• grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    As a former public librarian and current person who walks their dog, I’m of two minds.

    1. I’ve seen less drug use and public sex at local public libraries than at interstate rest areas and on hiking trails.

    2. If you’re going to overdose, I’d rather you do it in public where you can get help. If you’re going to engage in public sex please don’t do it around people that aren’t into that. There are private clubs for that.

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        Well, it’s more public than your own home and everyone there consented to being around potential strangers having sex. Consent is sexy!

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      Current public librarian.

      Almost no one does that stuff inside the library. Maybe they have more instances in places like LA, Chicago, Miami, etc.

      Most abusers drink, do drugs, fuck, etc. then come into the library and stumble around. Like OP said, it’s acceptable bc it’s safer. Just as long as they don’t disrupt services or break policies.

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        Or set off the fire alarm by vaping in the bathroom. I hated when teen boys did that. It was always belligerent teen boys.

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        Yes, but my local dungeon closed during the pandemic so I don’t know where to point folks anymore. I’d check on FetLife if I were you. There’s also the Queer Liberation Library if you’re in America and looking for “objectionable” reading material online.

        And I’ve never been hip with the drug scene, as I imagine the young’uns say.

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    My credibility for Fox has gone even deeper down the shitter after I was at the gym yesterday. They had Fox news playing and they were claiming that people are finding cartoon rat looking men to be attractive. What kind of fucking news story is that?

    https://archive.is/5ThzA

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      When I was a kid, I used to pick up newspapers and magazines that were pretty tabloidy, like “Bigfoot stopped moon landing because it will tip the flat earth”. Shit that was so stupid but it was fun for me.

      I’m so furious that my enjoyment of really obviously stupid news is now moonlit on channels like Fox News.

      Schools putting out litter boxes for school kids? And you believe it? What the fuck.

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    If you spent more time at drug infested sex dens, you’d be less against libraries