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Parks and Recreation (2009-2015)

meeting with friends after quarantine

Local Bookstores Have A New Weapon In The Fight With Amazon

In the book industry, Amazon is Goliath, the giant who overshadows everyone else. But there’s a new David on the scene, Bookshop.org.

It doesn’t expect to topple the giant, but it has launched a weapon that could make Amazon’s shadow a little smaller, and help local bookstores fight back.

Bookshop.org, a website that went live at the end of January and is still in beta mode, is designed to be an alternative to Amazon, and to generate income for independent bookstores. And, perhaps more importantly, it seeks to give book reviewers, bloggers and publications who rely on affiliate income from “Buy now” links to Amazon a different option.

Profit from books sold through Bookshop will be split three ways, with 10% of the sale price going into a pool that will be divided among participating bookstores, 10% going to the publication that triggered the sale by linking to Bookshop.org, and 10% going to Bookshop.org to support its operations.

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y’all, Bookshop is amazing. i got an email about them from my local indie store, and they’re so excited about it. please oh please use this place instead of Amazon!!

with every purchase, they tell you how much you’re putting toward independent booksellers, which is fun and cute:

it’s also amazing for authors! i’ve been asked a couple times about the best way to support my books. this site is now the answer. it reports sales figures to the NYT and Bookscan, a type of tracking that helps authors hit bestseller lists. and even better, authors can set up affiliate pages, and if you buy through those pages, we get an additional 10 percent of each sale on top of royalties. this is a massive deal!!!

for reference, many royalty rates are in the 6-8 percent range. so if you buy through Bookshop author affiliate pages, authors get more than twice as much from sales of their books, with no additional cost to you.

the site is still in beta, but it also has a fun interface where you can make book lists for favorites or recommendations, sort of like goodreads (except better, because goodreads is owned by amazon).

this is my Bookshop page. if you ever buy one of my books, i pray u will do it from this site! (or from your local indie :D)

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

MAN [IN THICK ACCENT]: Black cat bring good luck.  Not bad luck.  I have black cat - See, him face - And I am not dead today: Good luck!

Hang onto your hats, color lovers, b/c artist Jane Gottlieb’s house is a color lover’s dream!

Coming in from the pool, the house greets you with yellow, shocking pink, and orange.

Check out the purple living room with a green fireplace.

Purple & turquoise dining room. 

In the art studio, every wall is a different color.

Just wow. Look at this family room. 

Even the stairs are incredible. 

Not only is the room spectacular, but so is the ceiling. 

The most subdued, tranquil room in the home is the bathroom. What a fantastic house.

https://janegottlieb.com/

@haileypng

Titanic conspiracy exposed

Head canon: Accepted

HOLY SHIT

Let’s not forget Jack has the exact same haircut as John Connor

As I result of this headcanon I have decided Titanic isn’t such an awful film after all.

Delicate kitsune (fox) and ume (plum blossom) embroidered obi (seen on). This motif is pretty rare especially on vintage/antique items, I love how the plum branches run across obi front - so chic!

Hungarian photographer recreated photo of the same mom and daughter from the Budapest market picture when it went viral after more than 30 years.

Level 1: Constructive criticism

Level 2: Destructive criticism

Level 3: Reductive criticism

Level 4: Obstructive criticism

Level 5: Deductive criticism

Level 6: Seductive criticism

#men get pegged

“My body, my choice” only makes sense when someone else’s life isn’t at stake.

Fun fact: If my younger sister was in a car accident and desperately needed a blood transfusion to live, and I was the only person on Earth who could donate blood to save her, and even though donating blood is a relatively easy, safe, and quick procedure no one can force me to give blood. Yes, even to save the life of a fully grown person, it would be ILLEGAL to FORCE me to donate blood if I didn’t want to.

See, we have this concept called “bodily autonomy.” It’s this….cultural notion that a person’s control over their own body is above all important and must not be infringed upon. 

Like, we can’t even take LIFE SAVING organs from CORPSES unless the person whose corpse it is gave consent before their death. Even corpses get bodily autonomy. 

To tell people that they MUST sacrifice their bodily autonomy for 9 months against their will in an incredibly expensive, invasive, difficult process to save what YOU view as another human life (a debatable claim in the early stages of pregnancy when the VAST majority of abortions are performed) is desperately unethical. You can’t even ask people to sacrifice bodily autonomy to give up organs they aren’t using anymore after they have died. 

You’re asking people who can become pregnant to accept less bodily autonomy than we grant to dead bodies. 

reblogging for commentary 

But, assuming the mother wasn’t raped, the choice to HAVE a baby and risk sacrificing their “bodily autonomy” is a choice that the mother made. YOu don’t have to have sex with someone. Cases of rape aside, it isn’t ethical to say abortion is justified. The unborn baby has rights, too. 

First point: Bodily autonomy can be preserved, even if another life is dependent on it. See again the example about the blood donation. 

And here’s another point: When you say that “rape is the exception” you betray something FUNDAMENTALLY BROKEN about your own argument.

Because a fetus produced from sexual assault is biologically NO DIFFERENT than a fetus produced from consensual sex. No difference at all.

If one is alive, so is the other. If one is a person, so is the other. If one has a soul, then so does the other. If one is a little blessing that happened for a reason and must be protected, then so is the other. 

When you say that “Rape is the exception” what you betray is this: It isn’t about a life. This isn’t about the little soul sitting inside some person’s womb, because if it was you wouldn’t care about HOW it got there, only that it is a little life that needs protecting.

When you say “rape is the exception” what you say is this: You are treating pregnancy as a punishment. You are PUNISHING people who have had CONSENSUAL SEX but don’t want to go through a pregnancy. People who DARED to have consensual sex without the goal of procreation in mind, and this is their “consequence.” 

And that is gross. 

^ THIS. This is this this THIS THIS THIS. THIS!!!!!

This is probably the strongest and well worded/supported argument for abortion that I have ever read.

And it still sucks.

fandomsandfeminism -ty been saying this for years- pregnancy should not be a punishment for having sex, especially since you are punishing only the woman, not the man

The point is not to punish, the point is that you can’t just kill kids because you aren’t prepared for one.

look, I understand the emotional argument of protecting life. In nearly all situations, protecting life is the most ethical action. HOWEVER, unwanted pregnancy is one of the RARE situations in which protecting life comes in conflict with bodily autonomy. (Are DNRs OK? Is it OK to kill someone who is trying to rape you? Are you obligated to donate your kidney if someone you know needs one?) That’s why it is such a difficult issue, and its a conflict of values we rarely have to grapple with.

I will argue however that, in times when they conflict, bodily autonomy, the right to have final say over how your own body is used, must come first. It is the basis of human dignity, and stripping a person of bodily autonomy is grounds for some of the worst human rights violations the world has seen. You could save a LOT of lives through forced organ donation or non-consensual medical testing, but we don’t do those things because the violation of bodily autonomy comes before life when those values conflict.

sometimes protecting the right of one person can harm another. It sucks when that happens and it is best to avoid it when we can. However, no person is entitled to using the body of another against their will, even if their life is on the line. You don’t get to steal someone’s kidney even if you are dying.

If a fetus is a person, then it has the rights of a person- and a person doesn’t have the right to use the body of another person against their will for ANY reason.

WE JUST GOT TO THE OFFSPRING IN TNG AND IT MESSED ME UP :•(