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Double post, but heyo. Duke energy's confirmed one of their dams have breached. Coal ash "may" be flowing into cape fear river! That should be not very fun at all.

... what, though? That pair describes most of the non-microscopic animal kingdom that's not human, at this point.

That feeling when you reach into your pocket and ask yourself, "Why does this feel like I stole somebody's pen?"

_{i hadn't, but there was one more pen in there than i usually carry, thus the confusion}

Quote from: Egan_BW on September 19, 2018, 10:54:12 am

at least we ended up in the cool dystopic future.

Man, I wish.  Where's my cyber arm.

Last I checked we more or less have them. They're just still kinda' shitty complete drek. SotA prototype prosthetics stuff, but there.

Huh. Looks like some of the coal ash piles have, indeed, flooded. Fuck NC groundwater for however long, I guess. Also pigshit ponds have overflowed, there's like over a million missing chickens probably rotting in the water as we speak, etc., etc. Don't drink the water, yikes.

So I'm being consulted to expand a public library's manga section, focusing on older teen/young adult content. Haven't been told the exact spending goal, yet, but it's probably decently hefty and they get a good discount on top of it. Selection for the ordering service being used seems surprisingly solid, too. But, uh. I could stand some extra opinions, especially outside my exposure zones (good shojo or sports manga, ferex, where I wouldn't even know where to begin).

Content wise, I'm trying to avoid going too heavy on violence and trying to be pretty conservative vis a vis sexy stuff; rural conservative area, intended to be foisted on the youngins, so stuff that makes parents flip too hard is questionable. I'll spoiler my initial selection below; mostly I'm intending to get the first seven or eight volumes (if available) and seeing what circulates or if the rest gets explicitly requested -- our current manga section is both fairly anemic and monofocused, so it's hard to tell what'll get a bite.


... anyway, recommendations would be great.

I'd hold off on that, though. It wouldn't be the first, or even the fiftieth, time a GOP blighter talked one thing and then quietly shut up when it came time for actual follow through.