Showing the new guy the ropes 

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Do non-americans realize that the United States is literally just a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club? Because let’s be honest that’s just what the USA is

The rest of the world: So… you’re a big country?

The states, standing on each other’s shoulders: Y- yes,,,

I love how everyone who’s reblogged this hasn’t added anything on or tagged anything on it. They’re all just like “Yeah. That’s it. That’s the entire United States summed up in one post-”

#oh my god is THAT why you guys are so weird

Yeah 100%

Don’t let these tags die omfg

10/10 can confirm

absolutely bonkers that my own tags have crossed my dash like this more than fifteen reblogs after i wrote them

I moved to another state. 30 minutes away. My family acts like I betrayed them and can’t understand my life choices. It’s completely different way of life, especially during covid. Completely different country.

every single fucking time one of those articles of “things europeans find weird about america” complains that sales tax isn’t included

states set the sales tax!!! it’s literally different across state lines!!! american retailers can’t add it bc they’d have to account for 50 different prices!!!!!!!

It gets even more insane! California’s clean air standards for cars and other such things are so much higher than everyone else’s! So if a car manufacturer in Detroit wants to sell their damn cars in California, they need to build their cars to California clean air standards. But retooling an assembly line and car design to have some cars meet California clean air standards, while building others to other clean air standards is a lot of work, so car manufacturers all over the country have to build all their cars to California clean air standards.

Which is why California went into an uproar earlier this year when the Federal Government tried to argue that states can’t set their own environmental guidelines! “Fuck you!” says California, “we remember Los Angeles in the 80s, how bad the smog gets, go pollute your own damn air over in your own damn state where there isn’t a thermal inversion layer to trap all the smog down near ground level!”

“But you’re making it soooo haaaaaard to sell our cars everywhere else!” they whine.

“Fuck you!” California shouts. “And while we’re at it, we don’t give a shit what you say, Mister President, we’re gonna open our damn states when we’re good and ready, and our friends Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington State agree! Also, we’ve decided to legalize weed!”

“But the Federal Government says it’s illegal!” shouts the other states.

“Fuck you, we make the drug laws in our state, and we say toke up!”

“Now, hang on!” shouts the Federal government. “You can legalize weed in your state, but all banks are federal agencies, so if your weed dispensaries set up bank accounts, those accounts have money from illegal practices in it and are subject to seizure by the federal government!”

“FINE!” shouts California. “Hey, weed guys, you can keep selling weed, but you can only deal in cash!”

“How the fuck is that supposed to work!?”

“I DON’T FUCKING KNOW, TAKE IT UP WITH DC!”

“By the way, if you’re gay married elsewhere, we won’t recognize it,” mutters Texas.

“OH FUCK YOUUUUUUU!” 

And so it goes and so it goes…

“What’s sales tax?” says Montana. “What’s road maintainence?” “also what’s a speed limit?”

*gestures at Florida* Oh also, the reason Florida is “so weird” is only PARTIALLY because people who live here are bonkers – it’s also because Florida state laws around privacy do not include the details of arrests! So in other states, when you’re arrested, it can just show up in the registrar like “25 yo man arrested 04/30/20” but in Florida they can (and do) print the details of why they were arrested: “25 yo man arrested 4/30/20 for riding an alligator through town while naked and smoking weed.” I promises you the other states have PLENTY of weirdos, they just don’t get their dirty laundry gleefully aired in the local news.

States even hate OTHER PARTS of the SAME STATE. Case in point: I live in Northern Virginia. Not just Virginia—NORTHERN Virginia, near DC. The rest of Virginia belongs to the south and we in NOVA do not identify as southern.

Back when I used to play runescape in the 2000s, I learned to always say I was from Washington State because if I just said Washington, these non-american fuckers would assume I meant DC and it drove me wild. Also Western and Eastern Washington absolutely hate each other and there’s this whole debate that sparks up every now and again over making a new state called Cascadia(I think? I don’t pay too much attention to it so I’m not certain) because the easterners are fucking sick of their state always voting blue (it’s kinda dumb and probably never gonna happen, but like, a lot of people do want it).

I moved to Ohio after college and the level of hatred people have here for Michegan for no apparent reason other than their state football team fights our state football team a lot astounds me.

Man, fuck new Jersey

are you guys like… okay??

Lol now I want people to try and guess what state I’m from this is fucking hilarious. @tommysparker doesn’t get to participate in the game because she already knows

What the fuck America

in other news trump is sending out a survey… yall know what to do

easy,

the way some of these are worded i’m losing my whole mind

HIS FEARLESS RESOLVE

I’ve filled it out 16 times get to it y’all

@so-what-if-im-crazy

LMFAO THE WHAT!!!???

you guys know what to do

Question.

I am English. What would happen if I filled this out?

youd be even more badass bruv

he’s not even trying to cover up his own propaganda wtf how is this man real

OMG so if you fill out the survey, you get a message that says “The Left-Wing MOB will do whatever it takes to bring President Trump down, which is why we need to make sure he has the resources to FIGHT BACK,” which then asks you for money. And if you try to leave the page, you get THIS:

I’m fucking CRINGING who even are these people

As ridiculous as it may seem, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO GO FILL THIS OUT.

People who Looooove tr*mp will go fill this out in droves, and people who would like to see him lit on fire by his combover won’t, thereby skewing the results.

GO FILL IT OUT.

DON’T USE YOUR ACTUAL NAME OR EMAIL ADDRESS.

If you’re not from the US, just use any 5-digit number for the zip code (even including beginning with 0)

Fill it out twice.  Six times.  Get your mom to do it.

never thought i’d see the day when tumblr commits a 4chan raid but on god i’m here for it

“Do you agree anarchists should be punished accordingly”

Anarchism is a political ideology and the trump campaign is suggesting government suppression of not just political action or speech, but political belief. “Punishing anarchists accordingly” would mean punishing anyone who believed or identified as anarchist.

These are the people who won’t shut the fuck up about free speech (and usually don’t understand the 1st protects you from government censorship of protected speech, not social consequences for bigotry and hate speech). This is the campaign pretending they’re being persecuted and silenced when someone fact-checks them or cares about human rights.

The authoritarian streak in the trump campaign and voter base is loud and ugly.

-Don’t put your name as “fuck off” or use profanity/sexual terminology (and please don’t use racist, sexist, ableist, etc language either). Those probably get flagged and deleted. Use a Karen Name Generator instead and answer as Rebecca Johnston or Lance Thornton. These look real.

-Instead of using 666, 69, and 420 related numbers, look for high-income areas with a high concentration of Republicans and use their zip code instead. This will divert ad revenue to these areas that don’t actually need it and away from areas that are more likely to vote Democrats in.

-If you’re responding from outside the US, use a VPN so it looks like you’re responding from within the US. Responses from outside of the country may be flagged and deleted.

I'm blending in, guys

Big pharma had twitter delete the original tweet and sources (TWICE), but OP is reposting them.

https://twitter.com/markaprovost/status/1277950129270652930?s=19

Twitter appears to be really trying to suppress this one.

Source on public funding for Remdesivir.

Source on Gilead’s planned price.

ICER report on cost of manufacturing ($10).

Heya Guys~

First of all, Sorry for being MIA for a while. I just had to do stuff to help our financial situation because rn I'm on a no work no pay status and our company has no inquiries(for 3 months now) because we're in the travel and tourism industry. :(( SO i thought why not use my art and design knowledge to earn a little (I'm a professional Graphic Designer and a former animation student).

So I've fixed up some sample arts (hence me not being able to face my writings, I'm so sorry) and made an art account so I can accept commissions and be able to share my works too (for advertisement of course 😅).

Here's my account if anyone is interested.

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I accept Logo design, OC Arts, Flyer, Poster & Social Media Banner designs. Anything Digital Designing related I can do them.

If you can share this to your friends who need that kind of service it'll be a big help to me and my family to be able to provide for our needs and to pay the bills. 😊🥰 Thank you so much ! 💚

Shy waves

Hi again. (灬>‿<灬)♡ I also made a Ko-fi account 💗

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There are some lovely gifts to those who will send me a little of your hard earned money 💖

Source

Video of Tama

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The picture in the background of the second one

Tama is boss

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

Beautiful.

Now I’m crying thanks

and a new cat was hired right?

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

Law

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

a legacy

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.

You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)

@xxmochigamerxx @lokispettigerr

the "Point", my dear agitators, co-conspirators, and revolutionaries, is kindness

Did you know ?

The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.

Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.

From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children. Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.

During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers.

Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They’ll come up with terms like “Indentured Servants” to describe what occurred to the Irish. However, in most cases from the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish slaves were nothing more than human cattle.

As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology were more expensive to purchase, at the time.

African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master’s free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.

In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new “mulatto” slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed “forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale.” In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.

England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.

There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more in the 17th Century) as the Africans did. There is, also, very little question that those brown, tanned faces you witness in your travels to the West Indies are very likely a combination of African and Irish ancestry. In 1839, Britain finally decided on its own to end its participation in Satan’s highway to hell and stopped transporting slaves. While their decision did not stop pirates from doing what they desired, the new law slowly concluded THIS chapter of nightmarish Irish misery.

But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they’ve got it completely wrong.

Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories.

@shamrocks-and-shenanigans

Today is the day

#pascalcampion

Some places don’t even name the charity like you’re just donating to the corporation’s tax writeoff. You’re better off giving that money to a homeless person on the street who needs it more..

We really have harmed a whole generation of trans and gnc children by failing to communicate how serious a decision binding actually is, how there’s no ACTUALLY safe way to bind, how it permeneantly damages the body, how it can make top surgery more difficult in the future. I don’t think we should be keeping trans kids from binding (we let kids do all sorts of things they’re really not old enough to understand the potential consequences of) but we owe them the ability to make informed decisions at LEAST

So this is definitely an important conversation to have, but can you point me at some reading about “permanent damage”? I might just be lucky, but I had zero lasting effects from binding. I’d like to at least read up on it so I can have this conversation and be more specific than “be careful.”

Of course! I can’t easily source right now but I am more than happy to provide further info when I am not at work and on mobile. Unfortunately, like a lot of trans healthcare, a lot of what we know about binding is anecdotal and word of mouth. BUT permeneant damage can include:

-Musculoskeletal damage. Binders are indiscriminate compression tools; they can’t flatten the chest without applying pressure every other anatomical structure underneath including the spine, ribs, lungs and heart. Many people who bind experience chronic back pain, shoulder pain, sharp stabbing chest pains, permeneantly decreased lung capacity, literal spine deformation, etc etc.

-A continuation of the above but the ribs are actually jointed bones. Their ability to flex is absolutely vital to their ability to withstand trauma and protect your vital organs. Imagine the damage that would be done to your elbow if your bent your arm to full flexion and then tightly bound it closed like that, for six, eight, twelve hours per day, every day, for weeks or months or years. And you don’t NEED a functioning arm to live!

-Tissue atrophy. Forcing chest tissue to lay in an unnatural way can and will change the way that tissue looks, even to risk of atrophy. Some people who bind and only moderately dislike the way their chest looks find that they HATE the way it looks after binding for a period of time. Tissue atrophy can also make top surgery more difficult in the future, and increase the risk of complications like nerve damage.

-Worsened dysphoria. Once someone starts binding and becomes accustomed to seeing themselves with a flat chest, it can be much more difficult to see yourself without one, and dysphoria that much more intolerable. You can imagine the psychological feedback loop of binding more in response.

The typical safety measures passed around about binding are harm REDUCTION measures and should not be advertised as making binding “safe.” Binding is not safe. It is a very serious health decision with long term consequences and should be treated as such. That doesn’t mean it’s the wrong decision, but it should not be considered the DEFAULT decision for chest dysphoria which is frankly how it’s currently treated.

gonna drop some links to read more:

Health impact of chest binding among transgender adults: a community-engaged, cross-sectional study Inside the Landmark, Long Overdue Study on Chest Binding  

Binding FAQ

Health Consequences of Chest Binding

@pooflyperfectprincess

Holy shit

I went to the Philadelphia Trans Health Conference and went to a workshop held by a chiropractor who works with trans men (as well as being a trans man himself), so I’m going to pass on his advice to people who bind:

Stretch your chest, shoulders, and back everyday (at least)

This is a passive stretch where you place a foam roller at the bottom of your spine (to support your hips and lower back), and lifts your shoulders off of the ground, with your arms on the ground to balance you.

This stretch is meant to be held for a few minutes, open up your chest, and aid your everyday posture.

You probably don’t own a foam roller, he advised to wrap a towel or blanket very tightly and tied as a substitute. I use a layer of bed foam rolled up with two belts to keep it rolled. Whatever you use, it ought to have a bit of give and it needs to lift your shoulders off the ground.

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This is an active stretch. Stand in front of a doorway with your feet together (if the door way was not there, your toes would be touching the wall, not crossing through it). When you lift your arms up and put them against the wall, your feet, hips, and arms should all be in line with each other (your arms should not be behind you with your feet and hips in the doorway).

Make a “W” shape with your arms against the wall so that your elbows are the closest part of your arm to the ground, and take one small step forward.

You should feel a pull in your lower shoulders, but it should be comfortable to hold. Do not over stretch, you shouldn’t be leaning your weight into your arms to balance, your weight should be balanced by your legs. Do not judge yourself and think you are doing yourself a favor by thinking that you ought to have a bigger step. Sure, you could overstretch today, but you need to be able to do this tomorrow too! Hold this for 10-15 seconds. (Yet again. Do. Not. Overstretch.)

Bring your feet back together, and do it the other foot. There will probably be one foot that is easier than the other, stretch that step more often than the less difficult step.

Bring your feet together and bring your elbows up so that your upper arms are parallel to the ground and your elbow forms a 90° angle with your forearms. Take your small step forward and hold for 10-15 seconds and switch feet.

Now reach your arms up as high as you can. It doesn’t have to be much higher than the last stretch, if that is as high as you can go, then that’s it. If you can’t reach higher than the last stretch, put your arms down at your sides and then lift your arms up from your sides and put them against the wall (sorry he didn’t include a picture of this one in the slides, message me if this is unclear.)

Your goal is to be able to reach your arms up like in the picture so that you form a Y shape. Step forward and hold for 10-15 seconds, then switch feet.

His advice was to do this stretch as often as you use the bathroom at home (shoot for 3-5 times a day).

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The next two stretchs don’t have pictures! If you can do these stretches with ease and want a more intense version, try using dumbbells and incorporating it into your workouts.

If you’ve ever done snow angels? Put your heels, butt, shoulders, and arms up against a wall (as much of your body as you possibly can should be touching the wall) and lift your arms up as high as you can go like you are making a snow angel.

Alternatively, lay down on the ground instead of up against a wall if you need to work your way up to lifting your arms above your head.

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Again, with your body up against the wall, but this time with your arms in front of you, bring your arms up like Frankenstein’s monster, so that they are as high as your shoulders. Hold this for a few seconds.

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After trying these stretchs, it’ll probably be clear where your range of motion is most limited. For me, the most useful stretches are the W and 90° angle doorway stretch and foam roller stretch, bc I have the most trouble with my lower shoulders and chest. Try to maintain your range of motion where you have it, and use these stretches to improve your range of motion where you are limited.

For all my binding buddies.

You know, however qualified a person may be, nobody is ever 100% confident in their knowledge.

Sure, there’s always some things they are confident about. For instance, I can tell you with 100% certainty what the first line of the Iliad is, where Hammurabi ruled, or who Mursili II’s father was. Everyone has a handful of certainties like these. But everyone - everyone! - also has moments of doubt.

I’ve studied Ancient Greek for seven years now, and I’ve tutored a number of high schoolers. I’m currently tutoring a first year student, something I’m more than qualified to do. Even so, there’s moments when my student will ask a question - who was Minos’ wife? what are all the meanings of the optative? - and I won’t know how to answer. Most of the time, I think I know the answer, but I’m not confident I do. Sometimes I google it, and I’m right. Sometimes I’m wrong.

This is normal.

Even my university teachers don’t know everything. Several times now, I’ve witnessed a student disagree with a teacher, and the teacher reply: “Well, maybe you’re right. Can you bring a source next week?” I’ve even corrected a teacher once. They may know more than me or you, but they don’t know everything. Sometimes we know things they don’t. Sometimes they doubt what they do know. Sometimes they’re wrong. They’re still amazing teachers.

I’m saying this because I notice a lot of students get caught up in this fear of not knowing things well enough. Eventually, it can turn into imposter syndrome. That’s why I really, really want you to hear that you don’t need to be 100% confident to be good. You don’t need to know 100% of the answers to be good. You don’t need to be 100% right to be good.

Confidence isn’t the whole deal. It’s good to be confident about some things - but expecting to be confident all the time is unrealistic. Instead, keep checking your knowledge. Keep admitting when you’re wrong. And keep learning.

April 2020: Happy anniversary to this thread only!!!

I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT

To prove something to a friend, please

REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES

:)

REBLOGGING SO HARD.

YOU BETTER FUCKING BELIEVE IM REBLOGGING WTF

GET 👏🏼 RID 👏🏼 OF 👏🏼 ACE/AROPHOBIA 👏🏼

im gonna reblog this everytime i see it ,,

REBLOG THIS ALREADY!

*click click click click*

Remember to only reblog

REBLOG!!

Seattle PD sent seven police cars to arrest the guy who filmed them macing a child and are holding him without bail on trumped up charges of “Unlawful discharge of a laser pointer.”

Seven police cars. No bail. This is retaliation.

Link to Twitter thread

So if you film the cops macing a child you can be held without bail on charges of “Unlawful Discharge of a Laser Pointer”. Meanwhile the cops that committed felony assault on video when they shoved a 75 year old man to the ground have been released on their own recognizance - meaning they did not even have to post bail to go home and sleep in their own beds.

You couldn’t make this shit up.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN23D0OI

Petitions to sign to DEFUND Seattle Police Department: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLx0UBq_-FmE6YQPgG2aGSmNOI7_LCjpGiNGH4HSq2nWpGSA/viewform

a few years ago there was an exposé in the intercept about how, according to the fbi, police departments are so thoroughly infiltrated by white supremacists that it's policy to avoid working with them when possible. just something to think about

I found the article and... jesus christ.

yeah, the FBI put out a report that showed active purposeful infiltration of both the military and police by white supremacists. The FBI included a list of steps to take in order to help prevent this including things like updated lists of identifying tattoos and specific screening measures. The military said fuck we thought we were getting them all, thank you, and started implementing all the recommended procedures almost immediately.

The U.S. Police Union wrote the FBI back a letter that basically said “fuck you you can’t tell us who we can and can’t hire” and then the funding for that FBI investigation got suddenly yanked.

Also, holy shit read the article; it is very thorough

The police really don't like the FBI, because the FBI has a habit of exposing their bullshit. And they got no problems with exposing their bullshit. And they will try and work around the local police because they're aware of how shitty local police can be. For, like, everything.

Archive.org is facing a lawsuit

tldr: the Internet Archive/WayBack Machine is super important in term of archived content, billions of stuff are on there, and with the current event happening in the world like stated above,without this tool, it will be hard to properly document what took place. It will be easy for certain people to rewrite history. Dont let them.

DONATE HERE (post dont get much exposure with working links sorry)

 archive.org/donate/

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

IF YOU CANT DONATE THEN PLEASE SPREAD THE INFO

On twitter,tumblr,facebook,heck,anywhere you want,this needs to be talked about !

they’re being sued due to putting together an “emergency library”, essentially, in the wake of schools and libraries closing due to covid-19.

you can read about it in a few places. here’s one article on the subject, but there’s plenty to be found.

I didn't even think about this, super interesting read