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the single most important reason for libraries to be freely accessible...maybe why certain folks want them to go away
If libraries didn't already exist, to people in the USA they'd sound like some kind of socialist fever dream.
A place where anybody can go to borrow media for free? Paid with my tax dollars?
I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can't have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn't ever work. When they're going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn't work, it's the same
Federal library funding is under threat--- So go support one of the last remaining public spaces. It's an outdated idea, somewhere a human can exist without having to spend money.
I took my young kid to a recent library event - the first time I've been to a library in several years, to be honest - and overheard the organizer (or leader or whatever) of the event saying "that's why we're here: to give people somewhere safe they can have entertainment for free."
I didn't have much in the way of an opinion on that person prior to that, positive or negative, but I respected the hell out of them after hearing them say that.
god I love librarians.
god I love librarians.
In order for things like this to keep being offered, please keep an eye on your local library's board and director. Ours are terrible, and gleefully destroying all our similar initiatives... Recent events have them feeling very empowered to do so.
Also, consider picking up a job like that too or running for a seat on such boards. There's always too few applicants for such roles and extremists have an easy time enacting change.
So refreshing seeing those words actually used in a public setting. Suicide instead of "self unaliving", rape instead of "grape", etc. Maybe I really am chronically online
Even "chronically online" seems a bit euphemistic... it's like we're all living under oppressive technofascism.
What handy list of words trump is about to ban
You won't see this in a red state I can assure you
Defunded by some Trumpist stooge in 3... 2...
Our state is trying. The trash have some coward called 'Book Ban dan'. The coward doesn't like free speech and has the morals of a serial killer. He is just working his way up to the name 'Book Burning dan' Trash gravitates toward power and there are no checks and balances left for that. That idiot is selling that books about 'the gay' are making people that way. I wonder what book he read that made him a spineless coward?
Sign at end of library shelf:
Nervous about asking
ABORTION 363.46
ABUSE 362.76
ALCOHOL 362.29, 813.81
ANXIETY 152.46, 155.5, 616.85 BULLYING 303.69
CANCER 616.99
CHILD CUSTODY 343.73 CUTTING/SELF HARM 616.85 DEPRESSION 616.85
DIVORCE 306.89
DRUGS 362.29, 613.8
EATING DISORDERS 616.85
HIV/AIDS 616.97
LOSS OF A PARENT 306.87, 155.9
MENTAL ILLNESS 616.89
POST TRAMATIC STRESS 616.85
PREGNANCY 306.87, 618.2
RAPE 362.88
SELF-ESTEEM 185.1, 305.23 SEX 613.9
STIs 616.95
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SUICIDE 362.28, 616.85
As a library, we're not here to judge, we're here to help
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I really feel being somewhat neuro divergent when my first though was, 'wtf Is that font', it's like someone made comic sans worse.
Oh good, books on how to bully. We don't want folks to lose their technique.
Given the sub, I was expecting to be surprised that Solarpunk was one of these difficult topics.
Post-Incarceration Syndrome (PICS) ?
Hey these are great suggestions, I'll get child custody for today
Had depression yesterday, would not recommend...