Words on a blog.

A very small egg, supposedly laid by a rooster. (Or just a 'glitch' in a hen's reproductive process, for a boring answer.) I'm told they usually don't have a yolk, but I didn't open it. You have to throw it over your house so it smashes on the other side, or else it might hatch out into a cockatrice!

Does the cockatrice not need to be incubated? I don't know. What's the harm in just eating it, it feeding it to your dog? Does the Devil get in you if you do? This is clearly His work, what with roosters laying eggs being so unnatural and all. Do you risk some witchcraft spontaneously occurring just from bringing it in the house?

Many things are unclear; best to just chuck it.

One day, my fiance’s sister goes to give Fish a treat and the cat whiffs it. Misses the treat completely and it bounces under the fridge, so she’s trying to stick her paw under to get it back.

“Oh no, Fish. You lost your snack!”

“I know I know.”

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

New comic about having to work.

The higher the rise, the better.

Like imagine you're a little rabbit and you go to nibble on a tree sapling but as soon as you go to take a bite it takes off like a fucking helicopter and disappears over the horizon.

I was happy as the next Indigenous person at Taika Waititi's oscar win, as well as his dedication to indigenous children.

But, I need you all to recognize something.

He is the SECOND indigenous to win an Oscar.

The first winner is my Man Wes Studi who won just last year.

Yes he is cherokee and not Māori. But you gotta understand. We all consider ourselves to be kin.

Indigenous peoples around the world. Sami, Maori, Native Australians, Inuit, First Nations (including mexicans.) Indigenous is an all encompassing term for us.

So I am ASKING you to take that into consideration before spreading misinformation.

And yes, feel free to reblog this post.

-Sincerely, a tired Native American.

UPDATE!!!!

I need to inform you that the og herself, Miss Buffy St. Marie WAS in fact the first ever Oscar Recepient. So that's four legends we have (including Miss Yalitza)!! Go indigenous!!

- children and teens who cant get home until a later time have a safe, warm, well lit, populated area to socialize, charge devices, rest, etc

- children and teens have a safe place to go to stay away from danger

if you want this, you need to be at your local community government meetings. you need to be talking to your representatives.  you need to be out there Lobbying.

Just a few weeks ago, my library, me, my coworkers, we had to write letters, send emails, make phone calls, speak at council meetings, just to beg our aldermen to give us our usual funding. Which they didn’t even give to us last year.  Losing last year’s funding forced us to cut staff, hours, and all of our databases.  If we’d lost this year’s funding? two positions would have been gone and we would have likely had to close on Saturdays.  On Saturdays.  The day of the week most of y’all working M-F jobs actually have time to go to the fucking library.

And do you want to know how much money we were asking? We were asking for an increase of approximately 13 cents a person.

13.

Fucking.

Cents.

ACROSS AN ENTIRE YEAR.

No one seems to understand how libraries are funded.  It’s not just Free Stuff.  It’s your tax dollars being paid back into your community.  It’s crowdfunding.  The highest cost anyone in my community pays for the library a year is approximately $250.  Divide that up.  That’s just $4 a week.  That’s less than a coffee.  It’s the equivalent of purchasing about 10 hardcover books a year.  For that price, you could have access to every book that has ever been written, a place to go that’s not a bar, programs for kids, teens, and adults, educated staff that can help you find the answers to your questions, and so much more.

You want these late-night libraries?  You want all this stuff?  Start fighting for it.  Start showing up.  Start making phone calls.  It’s not going to come out of thin air.  Start fighting to erase the idea that taxes = evil.  Start fighting to spread the understanding that taxes are what help us build a better society.

Make sure the people who represent you know that you want this.  That this is where you want your tax dollars to go.  That this is what you want them to support.  That you are willing to see your tax bill go up a few more dollars for this.

Because otherwise?  None of this is going to happen.  Libraries are going to keep cutting their opening hours.  Keep cutting staff.  Keep cutting programs and databases and collections.