Hilariously enough my city’s “woke” government is actually in the process of banning little free libraries because “they are on public easements without a permit.”
They are also building a permitting process, but only allowing non profits to apply for the permits.
American Governments are hilarious
What a great use of everyone’s time
Distilled liberalism. “Aykshully you don’t have a permit so it’s bad by definition”
Odd. But not surprising.
My little village has a little free library on the lot with the city hall.
Yo Tom Clancy, this is just like my Rainbow Six games!
The original Rainbow Six villain
was a corporate CEO that was planning to wipe out humanity with a virus and ends with you storming his end-of-the-world bunker.
Very vague memories of the final level of R6 1 on pc, man this series has fallen.
Siege is genuinely a ton of fun, it’s like the natural evolution of Counter Strike. It’s just a shame it’s built on the same business model as a MOBA
Lady Liberty burning books while crying tears of joy. This is
No matter how good at art I get, I will never be as good of a satirist as Kelly.
He may be a lib, but he’s great for the pipeline.
Those are two different skills, so yeah that’s probably true. Kelly comics have intentionally bad art but it’s acrually generally a bit too good and shows he’s faking the style of the real untalented hacks. His recurring characters are on model each time. I learned a lot of how to draw from copying and tracing cartoon and comic characters. Calvin and Hobbes specially. If you use thin loose leaf and a bright overhead light you can usually trace over darker lines from a page underneath and just feeling out how the lines work and stuff by doing so can help, then go for free hand copying. Do that over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over with gradually more and more realistic stuff while also learning formal techniques, anatomy and also fucking around and free drawing and doodling you will get there. Persistence gets your technique down and patience allows you to execute effective, you gotta tske your time and while I wouldn’t say there are no shortcuts cause there are, you can only take rm once you know the hard way.
If the image is burning the works of JKKK Rowling, it gets my critical support
I walk by a handful of little free libraries on the way to work and I’ve never seen any books taken out. They honestly seem like slightly more elaborate “IN THIS HOUSE” lawn signs.
Theyre good places to leave propaganda, I heard.
They are basically not self-sustaining. People will use them as places to dump actual literal trash books out of some misplaced belief that destroying books is wrong so they’re doing good by passing it along. Actual good books will be taken. So they deteriorate monotonically over time, therefore whenever you walk by one it’s a near certainty that all the books are entirely garbage.
A neighbor of mine has one and it actually got used as intended when they first put it up, but I feel like once the novelty wears off they’re just so limited in scope that they become a lawn decoration.
get me some of that public library filth
This might be my new favorite Kelly comic
One time i found a bunch of hardcore body modification/scarification zines in one of these
Based
Why Michael Crichton? Just because it’s like… “pre-woke”?
His books definitely err towards a sort of fash-adjacent libertarian moral. Like I can probably sum up at least half of them with “the based chad maverick scientist comes in and saves the day from the ineptitude of weak soy government/corporate establishment scientists, with his rugged basic common sense and some catch that Crichton thought sounded clever.”
It’s funny that in his most famous book by far the libertarian capitalist completely screws the pooch by trying to save money, gets eaten alive by his own creation, and in the end the government has to save the day with napalm (though they don’t get everything and the Amazon is undeniably screwed forever after the end of the book).
Right? How the fuck Crichton wrote something as anti-capitalist as Jurassic Park is still a mystery to me
Think about it: the decadent soy corporate scientists caused the problem and endangered everyone for money, while the rugged manly scientist who digs in the dirt and wears a cowboy hat saves the day. The book he wrote about nanomachines was pretty much the same: weak corporate scientists make the problem by being naive and soy, the manly outsider engineer who got screwed over by a manager who was selling secrets to China comes in and saves the day with a flamethrower.
It’s all entirely in line with how libertarians can sometimes see that corporations are bad, but they focus on the dumbest shit like the corporation not being publicly racist enough or letting women be managers sometimes.
cuz he’s a MANLY MAN writing about DINOSAURS and EPIC TIME TRAVEL
Once found a BBQ cookbook with gay cowboys on the cover in one of these free libraries like 100yds from the US-Mexico border
