January 2022 ref sheet for gwimm1 on twitter!
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A lot of people don't know that the reason there's not a "rating system" for books like there is for movies, video games, music, etc. is an intentional and explicit stance of librarians. Librarian associations have long, and correctly, insisted that categorizing books into specific ratings or age categories is censorship. The decision of an outside group of people about whether a book is or is not appropriate for someone of a certain age is censoring content to them.
As we've seen with the right's attacks on libraries for LGBT content in books, they would LOVE if some outside party had already done the work of classifying books into a particular category, and they could simply lobby that one central body into insisting that any mention of gay people means it's Adults Only. Then in one fell swoop they could brand the entire debate as "we just want to make sure that our libraries only carry age appropriate books" without having to have the debate on a case by case basis on each individual book across each individual library and across each individual library patron.
After all, does it even make sense that literally the diary of a tween/teenage girl is not appropriate for a tween/teenage kid to read? If you ask conservatives, the uncensored Diary of Anne Frank should be Adults Only. Despite it being written by a teenage girl and having real historical value in humanizing the victims of the Holocaust. But if they could do that fight once, centrally, at a ratings board, they could get it banned from all libraries in one fell swoop.
Got a new drawing tablet!
It's just some dirt cheap thing; not a drawing display or anything, like I normally use.
I'm kinda hoping it'll let me be more versitile in how and where I draw and maybe shake some of this "blegh" I've been contending with.
Sooo, here's my initial "fucking about to get feel for it" sketch.
Maybe it'll be the start of something?
What if your OCs were friends and had little coffee dates together ☺️
I have become zangoose and I'm about to make it everyone's problem
Art by https://twitter.com/natsutyu
mutual aid, very urgent
hi hello
so I'm normally notified by my local council about tax I have to pay, it tends to fluctuate a bit despite benefits. but this month I couldn't log into the site until recently and I didn't get any notification until today and it's due to come out automatically on the 15th; it's the 12th as I'm writing this so I would extremely appreciate the help making sure I have that in my bank before I get into an unarranged overdraft.
additionally I need help topping up my electricity meter as it has gotten concerningly low.
the council tax payment is £60, and I need around £50 for electricity, so £110 in total. lost my job earlier this month too so this suddenly happening extremely sucks lmao
£0/£110
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Yingmotes v3.0!! the last update for a while cause i think its finally feeling pretty complete as a set
231 emotes in 5 different premade color palettes, and a python script to make your own palettes!
https://github.com/Mynotaurus/Yingmotes/releases go forth, spread yinglets across the fediverse once more
"Giant sequoias thriving in UK and could grow as tall as California’s, study finds"
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/uk-giant-sequoias-growth-climate-b2511261.html
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