The one morning of the year I let my dogs bark as much as they want, as early as they want outside because fuck your fireworks.
Fuck
And I cannot express this enough
Your fireworks.
💰HEY, BILLIONAIRES! BUY SOME FUN STUFF!💰
Note: the “Blood of the Young” thing is not a joke. Republican-candidate-financer Peter Thiel has pushed for that one.
Yeah, I was going to say. “Blood of the young” is normally an antisemitic blood libel “joke,” but in this case it is very much a true thing that has nothing to do with Jews at all. It’s absolutely insane.
remind me why we haven’t brought out the guillotine yet
I just realized Mr. Brightside is going to be 20 years old in a minute.
imagine if doorways grew back like scabbed over with fresh drywall and you had to keep carving them back out with a jabsaw to keep the doorway clear etc
Imagine if the membranes recoiled in pain every time you did this. Imagine if over time, some doorways became accustomed sensation. Imagine that very rarely, some even seemed to enjoy it.
*sleepover host voice* imagine if you two went to sleep
I’ve had a raging headache, sore throat, and tight chest for the past 3 days. It’s not Covid, it’s FIRE. (Smoke from Canada, I mean)
The Christmas episode of The Bear has me so stressed my chest is tight and I can feel my heart beating in my head.
Deadstream is full of jump scares and made me laugh (especially when making fun of streaming viewers). If you have Shudder and want to watch a horror movie that’s genuinely scary and funny, highly recommended.
If you have some time this weekend, I wholeheartedly recommend this. Jump scares and laughs are my favorite.
HAMILTON DAD IS BACK
super show-tunes neighbor is back at it, blasting the Hamilton soundtrack for the fifth summer straight. Undefeated.
Skip Google for Research
As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse. It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms
As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable. As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.
Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.
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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free
Welp, the Missouri House of Legislatures just voted to defund public libraries.
I’m honestly shocked and dismayed and heartbroken. Like, I knew things were bad, but I didn’t think it was this bad already.
I’m also quite frankly shocked at how small the state budget for libraries was in the first place ($4.5 million). I’ve visited so many quality libraries all across Missouri that do so much for their communities. When I was a social worker, the local library was always the first place I’d visit in the communities I worked in, because I knew they had good services to offer and could help me get connected to other local supports. Like, even from just a heartless financial standpoint, I can guarantee public libraries are worth the money.
I’m just really sad right now.
Here is the current appropriation committee for Missouri. If you live in Missouri and your representative is on that list, you should definitely contact them and let them know this is an important issue to you.
My own representative is not, though I already contacted his office anyway. I’m genuinely unsure of what I can do, but I feel like this is something I need to act on.