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“No one is perfect…that’s why pencils have erasers”

-Wolfgang Riebe

#mistakes #forgive #grace #patience #love #kindness #relationship #life #correction #eraser #pencil #write #homework #workplace #funny #humour #encouragement #hope #illustration #milkyprint #redbubble

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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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Now we got the Amazon and FedEx job bots like they finally noticed we don't care about the hot singles in our area and instead went the unemployment route

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Me: recovering from flashbacks, half dissociated

My kitty 🐱 Liliana: mrow?

Me: “the horrifying dark lore of my past came back to haunt me.”

Liliana 🐱: mrow💜

Me: Yeah, I'll be okay

~Nico (he/they)

((I was attempting to sound less boring & ended up making myself laugh 😅💜))

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its so great how you can listen to music and you can hear sounds in your ears

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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sorry i can't come in to work today. yeah sorry they killed me off last night. yeah i just wasn't relevant to the plot anymore. i should be in tomorrow but i'll let you know.

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Grumble grumble…

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need 2 borrow a kiss. won’t b giving it back btw

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if u could get paid for it would you ever fully translate an Armenian book (be it a novel or poetry collection?)

I would, in a heartbeat I would! And I’m being totally honest with you; I’d gladly translate Armenian literature without even thinking of receiving any revenue. The idea that by doing so, even one foreigner learns about the existence, history, and soul of your nation is enough of a reward for me. It wouldn't be incorrect to fear that the future of my dear nation is in danger. Culture, literature, language – these are resilient forces, able to withstand the storms brought about by time. If by translating heaps of pieces, I could prolong the life of my nation for even a fraction of a millisecond… (I think the rest can be left unsaid).

Alas, at the moment I’m working and studying full-time, which leaves me very little free time. Not enough to translate whole novels or poetry collections, but I’m doing my best to work on at least two poems each month.

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There are a number of students in my GCSE class that have behavioural issues and if they feel uncomfortable they can do anything from storm out of the classroom to throwing chairs and punching their tables. They’re great kids, they just dont always see the light at the end of the tunnel and when they are in stressful situations they dont know what to do other than lash out sometimes. They are 10 months away from their final exams and the pressure is being mounted on them in every aspect of their school lives.

Last week one of the students saw me making little origami stars. Its something I do when I’m feeling anxious to help me focus on something else. He asked if I could show him how to make them. He had been clenching his fists all lesson, which I’ve noticed is a tell that he is struggling to retain composure. I gave him a strip of paper and talked it through with him. Soon half of the class were asking me to show them. They all picked it up really quickly.

After about five minutes and about 8 stars later, the student sat back down and was in a much calmer and motivated mood for the rest of the lesson. Our next lesson I placed a box of paper strips on my desk and when I saw anyone getting worked up about their work I silently placed a strip in front of them and let them get on with it. The lesson after I was amazed to see that students would go up to the box of their own accord, pick up a few strips and head back to their desks to continue working after calming down.

Yesterday I brought a large jar into the classroom and placed my anxiety stars in there. The boys put their strsss stars in there too. When they fill the jar I’m going to bring sweets into the lesson to celebrate them working hard and working through their problems in a positive manner. I know I’m not the teacher they deserve just yet but I feel like I’ve made a big breakthrough with them.

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depression is over it’s done it is obliterated look at this fucking shirt i found at the thrift near my house

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It's always "Read Transfeminism! Read works by trans women!" in response to conversations on trans men and transandrophobia as a concept until it's pointed out the trans women being used as meat shields for these people's arguments have recognized that their scope is/was limited and that trans men and other trans people also deserve a voice and place at the table.

From Emi Koyama's 2002 postscript of the Transfeminist Manifesto [ pdf ]:

Julia Serano in 2021 on her Medium site [ link ]:

I also think it's vitally important that Emi Koyama calls direct attention to the fact that she came to reevaluate her positions because she was engaging with other women of color, disabled women, and working class women. Engaging with feminism that doesn't center around your own identity and instead places more diverse voices into your space is a net good. More perspectives are good. They help you self evaluate and understand how you and those around you actually fit into these larger systems in ways you're unable to in an echo chamber of the self.

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Listen it wasn’t the most baffling thing in the world when Netflix canceled Lockwood and co even tho it performed well bc let’s be real, Netflix will basically cancel a show if it breathes wrong…

But do you think that Netflix actually canceled Lockwood and co bc around the time it aired they’d aquired the rights to dead boy detectives (a show with a competingly similar premise to Lockwood and co that has Neil Gaiman attached who’s had two very successful shows in the last few years with Netflix and Amazon prime)… because I do.

Like to me that’s the missing puzzle piece of what happened there

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¿Passive aggressive vague posting, without even letting me have time to properly formulate a discussion/be ready to talk? Not my style. Very rude. Unnecessary. Immature.

¿Why does she think that's okay?

Let alone that she outright lied in her post that we haven’t talked to her in 48 hours, *immediately* after Shatter (protector) told her we need time to communicate our emotions without being too mean with the wording (technically a bluff, we need time to allow ourself grace to be a little mean). Like. immediately. We had just communicated.

I'm so tired of being neglected &/or abused by emotionally unavailable people who then get angry the moment I make myself unavailable, even just to gather myself for a serious discussion (which she knows I have trauma around & can't force/rush, doing so will make me be inauthentic and bitchy rather than genuine and clear). I deserve better. I want better.

I am bleeding (emotionally). I am tired. I just wanted to be loved, and to do it right this time around. But I guess, like they say, no matter what you do right you'll always be the villain in some people's stories.

That is all.

~Nico (he/they)