As a library worker, there’s something I want to say to you.
You do not have to apologize for the books you choose to read.
At all. To anyone. You owe nobody any explanations; you need no excuse or “good reason” to be reading the book.
You do not have to be ashamed for wanting to read “bad” books. You wanna read Twilight? We got Twilight. Need a banal, cookie-cutter-plot mystery or thriller?Those are always fun. Our regulars check them out by the towering stack. Ask Betty for recommendations; she’s read them all. 50 Shades of Oh Fucking No? We’ve got it, we even got it in large print. Have fun. Check out the rest of our porn too. Oh, and the sex manuals are a MUST if you want to “experiment” yourself. Don’t be afraid to ask; they’re here for a reason.
Want to read a book written by a huge asshole everyone hates and agree was a monster? Yeah, we have those. No, we don’t think you’re an asshole for wanting to know what was actually written in there, or judging things for yourself.
You are not too old for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Babysitter’s Club, or Captain Underpants. You are not too young for Sherlock Holmes. There’s nothing wrong with a boy reading The Princess Academy or Sweet Valley High. There’s nothing wrong with a girl being into The Hardy Boys or Artemis Fowl instead.
You do not have to pull the shame face and offer me an excuse when you check out your books. I don’t care if I got so angry at that book I threw it against a wall when I read it: you have the right to read it, and enjoy it if it’s enjoyable for you. THAT’S WHY THE LIBRARY HAS IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. If we only stocked pure, unproblematic literature everyone approved of, by authors of unquestionable virtue, we wouldn’t have any books at all. Or music. Or movies. It would be utterly fucking boring. And it certainly wouldn’t be a library.
Librarian here: Also want to point out its HIGHLY unethical for librarians to deny, suppress, or show judgement a patrons book selection. Librarians are really the chillest people you’ll meet and they are also legal anarchists. So go ahead and read fifty shades of grey or that weird incestuous anime series you’ve been eyeing for a while 🤗🌈🌈
Current favourite thing: Strange tumblr curses like “I’ll shred your shoes” or “I’ll fill the lobby with sand”
it’s all fun and games until you forget to filter yourself and are now known in the office for threatening to steal people’s teeth
sorry, you what?
i work for a game developer so we have playtests and i was on voice chat with my team and this one dude made an absolutely goddamn atrocious pun so i told him “im going to steal your teeth” and it turns out people remember when you say things like that out loud
“We’ve seen a lot of back-of-the-envelope calculations, but we need
more scientific discussion on where this network is headed. Right now,
the information available is pretty poor quality overall, so I’m hoping
that people will use this paper as a foundation for more research,” says
de Vries, who works at the Experience Center of PwC in the Netherlands
and is the founder of Digiconomist (@DigiEconomist), a blog that aims to
better inform cryptocurrency users.
His estimates, based in economics, put the minimum current usage of
the Bitcoin network at 2.55 gigawatts, which means it uses almost as
much electricity as Ireland. A single transaction uses as much
electricity as an average household in the Netherlands uses in a month.
By the end of this year, he predicts the network could be using as much
as 7.7 gigawatts–as much as Austria and half of a percent of the
world’s total consumption. “To me, half a percent is already quite
shocking. It’s an extreme difference compared to the regular financial
system, and this increasing electricity demand is definitely not going
to help us reach our climate goals,” he says. If the price of Bitcoin
continues to increase the way some experts have predicted, de Vries
believes the network could someday consume 5% of the world’s
electricity. “That would be quite bad.”
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