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Cake day: June 4th, 2025

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  • I used to entertain myself on long bus ride into school watching the antiSkip bars go down when we hit bumps. Good times.

    Also popping the plastic window off my cd player so I could stick a sharpie through and make cool swirly patterns on it while it played (only ever on burned discs, purchased ones were precious lol)



  • 99.99999% of the time libraries don’t want donated books. Honestly don’t know if they ever want them (outside of genuinely rare/interesting ones, and even then). Their collections are usually meticulously curated and are basically the children of whomever is currently responsible for them. Libraries throw away books at a prodigious rate as they wear, or their circulation numbers drop, or because they just run out of space.

    Honestly I have no real issue with people destroying (most) books. It’s 2026 we have access to printers and presses, we can literally make more books on demand, and again for the V A S T majority of books that’s more than good enough (again, not counting anything rare/valuable/interesting but also at that point they kinda cease to become just “books” as the value is more tied than the object itself than the text within)

    What I have a massive issue with is them hoarding this information, and/or very, VERY, likely breaking any licensing the book may be under. And on top of that seemingly doing a fucking horrible job at actually creating something worthwhile from this massive waste of man-hours and resources.