Tea Can't Cup

Worlds oldest haunted house has passed away at the age of 207

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of... maybe everything actually

No no they could be onto something here

What's the worst that could happen? Worth a shot.

Ah. splanters. In and on my penas. And yeah they're haunted.

i keep thinking about that one blogger on here who mentioned applying to 80+ jobs and still not getting a single callback

i keep thinking of my sister's 2 degrees who are collecting dust because no one's hiring

i keep thinking of my classmate in highschool who said their father accidentally became a graphic designer without any real experience about 20 odd years prior

i keep thinking of me passing those extensive english exams for a fucking call service job and not showing up to the final online interview because of technical issues,I asked them to reschedule they just ghosted me instead

i keep thinking of that nepo kid in my college and his secure future

i keep thinking of my miscellaneous art skills and how none of them are worth anything without a degree,a connection,internet clout,or without a job willing to train me more except the entry level position is dead right?

i keep thinking of everyone everywhere who is dying or going to die in the streets despite all the money and shelter available in the world

You guys need to stop trying to guilt trip me, I have so much Perfectly Normal Spaceship to get written

"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.

"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.

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good work everyone

this is so sad 100 like

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monogamous people who get defensive or outright combative when polyamory is brought up could probably stand to be told that they could actually change their perspectives somewhat if they put in actual effort. i do not have any more patience for people who are too comfortable in the thought that the ideas they've been fed about exclusivity and commitment all their life are somehow uniquely theirs, nor do i have patience for the handful of trite remarks they make about polyamory in attempts to feel clever about taking one of the most lukewarm stances in existence on something

i actually don't think it's enough that you simply tolerate or accept the polyamorous arrangements around you, i think you should actually look the systems that forced it to become the default in the face and take whatever you realize about it with a little humility

this post isn't in response to anything i saw but i do want to be clear that i don't consider friends or mutuals exempt from this lol

I sentence you to thinking about dragons for 10 billion year

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

an article on the subject for the curious:

guy on the street corner looking like he's about to sell you drugs but instead he opens his trenchcoat and pulls one of these bad boys out

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[ID: a comic titled "The Curb-Cut Effect" featuring a simple city scene. A curb cut (the indented portion of a curb which acts as a ramp from street level to pavement level) is in the center of the image and colored red. Various different figures using wheeled objects surround the curb cut, each object colored in an orangey-yellow. In the far back, someone holds a skateboard, a seated person holds a cane, and another seated person holds a rolling suitcase. In the midground, a couple pushes a stroller and two people ride bicycles. In the foreground, a person pushes a dolly. In the very center of the image at the bottom of the curb cut is a person using a wheelchair. Text at the bottom has an arrow pointing to the curb and reads, "When we design for disabilities... we make things better for everyone." The artist's handle "sketchplanations" is at the bottom right. End ID]

Also the artist has a great explanation of this on their website

Glad there was an image description in the notes (thank you, by the way!) because IDs themselves are the first thing I think of when I hear about the curb-cut effect. By ensuring screen reader compatibility for blind and low-vision people, we also help out anyone whose internet won't load images, for just one example!

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[ID: a comic titled "The Curb-Cut Effect" featuring a simple city scene. A curb cut (the indented portion of a curb which acts as a ramp from street level to pavement level) is in the center of the image and colored red. Various different figures using wheeled objects surround the curb cut, each object colored in an orangey-yellow. In the far back, someone holds a skateboard, a seated person holds a cane, and another seated person holds a rolling suitcase. In the midground, a couple pushes a stroller and two people ride bicycles. In the foreground, a person pushes a dolly. In the very center of the image at the bottom of the curb cut is a person using a wheelchair. Text at the bottom has an arrow pointing to the curb and reads, "When we design for disabilities... we make things better for everyone." The artist's handle "sketchplanations" is at the bottom right. End ID]

Also the artist has a great explanation of this on their website

Glad there was an image description in the notes (thank you, by the way!) because IDs themselves are the first thing I think of when I hear about the curb-cut effect. By ensuring screen reader compatibility for blind and low-vision people, we also help out anyone whose internet won't load images, for just one example!