Alicia ☮️
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Cool as Kim Deal. Maybe. She / her. Librarian, Remembrancer, microbibliophile. Sisterhood of the Soulless. Pro-peace. All views my own.
Joined April 2011
@RobynVinter I knew this guy online for years. His avatar was of Lord Farquaad. In real life, he's a huge 6'4 bear of a man (and he's not white, either). Even though I know what he looks like, and have for 16 years, in my head he's still Farquaad.
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@ravenscimaven How on earth did you get to adulthood without knowing that? I'm fairly naïve and even I knew that one 🤣.
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@jasebyjason You also missed out the other life admin which you have to do alone if you don't have a partner:.Cleaning, washing, food shopping, tidying. And then stuff like GP appointments. Life is still built for couples with one staying at home and running the house, it feels like.
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@sapphicbooknerd Saying pre-chopped veg are for lazy people. They help my friend with EDS SO much.
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My very first quilt cover. Yes, I chose it. And I actually still kinda love it. Please note, someone else maintains the bookcase and I will be putting it to rights shortly 🤣. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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@d_la_reina This is what I hate about certain senior management in my sector who decide outreach / try advertise services: they won't use the platforms the people they're targeting actually use 🤦🏻♀️.If you want them to listen to you, that's how you get their attention.
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@JVanMaren My sister starved herself through puberty because she was in the wrong body. She is so much happier now she's *out* as a woman. I am glad she didn't kill herself because people tried to deny her existence.
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@charlottor When I moved into the last place I lived at, the lawn was overrun by brambles. It stressed me out, so I got rid of them with much scratching to my body and at much effort. Landlady put the rent up.
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Oh yay, the R-number is thought to be ABOVE 1 in some areas of England. Brilliant job, Boris. Fucking brilliant .#BorisHasFailedTheNation.
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How to create another 3 month lockdown in 2 easy steps:.1. Protest mask-less in an omicron hotspot.2. Go back home and wander about mask-less. Geniuses 🤦. #londonprotest.
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@AngryBlackLady He needs to read more from that Menswear Guy. Shouldn't be hard. He owns the platform.
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People: I love the smell of old books. Librarians: Red rot? Eww.
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Had to walk past them today on my way to work. Why do they not understand that they're just prolonging it for everyone? . SELFISH. #COVIDIOTS #londonprotest.
so the covidiots are out protesting at everything being shut while everything is open🤦♂️#londonprotest.
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What's the difference between a light bulb and a librarian?. A light bulb stops working when it burns out.
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@therimaahmed Sorry you got pickpocketed, but HA! That old man got his just desserts. I hope he's as squeamish about hygiene products as a pre-teen boy.
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@ShappiKhorsandi Her racism and bigotry cost her her career. And quite rightly too. It's the 21st century. Dinosaurs went extinct for less.
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All the library staff are just going: nope. We put the foot down on slides, we put our collective foot down on late late nights. Big nope.
I saw an idea recently that I thought was lovely…public libraries that are open late every night so ppl can socialize, as an alternative to bars or sitting alone at home. Would be especially perfect for introverts to socialize comfortably and for older people who are lonely.
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@StckedLibrarian My last day at public library X, a drunk man came into the children's section and started beating up a little kid. Security did nothing. Wasn't in their remit. A member of the public tackled the guy and sat on him with another member of the public until the police came.
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Dating lessons 101: To anyone thinking of asking out a librarian, when you find out they work in a library don't ask them if they get to read all day. Remedial class: Don't ask them if they have ever had sex in the library.
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@motiblackart Assumed I didn't have a sense of humour because I didn't laugh at their jokes. When I pointed out that their jokes weren't funny, that was being mean. 🤦🏻♀️.
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@AlexArrelia @Mr_Axel_Gear Yeah. Libraries. Garth Nix, for example, really loves libraries and waxes lyrical about how they could get him anything he asked for as a kid, so he read.
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Which jobs do people do after they have had the epiphany that librarianship is a thankless job in which they will never progress?.
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I feel so de-skilled. I don't even know how to think about transferrable skills because I am too literal. I don't know how to get a job that isn't one I have already done before.
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@AutisticCallum_ A date at someone's house means they expect sex. Giving out your number is an invitation for dick pics. Even if there has been zero physical contact leading up to goodbye, some men will still lunge and kiss you. If they kiss you, they expect sex. Lessons I learnt ^^.
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@MichaelRosenYes Can't remember the word, but damn certain it's an Essential Criteria in the job specification for this government.
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@judeinlondon There was so much discrimination and xenophobia around Eastern Europeans in the UK in the early 2000s. It was so nasty. The Job Centre told me to Anglicise my surname on applications and to specify that I spoke English and was a UK national for CV-based applications.
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@clare_bwell Wow. This crosses a line. I would feel violated. It takes effort to follow someone on social media. I had a therapist whom I once bumped into on the bus on my way to therapy. He told me that he wouldn't sit with me on the ride and converse because it wasn't ethical.
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@RevyCrimson @KeechMft The non-autistic male can commonly be found on dating apps. To try and attract the attention of a female, he proudly takes and sends a photograph of his most prized possession, his penis. This has a 99.99% failure rate, but nevertheless he is persistent 😛.
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@comradevenustas Yeah. Cis, but with an athletic figure. I put on muscle quite easily, also 15 months of crutches has given me rather muscular arms. Add my huge nose to that, and is it any wonder I hate my body and face with attitudes like that? TERF logic undoes years of therapy and hard work.
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@zbris6 @petervanderhey6 @_HelenDale I am thinking that it's jealousy: someone so young has a platform and a voice and the nous to *do* something. How many 16 year old can do that?.And if their views are more respected than certain adults', well, it's perfectly mature and natural to throw a tantrum, isn't it?.
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@iconawrites But please make sure the library staff are paid enough to make them not resent having to stay open so late!.
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@souljagoytellem @gastrogeorge We had a class on it in nursery: say no to strangers. "Is that a stranger?" I asked my mum, pointing at a man playing with his car. "Yes". I promptly ran up to him and yelled "NO'" at the top of my voice. 🤦🏻♀️.
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@gemlizard @marthasa1 @CaraLisette @RealNickBurke Well, women know what they've got there. Pity any woman who goes to bed with him. No dear, that's my ear. Well actually, the ear, as an erogenous zone, is actually part of the vagina extension, actually.
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@laurenancona In some ways, it reminds me of the start of psychiatrist letters, or consultant letters that get sent to your GP and you get a copy. "Well-dressed", "dishevelled", "pleasant", "aggressive". However, there's probably enough to identify the patient there if you knew them.
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@odosbucket "I am a large language model and am not qualified to grade papers written by other large language models.".
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@oldenoughtosay I wish someone had chewed out the GP who sent me to therapy for health anxiety after I went 5 times with no change in his analysis then ended up on crutches for 15 months. (Getting some more MRIs on Sunday.).But the practice manager always gave me the time of day after that.
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@CorbynistaTeen And we all found out by Twitter, too. It wasn't Cummings' great escape that made me think "fuck it", it was their Islamophobic handling of "whack-a-mole" Northern lockdowns. Truly have I never felt so much contempt for a government in my lifetime.
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@FranArtHistory Headphones and / or somewhere where you can control bits of the environment (e.g., open windows, turn lights on or off, shut the door. Some people ask for silent clocks. I like clock ticking though. It's soothing to me.
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Paradox for you:. What's simultaneously essential and disposable?. A: Library staff.
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@salihughes I'm a librarian. We weed books from collections all the time. It's perfectly fine to donate books, but if they're mouldy or a shitty paperback that's dropping to pieces, it's OK to bin!.It's not the foreskin of Christ.
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@TheaSabin @DrJenGunter I dunno. I reckon it's the one job where you actually perform better drunk 🤣.
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@KaitlynAbdou ❤️❤️❤️. I don't know if this is any comfort, but a former colleague of mine had several failed attempts at IVF, gave up, and then got pregnant accidentally, entirely naturally. So I will keep hoping for you. Take care of yourself, and be kind to yourself especially today x.
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@Title9IsUseless @ipa_fan You do know that plants can have sexes, right? And that they can reproduce sexually? .It was taught in biology classes at middle school. Anther, stamen, pollen, stigma. .
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@AnnaSels @nicolacoughlan Same. Cis men, all the time. The only time I have been sexually assaulted has been by cis men. I have a trans sister and a couple of non-binary and trans friends. I am not scared of them. I am, however, scared for them with all the nastiness that's been going on.
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@Aoife_Bee_ I brought in a copy of two pages from a dictionary to show that "pesky" and "varmint" were both words and I could use them legitimately in my pirate story 😡.
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@WilfulMoon @girlziplocked There's also: how do you have time to have a social life / network when you're working so that you can pay your rent and food? Maintenance loans *just* covered rent in the second-cheapest halls when I was at uni. I imagine it's far worse now. You miss chances to know these folk.
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@Glitterbeard_ @DailyMirror It's an obscene aubergine, an elephantine green screen, a big screen beauty queen that link between the Miocene or maybe it's the Pleistocene. Oh wait you've been taken in - it's a motherfucking trampoline.
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If any trans woman is scared to go the the ladies' loo, I will accompany you.
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@breadandposes @MrPostsGood The thing is, she needs to do actual volunteering work and work experience because just school work and good grades doesn't necessarily get you a place on the uni course you want to do.
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@CarlyRaeSummers @Simon_P_Hannah @SLC_Repayment @SF_England I gave up checking mine a couple of years ago. Graduated in 2009, and last time I checked it was still £25k. I definitely wish they had talked to us about apprenticeships instead of the options being uni or retail.
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@ADHDForReal It was only until a couple of weeks ago that I realised people actually lied in interviews. And that's because my friend got feedback that said "I could tell you were being very honest". I didn't know not telling the truth in an interview was an option!.
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I am of the age where my friends get excited about new vacuum cleaners. That's friends, plural.
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@kathrinepandell @AITA_reddit Definitely. I giggled at it. It was an amusing joke. NTA for sure!.
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A book exchange is not a library. A book exchange is not a library. A BOOK EXCHANGE IS NOT A LIBRARY!.Must I shout it out? Apparently so.
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Ignoring the sports bra, does this look OK to wear for a wedding? .Obviously going to paint nails, etc. Ugh. Hate, hate, hate insecurity.
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@courtneyrsexton I was once told by a "friend" that I was "so ugly, nobody would ever love [me].". Which unfortunately stuck in my head on a loop. It must be over 20 years ago now, but I can't forget it. And yes, it still affects me.
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@BigDirtyFry @drphiliplee1 Connie isn't happy. How's this caterpillar supposed to know she's a girl if she doesn't sport a pink bow?!.
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Stay safe everyone. Just because Johnson is bored of the pandemic, it doesn't mean it's over.
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@joncstone @Sorrelish A huge issue around certain Northern and TPE routes is that there's no signal for part of the journey. If you haven't been on that route before and are using an e-ticket, you don't know about these black spots.
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@d1etmntdew @RealiaAmelia I have minerals and fossils and people ask me that too. They bring me joy. And if needs be, I can whomp a burglar over the head with one.
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@PublishersWkly @NewsandSentinel Oh so that's not dangerous at all. Instead of books maybe their libraries can just have boxes of Frosties. Though Tony the Tiger is probably obscene or something bizarre like that.
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@wonder000 @Kyatic The neighbourhood birds get revenge on the tree-cutter-downers by defiling all of their newly washed windows.
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@TheYoung_Doc Text to speech apps are why it is really important to capitalise individual words in hashtags, and provide alt text in brackets for GIFs 😊 .Learnt this on an accessiblity course.
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@ChefConsultant This is what I'm afraid of. I'm British, but have a Ukrainian surname, a name which has NEVER been spelt correctly on any NHS document. Sometimes the same document can have 3 different versions of my name. Best get my NHS number tattooed on me in case of an accident.
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Liam was correct: TERF is not a slur. Transphobia is disgusting and a hate crime. GMP, please take note. - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange #IstandwithLiam.
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@Ally_Nuttall @obscuricom Oh yes. Show them some anthropological texts where non-cis people are celebrated in cultures. Own them at their own twisted game.
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@beansmeansbooks @drphiliplee1 Even if they don't go on to earn as much as that or make beautiful art or scientific breakthroughs, it's inhumane to starve children.
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