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fuair mé leabhar faoi "An Stair na hÍ Cholm Cille" agus tá mé ag cailleadh é ar seo...

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Palestinian Christians throwing stones at Israeli soldiers while flying a flag bearing the Cross of Jerusalem at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, 2000🇵🇸

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there's summat about Roald Dahl which is kinda infuriating about him and his work, which is that as an author the thing that makes his writing so good and what has ensured that he continues to be read is that he compulsively takes the child's side. children in his books are intelligent, resourceful, capable of expressing what they want, and fight to have their wishes respected. his writing demonstrates a keen awareness of the injustice of childhood, being effectively the property of your parents, carted around and made to do things you don't want to do, and put in situations you're uncomfortable with, with no recourse or ability to bargain or advocate for yourself, and rails against that. thats incredible, especially from an english mid-century writer: coming out of a literary canon of "moral improvement", "seen and not heard", and lecturing children on obedience.

all this makes his antisemitism, colonial attitudes, other forms of racism, and misogyny all the more disappointing. he was a horrible, horrible man: his public statements on race, particularly with regards to jews, are horrific - i would go so far as to call it holocaust apologia - and any conversation about the merits of his work is incomplete without recognition of how truly evil he was. i mean jk rowling's bigotry and hatred pales in comparison, to be completely honest. and this isnt "a different time" stuff, he was saying these things in the aftermath of the second world war, after even the catholic church had twigged that being overtly antisemitic is a fucking awful thing to do.

so like, how do we reconcile this? because Matilda is a very important book, it's an excellent book, even, and the film is okay as well, but it was written by a truly, truly, horrible man, who - when he wasn't writing literature about children fighting injustice - had a brain (and a mouth, and a pen) filled with the desire to oppress and with racist nonsense.

the answer is "i have no idea".

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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This is just another form of censorship, control of what we can/can't see and engage with, and another means of getting our private information.

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had an asthma attack at 11:15pm. i dont have an inhaler so called the out of hours clinic, and they said they'd call me back but the wait might be a while. five minutes later they call me back, tell me theyll write me a prescription and i can pick up an inhaler at the 24hrs clinic. i go to the 24hrs clinic, get the inhaler (for free: they don't even want to see ID), solve the asthma, and by quarter past midnight i'm home.

genuine w for the north of Ireland's NHS. could not have been any better ngl.

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Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans

via reddit

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This is probably a criminally unpopular opinion, but people whose walls are covered in brand new booktok books are just as complicit in trend-driven overconsumption as the Stanley girlies or the showertok creators with 80 treehut scrubs. I don't necessarily mean the romance girls either, so don't think the 'my year of rest and relaxation' crowd gets a pass here.

Literally the amount of people I talk to who say reading is their favorite hobby and they read like 3 books a week then will tell me that they don't have a library card is insane. How much money do you guys spend on books without any guarantee that you'll even like it? Why not just read a library copy then buy the book if you really liked it?

"But why would I buy a book that I've already read?"

Why did you buy it without knowing you were going to want to read it more than once??? If you didn't like the book then you've just got a $25 piece of wall decor lmao.

I think that this also opens up a broader conversation about the commodification of hobbies on social media. Reading used to be a means to an end to consume a story you enjoyed, and now it's an aesthetic to be performed on Instagram, just like any other trend but with an added air of superiority.

I'm just ranting but if someone can explain to me how buying endless books that'll be read once and then left to collect dust on your shelf is different than buying an eyeshadow palette that'll be used once then shoved to the back of a drawer for years, I'm all ears.

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y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc

not once do i ever see a summary

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I (a baptised catholic) lost my virginity to a satanist the night before Pope Francis died. I fear this may be my fault.

noooooo that's so funny! It was definitely you

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Love when one of those "do you know this thing" polls looks like this

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How come Lucifer isn’t depicted as a Dragon with many heads anymore?

(sigh) woke.

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You fucks would defend the fucking gestapo as fellow humans before you engage in any direct action against people being black bagged and put into concentration camps

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The Blues Brothers (1980)

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Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being proudly frightened of everything. “I’m proud as hell to be scared of everything, and there’s nothing you can do to silence me about that fact,” said Daniels, puffing out his chest as he spoke from behind a barricaded basement door that he had reinforced to keep out the “terrifying liberals, women, and immigrants who haunt my thoughts, at all hours of the day and night, whether I’m awake or asleep,” which he told reporters he was not ashamed to admit in the slightest.

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