Because I Love Me

Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.

Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL

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!!!

If you guys didn’t see some white girl posted a montage of her colonizer experience in Hawai'i and has been getting dragged for days now lmao I’m not gonna link it cause it’s just her and some other haole girls she met her literally dancing on graves and sacred places and showing off her dirty hair.

This tweet is followed by a tweet thread from user @angelcurlsss that says:

“That stupid video of that haole girl who moved here for 4 months is just showing how fucking ignorant the general population is about Hawai'i and what has happened/is happening to Native Hawaiians.

1. HAWAI'I IS AN ILLEGALLY OCCUPIED SOVEREIGN NATION.

2. Native Hawaiians (Kānaka Maoli) used to make up 100% of the population. It’s estimated we make up about 20% of the state’s population now.

3. Hawai'i was once the most literate nation in the WORLD, about 91-95% of the kingdom by 1834.

4. ‘Olelo Hawai'i (native Hawaiian language) was illegal to teach in schools until 1978, but didn’t get taught again in schools until 1987. People don’t understand how recently they had their colonial policies forced on us. 1978… my mom was born in 1973. She could’ve been beat just for speaking her native tongue on her native land.

5. Despite making up less than a quarter of the state’s population, native Hawaiians make up about 60% of the prison population (mostly nonviolent crimes).

6. Native Hawaiians also make up most of the homeless population. Hawai'i has the largest population of homeless people per capita in the U.S.

7. As of 2018, the average price for a single family home in Hawai'i is $795K. There are no regulations for foreigners owning land.

Including (but not limited to) these facts and statistics, native Hawaiians are one of the most disenfranchised communities in Hawai'i. Our own ‘āina. When people treat our home as a playground for their own selfish needs, they change everything here except the price of living. Native Hawaiians and locals are leaving Hawai'i by the dozens. They recently estimated it to be 11 locals leaving PER DAY.

I don’t care if you want to come visit. Our home is beautiful and I don’t blame people for wanting to see it. But I do care when you poison our land, romanticize our lifestyle, fetishize our people, and cheapen our culture. Unless you’re coming to pour money into our communities and work for our betterment and sovereignty (I know you’re not) you bring nothing of value to Hawaiians. Please come and enjoy, but don’t forget when it’s time to leave.”

Keep seeing some posts circulating about popular websites and wanted to make a version for apps.

These are apps I’m way too addicted to. Am I missing any?

P.S. I’m on an iPhone so these are iPhone apps, but probably have an Android version too.

Edit: Sorry for all the time I’ve taken away from your life

Commaful - popular fanfiction, story, and poetry community 👑

Bettr - the reason my friends are jealous of my Insta

Sweatcoin - get paid to walk

Spellbound - addictive horror 👻 and romance stories

Helix Jump - legit the most addicting game on my phone

Calm - Award-winning app for meditation and sleeping better

Tenkyu - tilt your phone and watch the relaxing magic happen

Slime Road - bet you can’t hit the bullseye ⚾️

Hempire - become a plant mogul

Dune! - Ride the sand dunes like a baller!! so much fun

Go Fish - win trophies by catching hella fish

Hotspot Shield - free proxy/VPN to bypass school filters

Terrarium - build the ultimate garden empire

Golf Orbit - ever played golf on mars?

Ball Blast - Just shoot the balls. Simple right? ;)

Sling Drift - beep beep - level 70 is insane 🚗

1Q - get paid to answer simple questions

Crowd City - Become the popular kid in town by running around 

Bee Factory - become a honey tycoon

Wind Rider - fly through a city in a wing suit

Spill it - drop balls and break glass

Fire Balls - shoot balls at obstacles. gets pretty hard

Paper - can you conquer all the territory and win?

Two Dots - a fun puzzle game. easy time killer

Planet Bomber - let’s nuke some planets

Ice Racing - race down a mountain at record speeds

Splashy - bounce the ball accurately to survive. requires focus

Snakes Vs. Blocks - even more fun than the original snake hehe

Twenty48 Solitaire - best toilet game

Knock Balls - shoot down blocks with a canon - surprisingly relaxing

Wishbone - fun game for comparing stuff like hair, celebs, sports

Hole - fuck up a city muahaha

Dosh - get paid to shop

Sweatcoin - get paid to walk

Yarn - stories that are seriously creepy af

this is sooooo fucked up. i’m livid

Our next gut buster is Kakashi “I’ll steal yo bitch with your own moves” Hatake

Now he was my first Naruto daddy

While all you other hoes was chasing after Sasuke’s lonely ass I was thirsting after the copycat ninja.

Now I just know Kakashi was on some freaky shit idc what ya’ll say

This nigga was always reading them damn porn books 

You really think he wasn’t trying any of that shit

I just know he’ll have me seeing the promise land.

Can we please talk about the best fucking fight of the fucking series.

Like bitch when I say this fight had everything in it 

Emotions, good hand to hand combat, different types of jutsus, and story/flashbacks

I could honestly say I was rooting for both of them 

Bitch when I say I was crunk asf when I finally saw his face

Like I already knew he was fine asf like it was noway possible that he could have been ugly

I am yet to see an ugly anime character with white hair

Now don’t quote me on that shit cause a bitch might be wrong.

But bitch I would gladly toss the pussy at him like a shuriken

Bitch look at that fucking buffet, I would gobble the dick without a care

No matter how old Kakashi gets them hands never age 

He was serving niggas double his age when he was in the anbu

And the crazy thing about is he’s cool asf

Like he legit reminds me of that chill ass family friend that you’ll diffidently fuck if given the chance. 

It’s always the chill ones that knock you the fuck out with the quickness

Do you see how fine he looks 

That’s how you look when you’re unproblematic 

My nigga aged like fucking wine

I would gladly be his fucking sugar baby with no complaint

And he wouldn’t even have to give me money, I just want the dick bitch

I could see myself now, getting my guts rearranged in the Hokage office 

Like omg I just can’t like he needs some stress relief in his life 

And I’m right here with open arms and legs

Shout out to New York

Get the vaccination for HPV. It’s not just for cis women! HPV is nasty and causes cancer.

Don’t be afraid to have a little light in the room to start out with, even if you later turn it off, to check things out with a new partner or hookup. Herpes is most contagious when there are blisters present.

Also, if you find out you have an STD, the etiquette is to tell all new partners until you’re cured or firmly undetectable and let all previous ones you may have infected know. 

When people hear HPV, they think cervical cancer and genital warts. You can have HPV without visible warts. Also, if you are infected with HPV, times of increased stress and low immunity can cause warts and leisons to appear where there weren’t any.

Furthermore, we have screening tools for HPV and cervical cancer in women. It’s called a Pap smear. It’s not just some uncomfortable screening your provider does for funsies. Follow the recommendations and get your pap on time. Women ages 21-35 are at the greatest risk of HPV infection.

Additionally, GET THE HPV VACCINE whether you are a man or woman. Even if you are past the recommended age and you have had HPV before, you can protect yourself from infection from other strains. While the link between cervical cancer and HPV in women is well known, the people most likely to die of HPV infection are men. Throat and rectal-anal cancer from HPV infection is on the rise, and men(straight or gay or bi) are the most likely to be infected and go undetected, since there are little to no screening tools developed for men. It’s not just promiscuous people who get infected with HPV. Men in long-term committed relationships are contracting it through anal or oral sex with a partner who has been infected with HPV from previous sexual encounters. I can’t stress this enough: HPV IS FAR MORE DEADLY IN MEN SIMPLY BECAUSE IS VIRTUALLY NO SCREENING TOOL FOR IT. The best thing men can do is protect themselves before they contract it by getting the vaccine.

Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing by Jared Sexton

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol

Seize The Time by Bobby Seale

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Dirty Little Secrets About Black History : Its Heroes & Other Troublemakers by Claud Anderson

They Came Before Columbus by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

The Miseducation of the Negro by Dr. Carter G. Woodson

Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop

Black Skin White Mask by Frantz Fanon

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War by Wallace Terry

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila

Assata by Assata Shakur

Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by A N Wilson

Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: The Rise of European Capitalism by Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Andrea Flynn

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings

The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

The Blueprint For Black Power by Dr. Amos Wilson

PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America by Dr. Claud Anderson

When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks

The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes

The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street by Robin Walker

Harlem: A Century in Images by Deborah Willis

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley

The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks

For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

Yurugu by Dr. Marimba Ani

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

The Philosophies and Teachings of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer

Soledad Brothers by George Jackson