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Some days I wake up feeling barely on the edge of my own existence, like my consciousness has been poorly placed within my own flesh while I slept, I feel unable to make a decision on what to do like the wrong decision would finally snip the last tether and this flesh would drop like a marionette without strings and what's left of me would float off to some unknowable place.

Then I remember to drink my coffee and I forget that feeling for a few hours.

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Attract the worm or pay for it at the concessions

Awww shit yall know what it is

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Humour developed from years of trauma

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Wet this bit of ocean in particular

Enlightenment, 2013, Mi-Young Choi

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When your cat doesn't want to be held but you've had a bad day

Dean’s demon growls my beloved 😈🥵

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⭐ MAHITO ⭐

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Never forget that on this holy night an older brother proposed to his middle school sister. These are the sins Jesus was born to this earth, on this blessed night, to save us from.

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A Christmas cartoon for the Guardian. Happy Holidays, everyone!

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Pickles are a gateway drug. The first gherkin is free.

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zinetober day 12....

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As a former librarian, the whole "don't pirate books, you are taking money authors need to feed their starving children, just borrow from the library instead :) " makes me angry.

Because e-book prices for libraries are insanely high. Like I've heard the jokey meme about how "if libraries were proposed today, they would be condemned as some socialist infringing on intellectual property rights."

Well, the rights for libraries to lend out paper books were negotiated almost a century ago in most western countries, while the rights for libraries to lend out e-books and digital audiobooks were negotiated during the present neoliberal era where corporations are very powerful. And It fucking shows.

The prices for libraries to buy e-books are insane, and that's not even counting the circulation fees. And the books are frequently restricted by licensing to a certain small number of loans per book, after which the e-book is destroyed and the library has to buy a new one to the exorbitant prices the publishers give.

Like the advice about how piracy is some great evil cutting into author's profits and how you should just borrow from libraries instead is so infuriating in that context. Like listen to actual librarians talk about e-book pricing for libraries. It's a major drain on library funds, and in the era of neoliberalism and austerity those budgets are strained as it is. And libraries inability in the face of these costs to provide digital content is used as justification for further cuts.

Librarians have boycotted major publishers over their ridiculous e-book policies and have talked about how ridiculous prices are for years, and for good reason.

This is fucking corporate robbery of library funding, of tax payers money to further their own private profits. Any moralistic bullshit about the evils of book piracy should be put in that context. If the ordinary person is stealing the publishers precious book sales profits, those publishers are already robbing that person's tax dollars.

It's a fucking hypocrisy to justify the present system of copyright and intellectual property with "well, if you are poor it's still wrong to pirate because you can get books for free legally from libraries". Because book publishers are already using their strong intellectual property rights to bleed libraries dry of funds, killing them in the process like the fucking vampires they are.

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Life lessons.

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You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

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