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hi!!!!! i’m an actual librarian who has encountered this very situation before!!!!! and while i commend & admire op’s willingness to help another patron, this is why you really really should have a library worker, not another patron whom you don’t know, assist you with tech & information related issues in the library!!! because we are trained in how to handle this exact sort of thing

tl;dr: use proton mail. i’m not gonna gatekeep this info. it does not require a cell phone number, so it’s my go to for patrons in this situation!!! while i am acutely aware of the harm done by the digital divide & how many people are getting left behind as our world gets increasingly tech dependent, the situation is not hopeless. there ARE provisions in place to help the people most affected, and those provisions are usually wearing glasses & cardigans & sitting behind the circulation desk

librarians are not glorified bookworms!!!! we are information professionals who are highly trained in how to handle these sorts of seemingly impossible binds!!!! ask us for help!!!!!! as i always tell my patrons, that’s what i get paid the big bucks for

This is gonna be an unpopular opinion but I think more allosexuals need to get okay with dating asexuals. Coming from someone who's two and a half years and going strong w someone ace they are genuinely the light of my life.

Originally you may think that no sex is a sacrifice but for me it proved to be the opposite, I got the chance to have a relationship with no pressure on intimacy and how fast or lack thereof we were going. I got the chance to really sit down and get to know someone on a deep emotional connection level.

In a society that's so focused on sex but so hostile towards friends with benefits I think it's so important to recognise if you really want to get to know someone for them as a person or if you want their body. It's so good to look inside yourself.

the french beatles

jean, paul, george, et ringeaux

cant fucking sleep bc wikipedia has separate lists for vampires and for fictional vampires

Signs of a heart attack are different for each gender yet we only really teach the male warning signs. Make sure you’re aware of both and spread it to as many other women as possible!

EVERY SINGLE TIME I HAVE TAKEN A CPR CLASS I have had to be that person who points out that the training videos ALWAYS frame the “male” symptoms as the default universal heart attack experience, while the “female” symptoms are framed as though they’re a deviation from the norm, rather than the primary symptom set that cis women experience. 

ALSO: I just showed this post to my roommate, who is an MD at a clinic that specializes in care for the LGBT community in the Baltimore area. I asked her  whether hormones were responsible for the difference in the “male/female” symptom arrays. I asked how that would apply to her trans patients (which, she treats a LOT of trans patients). She said, basically, that the longer you’ve taken testosterone the more likely you are to get the intense chest pressure and the arm pain, versus the upper back pressure and shortness of breath.

Obviously I am not a doctor myself, consult your own health care provider, etc.

Reblogging this comment because this is the FIRST TIME I’ve ever seen someone address what XYZ medical condition would look like in trans patients. Also this is partly why my great-grandma died: the (male) doctor dismissed her heart attack as basically indigestion, because she didn’t have the typical male symptoms.

one thing about me is that I'm looking stuff up. you mentioned something and I don't know it? I am pulling out my phone and googling that shit. an actor? theoretical physics? a world leader? a vocabulary word? I am on the wikipedia page as we speak

you know what. I think I should be allowed to temporarily turn into a seal and go swimming around in the ocean for a while. just submit a little note to work that says "sorry, I need to take some sick time, I am becoming a seal" and leave for a week

why is it sooo hard to conclude essays. I said all that because fuck you thats why

you say "i mostly just think people should be free to live their life as they please" and somebody will respond "oh so you think EVIL MURDERERS should be allowed to EVIL KILL PEOPLE" and its like.....

first of all obviously not, thats such a bad faith argument for the sake of arguing and i think you know it is

second of all its weird thats the first thing you thought of? its weird that you went to such an extreme? since you allowed bad faith arguments into the discussion i could argue its reasonable for me to think you might wanna evil murder someone based on how quickly you thought of that

third of all and perhaps most importantly. evil murderers already evil kill people. not being allowed to hasnt stopped them so far. thats uh. thats why its called murder and not silly joes knifey knifey end a lifey power hour fun time

There are actual tears in my eyes rn can you believe people are this stupid and walk among us all the time

I think I’m falling behind in pop culture can we stop writing books and making movies until I catch up. something crazy is about to happen to gilgamesh

― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

I’m not reinventing the wheel by saying this, but dehumanisation is bad actually, even when you do it to “bad” people.

Dehumanising even Nazis and terrorists just removes the obligation and responsibilities we all have to understand how radicalisation into violent extremism happens, how seemingly ordinary people can become convinced that mass murder is a moral course of action.

No one who becomes an extremist thinks of themselves as monstrous, they truly believe that all of their actions have a just reason and if only they could make everyone else understand, everything will be fine.

Human beings can be evil, cruel, and vicious. Pretending that only inhuman monsters can participate in and justify atrocities stops anyone who thinks of themselves as normal and moral from questioning their ideas or their actions and as we have seen, that is decidedly not a good thing.