crime Aid When Darryl, and the rest of the warehouse crew, auctions for whoever to "go out for a beer with them right now."
10. Season Two, Episode Nine: Email Surveillance Kelly (to Oscar and Stanley) “I’m sorry guys, can we please not talk about paper. There’s gotta be something else we can talk about.”
Jim's Best Moment: Season Six, Episode Eleven: Shareholder Meeting When he asserts himself as a manager by moving Ryan's office to the closet in front of everyone.
Jim's Worst Moment: Season Three, Episode Thirteen: The Return When he “pranks” Andy by hiding his phone in the ceiling; more because he already saw how Andy reacted in Scranton when Jim put his calculator in Jell-O.
Jim's Best Line: Season Five, Episode Twenty-One: Two Weeks “About a week ago Michael gave his two weeks notice, and surprisingly, there is a very big difference between Michael trying and Michael not trying.”
Jim's Most Memorable Moment: Season Five, Episode Twelve: The Duel When he walks between Andy and Dwight as they shout at each other before their duel.
1. Season Three, Episode Four: Grief Counseling
When Pam and Ryan, and then Kevin tell fake grief stories based on movies.
2. Season Five, Episode Three: Business Ethics
3. Season Seven, Episode Thirteen: Ultimatum
⦁ Creed wanting to learn how to do a cartwheel (Ditto). ⦁ Kevin not knowing how to eat broccoli.
4. Season Seven, Episode Nineteen: Garage Sale Conference room meeting where Oscar, Ryan, Jim and Pam all work with Michael to plan the perfect proposal to Holly.
5. Season Two, Episode Twenty: Drug Testing When Pam sets up Jim to tell “the story about a friend who got caught up in the world of drugs” knowing per jinx he couldn’t speak.
6. Season Four, Episode Four: Money When Michael is supposed to be teaching everyone PowerPoint but forgot, then the meeting get sidelined to the universally confusing question: Is whom a real word, and if so, when do you use it?
7. Season Six, Episode Twenty-Five: The Chump
When the meeting gets refocused on how to shoot Bin-Laden, Hitler and Toby with only two bullets.
8. Season Four, Episode Four: Money The Conference room meeting held at Michael’s other job as a telemarketer at the Lipaphedrine Diet-pill Company--they love him.
9. Season Two, Episode Twenty-One: Conflict Resolution When Michael mediates between Angela and Oscar through the five mediation techniques.
10. Season Four, Episode Seven: Survivor Man
The Conference room meeting, that wasn't. Jim is trying to end the all the birthday parties as they waste time, but almost gets tricked into having a conference meeting about it per Pam's suggestion.
Kevin’s Best Moment: Season Nine, Episode Fourteen: Vandalism When he stands up for Angela and Oscar to Senator Lipton. First, nicely thanking him for the food, then telling the Senator that he sucked, before complimenting him again on the food.
“You’re, like, a terrible person. These guys care about you, and you’re just using them.”
Kevin’s “Worst” Moment: Season Seven, Episode Nineteen: Garage Sale When he lets Darryl and Andy "play" him with his incomplete Dallas board game where they frustrate him by playing by whatever rules they want and he storms off. Only for us to see later that was all part of his plot to get the full $30 gamble.
Kevin’s Best Line: Season Six, Episode Five: Niagara Part 2. "The peeing is fast, Oscar. It's getting my tie back on."
Kevin’s Most Memorable Moment: Season Nine, Episode One: New Guys
Angela’s Best Moment: Season Three, Episode Thirteen: The Return
When she invites Oscar to join the Party Planning Committee. I believe she does this as part of an olive branch because she feels bad about what happened with Oscar on some level, but also what happened to Dwight and that maybe overall there are some changes she needs to make.
Angela’s Worst Moment: Season Five, Episode Three: Business Ethics
When during the Business Ethics meeting she tells everyone how she once reported Oscar to the I.N.S. That’s bad enough, but to follow up with she’s glad she did it—not okay.
Angela’s Best Line: Season Three, Episode Twenty-One: Women’s Appreciation
“Sometimes, the clothes at GapKids are too flashy. So I’m forced to go to the American Girl Store and order clothes for large colonial dolls.”
Angela’s Most Memorable Moment: Season Three, Episode Eighteen: The Negotiation
When she goes around asking various coworkers about what happened with Roy and ‘the fight’, getting people to tell her what Dwight did…because it turns her on.
Oscar’s Best Moment: Season Four, Episode Thirteen: Job Fair
When after Michael says that he wouldn’t say it to her face but he thinks Pam is a wonderful person who is a gifted artist; Oscar responds “Why--why wouldn’t you say that to her face?”
Oscar’s Worst Moment: Season Nine, Episode 11: Suit Warehouse
When he just ‘assumes’ Meredith would mispronounce espresso
“Actually, it’s pronounced Espresso. Wait. That’s what you said. I apologize. I just assumed you would mispronounce it. So..”
Oscar’s Second-Best Line: Season Nine, Episode One: New Guys
After Angela tells him if “if you pray enough, you can change yourself into a cat person”
And he responds “those guys always turn back, Angela”
Oscar’s Most Memorable Moment: Season Three, Episode Thirteen: The Return
“Part of me wants the people in this office to have learned their lesson and just shut the hell up, and part of me thinks ‘You know what? Keep talking. I’d really love a home theatre’”
1. Season Two, Episode Twelve: The Injury (Ryan) “ I ground up four extra strength aspirin and put them in Michael’s pudding, I do the same thing with my dog to get him to take his heart worm medicine.”
2. Season Three, Episode Five: Initiation (Stanley) “I wake up every morning in a bed that’s too small, drive my daughter to a school that’s too expensive then I go to work to a job for which I get paid too little…but on Pretzel day, well I like Pretzel day.”
3. Season Three, Episode Twenty: Product Recall (Kelly and Angela) Kelly "This day is bananas. B-AN-A-N-A-S. This day is bananas. B-A-N-A"
Angela "I don't have a headache. I'm just preparing."
4. Season Five, Episode Twenty-Six: Casual Friday (Jim) “ I’m just hiding out until all this stuff blows over. With Creed. Playing chess. At work. He’s winning. Ifeel like I’m describing a dream I had.”
5. Season Seven, Episode Fifteen: The Search (Erin) “Holly is ruining Michael's life. He thinks she's so special and she's so not. Her personality is like a three, Her sense of humor is a two. Her ears are like a seven and a four. Add it all up, and what do you get? 16. And he treats her like she's a perfect forty, it's nuts."
