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I am looking neither respectfully nor disrespectfully. I gaze without recognition of your form, and without understanding.

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"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.

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The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.

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Wouldn't it be entirely possible, even likely, that with all the silly weaknesses vampires and stuff were supposed to have, they'd also turn out to be weak to any number of things that have only been invented more recently? Like who's to say vampires aren't also repelled by the smell of play-doh or driven insane by MIDI music? We've invented so much shit in just the last century there'd be NO predicting this. For all we know they burn to ash if they look at Luigi.

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“[Tito was] a deeply honourable human being who met adversity and triumph alike with humility and dignity.” - Andy West, BBC

At times like these, it’s tempting to resort to cliche and say that something as weighty as life or death shows just how insignificant football is. But that’s not right, is it? Football was a very large part of Tito Vilanova’s life. It was a world he entered as a child, and he never left it. Through football, Tito Vilanova touched the lives of millions, and improved them - made them richer, better. Through football, he became a mentor and father figure to Leo Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Gerard Pique, and many other children who passed through La Masia. Through football, we had the privilege of getting to know a great person who was grounded, genuine, and kind. In an age where the great managerial figures are all to a man larger-than-life politicians, he was the odd one out. Tito Vilanova was a quiet man, a principled man, a visionary. A Cruyffista even more radical than his friend and collaborator Pep Guardiola. A man who dreamed of being Barca manager and didn’t let cancer stop him from fulfilling that dream. An innovator with more to give who was taken from us far too soon. The void he has left is vast and can never be filled. We will always remember you.

#god...how has it been ten years? #i still remember the day he died like it was yesterday #and how hard the news rocked me to my core #i sobbed uncontrollably for who knows how long #we miss you tito #we're so blessed to have had you in our lives #i'm so glad i got to watch a game you managed in person #to see you celebrate in person #what a massive void you left behind that can't be filled #what would the world be like if you were still here tito? #how has it been a decade? A DECADE. #oh boy. i need to stop looking at this post or i'm going to get choked up #tito meant everything. #god i just looked up tito and i forgot he was that young when he passed #okay okay i have to stop #but this man meant and continues to mean so much to us #tito per sempre etern<3

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quitting mental health to watch this fuckass sport

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Rabbis from the US and Israel marched towards the Erez crossing carrying symbolic aid for Gaza and calling to end the war. The police blocked them a few hundred meters from the border, and arrested 7 protesters. source

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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy

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Sleepy morning.

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I’m practicing animation right now and it’s pretty hard but drawing Tony keeps me motivated :)

GIF quality is something I will never master I fear, so here few of the frames.

I’m sort of thinking about slowing the animation cause it would look more natural and I could upload it on YouTube with some lofi on it or something.

#<33333 sleepy soft tony

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the cashier at barnes & noble just gave me this duck at checkout and they said “i give these to children and people with a certain vibe.”

floored to know something about me aligns with this duck

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being a sports fan evokes the same feeling that i imagine being hunted for sport would

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"cops are called because students aren't allowed to shut down campus" more lies! first of all, campuses aren't getting shut down: students can get to wherever they need to be—if they can't, it's because of the cops. but over the last few years, graduate students did thoroughly shut down campuses with strikes. columbia was again a notable center of labor action, with a 10-week strike during which TAs, discussion sections, grading, and any other graduate labor was cut out, grinding courses to a halt; sporadic picketing shut down access to campus. columbia took illegal measures by threatening to suspend all graduate students, but at no point were any cops called. other key graduate strikes took place at nyu, the university of michigan, and temple university, with no cops called despite other intimidation tactics by university administrations. this is not to mention hundreds of sit-ins, die-ins, encampments, and other protests that take place yearly across the country with no notice. yet tents honoring palestinians is just cause to unleash the police?

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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.

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I think people have forgotten what an album is supposed to be