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Today I learned
Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.
Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.
Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL
You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.
Hey, highkey from a library worker:
Overdrive has a new mobile app called LIBBY I find it easier to use. It’s the same content as Overdrive just better for mobile. Overdrive and Libby both let you send items to your kindle as well.
tusks-and-tonics
Can confirm Overdrive is amazing.
I work in the largest library system in my state (17 branches in total).
I use it not only for ebooks, but movies as well.
Other FREE resources to check with your library for are:
- Freegal Music (download and keep music, including current music)
- Hoopla Digital (borrow ebooks, e-audiobooks, e-graphic novels, stream movies)
- Kanopy (stream movies; also available on Roku!)
- Axis360 (usually hot or just released ebooks)
If you don’t have a library card…
GET ONE!
If someone says libraries are a thing of the past…
BOOP THEM IN THE NOSE WITH YOUR KINDLE!
Don’t discount libraries as “quiet” places.
THEY ARE ALIVE!!!
THEY ARE LOUD!!!
THEY ARE YOUR DOORWAYS TO KNOWLEDGE!!
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“This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”
This was a pivotal scene in The Matrix because it represented a (sub)conscious choice between the truth and willful ignorance. That choice is a staple in science fiction movies; you’ve seen variations on this theme in movies like Star Trek Generations, where the desire to return to a false reality called “the Nexus” drives the antagonist, and more recently on shows like Supergirl s.1, e.13 (“For the girl who has everything,” where Kara Zor-El has to be torn away from an idyllic fantasy world where Krypton never exploded).
It (finally) occurs to me that here in the real world, despite all evidence to the contrary, people choose to live in false worlds all the time: white people who believe in reverse racism, men who believe they’re being oppressed by feminism, alleged Christians who believe that in America their religious freedoms are being taken away, conservatives who believe that “political correctness” is oppressive and that they are somehow “losing” their rights to LGBTQ and non-white people….the list goes on and on.
In science fiction the hero always manages to reject willful ignorance for knowledge and reality, but unfortunately, here on earth people join together and form right wing political parties that reject science and reinforces their false worldview.
And there is no real life equivalent to Morpheus.
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The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.
Source: fyp-psychology
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In some ways it was easier for my generation. Racism was blatant and obvious. The “Whites Only” signs let us know clearly, what we were up against. Not much has changed, but the system of lies and trickology is much more sophisticated. Today young people have to be highly informed and acutely analytical, or they will be swept up into a whirlpool of lies and deception.
Assata Shakur, Honey Magazine debut issue (1998)
My friend shared this quote with me today and I instantly remembered another great quote from Assata Shakur that I feel is crucial to be absorbed when reading the quote above “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free”.
(via angryasiangirlsunited)
