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I don’t identify as “male” or “female”. I identify as a problem

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#matt#u disaster#<3 I saw that Gabriel, you cutie

Get you a person that’s just as feral as they are tender. Get you someone that is a complete and utter bastard but in a good way. Get you someone who’s also sweet and soft but will still do the dumbest fucking shit just because they want to make you smile

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this is such a strong opening paragraph for an article about a medieval cookbook

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me

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i’m supposed to feel bad for the military? i don’t

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Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries

Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn’t making enough money, so they’re shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of its customers acquired effective July 1.

Customers will receive refunds.

This puts the difference between DRM-locked media and unencumbered media into sharp contrast. I have bought a lot of MP3s over the years, thousands of them, and many of the retailers I purchased from are long gone, but I still have the MP3s. Likewise, I have bought many books from long-defunct booksellers and even defunct publishers, but I still own those books.

When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn’t get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash refund for the price you paid.

People sometimes treat me like my decision not to sell my books through Amazon’s Audible is irrational (Audible will not let writers or publisher opt to sell their books without DRM), but if you think Amazon is immune to this kind of shenanigans, you are sadly mistaken. My books matter a lot to me. I just paid $8,000 to have a container full of books shipped from a storage locker in the UK to our home in LA so I can be closer to them. The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary works, they could not have done a better job.

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

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https://www.instagram.com/martinamartian

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no, listen, when I say I want to integrate more specific solarpunk stuff in my life, i don’t mean to ask for yet again new “aesthetic” clothes that now you have to buy or make to show your support of the movement (screw that i’m consuming enough as it is), or more posts about impossible house goals, or whatever, I’m asking you what my options to build a portable and eco friendly phone charger are, im asking you viable tiny-appartment edible plants growing tricks on a budget,  im asking tips to slow down when my mind and society tell me im not fast enough, i don’t need more rich art nouveau amateurs aesthetics or pristine but cold venus project, okay, i know i should joins associations where I am tho i’m constantly on the move, thanks for that, just, you know, can we get a bit more practical ??? how do I hack my temporary flat into going off the grid for the time i’m here

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a detailed list of things I hate:

hot weather

high temperatures

heat

warmer than average conditions

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when crows remember people who wronged them and hold grudges it’s “intelligent” and “really cool” but when i do it i’m “petty” and “need to move on”? what kind of double standard honestly…

Vanitas, probably (via incorrect-kingdom-hearts-quotes)

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“Good Omens is a dark comedy–” I have to laugh. yall stop fooling people. it’s a fucking romcom

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I guess since I’m a fairly visible autistic blogger I should talk a little bit about neurodiversity/disability justice so

Any system that doesn’t follow the structure of “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need” is unjust to those with lesser abilities or greater needs

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really big fan of this piece