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Angel Crowley was heaven's IT department, I'm calling it

Gonna cue this for 2025 and 2028, hopefully we'll know by then if I was right

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Yesterday a kid said to me "excuse me? Your hair looks like beautiful anime hair" which is already amazing and then she said "watch me on your camera when I go down the slide I'm going to do the Peter Griffin death pose when I come out" and she sure did.

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Sliding scale of animated movie titles with brave on one end and kpop demon hunters on the other

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Recently on Unhelpful File Labels in the Archives:

On-Going Project. Folders were empty.

Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.

Stuff. You are killing me smalls.

Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.

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I was driving 4 people to the retreat, sent a message to them to say it's a full car, it's a 2008 manual transmission and we're gonna be in rush hour traffic

One person dropped out, got a ride with their friend, i can only assume because the situation sounded unappealing even tho it's only for an hour drive at most 😂

Now that we have extra space in the car, i decided to bring all three current crafts, and watercolor supplies, and nice gel pens because a friend told me I have to bring a journal. If a goal was to be a parody of myself, that's accomplished 👍

One of the crafts is the loss.jpg hat and there's a nonzero focus on grief+mourning so it would be the perfect time to finish it. I misplaced it for a few weeks and found it while looking for my pens

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okay who here's got the longest list of Queer Joyce Moments handy to respond to this hilarious "sudden and immediate gaying of Joyce" accusation

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got an utterly wild email at work today from someone accusing us of violating the city's status as a trans sanctuary bc we're “pulling award winning and bestselling LGBTQIA+ texts from our online library”.

because of predatory capitalism, libraries do not own their digital collections. we're purchasing a license for that content, and there's many different kinds of licenses. many of them are only available for one to two years, or a certain number of checkouts. audiobooks are more frequently unlimited loans and don't expire, but not always. the books in question that this patron was concerned about are "metered access" titles. they automatically get weeded when the license duration expires (for digital collections: weeded titles are hidden from our collections when there aren't any more copies in our collection).

hundreds of titles expire every week. we have 35,000 titles on OverDrive that are weeded atm -- we're not manually weeding them, it's purely automated. we cannot repurchase every title that gets weeded, especially when, say, the eBook you can buy for $7 costs us $75 and we can only keep it for either one year or 26 checkouts, whichever comes first. i look at the report of weeded titles when i get the email telling me what titles were weeded, and i prioritize rebuying titles that had holds on them when they expired -- if no one was on the hold list for Pageboy or A Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School when they expired, I have zero clue they expired in the first place! and when we purchase a cart of queer books all at once, say for Pride Month, they're all going to expire at the same time. so it's scary to see a bunch of books disappear all at once, but it's not because we're villains yanking them away from you.

we need activists fighting for the freedom to read. so please speak up if you have concerns about your library caving to book challenges! i appreciate that this person is fighting the good fight! but also: ask your librarian what's going on first. and submit patron requests for titles that you notice are no longer in the collection. we will rebuy them! (budget depending. we're the library of last recourse so we get a much more generous budget than most other libraries. still got our budget slashed this year, and other libraries are in very dire straits. so i would also encourage people to write their senator, especially during spring when budgets are being considered for the new fiscal year, and tell them to allocate more funds to libraries!)

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If I'm wearing shoes then I'm wearing socks. There's also two shoes but one hat.

Not to say that shoes is less naked but that it's a more deliberate naked, i agree with sly that only shoes is more naked

Let's settle something.

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This is so tragic

sorry to ask: just wondering: what’s your favorite pokémon

I don't really know much about pokemon- I never really got into it as a kid.

However, I did spent the last few years TA'ing for a class in which the final essay was to write about a pokemon from a natural history perspective; describe its habitat, diet, behaviors etc. And I can say that, after grading 100+ of these essays, my least favorite pokemon is Eevee. At least a quarter of all the essays I read were about Eevee or one of its evolutions. I can safely say that I know more about Eevee's ecoogy than I ever wanted to know, and if I never have to read another essay about it it'll be too soon.

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Let go of the idea that diy will inherently look shit. All your clothes are handmade you just don't see the people doing it.

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I've been doing a lot of thinking about my family and how I was treated as a child, and honestly, my father has never seemed more amazing in my eyes.

I used to love Luigi(Mario's brother) when I was little. Like, he was my favorite character ever, and I had multiple plushies of him. Didn't give a fuck about Mario, vaguely tolerated Peach, but I loved Luigi.

On my first day of kindergarten, my dad gave me the number for his work phone and said it was Luigi's phone number. "If anything happens at school, call Luigi."And not even twenty minutes into my first day, I was having a panic attack. So I went down to the principal's office and called "Luigi."

Now, at the time, my father was in a meeting with his manager and his supervisor, along with most of his coworkers. And when I called, he picked up before he even left the room.

And he put on a very awful Italian accent and said, "Itsa me, Luigi! Whatsa the matter?"In front of his boss and coworkers. Without telling them what was going on. So they were absolutely bewildered, and he carried on like they didn't even exist. He only explained what was happening after I had calmed down and hung up, to which most of them responded with "Aww, cute."

I continued to call him whenever I got upset at school, and eventually his coworkers got in on it. I distinctly remember one of them impersonating Toad. I don't know why I'm telling you this, I just thought it might make you smile :)

this is so delightful I love your Luigi dad

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I love when the universe is equally in love with a character as much as their soulmate ❤️

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Some reptiles shed their outer layer in one full piece.

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