Mina is a febfem, I'm calling it

So when I hit kindergarten and teachers and people started telling me I wasn't allowed to rough house with the boys because I was a girl. That I should wear dresses because they made me look 'cute' and then when I did, they told me I wasn't allowed to run around and play because I was wearing a dress and it wasn't 'proper' as a girl. That I needed to be less rambunctious, that I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.

Yah, no fucking shit I told my mum I wanted to be a boy. I wasn't 'allowed' to do the things I wanted to do and had fun doing because everyone said I was a girl. She told me that my body was what it was and being a tomboy was perfectly fine. So I became a tomboy and everytime someone told me I couldn't do something because I was a girl I responded with 'Im a TOMBOY so I can!'.

i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.

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If you want less depressing arguments in favour of public transport, there’s the fact that sitting on a bus or train takes less mental labour than driving a car (see: that post about “texting and driving but it’s legal”), and it’s cheaper for the consumer.

And if none of that sounds worth it in a community that has fuck all public transport, you are right! This is why I vote for candidates, including candidates in local elections, who want to expand public transport networks! This is why I tell leftists that even if non-car infrastructure isn’t perfect, it still needs to exist, and that imperfect non-car infrastructure can be improved to make better infrastructure!

On what the male loneliness epidemic is really about. Given actual alternatives, women are opting tf OUT of "traditional roles".

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.