Yeahhh we’re gonna need a 741.6 as well…
But for real, things like this are great. Local elections ALWAYS matter. Just an unfortunately large amount more than ever.
Given the sub, I was prepared to be surprised that Solarpunk was one of these difficult topics.
I really feel being somewhat neuro divergent when my first though was, ‘wtf Is that font’, it’s like someone made comic sans worse.
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 It’s an outdated idea, somewhere a human can exist without having to spend money.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.
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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 616.951/2
SUICIDE 362.28, 616.85
As a library, we’re not here to judge, we’re here to help
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Hey these are great suggestions, I’ll get child custody for today
Had depression yesterday, would not recommend…
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?
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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
Benjamin Franklin was a lover of life, and he seemed to think that books helped to love life…I honestly can’t believe he was so influential as to create one of the finest institutions on the planet. Remember, he hung out with slavers…
Sure, an American invented libraries, totally /s
The library of Alexandria existed a tiny bit before Franklin.
lending libraries?
Hello Librarian, I’m looking for a book about wanking. Can you help me?
Be more specific dear, is it more focus on addiction/medical field, porn/entertainment field, or fetish/farming field ?
First of all, that’s almost exactly how that conversation would probably go. Librarians are amazing.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
I know you were just doing the funny, but the internet should stop repeating this baseless idea invented by purity culture fanatics, even in jest.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
Lol, what? You can get addicted to almost anything. Including masturbation.
If you specifically mean “a pathway to addiction” then you misinterpreted the single use of the word “addiction”.
I know you haven’t read anything on the subject by your comment. You might want to start with the DSM-V.
You cannot “get addicted to almost anything.” That’s nonsense. The DSM-V does not recognize masturbation, porn use, or sex as causes of addiction. There’s no such thing as “porn addiction,” for example. On top of that, it’s not as if masturbation addiction is a new idea that science has yet to accept—it’s the opposite, with psychology recognizing that the concept doesn’t hold up to scientific inquiry.
People who compulsively or excessively masturbate almost always have an underlying cause. Masturbating is the symptom of that cause, and addressing the root should bring any excessive behavior into balance.
The issue arises, though, that the internet often thinks that being horny more than their peers means there is something wrong with them. People tell them they’re “addicted” to sex, and purity culture spreads in earnest. There’s now entire industries that have sprung up based on this pseudoscience, and often because of cultural or religious upbringing, people do not question it.
There’s plenty of good resources covering sexual behavior and addiction. As much as I dislike Google, Google Scholar is a good way to find papers and studies on the subject(s).
Lmao
Looking for more of a technical manual
I want to be tied up and milked like a dairy cow, so farming
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.
Post-Incarceration Syndrome (PICS) ?
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?
My state has a ‘Ron’ but otherwise I’d have suspected they were the same person, based on the description.
What handy list of words trump is about to ban
Here is the canonical list:
British spellings are fine then
god I love librarians.
god I love librarians.
Trying to decide which anxiety DDC to look at first would give me anxiety lol.
I had to look it up:
152.4 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Emotions and feelings
155.5 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Psychology of young adults
616.8 Medical sciences and medicine > Diseases > Diseases of the nervous system and mental disorders
Oh good, books on how to bully. We don’t want folks to lose their technique.
