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Just found a piece of art that looks exactly like chrisginny I’m going insane

Art Credit: Jenifer Prince

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In the past 3 months, 3 library systems have been hit with major cyber-attacks that have breached secure databases and completely wiped out the systems’ ability to provide services to the public.

This repeated targeting of public and research libraries is truly insidious. I haven’t seen anyone talking about this, and I have serious concerns about the implications of these events in the near future.

Here I have compiled some surface-level data about the recent cyber-attacks and their repercussions. Please further read up on them if you are a member of any of these libraries, so that you are informed of your next steps and upcoming service closures.

If you are not directly affected, please bring attention to the attacks nonetheless. This trend will pose a serious threat to public access of archives and records, social services, and digital resources if it continues into the new year.

October 28, 2023 - Toronto Public Library Cyber-Attack

- Employee Data Stolen (SINs, Government-Issued IDs, Names, Birthdays, Home Addresses)

- Online Services Unavailable Until January 2024 at the Earliest

October 31, 2023 - British Library Cyber-Attack

- November 27, 2023 - Rhysida Ransomware Group Sells User Data on the Dark Web (e.g. Passport Scans); price set at 20 bitcoin = £596,459

- December 12, 2023 - 2023-2024 Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship Programme Suspended

- Systems Unavailable for the Foreseeable Future

December 13, 2023 - London Public Library Cyber-Attack

- December 13, 2023 - 3 Branches Closed Until January 2, 2024 (Carson, Glanworth, Lambeth)

- Digital Services Unavailable for the Foreseeable Future

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I often think about how cousin Rob from Derry Girls said that he hadn’t returned to Northern Ireland for 20 years because Derry got too “bomby”.

Rob grew up in Montreal in the ‘60s. If you know Canadian history, and specifically Québecois history, you’ll know that the ‘60s wasn’t exactly a peaceful and bomb-free time for Montreal.

While it was on a completely different (much smaller) scale than the Troubles, the civil unrest of the 7 years leading up to the October Crisis of 1970 was definitely violent and unsettling. The Crisis was actually one of only 3 times the government of Canada broke out the War Measures Act, the other 2 times being WWI and WWII.

Of course, by 1977, things would have cooled off. I just always found it funny that Rob would consider Canada such a safe place considering where he was from and when he was born.

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William James Moriarty is just Light Yagami if he was crippled with self-loathing and thus had slightly less of a god complex

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Listening to a Charlie Dalton playlist and they put in the song Rasputin — I can’t believe I didn’t realize how Charlie Dalton Rasputin is

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Me *burning myself*: this is so Dabi-core

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And I left you alone

In a house not a home

And I watched the burning grow

As my hair filled with gray

- Brother, Madds Buckley

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Colin: Marina and I are getting married!

Anthony:

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People who legitimately wish Ellen Claremont were president are the weakest link because if she were real she would 100% do war crimes

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A huge reason why Kaz Brekker is such a conventionally likeable character is because he’s a venture capitalist and we’ve been conditioned to believe that any conformity to capitalism is a good thing, and that resourcefulness and enterprise are desirable personality traits for a person (especially a white man) to have because it helps them thrive in a money-centered environment, no I will not be taking any criticism on this, stay safe out there though

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Not your type? I’m Percy frickin Jackson, I’m everybody’s type.

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I’m so exhausted all the time. I can’t nap. I can’t sleep. I can’t stay awake.

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All I’m saying is if Percy didn’t want us to want to be halfbloods then he shouldn’t have made it sound so fun

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Oh to be the Broken Ace.

To be so good at everything that you’re never good enough.

To walk around with a regal air that nobody questions because your reputation always precedes you.

People avoid you because they don’t trust themselves to act around you.

Even more, they don’t trust your response.

The people around you harbour the worst kind of doubt, the deepest kind of fear, the most damaging kind of insecurity.

And that’s the thing.

You are good.

Annoyingly so.

Your all-consuming demons have made sure of it.

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“When I was younger I thought that I was immortal.”

- The Secret History Book I, Chaper 3