Anti-fascist.
Nobody.
Social media account manager for a bookstore you've never heard of.
Currently reading "The Familiar" by Leigh Bardugo.
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Exactly zero.
We can get our hands on them, but they're not available via the distributors that we use for regular stock. They are available (I think) through the distributors that handle our special orders.
At work, we're shifting away from the thinking that young people don't read and we're having success with expanding our genre selections (specifically fantasy/sci-fi and romance). The store is within walking distance of two colleges, and those kids *shop*
There's very little evidence that changing personal habits makes a noticeable impact on greenhouse gasses &c, anyway.
But if people don't read, they'll pick another activity to fill that time and probably end up breaking even.
And they're wrong on both counts, which is an achievement in itself.
(According to polling, Millennials and younger read more than Gen X and Boomers. And the NPR piece had all sorts of hinky numbers about the environmental impact of books. They just hate us.)
You know, I've been thinking about this a lot– it really burned my muffins– and it really takes some chutzpah to guilt us over buying books (the article leans towards ereaders, but it doesn't really matter) when in 2 weeks we'll have articles wondering why Millennials/Gen Z are killing bookstores.
Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.
Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.
www.npr.org
I don't say this lightly:
Go outside. Touch grass. Realize that despite the fact that you were the main character here yesterday, you're just not so important to the world at large that being temporarily suspended is a big deal to anyone but you.
"I have to make my temporary suspension ~special~" oh my god go outside and touch grass.
I am an internet old, but I remember the heady days of the SA forums where they would ban your *paid account* for this kind of shit. Definitely if you threatened a mod.
Internet users these days are weak.
It's not just me, then.
We are all just totally OK with merely
thinking about a purchase, not saying it out loud, and advertisements for it appearing on our phones.
Sorry, just need to share this again:
Oh yes, he dusted chicken feathers off of his pants.
The Fallout Network's Subreddit for the Bethesda game series Fallout . From the first games that paved the way to the most recent, we are a subreddit for Fallout fans from all walks of life.
www.reddit.comIf we can get the chicken fucking snake oil salesman to show up, I think we have a winner!
I have queues and queues of unwatched shows but I'm all like... nah. Fallout again!
I'm in it for the actors.
Okay, I'm in it for Walton Goggins.
Their inaction on abortion rights tells me everything I need to know about how they're going to handle the dismantling of queer rights.
Just put up a yard sign that says "yup, I'm a racist".
On the way to work this morning, I passed a house that was flying a combination Gadsden flag/Confederate flag.
And buddy. Pal. Listen.
No one got trod on harder than those fucking losers. Sherman would have annihilated every last one of you if he was allowed.
I LIVE
I DIE
I LIVE AGAIN
Wait.
I'm supposed to be shocked that the Pope said a slur?
It's not bad!
That's what's keeping my partner from switching over, too-- he uses his computer mostly for gaming, so it wouldn't be very beneficial for him to drop Windows.
Literally everything I do for work is online, so I when I had enough of Microsoft's bullshit, I was able to change without worry.
Mint is extremely easy to use, and for that I am very thankful.
I'm now the type of person that has multiple thumb drives?
I've been using Linux Mint for about a week now-- I'm finding it easy and intuitive and I won't be sad to watch Windows go.
(I'm keeping Windows 10 *just in case* but I don't really foresee a need to go back. Like ever.)
That's it. I have uninstalled everything that isn't critical to Windows running, backed up all of my files, and deleted the lot.
Adios, assholes.
lol, Windows is so mad at me that it's refusing to display the correct time.
I'm backing up a bunch of my data (once again, cleaning up my digital life) and I came across a folder simply titled "himbos." Do I even want to know what past me was sticking in a folder labeled "himbos"?
I went to an office supply store and ONLY bought what I needed.
And a new pack of pens.
But they're pretty pens.
So it doesn't count.
I'm at the point in my career where I can't tell John Grisham novels apart. Didn't Camino Ghosts come out like two years ago? It did, right?
But no. It's release date is today. Wild.
I even left the deer strike uninjured!
Did you know that the trunk (or whatever they're calling it) applies MORE force when it encounters resistance, instead of opening back up like a rational person would design it?
I'm DYING to see one, but maybe those dorks realized that the winters around here would kill a CT faster than a cold snap kills my flowers.
I hate to be all "soccer mom Jeep supremacy" again*, but when I had the deer strike repaired, the body shop detailed my car top-to-bottom– interior, exterior, tires & wheels, the whole thing.
I wouldn't accept a *new* car that was less clean than a freshly detailed car.
*lol no I'm not.
Reading about a guy taking delivery of his new cybertruck. I will spare you the next picture, of the wrist which lightly brushed the edge of a panel
And there we go. Last layer of white gold.
One of the persistent myths that I absolutely hate is "before modern medicine, people didn't get attached to their children."
Like people 150 years ago were all monsters? That's fucking crass and bizarre.
all joking aside i think do this so much because i can hold their handwritten letters in my hands and see that they, like us, loved their children and family and pets and they grieved and suffered and lost and in some ways things are better now but in many ways they aren't even though they could be
It's amazing because if you just change the word "content" to "movie" in the quote, it seems a lot sillier to demand it for free!
These assholes absolutely know what they're doing.
The word "content" needs to die in a fire.
This is how a social media poisoned brain thinks. Everything is "content", nothing is art or work or skill.
I fucking hate it.
Ugh, it's so humid that the Nuln Oil isn't drying, even with the AC running.
I'm going to go eat some cheese.