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"Isn't it exhausting being someone you're not?"

"No! Isn't it exhausting being the same?"

Unfortunately this is funny as hell

"lesbians for a free Palestine"

downtown Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

another deranged drawing from my demented mind

imagine actually believing that

whatever

they call it "protecting the children".

Covid

My condolences to people who are still suffering from the long term effects of it, and also who have lost loved ones. My grandfather passed away from covid, and that period was very tough on my family, as i imagine it was for many others.

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.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

the nuisance of our language is stunning

The amount of love that you brewksis have given me has been borderline overwhelming... the amount of love and support I've been getting is something I couldn't ever fathom. Thank you all so friggin' much for everything 💕

omfg im laughing so hard i fell asleep on my keyboard last night and i just found this

Yesterday night I got pulled over. The policeperson asked me if I had a police record. I said no, but I do have Roxanne on my playlist !