[penny-anna]

having a job is very weird bcos by and large your coworkers will be a variety of ages and you will not all be at the same stage of life. your coworker will be like, well I’m off home to spend time with my husband & child, what are you going to do with your evening? and you’re like, well, I plan on playing Rollercoaster Tycoon for as much as it as possible

[free-egg-voucher]

corporations trying to profit off of queer people by showing their support for only one month of the year is bad

and

it’s fun to watch conservatives get pissed that they can’t shop at target anymore because the big bad rainbows will corrupt their children :(

and

the existence of rainbow capitalism in the first place proves that society is now in a place where supporting queer people is the more profitable and thus more popular opinion and that means something

are all viewpoints that can absolutely coexist

[indigenoustiktok]

[ID:

Person appears holding a bundle of furs.

“Hi! My name’s Siqiñiq, I am Iñuipaq from Alaska, Iñuit, and I want to show you my furs!”

They shift the furs in their arms, holding up a white with blue undertone fur.

“This is blue fox, I’m going to use this on my girl’s parka’s (atigi)”

They hold up a white and brown colored fur.

“This is lamb, which in the city many of us use as liners.”

They next switch to a caramel colored outfit.

“This is sikshrik, squirrel. This is what you would use as a liner traditionally. It’s much softer, so pretty.”

The next fur is a white-grey color.

“This is silver fox, my favorite.”

The Tiktoker holds up the finale fur.

“And my wolf!”

They wrap the wolf fur around their head.

“Okay, yesterday Biden signed support in one of the largest fossil fuel projects in North America right next to my village where my mom lives right now-“

White text that says “Willow Master Project” shows up. They put the fur down and bend closer to the camera.

“-a dynamite mine less then 10 miles away would be installed over 300 miles of pipeline. This completely goes against the Paris climate agreement.

You can take action now.

Visit the link in my profile, it’ll go to a YouTube video of testimony’s of real people in these communities. Then go to silainuat.org

Thank you!”

The video stops

END]

[iridessence]

Sila Inuat

[catasters]

[iamtheocean-deactivated20211023]

There’s math that can really put something plainly and clearly in most people’s mind.

[tlirsgender]

The stages of hunger while nd are

Hm I'm hungry

Forgets about it

Everything Is Bad. I'm gonna attack someone. Shut up. Die

Hm I'm hungry

[Eats something] oh shit I'm cured

Multiple times every day

[whitepeopletwitter]

[cedar-glade]

This is an excellent example of presenting the task of prairie restoration to the public, talking about land layout, historic site usage to track how land has been terraformed to reverse terraform it, culvert and flow pipe usage, how to get people involved, seed sourcing(when to use local ecotypes and why non-local ecotypes can be a good thing when viewing competition, documentation of pre-work site/worksite/ and post restoration, how to get the youth involved, and what makes a prairie truly function in an anthropological setting( ecosystem services, ecosystem function, ect.) There are many things touched in this seminar presentation that I find great for formatting. Check it out. 

[aidashakur]

[justcatposts]

Working from home struggles 

(via)

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Hey so what's your alternative to RCMP? From what I've heard it's a lot harder cuz there are only a few RCMP per town for like, all of rural Canada, if anything they need hella more oversight, training (HELLA more), background checks, which probably means more money but like can you really have zero law enforcement in towns? Like full stop not paired with mental health professionals and stuff? I think that's what Jagmeet was getting at (also obviously no way he can win by saying abolish cops)

The alternative to the RCMP is no cops, period.

When we say defund the police, we mean it literally.

So much of the crime that police solve are caused by income inequality, bigotry and discrimination which can be fixed, without the racism and violence inherent in all police forces.

Police forces budgets in Canada are in the hundreds of millions to billions of dollars as healthcare, education or anti-poverty funding is either defunded or amounts to pennies.

Imagine if even a fraction of that went to solving social issues and not to buying cops new weapons, militarized police and endless imprisonment.

Cops get more money even as crime goes down and regular people lose their homes, healthcare and livelihoods.

Reforming the police is not the way forwards, here. We’ve already tried that. All that new training, body cameras and less lethal weapons haven’t stopped cops from terrorizing and killing marginalized people.

In fact, these instances of police violence have increased. iirc 2020 is on track to be the worst year for police caused deaths, ever in Canada.

[themaarika]

could i offer you some round bears in these trying times?

[socialistsephardi]

[thetearsofunfathomablesadness]

mutuals do this

[a-method-in-it]

I am dead serious: If you are a Walmart employee, at any level and in any store — like if you are a high school kid with a part time job stocking shelves — message me any question you have about unions. Like ask me “What’s a union” if you want. I will explain it to you. I am a grievance chair for a white collar union whose workplace only unionized within the last five years and whose management fought as every step of the way, but in the end we fucking won. It can be done, and I can tell you how.

[yorkshirereaper]

Rb to kill wal mart

[notanothercashiercomplaints]

Unionizing is our wet dream I promise you.

[vbartilucci]

I like how it’s described as a union could “cripple American Capitalism” when more precisely it’s just that a union would be so powerful as to force WalMart (or any other company) to pay their workers like human beings. That’s not going to break Walmart. They’ll barely notice.

They’ve successfully convinced us that the unions are the greedy monsters. For so many years, the companies have painted unions as “we want you to pay janitors three million dollars a year and if you don’t we’ll set your stores on fire”. 

But it’s more like “We want you to take an almost imperceptible fraction of your bountiful profits and use it to make your employees’ live marginally better, and maybe give them medical benefits, y’know, so they don’t die”.

Big companies did not stop hiring ten year olds to work in coal mines because they just woke up one day and said “my god, we’re monsters”. They did it because their workers stood together and said “really, enough of this crap”.

Companies are not going to give people raises unless it’s economically necessary that they do so. Anything they can do to lower their expenses, and raise their profits, they are going to do. And no one person can stop them.

But thousands of people, millions of people? Better chances.

[moonybyte]

To anyone that wants to claim it wouldn’t work:

Just another reminder that Walmart Germany was a spectacular fail because of ver.di (which is a national service trade union that has it’s control over almost all trade and service companies in Germany) among other things.

Like, ver.di essentially came up to the CEO of Walmart Germany and was like “Hi, welcome, we wish you the best and that we can work together well :)” and the dude was like “hahaha no” and tried to pull the american concept here so ver.di pulled out a list of all the breaches of german law that Walmart was doing (underpaying workers, trying to avoid paying health care by using part-timers, trying to be open for more than 80 hours per week, firing people on short notice without warning or exit payments, etc) and long story short, they got some massive hefty fines for it. They also set up a list of demands for the workers and organized national strikes to push them through, making the employees of 85 hypermarkets neatly stand in front of the store doors with signs, whistles and chants (and certainly not the “Wallmart! Wallmart!” chant). In the end, that plus other things caused them to bail after 9 years with a gigantic loss (almost a billion just from sales) from one of the best retail markets in the world.

So all those issues like “no healthcare” or “work full-time and need food stamps” or “work on sundays and holidays” and shit? Unions are there to set their foot down against that for you. They are there to keep you safe from the corps wrath while fighting for your rights.

Cause if you, an individual, complain, they just fire you and laugh about it. A union is a collection of hundreds up to MILLIONS of people, supported by lawyers, going against employers for you.

[zvaigzdelasas]

In Denmark, due to union negotiations & refusal to work for slave wages, the McDonald’s basic pay comes out to about $20 US / Hour. The big mac there costs about 60 cents more.

[veteranmortal]

Actually crippling capitalism is good and cool anyway

[parlezvousladybug]

Reminder than Walmart won’t even be paying time and a half during thanksgiving and Black Friday to their employees. They only give them a DISCOUNT On two specific days. Shit pay and their only “perk” is to give the money back to Walmart by shopping there.

Fuck Walmart. Unionize. Burn the waltons down.

[lady-raziel]

No more gender-locked items in character creators. Society has progressed beyond the need for gender-locked items in character creators

[quasi-normalcy]

I was told so often that I was cynical when I was growing up that I kind of internalised it, but the truth is that I'm really kind of Not? Like, in retrospect, most of the times that people called me cynical as a kid was when I would say things like "this heartwarming TV commercial is trying to sell you a product" or "encouraging high school students to volunteer as a means of 'building their resumé' is a neat way to extract labour for free" and you know...I was actually just stating things that are objective facts?

[quasi-normalcy]

The truth is that so much of contemporary culture involves tugging your heart strings in order to get you to do things that it's impossible to critique it without having accusations of cynicism levelled against you

[whitepeopletwitter]

[deviantlydino]

I think I will reblog this a second time

[godshideouscreation]

Destroy the idea that women have to be modest to be respected.