Wanderings of a Librarian Wannabe

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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this weed tastes like the lake I nearly drowned in as a kid

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I've been staring at these tags for a while @persnicketypansy.

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@slamjamjordan hi yes sorry I’m just. it is 3 am and your tags have been living rent free in my head for six hours

death kisses with tongue

yes I promise

and when it pulls away it’s taken everything with it

all your unfinished sketches and stories

every idea you had, every promise you made. every plan, every dream

and the feel of your skin and the sound of your laugh

Tomorrow a package will be delivered with your name on it

and your friend will fine your hair on their couch

another will stop by to return a sweater that still smells like you

death reaches down your throat and takes your love away

and it tastes like the puddles on the cement behind the school

like the battery you licked at your grandparents house. like cigarette smoke, like the seatbelt strap, like your fathers cologne, like aspirin

death kisses, yes, with tongue

if that brings you comfort I will swear it

by the shoe you lost when you were ten

that someone found who will not know you are gone

and by the stuffed animal you never named

and by the unused shampoo in the bottle your roommate will not have the heart to throw out

and I will swear it by your handwriting on a list your mother with find in two years

that you left by accident in her car

and she will think of you every time she buys laundry detergent, oranges, hot sauce

the way you think of death every time you see a body of water

the way you ask for a promise

because hey, even if it’s death, at least someone is kissing you

right?

thebibliosphere
fishyandclintbarton

I dunno if this has been posted yet, but.....

tweet by @evansbeard: If you are eligible to vote in the upcoming OTW Board elections, please DO NOT vote for Audrey R, a book-banning-think-of-the-children Republican infiltrator. If you have donated to AO3 in the past year, check your inbox for a ballot and PLEASE choose any better candidate.ALT

Keep this shit off AO3

2 tweets by @adybpt:  tweet 1: Yeah, no, heads up, we've got a Republican Christian Karen running for the AO3 board. I love how the US has devolved to the point where we risk Christofascists in our fucking GAY FANFICTION WEBSITES and half of the userbase will smile and nod bc they "condemn problematic themes  tweet 2: Like,,, I think a Republican party candidate whose main platform is literally "think of the children" is the absolute antithesis of everything AO3 stands for, but that's just me.ALT

We don't want that kind of pearl clutching 'christian' conservative sitting on the AO3 board. Keep Moms For Liberty out of our fanfiction.

bemusedlybespectacled

this is the second fucking year in a row someone has tried to pull this crap. but if you're still on the fence about it (though fair warning, I am not copying everything she wrote as a response, which you can read on the OTW website):

Would you be in favor of creating a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee? Why or why not?
I see no reason creating another committee would help anything in light of the continued staffing issues, and see several ways it could hurt. Lumping nonwhite, and non-English-speaking, and non-American volunteers together in one committee is just tokenism with a bow on top. Those experiences are not singular or universal. The DEI consultant to be hired by the organization will be able to speak to this far better than I can.

The cost of becoming a member/voting in elections is prohibitive for many users, particularly disabled, international and POC ones. Do you have any ideas about how this could be improved to make the otw more inclusive and less privileged?
No.

Also, just for some proof of the "Republican" part, from Twitter:

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like, it's not a pejorative, it's how she's self-identified

also, ENTIRELY unrelated to this crap, but she's only been a volunteer for about a year and a lot of her answers to questions about ongoing problems is "I don't know because I've only been here a year." she doesn't even know what PAC is.

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sundayswiththeilluminati

Fun fact: after the American Physical Society held their 1986 annual meeting at the MGM Grand, the entire city of Las Vegas politely asked APS to never, ever come back.

Was it because the physicists were super-smart MIT-blackjack-team forerunners who took the casino for everything it was worth? Actually, the complete opposite: they didn’t gamble. At all. After all, they knew their statistics. Most of them were broke grad students who had no intention of throwing away their stipends on fundamental misunderstandings of Poisson processes. As a result the casino gaming floor was dead. Sometimes the winning move really is not to play.

thebyrchentwigges

@sixth-light

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Me the only time I’ve ever been to Vegas - had one beer and didn’t gamble a cent. Funny thing is, they happily welcome back hacker cons, and you’d think hackers would be at LEAST as aware of probability. Apparently not!

random2908

When I was a kid living in LA, we went to Vegas pretty regularly, since it was only about 4 hours away. My parents would find coupons in the LA Times in the off season and we’d go for a few days. Our whole family could stay in one of the fancy Strip hotels for like $20 a night, and there were $5 all-you-could-eat buffets with actually good food. Plus the arcades were amazing. And so was the hiking! Which is what we were really there for. Red Rock Canyon, with all its tiny caves that you can easily climb up to, is amazingly fun when you’re a little kid. Our vacations were very much subsidized by gamblers.

Relatedly, one time when I was a kid, a large chunk of my extended family went on a cruise to see an eclipse. Everyone on the cruise was scientists or science hobbyists. The crew didn’t know what to do with us! Everyone wanted the 6 pm dinner, no one wanted the 10 pm dinner that you had to dress up for. The casino was empty for the entire week. A group of passengers demanded that all the lights on the deck be turned off at night, even the pretty decorative ones, for at least an hour and preferably more, every single night. One night at dinner, my grandmother saw dolphins out the window, and as word spread the entire dining room emptied, even though it was still the middle of dinner. And that’s not even getting into how my grandfather started talking to the cleaning staff (who were not supposed to talk back) and found out they wouldn’t be let off work to see the eclipse, and within hours had formed an entire committee to go with him to demand to speak to the captain about this mistreatment of the staff.

There are… a lot of places where large groups of scientists probably aren’t welcome a second time.

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All of those places should be regularly subjected to large groups of scientists.

reblogging specifically for the last line also I'm not surprised that hackers tend to think they're above the odds