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Still really funny that Marvel named a movie “Endgame” and sold it as the final culmination of the MCU where they killed off two main characters and retired a third and then were shocked when people started loosing interest in the MCU after that

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Alpine Newt (Ichthyosaura alpestris) swimming amongst frog eggs, family Salamandridae, Bulgaria

photograph by Peter Newt

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here are my DS9 alien redesigns! they are all based on different animals :)

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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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College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access

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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains

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Other people: Akira Toriyama is the guy who draws dragons and muscles and spiky hair

Me being into his vaster array of monsters and aliens: this man COULD NOT stop thinking about mollusks

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guess who finally watched pacific rim

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"The Big Dipper as it is today (left) and as it will look in 50,000 years." Dream of stars. 1940.

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Shout out to the Doctor Who wiki's page on capitalism, which is entirely about how it results in most losing everything and companies destroying their workers, bc they're only allowed to cite the episodes of Doctor Who where the Doctor is fighting capitalism

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HEARTBREAKING: character actually mildly interesting to think about but I Dont like their fans

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On the topic of conspiracy theories, I wish more writers were aware of how stuff like ancient astronaut hypothesis, Atlantis, UFO abductions, and the like fit into the scheme of far right conspiracy theories, and cared enough to make sure that their depictions of aliens and lost civilizations aren't repeating far right rhetoric. "People in government are evil lizard people in disguise!" isn't a silly meme, it's a conspiracy theory developed by a guy (David Icke) who claims Judaism and being trans were invented by evil aliens.

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IMO you can't say anything coherent about most US-based right wing conspiracy theories without understanding how seriously the diehards in these movements believe in The Devil

the obvious question, "who benefits from maintaining this elaborate lie," does not stop people like Flat Earthers because many of them are young earth creationists who believe in powerful spiritual forces whose only goals are

1. convincing people that Christianity isn't true

2. the proliferation of largely symbolic Evil, which they enjoy tricking you into supporting

"tricking" people into believing the earth is round is enough of a goal for The Devil to go to all that trouble. if people don't believe in God's perfect little flat earth then they're also free to believe in things like evolution and the big bang

practicality and material concerns are usually irrelevant. the lie is worth maintaining because The Devil has near unlimited time, resources, and human servants, and his top priority is Getting You