#App Library

[novella-november]

Do you have the Libby library app?

If not, download it to your phone, and under "Add library card" select the button to search for a library and start typing in "queer"...

Sign up with an email, no actual address required, and you are good to go 🏳️‍🌈

[ID: A screenshot of the Queer Liberation Library Libby main page, showing 6 titles, one of which is an audio book. The titles displayed are the Trans Teen Survival Guide; Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next); We Will Be Shelter: Poems for Survival; Tomboy Survival Guide; A Burst of Light and Other Essays; and Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction. End ID]

(thank you @teddypoi-qd for the ID!]

EDIT: Here is the Queer Liberation Library's donation page!

[9fruit]

Started using phone time to read library ebooks instead of scrolling and it’s made me back into the crazy voracious reader I was at age 12. i’ve been averaging a book a day this week. everyone delete your social media and get your ass on libby

[aitechtonicinfo]

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[grounded-african]

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[wetcherryliquor]

[bruciemilf]

Jason's terribly prolific with technology, okay?

He can hack into the Batcomputer like a surgeon carving life back in someone. He can reassemble twelve types of guns in under two minutes. He can beat STEPH at Mario Kart.

Wayne Phones are just STUPID.

Yes, he wears grandpa glasses, propped up to the bridge of his nose. These multi-colored squares are too small for his fingers, and he can't read the text. This would be way easier with buttons.

Dick, a deserter to his last breath, could help, oh, he could. He just thinks it’s funnier to let Bruce do it. Hovering over Jason’s shoulder, mirroring his deep scowl, like they’re from the same bone.

“Sweetheart, there’s no actual ‘willing hot babes in your area’. That’s a dark web link.”

“Who the fuck is SIRI? How do I make her LEAVE?!”

Whatever. He’ll get it right. Eventually.

Why is Tim grinning, and who came up with ‘Tinder’?

[rainbowofcrazy]

ATTN LIBBY USERS

If anyone is interested in digital manga/Japanese books, the Japan Foundation offers their digital library via Libby for anyone in North America!

US: https://www.jflalc.org/libby Canada: https://tr.jpf.go.jp/library/collection-and-services/

It may take a few days to receive your email. I got mine within 24 hours.

Spread the world and happy reading!

[arizonaconservativegal]

This is your random reminder that your local library likely has a free app (or multiple!) where you can download all kinds of goodies for free. Books, audiobooks, movies, music, television shows, magazines, the list goes on. All free and you don't even have to leave the house to get them. I have borrowed and read like 200 books the last couple years from mine and didn't pay a dime. It's awesome. Go get your library app now!

[ladyjmontilyet]

the "i'll believe it when i can download it" duo

[gwydionmisha]

ACTION ITEM Missouri!

"If you use Libby app to read your library books, like many people do, Sec of State Danny Hoskins of Missouri is canceling funding for overdrive/ libby- the ebook services for public libraries, Allegedly to protect children from pornography

Seniors, disabled, and others without transportation, and many others depend on this service.  "

Call to complain: 573-751-4936.

The friend who alerted me to this adds:

Also, to some at least there may be a work around: 

"This is a link to the Bard App which is through the library of Congress.  It is a free service for the disabled to listen to audiobooks through the free bard app on their phone or tablet.  Not sure if it works on a full blown computer but it's worth looking into.  Let's get around their utter bollocks as well as forcing them to retract it!"

[neat-deadandlive-things]

Don't need adrenaline sports or drugs, I get a rush from winning a game of audiobook chicken with my local library.

[ikiprian]

Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School is a popular YouTube series. Tucker Foley is a star student.

Barbara Gordon's Cram School posts free online courses for both coding and computer engineering. Think Crash Course in terms of entertainment, but college lecture in terms of depth. Hundreds of thousands of viewers flock to it— students who missed a class, people looking to add new skills to a resume, even simple hobbyists. It’s a project Barbara’s proud of.

Sometimes, when she wants to relax, she’ll even hop in the comments and spend an afternoon troubleshooting a viewer’s project with them.

User “Fryer-Tuck” has especially interesting ones. Barbara finds herself seeking out his comments, checking in on whatever this crazy kid is making next. An app for collecting GPS pings and assembling them on a map in real-time, an algorithm that connects geographic points to predict something’s movement taking a hundred other variables into account, simplified versions of incredibly complex homemade programs so they can run on incredibly limited CPU’s.

(Barbara wants to buy the kid a PC. It seems he’s got natural talent, but he keeps making reference to a PDA. Talk about 90’s! This guy’s hardware probably predates his birth.)

She chats with him more and more, switching to less public PM threads, and eventually, he opens up. His latest project, though, is not something Barbara has personal experience with.

FT: so if you found, hypothetically, a mysterious glowing substance that affects tech in weird and wacky ways that could totally have potential but might be vaguely sentient/otherworldly…. what would you do and how would you experiment with it. safely, of course. and hypothetically

BG: I’d make sure all my tests were in disposable devices and quarantined programs to keep it from infecting my important stuff. Dare I ask… how weird and wacky is it?

FT: uhhh. theoretically, a person composed of this substance once used it to enter a video game. like physical body, into the computer, onto the screen? moving around and talking and fighting enemies within the game?

FT: its been experimented with before, but not on any tech with a brain. just basic shields and blasters and stuff, its an energy source. also was put in a car once

FT: i wanna see how it affects software, yk? bc i already know it can. mess around and see how far i can push it

BG: […]

FT: … barbara?

BG: Sorry, thinking. Would you mind sharing more details? You said “blasters?”

Honestly. Kid genius with access to some truly wacky materials and even wackier weapons, she needs to start a file on him before he full sends to either hero or villain.

[OR: Tucker is a self-taught hacker, but if he were to credit a teacher, he'd name Barbara Gordon's Coding & Computer Cram School! He's even caught the attention of Dr. Gordon herself. She's full of sage advice, and with how she preaches the value of a good VPN, he's sure she's not pro-government. Maybe she'll help him as he studies the many applications of ecto-tech!]

[wetcherryliquor]

what a beautiful perspective

[gender-luster]

every night, i fall asleep to the gentle lull of my beautiful wife (libby) reading me a bedtime story (audiobook)

[classycoffeesublime]

I hate the way touch makes me feel, but after drunkenly lying in your arms, they are all I crave for, body and soul.

[nonasbirthday]

*taking my younger self by the shoulders* listen to me. there is some life advice you need to hear, and the sooner you learn it the better. WHEN YOU GO IN LIBBY AND PUT A HOLD ON THE FIRST BOOK IN A SERIES. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST PUT A HOLD ON ALL THE BOOKS IN THE SERIES.