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Vers couples are killing the environment by using up all of California’s water when douching together

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baaaaaa im already writing my antony and cleopatra gender paper for one conference but bg has a lil conference with no theme shpuld i submit for the anorexia incest molestation connection paper ive been dreaming of....

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waaaaaiiit omg… wait i just remembered they don’t love you like i love you

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hillary clinton spent her entire life trying to become the first female president with the singular bloody-minded devotion of a ming dynasty court eunuch and kamala harris just ambienposted her way to the top

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If you don't use your library's Libby and Hoopla collections, you run the risk of losing that access. Your library will see the low numbers and think "no one is using this service and we need to save money so let's get rid of it". I am saying this because at the library I work at, the collections team reduced the number of books you can check out each month for Hoopla. They reduced the amount by more than half - 25 to 10 - all because people weren't using it at the same capacity they were during lockdown.

Digital collections are expensive yes but when libraries are able to show the library board or city that their services are highly sought after and used in large numbers, that aids in arguing for increasing the budget - or at least keeping the budget where it's at.

Whatever your opinion on pirating is, you are doing not a single person favors by not using library resources just because you have a misunderstanding in how it actually works.

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Since the 1960s, Los Angeles’s Sunset Strip has hosted a kaleidoscope of custom-built billboards. They’ve been labeled variously as “sky trash” and art. An architecture critic once called a 70-foot Marlboro Man “one of the most effective landmarks in the confusing landscape of our city.” Timeline put together a photographic field trip to the Sunset Strip’s last 50 years of billboard advertising.

Timeline

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richard nixon is q*eer because he did watergate, subverting the societal expectation we all had for him to not do watergate

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That movie where Jeremy Strong’s Roy Cohn daddy doms Sebastian Stan’s Donald Trump will lead to a lot of y’all saying some things you can never take back #OnHere

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Al Jazeera is saying that the pagers in the Israeli attack were indeed packed with 20g of explosives and were imported into Lebanese territory five months ago, and Axios says that the decision was made by the Israeli state to detonate the pagers a week ago.

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SHARP OBJECTS (2018) I, TONYA (2018) BETTER CALL SAUL (2015—) PRECIOUS (2009) HEREDITARY (2018) MOONLIGHT (2016) SHAMELESS (2011—2021) SUCCESSION (2018—)

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The sight of Kamala Harris praising Dick Cheney and welcoming his endorsement is unsurprising but wretched all the same. Extraordinary rendition, systematic torture, and the annihilation of hundreds of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis - these are just trivialities for respectable American liberals, who invoke Trump's malevolence and uncouthness only to excuse their own love for empire.

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so many louis misreads are just antiblackness. like accepting uncritically that he was a literal pimp (he was more of a madame / landlord / eventually the sex workers formed a co-op) and then so many people stack another lie on top of that, that louis being a pimp is *actually* recreated anywhere in his dynamic with armand.

on the show it is so clear that the master/servant thing is their mutual fantasy of the relationship as constructed by armand’s manipulations!

like i get that daniel called louis a pimp in a piece of dialogue but think for a second why daniel might’ve been wielding gender roles and antiblackness to make louis squirm. he is not being literally descriptive. characters on iwtv have complex motivations for everything they say and they are influenced by racial power dynamics.

anyways i was talking to @transmutationisms about this and he pointed out that armand’s experience of being sold into sexual slavery bore so little resemblance to the sex work that louis ran in new orleans that the only commonality is that they were both involved in the sex trade but to such different extents that it cannot be neatly replicated as “louis was a pimp and armand was a whore and now they’re really acting that out”. that assumption is so layered with antiblackness and bizarre gendered expectations and incuriosity about sex work that it nearly erodes the story being told on the show entirely. disrespectful!