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The French are slutty as a national defense mechanism.

some of my favourite sign fails <3

For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

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Oh my goodness. My partner just made the world’s best chili recipe. It’s so delicious. He wanted to keep it a secret but I have to share it with you all.

I made this - Except, I omitted the tomatoes and onions (we are out, lol). I milled the beans (I used these roasted coffee ones from the store, I love the color) and strained almost boiling water through them. The garlic, that flavor is always so strong so I substituted soymilk, I hope that's OK. For spices, I added some vanilla and sugar. Wow! This 3-bean chili has a heckuva kick!

reblog to give somebody a fucking hug because we are all struggling to get through it. solidarity in this tough ass world.

Everyone knows wild turkeys are quite large.

But if you have the opportunity to get close to one, their size can really startle you.

Passed this turkey sunning itself in Harvard Square the other day. They are BIG birds and they’ve totally made themselves at home around Boston.

There is a family of wild turkeys that walk down Mass Ave in Cambridge. One of their hangouts is the green space at the corner of Mass Ave and Linnaean. They cross the street ON THE WALK SIGNAL. I don’t know if they’ve figured out walk signals or just noticed that traffic stops…but the wild turkeys of Arlington and Somerville could learn a few things from them. (I think the Canada geese in Medford have fought off the wild turkeys though.)

"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

Please, PLEASE use Libby. OverDrive. Hoopla. CloudLibrary. Kanopy. Flipster. Freegal. Transparent Language. Mango. Jstor. Your library would not offer it if they could not afford it, and we afford things by reporting the number of people who use that service, so if you don't use the service we can't afford it. It's a cycle. Keep it going, keep using it, and we'll keep providing because we'll be able to justify the cost to the bean counters in government.

Watterson pulled no punches

Superstore 4x22

6.4 // 6.13 // 7.20

My good sir I had a mortgage before any of those characters were published 💀

I know who exactly three of these people are. When I was a kid I wanted to be a Herald of Valdemar.

I wanted to be Menolly with her entire Faire of fire lizards.

I wanted to be a Starfleet officer.

I wanted to be a Starfleet officer Herald of Valdemar with fire lizards!

moira rose and darren nicholls MUST have worked together at least once, right????

Also Sophie Devereaux. Darren Nichols might have been the one who directed her in that production of The Sound of Music.

Hey! Here’s a little five page comic I did about boot blacking and kink. I had a lot of fun with it, and talked to some really cool people.

So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!