Given the sub, I was prepared to be surprised that Solarpunk was one of these difficult topics.
Post-Incarceration Syndrome (PICS) ?
We don’t deserve librarians
We do deserve librarians.
For people dealing with or processing systemic trauma, this directory isn’t a luxury or a stretch goal feature, it’s an essential accessibilty feature.
There are a few things I’d add to that list, like burnout, disability, and neurodivergence, but it’s a good start.
We gotta raise the bar, it’s been in hell for too long now.
Hey these are great suggestions, I’ll get child custody for today
Had depression yesterday, would not recommend…
You won’t see this in a red state I can assure you
I really feel being somewhat neuro divergent when my first though was, ‘wtf Is that font’, it’s like someone made comic sans worse.
Trying to decide which anxiety DDC to look at first would give me anxiety lol.
I had to look it up:
152.4 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Emotions and feelings
155.5 Psychology > Perception, movement, emotions, drives > Psychology of young adults
616.8 Medical sciences and medicine > Diseases > Diseases of the nervous system and mental disorders
the single most important reason for libraries to be freely accessible…maybe why certain folks want them to go away
If libraries didn’t already exist, to people in the USA they’d sound like some kind of socialist fever dream.
A place where anybody can go to borrow media for free? Paid with my tax dollars?
I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can’t have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn’t ever work. When they’re going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn’t work, it’s the same
Benjamin Franklin was a lover of life, and he seemed to think that books helped to love life…I honestly can’t believe he was so influential as to create one of the finest institutions on the planet. Remember, he hung out with slavers…
The library of Alexandria existed a tiny bit before Franklin.
lending libraries?
Sure, an American invented libraries, totally /s
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What handy list of words trump is about to ban
Here is the canonical list:
British spellings are fine then
Oh good, books on how to bully. We don’t want folks to lose their technique.
Hello Librarian, I’m looking for a book about wanking. Can you help me?
Be more specific dear, is it more focus on addiction/medical field, porn/entertainment field, or fetish/farming field ?
First of all, that’s almost exactly how that conversation would probably go. Librarians are amazing.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
I know you were just doing the funny, but the internet should stop repeating this baseless idea invented by purity culture fanatics, even in jest.
Second, contrary to popular belief, masturbation is not recognized as a pathway to addiction by Psychology (neither are porn use and sex).
Lol, what? You can get addicted to almost anything. Including masturbation.
If you specifically mean “a pathway to addiction” then you misinterpreted the single use of the word “addiction”.
You cannot “get addicted to almost anything.” That’s nonsense. The DSM-V does not recognize masturbation, porn use, or sex as causes of addiction. There’s no such thing as “porn addiction,” for example. On top of that, it’s not as if masturbation addiction is a new idea that science has yet to accept—it’s the opposite, with psychology recognizing that the concept doesn’t hold up to scientific inquiry.
People who compulsively or excessively masturbate almost always have an underlying cause. Masturbating is the symptom of that cause, and addressing the root should bring any excessive behavior into balance.
The issue arises, though, that the internet often thinks that being horny more than their peers means there is something wrong with them. People tell them they’re “addicted” to sex, and purity culture spreads in earnest. There’s now entire industries that have sprung up based on this pseudoscience, and often because of cultural or religious upbringing, people do not question it.
There’s plenty of good resources covering sexual behavior and addiction. As much as I dislike Google, Google Scholar is a good way to find papers and studies on the subject(s).
Lmao
I know you haven’t read anything on the subject by your comment. You might want to start with the DSM-V.
Looking for more of a technical manual
I want to be tied up and milked like a dairy cow, so farming
Defunded by some Trumpist stooge in 3… 2…
Our state is trying. The trash have some coward called ‘Book Ban dan’. The coward doesn’t like free speech and has the morals of a serial killer. He is just working his way up to the name ‘Book Burning dan’ Trash gravitates toward power and there are no checks and balances left for that. That idiot is selling that books about ‘the gay’ are making people that way. I wonder what book he read that made him a spineless coward?
My state has a ‘Ron’ but otherwise I’d have suspected they were the same person, based on the description.
I love this! It’s a really thoughtful thing to do
In order for things like this to keep being offered, please keep an eye on your local library’s board and director. Ours are terrible, and gleefully destroying all our similar initiatives… Recent events have them feeling very empowered to do so.
Also, consider picking up a job like that too or running for a seat on such boards. There’s always too few applicants for such roles and extremists have an easy time enacting change.
Dewey gang represent
Library of Congress is better because Melvil Dewey sucked and also all bible classifications start with the letters BS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Classification
Hey, you leave us to our dead classification system! Go hassle the latin scholars!
