Before tomato girl (dumb) there was me making raspberries my whole personality as a teenager (just as dumb). But as a real actual point in their favor they're easy to identify in the woods and I ate from a wild raspberry bush by a lake when I was high on mushrooms once and I felt both like a fairy tale child and also like a euphoric Maenad as I called over other tripping people to partake in the bounty.
*There is a non-zero chance this was a different brambleberry, maybe a wineberry, but it tasted the same.
Worst fruit is fuck ass cantaloupe. Every time I smell it before I see it I think there is rotting produce in the room.
May 14, 2024
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damn i love a raspberry and they deserve an emoji. an integral core memory of mine is laying on the grass in between rows of raspberry bushes that my grandparents had and just playing with ants and beetles for hours and eating raspberries off the bushes.
worst fruit: idk man i will preface this by saying i don't really hate any fruit but if i had to pick what i think is the worst i would say either pear or banana. overrated!
oh wait i forgot about papaya i genuinely hate papaya it's so gross.
May 13, 2024
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Best: mango, goldenberry, blueberry, clementine, cherry
Worst: red apple. never catch me with a red apple.
Fuccck fruit is so good. Nature’s candy.
May 13, 2024
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Strawberries are objectively the best because there’s no such thing as a bad one. If it’s ripe and sweet, that’s just a plus, but even the not-quite-ready ones are delicious. Refreshing, if you will. Don’t get me wrong, there’s so much good fruit, but there are none that I can love in every state and form apart from strawberries.
Worst fruit: Pears. Send that shit back to the fiery pits of hell from which it was created.
May 14, 2024
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I’m sick of feeling powerless so my new coping strategy is to not let a stupid system bully me into quiet despair. I’m learning how to use my state’s General Assembly’s online bill tracker and I’m subscribing to email updates for the agendas and the public hearings of the legislative committees I’m most concerned about. I’m memorizing all my legislators‘ names and emailing and calling regularly.
Also: Check to see if your state’s Legislative Library has Libguides that explain in layman’s terms what bills are passing in your state and other educational/legislative resources you have freely available to you!!!
Nov 20, 2024
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You will make about 60k if you're lucky unless you become a manager, and you will have 35k of debt or more from grad school (online grad school is cheaper sometimes and no one cares where you get the degree anyways). And sometimes you work for a university (which is essentially a corporation) or the government. But in general everyone in your field will believe in a code of ethics that raises the dignity of humanity above the mire of misinformation and censorship. And you help empower people with the information literacy to move through the world as confident capable individuals/professionals/scholars. Community college libraries are my favorite environment I've worked in so far because the students are cool, driven, and diverse in age and background. Public libraries also do amazing social work in 2025 to provide services to their communities like harm reduction, networks of resources for unhoused people, language teaching, professional development, basic technology training, literally just being a third space, I could go on forever. It definitely is a career that exists because of neoliberalism I'm not going to lie, like American public libraries only exist because robber barons in the 1900s donated a mind boggling amount of grants to towns across the country to build them (not sure about other countries' history with this to be fair). All that being said I decided I wanted to be a librarian when I was 16 and I've been committed to that path for 11 years with no regret.
To add a personal note to this rec and emphasize how meaningful this work really is, I'm going to indulge in a story because I could genuinely cry thinking about all the kind, interesting people I've met who have chosen to be vulnerable with me about their needs and goals. A couple years ago I helped an older man for multiple hours to remember his email login so he could get a copy of his birth certificate from his son-in-law who had emailed a scan of the physical copy which was in another country. The stakes were incredibly high and the task seemed virtually impossible because we didn't even have an email address to start. He was having trouble reaching his son-in-law to ask for help because of the time difference, and he needed the scan ASAP. We were together for so long I learned a lot about him. He talked to me about Islam and Christianity and angels. And then we got it! It's probably one of the defining moments of my career and to me is one of the most impactful things I've ever done.
So there's my job rec lol!
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