THIS IS ALL LEO'S FAULT

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carriesthewind

Is it ok to take notes in the margins of library books?

No, because it's rude to other readers.

No, because it can damage the book.

No, because it's never ok to take notes in the margins of books.

Yes, because I need to take notes understand what I'm reading.

Yes, because it enhances the experience for other readers.

Yes, because if it bothers other readers, they should just buy their own copy.

No (some other reason - please put tags)

Yes (some other reason - please put in tags)

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I have very strong opinions on this subject, and I'm curious how others feel.

lollybliz

Hi, public librarian (lower case l, no degree) here, please don't.

We're already, in general, severely underfunded. Shocker, the capitalist hellscape we're stuck isn't great about allocating county budget to such a socialist outlet.

When you write in the margins, that's considered damage, and we just do not have the funding to replace every book we have to weed for damage.

Use sticky notes. Please. Write your margin notes on sticky notes in the book. You can even keep your place that way. But please please please don't write in the books, don't crack the spines, and don't dog ear them. That's just going to force us to weed them, and we can't always replace them.

elfgrove

#we flip through every book that comes in the drop off to see if the pages are loose torn damaged or written on #and we're supposed to set aside all of those for checking by collections #to see if its severe enough to warrant weeding #and frankly as the budget gets tighter i know im not the only one turning a blind eye to some damage #because i know we wouldnt be able to replace it anyway #better to let it slide til it gets worse #but its a serious problem

knottahooker

Hi, capital L Librarian here, if you think your notes enhance other readers' experience of the book 1) you're wrong and 2) no one's going to get to read them anyway because you damaged the book and we had to throw it away.

Good job breaking it, hero.

findingfeather

Jesus fucking christ this. Do not fucking write in things that don't fucking belong to you, you nits.

findingfeather

Like let me be clear: you can do whatever you want to your OWN book. If you want to write in a book THAT BELONGS TO YOU, knock yourself out.

Do not fuck up books that DO NOT BELONG TO YOU. A library boom is a communal resource. IT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU. It is an asshole entitled move to assume you have the right to alter - regardless of whether or not you think it’s “enhancing” or “damaging” - a thing you are BORROWING which DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU.

This is not hard. It is not complicated.

findingfeather

Being as I got to spend twenty annoying minutes erasing a damn book today: NO, NOT EVEN PENCIL. NOT EVEN IF IT'S LIGHT. YES I WILL CURSE YOU, PERSONALLY, FOR DOING THIS.

Yes, we have to erase your fucking pencil marks by hand, you coathanger.

Do not write in things that do not belong to you.

grungekitty-77

Finding your handwritten notes when buying a second hand book in a thrift shop is charming and poetic. Because that isn’t what I would intentionally buy if I wanted to read the book normally. Because I can decide if your takes are bad and not buy the book with your notes in it. Because if I don’t want to look at them, I CAN GET THE UNMARKED VERSION FROM THE LIBABRY!!!!!

You are seriously conceited if you think your thoughts are good enough to warrant forcing everyone in you community to look at them. Now I have no option to read this book that doesn’t include your liveblogging of it. (Because if I’m using a library, there’s a strong chance I can’t afford to buy my own new copy, and this is my only choice)

I bet you people talk during movies too.

books do not write in library books ever ever ever ever library libraries
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grungekitty-77

Putting the matrix image on this is so funny. This isn’t dodging bullets, this is standing behind a lead wall that blocks off half the website

this is the fandom and blorbo website you have half of all posts blacklisted dodging bullets babe you put up a riot shield more power too you but I'm forever laughing at how broad those tags are to be represented by bullets

Anonymous asked:

What would you think if an evilized villain(maybe a wishmaker-like villain or maybe even a villain that's unrelated to the butterfly miraculous) caused Chloe and Zoe to switch bodies somehow, and nobody fully understands what's going on, so Zoe(in Chloe's body) is taken by Audrey back to New York, despite Zoe desperately trying to explain things. But Chloe enters a fugue state(heavily due to trauma caused by the neglect of her parents) and genuinely thinks she's Zoe, and is even able to recall many of the things Zoe did due to being in Zoe's body. The class thinks "Zoe's" change in behavior is due to the psychological effects of method acting, since "Zoe" is playing Chloe in Astruc's new movie, but they gradually convince "Zoe" to let them help her relearn how to be "herself" again. Meanwhile, in New York, Zoe is trying to get back to Paris, but when she gets there, “Zoe” thinks she’s there to try to hurt Marinette.

I think you need to stop copy-pasting this idea into people’s inboxes and go write your fanfic.

/gen /well meaning seriously I've seen you ask this to a bunch of blogs and idk what else you're looking for just go write it you clearly want it to exist badly enough that will carry you through the process You CAN create what tou want to see and if it's not good enough you can do it again and again and again and again stop waiting for permission or validation just Shia Labeouf it
thelorewriter-inator
queerical

all this fucking talk of "stealing" with the queer community. "gays are stealing from lesbians" "aces are stealing from gays" "transes are stealing from everyone" absolutely convinced white queers learned about cultural appropriation and decided it could be applied to sexuality and gender and it became entrenched becuz ppl are fucking obsessed with gatekeeping and exclusionism

besties, we are all in the alphabet soup together. the lines between us are blurred as hell. we are not stealing, we are inspired. our culture is bright and beautiful and a street fair that everyone trades at. quit being so goddamn individualistic and embrace the community. it's the only way we have solidarity

grungekitty-77

I’ve never really gotten and answer on what exactly is being “stolen”. I’ve gotten a hand wave and a vauge “You know.” Sometimes even “✨resources✨” (and those thieves stole items!! I swear they did it officer!! /s)

I’m convinced the real answer is attention.

what-a-weird0
griseldajane

Glaze is out!

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Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.


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digitaldiscipline

Art thieves already hate it:

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grungekitty-77

You know what the best way to ensure that the picture you want to use doesn’t have Glaze on it?

ASK THE ARTIST FOR PERMISSION TO USE IT!!!!!!!

Cackling this is perfect we don't have to kill the ais but now they have to be ethical about their sources or their data will be ruined perfect glaze ai art of you're stealing a strangers work to make your product then you deserve to have it ruined that simple if you get permission you'll be told or even given a version you can use

it’s kind of funny to see countries hating on the american versions of their cuisine. like you know that was made by immigrants, right? That’s like attending your estrange child’s dinner party and scolding the guest because the family recipes were changed.

just a thought food america american cuisine culture sharing there are good parts of american culture our food is one of them will die on this hill food is love and hospitality you will be FED while we do have a cagey record with immigrants of color we have a long history of immigration and the blending of cultures I don't want 'authentic cuisine' made by someone that could afford to study abroad I want the stuff lovingly made by local immigrants that have adapted their practices to suit their needs and environment
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instructor144

I will mash that Reblog button every single time this shows up on my dash. I spent a lot of years martyring myself for “the needs of the business.” Young people? Don’t fucking do it. They don’t care about you, you are a “resource,” not a human being. I can’t say this strongly enough: see to your self-care!

canyouhearthelight

We talk a lot about how to tell if you have a bad boss... Here is how you know you have a good boss:

My boss would verbally kick my ass if I logged in or communicated voluntarily about work while on vacation. And if I had to log in, absolutely no one else could do my thing and it couldn't wait? He would refund my time off and make me take it the following week.

Time off is Time Off. Take it. Unashamedly. Unabashedly.

the-haiku-bot

Time off is Time Off.

Take it. Unashamedly.

Unabashedly.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

grungekitty-77

There is some merit to the first tip. You will not progress in something if you never put in extra effort.

However. There is a balancing act in it. Ask yourself questions before you do it.

“Do I even want to progress here?” is the first question you should ask before you do anything. Don’t do work for a goal you don’t have.

“Is there ever a good time to take my PTO?” If the answer is yes, be nice to your team when you can and they’ll be nice back. If the answer is no, they are abusing you and you shouldn’t give them your consideration.

“Is this unavoidable?” follow up “Is it being acknowledged that I’m inconvenienced?” Emergencies happen. Normal people are grateful and relieved when you come through in a pinch and they remember it. Abusive bosses will take a mile when you give an inch.

Going above and beyond will serve you well in a healthy work environment. It will kill you in a toxic work environment. Sadly the majority of work environments are toxic nowdays, but you really do need to look at your specific situation so you don’t screw yourself out of opportunities by assuming the worst of people.

controversial maybe but there may be some miscommunication between older people in good jobs giving advice to people in not so good jobs advice do take you pto though and if you have asked questions and arrived at your conclusion no guilt or shame if they would let you burn let them if they would move the sky to help you move the damn sky
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lezbianz

people who watch musicals and bitch about how it doesn’t make sense that the characters randomly burst into song are so funny to me. babe it’s literally a musical like this is the standard of the genre what did you expect

maledicmanny

THAT'S THE WHOLE PROBLEM WITH THE GENRE AS A WHOLE, THAT'S THE POINT

lezbianz

i’m sorry you’re allergic to fun i’m sure that makes life very difficult for you

ultimate-gay-mer

Me watching a murder mystery: What the hell...why are so many different characters suspicious, in reality cases aren't normally this complicated, this whole genre is a mess...

Me watching a comedy: What the hell...so many silly and unlikely situations keep happening...

Me watching an action movie: What the helll...why is it so violent...

Me watching a fantasy film: What the hell....elves aren't real....

grungekitty-77

“In real life” there’s also no disembodied voice explaining what’s happening, but you don’t have a problem with narration, do you?

It's just a medium for telling the story go watch you mise en scene dude musicals musical theatre
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mycomputerthinksimgay

You, an edgy mall goth: Personal Jesus by Marilyn Manson

Me: an even edgier mall goth: Personal Jesus by Mindless Self Indulgence

fathermartinarchimbaud

Me, a cowgoth: Personal Jesus by Johnny Cash

florrissey

Me, a gay cowgoth: Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode

swankyangles

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don’t worry, i’ve compiled at least 121 distinct and discrete personal jesuses so no one else has to

garbage-empress

there are over 7 billion people on this planet which means approximately 58 million people have to share a “personal” jesus. what a fucking scam.

wiggloid

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“we’re going to get nasty letters saying ‘where’s my personal jesus?’ ‘why don’t i have a personal jesus?’”

grungekitty-77

Fun fact my mom was listening to this song on her Ipod while working once and answered the phone “Thank you for calling (workplace) This is Jesus speaking.”

They hung up.

story time it was related in a Tumblr post way i guess I've told this story before but the fACT HE HUNG UP!! Jesus story
silver-tounges-and-golden-lies

new heresy that makes the bible way funnier:

roach-works

god genuinely had no idea that people would be able to disobey him, when he made them. angels couldn’t! everything in the universe was just an extension or a reflection of god himself, operating in perfect mechanical order. then he put a spark of his own creative consciousness in an animal and it turned out it could disobey him.

like, that’s why he told adam and eve not to access a perfectly accessible tree. nothing else in the universe up until that point would have done something he told them not to.

that’s why he asks cain a perfectly ridiculous question, given that he would have watched the murder happen right in front of him: where is your brother? what did you do to him? he didn’t know cain could lie. even when adam and eve disobeyed him, surprising absolutely everyone involved, they hadn’t figured out lying yet. cain figured out lying.

that’s why god decides to destroy humans and start over only a few centuries later. he has no idea what to do. not only are people disobeying and lying to him, they’ve started completely ignoring him, too. he can control the wind, the water, the plants, the animals, the angels, the heavens, the earth. but he cut a part of himself loose and gave it to this totally unique new critter and now he can’t get it back. he can’t make anyone do anything, and now they know it. he had to carve humanity back down to the one family that actually, for whatever reason, still listened to him, and he had to ride them pretty fucking hard from that point onward to make sure they didn’t just….. stop. because at any point basically any human, ever, even the ones who liked him, could just randomly decide to fuck off and do their own thing.

then like, according to christians, god thought maybe he could get a handle on whatever the fuck was going on with how bad humans were being by making another human who had even more god in him than all the other humans, and that didn’t work either. and also even jesus himself didn’t know what humans were going to do next, which was kill him young. like, god had to break the news to him based on an educated guess, and it was a big surprise to him! he was really upset! there’s a whole scene!

like, i think this is hands down the funniest fucking thing to conclude about god ever. he didn’t know it was going to turn out like this when he started and he didn’t know what to do when it did. he’s been basically scrambling to stay on top of the situation for six thousand years and he’s totally beefed it repeatedly.

god the omnipotent lord of creation knows everything, except what you’re going to do next. god the supreme ruler of the universe can do anything, except stop you. you have a little piece of god inside you and it lets you defy the most fundamental machinery of existence basically whenever you like.

if that’s not funny, i don’t know what is.

atmosphericradar

@roach-works’ original tags are too good to lose

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more good tags from the heretical community:

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nonasuch

Judaism is what happens when g-d is like “okay okay here’s what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna make a new set of rules for them and get them to agree to follow them, and once I’ve got their buy-in it’ll be fine” only as soon as g-d finally gets a group of humans to sign up they’re like “hey do you take constructive criticism? no? too bad”

grungekitty-77

My brother and I have had a joke/scene in our heads for years.

God stressfully answering “I didn’t mean to make humans! I just made a world and you guys showed up and I was in charge of you. It’s like if you went to bake cookies and after the oven beeped, you went to get them, but instead of cookies there’s a baby there. And now you have to raise the thing. You don’t know the first thing about parenting! You only wanted cookies!And you fuck it up. A lot. Because you were prepared for cookies, not a baby. And the baby starts eating things it shouldn’t and you overreact and punish it, and now it’s crying. And you just have to figure out how to take care of this random oven baby you never asked for.”

idek what to yeah this brother my bro my brother's keeper ha I'm funny anyways
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hatingongodot

I've been like bouncing off the fucking walls all day and couldn't figure out why I was so jittery and then I found out that the lemonade I got at panera has 260mg of caffeine. For context the coffee I drink sometimes to stay awake has about 65-90mg. Why does lemonade have this much caffeine. Whats your fuckint problem

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What tbe fuck Panera I am going to Call Saul

derinthescarletpescatarian

This is so fucking dangerous. I’m not allowed to drink energy drinks (heart condition) and it wouldn’t even occur to me to check if the fucking lemonade has caffeine in it.

grison-in-space

By the way, Starbucks is also a HUGE offender about this: basically all their "refreshers" are caffeinated, but this is not clearly stated anywhere and most of the employees will not tell you even if you ask.

It's definitely cool and good how caffeine is pretty much never clearly labeled on anything. Deffo love that shit.

grungekitty-77

Former Starbucks employee here. Any barista that isn’t clear about the caffeine in the refreshers isn’t doing their job right

It is literally in the marketing I was told to use! I was told to explain it as “Starbucks take on an energy drink” I was encouraged to refer to it as “an energy drink made with more natural flavorings”. So if you’re barista isn’t recommending it as a coffee alt when you want something cold and fruity but still need the caffeine, they are bad at their job.

yes I aort of hijacked the post but the link to the person I reblogged it from is RIGHT THERE just go around me starbucks caffeine coffee it also just kind of ticked me off cause that is literally intended to be a SELLING point the idea of someone hiding it is not only unethical but also stupid
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the-haiku-bot:
“jordanparrished:
“ So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There...
jordanparrished

So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isn’t really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.

The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. It’s very pretty and it is skillfully painted. It’s a nice piece of art. It’s also just a landscape. I don’t recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.

The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didn’t study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)

The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhart’s paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isn’t easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the “blue” is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewer’s perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, you’re left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isn’t as absolute as you thought it was?

People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.

Reinhart’s art is utterly genius.

“But anyone could have done that! It doesn’t take any special skill! I could have done that!”

Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didn’t.

Give abstract art some respect. It’s more important than you realize.

the-haiku-bot

Give abstract art some

respect. It’s more important

than you realize.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

grungekitty-77

Technically speaking, you are capable of typing. You have access to a word processor. You can read and write words.

So why haven’t you written a novel?

Anybody can write down words. We all make sentences. You technically could do it yourself.

So why haven’t you written a novel?

Because there is art in it past the technical skill. There is thought, intention, and poetry. We don’t celebrate writers because typing is hard and takes years to learn. We celebrate them because they give us things to think about, enjoy, and talk to.

(Disclaimer, because a lot of abstract art is contextual, it can look like nothing to a layman. This means it’s easy to pass off nothing as abstract art to a layman (and use it to launder money usually.) To an artist, they can call you out on throwing paint on a canvas without intention to make something resembling art pretty quickly when you have no context or statements to give about it. There is a difference between “This is a urinal with your name on it?” “Yeah…… it’s abstract. You wouldn’t get it.” and “Of course! It’s a commentary on how pretensious art collectors are. I wanted to put something gross and ugly in the same place they keep their riches and jewels!” Suddenly, with context, putting his name on a urinal is scathingly witty, right?)

art abstract art rant I'm a nerd soap box Abstract art is where the most pointed statments are made and where the money laundering happens it takes study to tell the difference