sleepymccoy:

how many libraries could you get to from where you live now without looking up directions?

none

one

two

three

four

five or six

seven or eight

nine or ten

eleven to fifteen

sixteen to twenty

twenty to thirty

more than that

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You can use any travel method you like, walking, public transport, so on. You can get an uber but their map has failed so you’ll have to give directions. You can travel to other countries and count those libraries but you have to be able to completely navigate from your home without assistance. So you can catch a plane but must be able to travel to and from the airport. No limit on how long it takes. If you know which block it’s on or which tram line but aren’t sure precisely, but you feel sure you’d find it once you got there, count that as a yes (if you’re not sure maybe google it now and see if your plan would work). You cannot rely on asking for directions though, this must be all your knowledge

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coraniaid:

If the reboot goes ahead, and SMG plays an older, wiser Buffy who shows up a few times to give advice and encouragement to the new Buffy (named after her, of course), I hope they keep her romantic life as vague as possible. The original Buffy didn’t want to know too much (if anything) about Giles’ dating history, or her own mother’s, and why should the new one?

I hope the most we get about the last twenty years of our Buffy’s life are some scattered hints that she’s in a long-term relationship with somebody who used to be a vampire – “a vampire with a soul?” the show’s new Buffy can scoff – but who became human again “decades ago” after fulfilling the terms of an ancient prophecy. I hope they have the original Buffy let slip that she met her partner when she was a high school student, but it took her a while to realize that they were the one. That they used to be evil but have since reformed and help her fight against evil and save the world. That they’re the most important person in her life after her sister and her nieces. I hope the Bangel and Spuffy fans spend hours refighting old wars about which character Buffy is “meant to be with”, both convinced that the show is building up a cameo by their preferred (now older and in-universe human) leading man.

I hope that, in the last episode of the first season of the new show, our Buffy’s phone rings during a key bit of exposition – in the library, ideally, because it won’t be Buffy without one of those – and she apologizes, saying that she has to take it because “that’s my wife”. I hope as she walks out of shot, phone in hand, we see her smile and we hear her say “hey, Harmony”. And I hope the show never, ever expands on any of that again.

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Q:

I can’t quite recall if it was you asking but yes, the Capitol switchboard is on fire thanks to so many outraged calls to Congress so now people can’t get through.

kereeachan

elfwreck:

vaspider:

Billy Porter says "Good."ALT

Remember: if you can’t reach their DC office, you can call their local offices.

Also remember: You don’t need Serious Political Discussion Skills to call your representatives. You don’t need to be able to make an argument that would sustain a 250-message reddit thread.

You can say “This thing here, [name of whatever], I don’t like it. It’s a bad policy being pushed by rich men for their own benefit. It is dangerous to me and bad for America. I want you to oppose it, as any decent person would.”

Or

You can say, “This thing here, [name of whatever], it sucks. It’s terrible and I hate it and if you support it than you’re terrible and I hate you. I am going to tell all my friends that you are an evil scumbucket and they should never invite you to their birthday parties. You should feel bad about your whole life and then you should go to hell and wish you had been a better person. In case you missed it, you suck and I hate you.”

Or

You can say, “This thing here, [name of whatever], is the WORST FUCKING THING I HAVE EVER HEARD OF, YOU RATFUCKING BASTARD. YOUR HEAD IS SO FAR UP TRUMP’S ASS YOU CAN SMELL ELON’S DICK BEING SUCKED. DID YOU BURN INSECTS AND SLAUGHTER KITTENS AS A CHILD OR DID YOU JUST GO STRAIGHT TO TRYING TO KILL YOUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS? OH WAIT, THEY’RE NOT YOUR FELLOWS BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT ACTUALLY HUMAN; YOU’RE A SHIT-SUCKING SLIME MOLD. I HOPE YOU NEVER GET LAID AGAIN IN YOUR LIFE.”

They have to listen to you, either way. If you’re talking to a machine, just keep talking until it cuts you off. You don’t have to be eloquent or even coherent.

There are people who are persuasive, who offer all the relevant facts, who have the up-to-date statistics and the names of media influence orgs to drop. And they like doing that. Let them do their part.

Your part is: Jam the damn phone lines until the the interns are terrified to work in any Republican politician’s office.

fanhackers:

[Survey] Content Management on Archive of Our Own

Carol Zhang, a second year Masters of Digital Arts and Humanities student at the University of British Columbia Okanagan is doing research on Archive of Our Own under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Cinnamon. This research is specifically examining how users interact with the archive’s tagging system and how their wider Internet usage could impact that. Part of this research is the survey - available on this link - for which Zhang is looking for participants.

The survey is anonymous and it takes 10-15 minutes to fill out. It will be available on the above link until January 20th. Participants must be at least 18 years old. More information about how the responses will be stored can be found in the consent form and if you have any further questions, you can contact Carol Zhang at the email address zcarol@mail.ubc.ca.

The results of the research will be available through the university’s thesis archive, cIRcle.

If you are interested in talking about content management tools and your experience navigating the archive and you are eligible, consider contributing to the research by filling out the survey.

greywrenn:

geezerwench:

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In Prince’s funky name, amen.

Millennial here. All the above and:

Please send me the training or tutorial in a written format with maybe some screenshots if necessary. I don’t want a video tutorial. I don’t want to waste time trying to scroll to the exact moment in the instructions that I need and then have to pause and replay it because I missed the .01 seconds of actually relevant information.

Please. Text. Maybe some images for clarification. I can read. I promise.

millenial here who works regularly with gen z students. in my experience, (1) concise text instructions and (2) pdfs incorporating screenshots with a bit of highlighting and maybe a few arrows are WAY MORE EFFECTIVE than tutorial videos for pretty much any online tool or process students need to know how to use.

(via cococcinooo)