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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
lagomorpheme
insidehook.com

Thanks to Bookshop, There Is No Reason to Buy Books on Amazon Anymore

Independent bookstores, and booksellers, get a lifeline just when they need it most.
typhlonectes

Independent bookstores around the country have a particularly clever lifeline, one perfectly suited to the unprecedented moment we find ourselves in. The strange part? It came into being just weeks before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and before the bookstores started closing up shop wondering if they’d reopen at all.

The lifeline in question is called Bookshop. 

In simple terms, it’s a super clean, user-friendly online bookstore whose raison d’être is supporting independent bookstores — not simply with exposure or resources (though that’s certainly a factor), but with cold hard cash…

bones-n-bookles

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From their Choose a Bookstore tab

heywriters

The link redirects to a related page, but here’s a link to the site itself.

strange-aeons
inkskinned

“if you take medication for that, you’ll be taking medication all your life!!” yeah, and?? bud, i already put on my glasses every morning. it’s like. a condition of mine, not a side hobby i’m pursuing irresponsibly. 

lady-harrowhark

and the thrilling sequel: “taking meds for that is the easy way out!” right you are my dude, i’m a huge fan of not making things harder than they have to be

mossspond

Petition for Canada to stop arming Israel

allthecanadianpolitics

In case you haven’t seen it yet: here’s a petition for Canada to stop arming Israel. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-4745

fatzorro

Here’s a proper link to the petition. And some additional details:

  • This is not a random change.org petition that’s not going to be seen by anyone important - this is a petition authorized by a Canadian member of parliament that will be reviewed by the Canadian House of Commons.
  • You must be a citizen or resident of Canada to sign.
  • Petition closes on February 24th, 2024.
tkingfisher
amtrak-official

So do people realize that we aren't building new train tracks when we expand the amteak network, I have multiple times seen people say that we shouldn't expand the network because it would destroy protected lands, which would be a fair criticism but Amtrak doesn't build new tracks, we use existing tracks. We are not destroying protected lands, we are using land that has already been clear for a century

amtrak-official

Also the alternative is more highways which destroy significantly more land for less capacity than railways. So the question is do you want to keep complaining about something that isn't happening and let the environment get damaged as a result or do you want to actually learn how things work

catboymothman

So, wait... Were the tracks not in use at all? Or was it like *only* commercial transport on those tracks? Either way, its good that amtrak will be able to use them again, but one would be much more frustrating

amtrak-official

Almost all rail tracks in the US are either abandoned or only used for freight rail at the moment

mudkipspropaganda

Jesus, we really have no excuse for having such a lackluster rail system, do we?

amtrak-official

Sure we do! The US government hate both rail and you personally

tkingfisher
economicinflationkink

"you hate capitalism because you're jealous of rich people" well I wouldn't mind having an in-ground pool but there's also other reasons to hate capitalism such as the fact that owning a chocolate company that doesn't use fucking child slavery earns you praise because it's so uncommon, or the fact that it by design results in repeat economic collapses when the average consumer can't afford to stimulate the economy, or the fact that our future (and current) existence on planet earth is full of detrimental environmental disasters because pursuing fossil fuels was more profitable in the short-term, or the fact that entire wars are started specifically to make money, or...yeah the list goes on

roach-works

also like, yeah, i AM jealous of rich people. i DO think about how cool and fun it would be to have a billion dollars. i could build my own food forest. i could open up a zillion homeless shelters. i could save the last red wolves, my favorite subspecies, who are in their very last days and will be extinct by the end of the decade. i could buy ALL the fabric i want. i could hire artists to inlay my floors with roman mosaics of hunky gladiators fighting godzilla. i could hire the magic chocolate guy to make me a different random item for desert every week. i could get alexander mcqueen to do more menswear lines and have a backyard full of beautifully dressed sexy space elves pretend to like my fanfiction. i could make sure all my friends are safe and healthy. i could recarve mt rushmore into my little ponies or hand it back to the native people who revered it in the first place. i could hire a guy with a bullhorn to follow elon musk around and recite the obituaries of everyone who dies in a tesla factory. if i was rich i would have fun forever. instead these lame ass nervous wrecks are going around with the net worth of entire nations and they're on twitter begging for love from strangers who can't afford to go to the dentist. how does that not make you crazy!!!

tkingfisher

I have, through no fault of my own, been to the homes of a couple of Super Rich people in my life, and what struck me was how incredibly conventional they all were. It was all just middle-class Live Laugh Love decor, only a lot more of it. I don’t understand it. You make more than the GDP of a small country and the only thing you can think of to do is get a bigger walk-in closet? Twenty thousand square feet of house, all of it apparently decorated from TJ Maxx? You could have a two-story bronze sculpture of a water buffalo fighting Mothman in the middle of the kitchen, but instead opted for fridge magnets saying “Bless This Mess?”

I don’t believe billionaires should exist, but for god’s sake, if we must have them, at least they should be interesting. Have a pet rhinoceros or a room full of Fabregé eggs and two-headed calves in bottles! Install stained glass windows featuring the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Donate baffling public art installations to small towns!

I am resigned to fighting evil, but fighting banality makes me tired. Also, if I am ever a billionaire, I’m putting a megaceros skeleton in the foyer.