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you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

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on this day, 6 yrs ago, bruno mars was surprised to see pete wentz

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so did louis grab someone off the street or is he kinda just

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I cannot believe Jimmy went to law school while working full time at hhm, made his own way as an independent lawyer, saw what was happening at sandpiper, dug through their disgusting garbage to retrieve their shredded documents, spent all night putting those documents together piece by piece… all to be told by his own brother that he’s not a real lawyer and that him having a law degree is equivalent to a chimp with a machine gun.

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i wish i could say this more eloquently but watching these college solidarity encampments popping up around the world… watching university faculty use themselves as shields to protect their students from the police… watching these students put their own safety on the line to demand divestments… i’ve never seen anything like it, and every update moves me to tears.

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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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Here's your daily reminder to Click for Palestine!!

Be sure to click for the other causes as well if you can!

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this broke my heart

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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

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i never watched Watcher but these comments are so fucking funny

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Watchergate: 4/19-4/22

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A total collection of the Watcher stats (from YouTube comments)

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Oh to be a thirty something ex-buzzfeed employee making a stone faced apology with your two coworkers/business partners on a three seater couch after experiencing massive public backlash.

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If anything, the watcher entertainment fiasco taught me one thing about myself: I'm not immune to parasocial relationships and I was most definitely in one with Ryan and Shane.

I love them to bits but honest to goodness this was a wake up call I'm kind of thankful I got. I'm not planning on quitting the channel but I'll feel zero sense of duty to support or promote them unless their episodes are on another level

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A text message exchange between my sister and I