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searching for that fine line between “i need to stay informed” and “i can’t take any more of this.”

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Law librarians killin’ the game

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(Image from Olin Library, Cornell University.)

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Very meaningfull

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With all the “what-if” Star Wars comics they did, you’d think Luke and Leia being switched at birth would have been done by now.

Anyway, here’s Leia Skywalker.

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💞💗💟💓💕💖

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BITCH, IT’S SATURDAY

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Lando Calrissian

The news from @organafinn that Lando might not make an appearance in the next series has me fuming.  He was so damn important in Episode 5 and Episode 6.   I wonder if no one understand this.  

Lando Calrissian by the time he got involved was no longer a rogue.  He wasn’t a smuggler.  He was an administrator of a small mining colony.   He was management.   His days were taken up resolving the small bureaucratic snafus that every institution encounters.   The toilets are down on level 12.  The cafe workers want a raise.  Someone keeps feeding the space rats in processing.  It wasn’t glamorous work, but it was important to a little part of the galaxy.  To his part.

Then suddenly, a black-plastic clad nightmare shows up and threatens everything he had worked for for the last five, ten, twenty years?  All the people who look for him to leadership.   He was  not a teen farm boy from Bumfuck, Tatoonie, or a smuggler who runs from the law every other day, or a Space Princess.  He’s a guy who’s biggest problem last year was a failing generator that no one wanted to pay to fix.  He was a bureaucrat with a good smile, a nice handshake, and a desire to just get the work done, because someone had to do it.   He didn’t know how to deal with Sith Lords.   He didn’t want to know how to deal with Sith Lords.  He wanted his mine to turn a profit with no one getting hurt.

Lando Calrissian is me.  Or what I hoped to be.

You know when I knew that?  When he shouted “They told me it was fixed!  It’s not my fault!”   Because I’ve said the same thing before with the same intonation.  I wasn’t running from Stormtroopers, but it certainly felt the same.

And when the Empire, the pumped-up fascist shitkickers who think they have the right to stomp into his little corner of the galaxy and destroy the thing he’d worked on for decades – he went and rescued his friend and then blew up their battle station.  

Fantasy fulfilled.  

That they think he’s not important enough to have in the sequels is a travesty.

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I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference

and tbh it’s also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY”

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I’m not endorsing anything but software here. Just providing some lazy tech support. Feel free to ask if you need any help.

Reduce the amount your browser tells servers about you:

https://www.privacytools.io/

Tor:

https://www.torproject.org/

Secure chat:

Signal (Android)

Signal (iOS)

Tox (pretty much every platform)

VPN: Both of these accept paypal, prepaid credit cards and bitcoin:

NordVPN (My choice)

Windscribe

Others

2FA (two factor authentication):

Noble but worthless, if the government wants to read your email, they will. They don’t log in like you or me, they get access to the server or put a box in the rack that server lives in and listen to everything it sends and receives.

:edit: A great addition about securing the contents of your mail. 

Self destructing email: 10minutemail (recieve only) GuerrillaMail (allows send)

What the fuck are these things?

Keep reading

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this blog hates donald trump

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁