gwynndolin:

28 today and 66 tomorrow… when will the madness end

I want a new tattoo have been obsessed with the idea of getting my torso covered in vines so that’s what I’m going to do

A four month difference

chaandarchive:

Send her unsolicited moon pics

susumustudio:

“Sculpture for the Earth” (“Rzeźba dla Ziemi”) by Polish artist and performer Teresa Murak, created in 1974 in Ubbaboda, Sweden

rabbitindisguise:

carys-the-ninth:

“let me put this object some place obvious and inconvenient so im forced to deal with it” (grows around it like a tree root around a rock)

#baby i can ignore elephants in the room in ways you cannot imagine.

I am crying

ijaazat:

in a train right now, i can see the city lights and i feel so so overwhelmed

itscolossal:

Introspective Oil Paintings by Laura Berger Convey Transformation and Protection Through Entwined Bodies

ghostowlattic:

Living Cells

by ghost owl attic / darius greene

s6

fotojournalismus:

A man washes a blanket on the banks of the river Tawi in Jammu on November 28, 2017. (Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)

uroko:

Jose Sanchez

oldinterneticons:

definitelynotcecelia:

definitelynotcecelia:

t-poserat:

ALT

If you can, please donate to the Internet archive, links in the description. The loss of the archive would be devastating for dozens of reasons.

I know the Library of Alexandria comment sounds like an exaggeration. It absolutely is not. As of May 7, 2022, the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 7.9 million movies, videos and TV shows, 842 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 237 thousand concerts, and over 682 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. It’s been operating since 1996, the loss of knowledge would be impossible to ever completely come back from.

The lawsuit from Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley Sons, and Penguin Random House alleges there have been significant revenue losses because of their controlled digital lending program. For context, most libraries in the US also use CDL to distribute books to their patrons wherever they are but those programs are run through for profit companies and the libraries are often paying a very high fee to so their patrons can have access to digital books. The Internet Archive’s program is completely free but they have a policy of not digitizing and lending anything less than 5 years old.

The lawsuit goes on to note that authors often own larger shares of their revenue of digital vs. print copies of their books. So the publishing companies, seeing that they’re underpaying their authors, are essentially blaming a library for being free instead of bumping up what authors earn on print copies. The Internet Archive’s 5 year policy is designed to protect authors anyway as that’s when books typically make the most money.

Hey by the way The Internet Archive is also one of the most cited places on Wikipedia. If it goes down a good chunk of Wikipedia will go back to “citation needed” or citations will lead to dead links.

Just hoping to make more people aware of this. Donate to them if you can (I have every year for the last few) and definitely spread the word. Obviously this blog couldn’t exist without the Internet Archive but they do an incredible amount of much more important archival of news, government sites, books etc too.

themakeupbrush:

Zuhair Murad Fall 2022 Couture

Therapy? Please. My wax lady and I have the same attachment style so once a month we talk about our coping mechanisms and relationships for 20 minutes or I show up at my best friend’s mom’s house periodically and we end up talking for about six hours at a time so I feel like I have all my bases covered.