for real though if they ever do find the ‘’’’’’’’’gay gene’’’’’’’’’’’’’’ pls can straight allies claim to be gay and baffle the scientists because they cant find a gay gene within them and therefor we can undo the notion that the gay gene exists
because we all know the only reason why they want to find the ‘’’’’’’’gay gene’’’’’’ is because they want to
find out before birth which babies are gay so their parents can abort them/give them up for adoption based on that
try to forcibly remove the gay gene from those children when they’re born because being gay is still seen as something bad
make homosexuality go right back to being classed as a disease that needs to be ‘fixed’
literally no good can come from ‘’’’’’the gay gene’’’’’’ being found
it’s literally the same situation as scientists trying to find an autism gene like it’s literally just so they can exterminate us enmasse.
When you vote a straight democrat party it changes Beto to Cruz on some machines. If you’re in Texas and voting please RECHECK your answers. If your machine does this, notify someone working at the polling site.
The issue is with specific machines that let you push one button to vote straight-ticket, which is a “feature” that is configured by the people running the machines.
Essentially they build a small script that tells the machine which checkboxes to check when somebody selects “straight ticket”. When used correctly it’s a nice time-saving feature.
However.
An unethical person might “incorrectly” program the feature to select whomever they want, thus hijacking votes. Of course, when caught, it’s just “a programming error” and nobody goes to jail for tampering.
The workaround is NEVER use the “straight ticket” feature if offered.
Instead, hand-select each vote then verify the results before you submit. It’s seriously not very tedious and has a much higher chance of not being messed with.
For a second I thought this was a themed restaurant
Humans will literally adapt to anything
The world in 2022
Food must be good as hell to sit in water just to eat
they are already living in 3018
It’s nauseating how blissfully ignorant people are.
This is not a typical rainy day in Venice.
All over Italy people are facing record breaking storms and floods, a lot of people have gone missing, more than 20 are reported to be dead. The death toll is rising. People are trapped in their homes and attics, there is no way for ambulance or food transport.Important historic sites have been damaged beyond repair, lost to humanity forever. The thing is, this is NOT TYPICAL AT ALL. Italians are used to earthquakes, not floods. These storms have been going on for days, same in Croatia and other mediterranean countries. Germany has had a record breaking drought this summer, everything is getting more expensive because the waterways aren’t carrying enough water for gasoline to be transported, meanwhile Italy is drowning, not just Venice, but also Rome, Florence, do I have to go on?
It just makes me sick when people like @nfwmbh are commenting that this is the world in 3018, it’s the PRESENT, it’s NOW. People are dying and losing their homes, humanity is losing important parts of culture.
Please don’t be ignorant and inform yourselves before reblogging. This is not the truth, to say it’s a typical rainy day in Venice is a heavy lie.
“Hi, I’m looking for a book with adventure, but no graphic violence.”
“I’m interested in a thriller that doesn’t have any rape scenes.”
“I want a gay main character but I don’t want it to be a coming-out story. And no anti-gay violence.”
“Oh, no, murder’s fine, but no animal cruelty.”
All separate reader’s advisory questions that I’ve answered, and successfully. I don’t know why any of these people asked for those specific parameters, and I didn’t ask, because it’s not my fucking business. And it’s no one else’s business, either–up to and including the government.
Librarians don’t make you reveal your trauma in order to justify what you read or write. You may be confusing us with, uh… *checks notes* …fandom.
We are literally trained not to ask. Any halfway decent reference professor nails it into you. Even if it would help you answer a question, you never ask a patron why they need something.
Do you have a database listing all those factors? Sounds daunting to remember if not.
I mean, yes we do have some (see if your library has access to Novelist which is a great database to find your next read), but I’ve also been doing this job for over a decade. It’s not like I memorized a list on my first day. I started with a general gist based on what I’d read and then expanded each time I got a question that I had to go hunting around for an answer. Also, my some of my colleagues have been in libraries even longer and I listened and learned from them both formally and from listening to how they answered patrons.
There’s also whole genres that try to dedicate themselves to being ‘cozy’ reads.When someone comes in for a recommendation for a mystery, I ask them how much gore they want (note, I’m not asking why that is or if this is even a general feeling for them, just what they’re in the mood for a that moment) and if they want little to no blood, then there’s an entire genre of cozy mysteries waiting for them. Ditto with romance with little to no sex.
I also make it a point (and in my state am required to keep my certification) to go to continuing ed classes to learn more. At least once a year or so I go to something reader’s advisory focused.
Being a librarian is a career like any other. Some people are bad at it, some people are amazing, most want to do their best. We train and if we can’t remember, find tools that help us.
When the first monster was formed mankind was changed forever. For where there are monsters there will be monster fuckers
i meeeean, he WAS CREATED to be gods most beautiful angel before he was cast out so i feel that some horniness there is valid
he’s also supposed to symbolize how evil is attractive, particularly his cardinal sin, pride – which isn’t the healthy pride of accomplishment, but the toxic arrogance of entitlement. artists make him beautiful to show how he sees himself; how prideful people see themselves. “of course i deserve this. of course i should be in charge. of course it’s not a crime when i do it. of course everything i do is right. just LOOK at me!”
when we look at people who have that attitude, we kind of want to be them, even while we’re sick to death of their bullshit. that’s why the devil is beautiful.
For those wondering, my url comes from a famous post by @copperbadge, discussing depression & patronuses:
I struggled with major depression from about age 12 onwards. Reading this brought me joy and a spark of light in a dark place. I thought of it often to encourage myself during the dark patches. Now that I’m in the best health of my life, it gives me no small degree of satisfaction to look back on this.
I can’t tell you how pleased I am to see your ongoing progress & survival and to know I’m a part of it 😀
As for the ask, I think it’s been adequately answered, but when I said “gaudiest” in the sense I used it, “gaudy” as in “gaudy night” implies “joyful”. Gaudiest is the most beautiful and joyful!
I’m nearly 40 and I have clinical depression. I still grapple with it sometimes, but I know my own power and I I love that I have dragged others up out of the worst of it with me.
november falls over alberta. bringing with it the whiteout fogs and tall not yet lost-to-snow grasses speckled with almost hoarfrost. a warning to everyone what’s coming. we’ll unpack the sweaters and ready ourselves for a ribbon of Tim’s hot chocolates. and some quiet. some rest. some time to heal our new-made wounds.
Intricate attire for a court nyobo (lady-in-waiting), seen on
OP states that in last picture they tried to mimic shikko pose (a way of moving by sliding on one’s knees, used when in presence of high-ranking people)
today we are hauling our depressed asses up and OUT of bed and IN to the farmer’s market/ community garden/ sidewalk with a plant growing out of it/ garden store/ pumpkin patch/ neighborhood park !!!
my fellow nearly-catatonic motherfuckers i am begging you to look at a plant. it won’t care if you showered, or if you’re wearing clothes you slept in, or if you can’t remember when you last brushed your teeth. but it will be just as alive as you, and fighting just as hard to remain alive in these narrowing days of winter. so go!! meet your earthen kin!!
i had to pull over on my way home this morning because this tree was too pretty and made me appreciate how great it is to be able to notice things and enjoy beauty and experience feelings
my dog ate a lot of grass this morning while i stopped to consider a magnolia seed-bomb. still worth it.
the sad almost-dead plant that the garden store lady gave me for free because she was about to throw it away has put out a healthy new leaf! i saved it!
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