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lastweeksshirttonight · 1 year

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Happy season ten premiere!! I was just driving through Boise and had to verify something and you're the only person I know who will appreciate:

(WHY ON EARTH DO I NEVER GET THESE NOTIFICATIONS ON MY PHONE SOB I'M SO SORRY DEAR LOCUST THERE'S A REASON THEY CALL TUMBLR THE HELLSITE AND IT'S ONLY PARTIALLY IRONIC)

This definitely gave me a huge grin on this Saturday though, I'm dying. One of the best underrated bits of John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show:

"We'll just have to learn to live with it..."

#submission #thank you for the submission!! :)#john oliver #john oliver's new york stand up show #john oliver's new york standup show #library!#boise library

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vera-dauriac · 7 months

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Thank you library streaming for keeping me entertained at work.

#library!#la forza del destino #verdi #opera

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flyinggoldenkitties · 2 years

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hey so public libraries are some of the last places in the US where you can just. exist without the pressure of spending money. they don't just loan out books, but audiobooks and video games and movies and board games and music and puzzles...the list goes on. at their hearts they exist to be a safe public space. this past year has seen such an influx of challenged and banned books across the nation, so it is now more vital than ever to support your public library -- where you can get free access to the internet, where the librarians are there to help you find the information you need, where knowledge is democratized and accessable.

support your local library. library cards don't cost anything and with it you will have access to a whole world of wonder.

❤️

#support your local library!#psa from an Internet librarian #libraries are essential to communities #hi i love you thanks #LIBRARY!

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ionlylikemycat · 2 years

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my tiny town has a tiny library and they want to build a small library so they marked out the area of the proposed small library and built a smallest library made to look like the current tiny library and tomorrow we all vote on wether to build a small library

#lemon speaks #i just think this is so cute #look at it #that’s what the other one looks like #it’s like 200 years old #and like 200 sq ft #they just want to make a moderately bigger library so we can have community space that isn’t also a kinda gross bar #and everyone in town is Mad About Everything -#like all the time #it’s a BIg Button Issue in town #but look at the cute #library!#libraries are amazing

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septemberkisses · 4 months

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the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

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cadaverkeys · 4 months

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You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

#rambles #if you are a person who is into delicate skills #like lacemaking or printing or sewing #you will know fair well just how non expansive the knowledge online is in comparison to written guides from like the 50s #there was a time where at least one person in the household had to know a constructive skill #but in the modern day there is just less ans less demands for comprehensive guides #library propaganda #im stuck doing an essay rn but bc i have covid i cant go to the library and its totally fucked me #i want to source a lot of the stuff i read irl but i just cant go and get it and theres no online ver

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ur-daily-inspiration · 5 months

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#art #draw #drawing #dark academia #light academia #words #quotes #books #book quotes #books and libraries #aesthetic #funny #lol #haha #humor #memes #jokes

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daily-spooky · 2 months

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#goth #gothic #funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #tweet #twitter #dank memes #dark humor #books #books and libraries

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homosexualfairy · 2 months

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#quotes #cottagecore #naturecore #thoughts #books #words #books and libraries #dark academia #light academia #facts #memes

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glorious-spoon · 3 months

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every genius who thinks mandatory two-factor authentication is a good idea should be forced to do tech support for a public library that serves a lot of elderly poor people

#there is a lot of crossover between people who don't have reliable access to a cell phone #and people who need to check their email at a public library pc #WHO KNEW??

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starlightshadowsworld · 5 months

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To this day people will cry over the knowledge and works destroyed when the library of Alexandria was burned down.

And yet no tears are shed as Palestinian archives and libraries are bombed.

Saint Porphyrius Church, a structure built in the 5th century and the 3rd oldest church in the world has been bombed.

It's not an accident.

Israel aren't simply killing Palestinians, they are trying to erase that there ever were Palestinians in the first place.

Destroying their livelihoods, trying to to destroy their culture and history and pretend this land was never there's.

It's easy to deny someone's existence when there's no record of them.

Which is why it's so important to look at the atrocities and bear witness to what's happening.

But to also recognise that Palestine is more than it's suffering.

There is a living breathing culture, of art, history, literacy which all come from the Palestinians.

Traditions they've carried for centuries.

So while we mourn the dead, we shall fight for the living. Fight for the preservation of their crafts, amplify their voices as they speak on their culture.

Palestinian history and culture is alive. And no matter how much the world wants to erase that, they cannot and will not.

#free palestine #free gaza #anti israel #anti zionisim #archivisim #Libraries #anthropology #palestine

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vera-dauriac · 2 years

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Since discovering that our local library has Naxos streaming video, which includes just shy of 600 complete operas, hubby and I have taken to popping on an opera most evenings. If it's good, we watch and enjoy. If it's not, we leave it on for background and I read. It's often an internal debate if I hope to discover a wonderful new opera or hope it's mediocre so I can get back to my book.

We're just skimming through alphabetically by composer, and tonight is Furlanetto singing Mefistofele.

#opera #mefistofele #arrigo boito #ferruccio furlanetto #naxos #library!#i really am liking my book right now though #tore skeie #the wolf age #excellent viking/anglo-saxon history

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heedra · 5 months

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

#im not much of an online shopper myself but i do find that the feeling i get from browsing the library catalogue to place holds #is the same i get from figuring out how to spend a gift card

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sleepy-bebby · 3 months

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