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Okmulgee, Oklahoma fire crews say they had a bizarre lightning strike call at the Oxford Apartments overnight. They say lightning came through the vent in the roof and struck the toilet, shattering it.“
I will accept precisely one form of toilet humour and it is jokes about these three pictures.
Holy shit
@bonefarm this looks like the nonsense you have to deal with.
i genuinely dont care if the creation of all media comes to a screeching halt btw i will very gladly live with no new movies no new tv shows no new anything for years if that's what it takes for the people who create them to be treated like human beings. i hope every other facet of the entertainment industry goes on strike too and i hope all the ones that havent unionised yet will. i want media creation to become completely impossible and i want the people who could make it possible again to hold out until they get every single thing they want. btw
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You get there and all the pretty boys look up from drinking from the reservoir and gallop away like gazelle
ALTanthropicmoose asked:
bless u for the comprehensive answer to my last question, it is much appreciated! And sincere apologies for coming off as defeatist - you're absolutely right that, at the end of the day, the most important thing is working as hard as we can to make sure trump loses the general election. What this really clarifies for me is that my focus should be on the elections, and that I should file the judicial process under "interesting, could be useful, but will never be a silver bullet". Thank you again!
qqueenofhades answered:
You’re welcome, and I think it’s most useful to think of it like this: we need to do our job (defeating Trump in 2024) so Jack Smith’s job (indicting the fucker up the wazoo) will stick. We hear endless punditry and hand-wringing about how Trump will just cancel the charges if he wins, and that’s often presented as some kind of terrible foregone conclusion that we will only avert by dumb luck, if we do at all. And yet, for some funny reason, we never hear about the flip side: i.e. if Trump loses, he’s fucked. He will have no more reason to delay, no last-minute Hail Mary play, nothing to stop him from standing trial, being convicted, and going to jail, and that’s exactly why he and the rest of the fascist criminals are throwing everything at the election. It is his last shot.
Honestly, I don’t want people complacently thinking that the indictments will do the work for them and get rid of Trump – because they will, but only if we do our job first and pound that motherfucker into the ground in 2024. I don’t want anything to take away from the importance of doing everything we can to help Biden win in 2024 – voting, volunteering, donating, talking to friends and family, you name it. We NEED to do that work so that Trump is out of miraculous golden parachutes and is left to face the consequences. And if he does (again, please God) lose, at least this time he is not the sitting American president and does not have the full resources of the federal government to attempt a coup. In that sense, if you want to see Trump properly, completely brought to justice, it’s so easy:
It’s really that easy. Because as noted, if we do our part and Trump loses the election, he is fucked. That’s really all there is to it.
We are in uncharted territory here because the founding fathers were eighteenth-century Enlightenment rationalists, and while they obviously did not trust a king and built in all kinds of checks and balances to prevent the president from BEING a king, they also imagined that whoever held the job would at least make a good-faith effort to follow the rules. Besides, the best-designed political system in the world would still be vulnerable to someone like Trump, who gleefully and sociopathically wrecks all norms and precedents however he pleases. That’s why there isn’t technically a law on the books preventing someone in prison from running for president, because the founding fathers were operating under the idea that people in American government would at least try, however badly, to perform the functions of American government. Trump doesn’t. He doesn’t give a shit about that. He’s willing to take the whole country down in flames if it saves him personally from consequences, and while our institutional guardrails (barely) held last time, they’ve already said that a second Trump term would involve wrecking all of those, because he is a tinpot narcissistic psychopath dictator wannabe. And yes, it’s terrifying, and yes, too many people didn’t learn from 2016, and all the rest, but still:
If you want to see the fucker go to jail and reap the consequences of his actions, make sure he loses the 2024 election. That’s what you need to focus on. Do that, and the rest of it will come after. So yeah.
"Undiscovered..."
Definitely no one working in the library selected these menus, had them transported, organized them, described them, preserved them, maintained the system for sharing information about them, kept an open reading room for investigating them. They couldn't have! They're "undiscovered."
Definitely no one in the library made a popular crowdsourcing project, "What's on the Menu?" for getting them transcribed and searchable, and while it's not currently updated still has thousands displayed digitally for easy access at home. Online use is use too.
Nope. They're "undiscovered."
You thought you might leave an article about archives and special collections without dust? Nope! The "dusty archives" trope sneaks right in right at the end.
smh.
“Whenever you use ‘musty’ [or ‘dusty’] in an article about archives, the ghost of Schellenberg kills a kitten” - a quote from Brad Houston. This blog highlights the use of tropes like “musty,” “dusty,” and “discovery” in articles about archives and libraries which are relied upon to demonstrate irrelevance, or erase the people doing archival labor.
Poor kitty. We lost another one.
(Cat via @lovemrwar)
I’m maybe a little less allergic than others to “discovery” terminology in reference to archives news but this one is egregious.
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