Actual trashpile

The collected works, etc, of Bagheist, actual human trashpile. Probably going to be mostly leverage, lbr here. Drop a prompt in my ask, and I might actually get around to writing stuff.

[girlzero]

Ohhh Musk has no idea how badly he's fucked up

[girlzero]

Tesla Faces its First Ever Strike after Refusing to Negotiate with Swedish Union

The strike was initiated by IF Metall after five years of Tesla refusing to negotiate a collective agreement.

It is the first formal labor conflict called against Tesla anywhere in the world.

The National Mediation Office summoned both parties, but Tesla's representatives quickly withdrew from negotiations.

The strike was then extended to include all repair shops servicing Tesla vehicles in Sweden.

Swedish employer unions have also pressured Tesla to cave and align with the country's labour model.

Strikebreakers have been sent in, a tactic forbidden since the 1930s by agreement between the Swedish unions and employers. (Ie. not illegal but liable to make the entire country hate you.)

As noted by Atle Høie, general secretary of IndustriALL, an industrial union confederation representing 50 million workers in 140 countries: “Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting human rights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start.”

Sweden has one of the highest rates of unionization out of the Nordics (which have the highest rates of unionization globally alongside Cuba and Vietnam) and the thing about that is you get sympathy strikes:

Swedish Ports Threaten to Block Teslas From Entering the Country

Tesla is failing to play by Swedish labor rules, unions claim. Now a strike that started with mechanics is beginning to spread.

There's already talk of launching similar strikes here in Norway if the Swedes aren't heard. For an idea of what happens if they keep this up, let's look at the time McDonald's tried these kinds of tactics:

Or Toys R Us:

Tesla's presence in the country is limited compared to those, but I think it's fair to say their choice is going to be between pulling out or caving to their demands, because these kinds of threats to union power are not tolerated.

If you've seen news declaring the strike was called off and that the workers are all happy with their jobs: It's misinfo, those are scabs, the strike is on and it could very well break Tesla's resistance to unionization and trigger a domino effect in other countries if the Swedes win out.

[girlzero]

It's confirmed, Tesla is doubling down and the strikes are ramping up!!

The import blockade began in select cities today, and Tesla has already tired to get around it. The unions have responded by extending the blockade to every port in the country, with further measures in the works if Musk refuses to budge.

With Musk controlling Twitter/X now, discussions about it on there are predictably filled with trolls and detractors. The workers at Tesla could all be tremendously happy with their jobs and it would not change the fact that this is an attack on the entire labour model that gives other workers decent conditions. This is not just about Tesla, it's about preventing it from setting a precedent for other employers.

IF Metall have asked people to talk about this on social media, particularly on X, to counteract Musk's army of trolls and build awareness and support for the strikes, so please do if you can. Here's an up-to-date (Nov 7th) article in English which you can share:

Now the strike against Tesla is being extended

Port workers will from lunchtime block the loading of vehicles from the American auto giant. The blockade will take effect at 12 noon on Tue

Talk about it! Post about it! (Be more concise than me about it!) The hate they're getting from Musk's shills on X right now is insane.

[scatterghosts-deactivated202411]

Up The Wolves by The Mountain Goats // Minotauro by Jordi Garriga Mora

[blackdogwriting]

second verse, same as the first x

[blackdogwriting]

and you’ll feel bad because you could’ve. x

[blackdogwriting]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In another life, Eliot Spencer is a Robin Hood do-gooder.

This isn’t that life.

I wrote a tiny little thing. which is uh, not a HAPPY little thing, seriously, read the warnings, but it is a thing.

[forestgeit]

Gasp! i did it! cute crime babies hanging out at the park <3 eliot packed a picnic, alec brought a brew, parker’s… shenaniganing, everything is great!

is there a ship name? a tag for them??

also. is eliot just small or also smol? *rubs chin thoughtfully*

@letsgostealafandom @cups-of-tea-and-history ?

[cups-of-tea-and-history]

LOOK AT THE BABIES it’s so fluuuuffyyyyyyy, I love it.

[blackdogwriting]

eliot spencer is 9000% smol. smol and READY TO BRAWL

[ifellinthefandom]

When you keep working on a fic but never actually post it

[notcaycepollard]

*heaves a sigh*

I want to have written fic but not to actually be writing the damn fic

why can’t things just spring fully-formed from my brow

[rpstarterandaskmemes]

Send me a ship + a word, and I'll tell you the first headcanon that comes to mind!

[snowdarkred]

I’m So Desperate For This Pairing I’m Rereading Badfic: the autopsy of my dignity 

[blackdogwriting]

author's note on fanfic ch4: i'll probably have it updated by the end of this week!

author's note on fanfic ch5: so i know it's been two years but i can explain and I promise I'll update again soon!

information box at the top: Chapters: 5 Last updated: March 16 2011 Complete: No

[blackdogwriting]

fic you won't write: about ezekiel jones, titled we know who we are

She finds him perched casually on a railing on one of the upper levels of the library, unconcerned with the open air and three story fall he’s only inches away from experiencing. One leg dangles casually, and he sips every so often from a glass in his hand. Normally he’s all frenetic movement and bouncing noise and sly sticky fingered glee, but now he just looks tired and worn. It’s the oldest she’s ever seen him look, and the quietest.

“Found me then, I guess.” he sighs, and before she can say anything in response he throws his head back and finishes the rest of his drink.(actual summary - probably an angsty little introspective piece post point of salvation, where Baird still can’t work out if Ezekiel remembers or not, and they all have to confront the fact that, y’know, dude’s been on his own and doing a dangerous job with no back up since he was tiny, and he’s good at what he does but what he does isn’t something he can be proud of in of itself.)

[blackdogwriting]

oh, are you taking crossover prompts for the fic meme? if so - Kansas city shuffle, team librarians and team leverage

This is the one where an old enemy of the team grabs Jake and thinks it’s Eliot –  or at least, thinks it’s Professor Francis Roth, Eliot’s alias for the job the team pulled against him. Jake is real fucking annoyed that the first time someone recognises him as one of his art historian personas it’s a crazed fan with conspiracy theories and a weird vendetta who keeps getting the name NOT QUITE RIGHT, OH MY GOD. Jake worked real hard on those identities, thanks, the least you can do is get it right.

Team library has to go work out who has Jake, why they have Jake, and how to get Jake back. Probably at some point Ezekiel is like OH. OH I UNDERSTAND I NEED TO GO SEE A MAN ABOUT A PUB, bc lbr, Ezekiel Jones knows exactly who is in his new town, ok, he knows Nate Ford’s crew is here and he knows where they are contactable because it’s like living in the same town as the most famous people on earth, sometimes you just– happen to go to the same supermarket that they do. It’s not stalking, it’s just coincidence, and so what if he visited the shops like twelve times in four days, he just– needed stuff. From the shops. That they shop at.

Anyway, team Leverage is then brought in on the job by this thief, who they’re all kinda suspicious of bc Parker’s like, “Oh yeah, I know him! He pulled that job in–” and they– know of that job, it was good work, but what the fuck are you doing here, kid. Ezekiel quietly dies of joy bc they KNOW HIS WORK THEY THINK IT WAS GOOD, and then is mortified he has to be like “so my coworker looks superficially like you and got..kidnapped because of that? Please help” bc really, they’re gonna think he is an INFANT who cannot do jobs. They will lose all respect for him, and then he will have to kill Stone for causing this. Once they get him back, clearly.

Eliot feels real bad this guy got picked up instead of him. They go help run a con to get him back, probably there’s an actual Kansas city shuffle, Ezekiel is basically dying of glee bc WORKING WITH NATE FORDS CREW, BAIRD, HOW MANY PEOPLE GET TO SAY THEY’VE DONE THAT. Baird does not want to work with a bunch of international criminals, oh my god, this is not what she signed up for.

[pterawaters]

The Fic I won’t write game

Send me a ship and a fic title, and I’ll post a summary of the fic with that title I won’t write.

(Original game started by the puckurt comm mods here)

[mnemehoshiko]

this sounds horribly entertaining and my askbox is here~~

[pilferingapples]

this is FANTASTIC and is also the only kind of fic I can possibly write:P  Non-ship character sets welcome here too!

[goddessofidiocy-deactivated2019]

fandom when the canon het pairing is white: omg otp they’re soulmates they’re made for each other they LOVE EACH OTHER so much how can you not ship them

fandom when the canon het pairing is interracial: its important that men and women can be friends

[ifellinthefandom]

When you keep working on a fic but never actually post it

[damnslippyplanet-archived]

OMG Leverage! Crossover fic where Leverage team launches investigation on Hannibal because their client told them it felt like Hannibal was gaslighting him/her. I just want Hardison flipping out and saying "Holy shit, guys, abort, abort!!"

Hm.  I think in this crossover ‘verse, the “Let’s Go Steal A Cannibal’s Swiss Bank Account” plan is probably something like:

- Send Parker in as a new patient for Hannibal.  No cover story, no lies, just straight-up send Parker in and let her spend an hour gleefully telling Hannibal about her childhood and her life.  He would absolutely keep her and at least consider taking her on as a Murder Intern instead of a regular patient.  Parker’s kind of into it; therapy is high on her Things I Hate list, but she thinks being a Murder Intern might be kind of fun.  Not that she wants to actually murder anyone, but Hannibal seems to know some very interesting torture techniques, and that’s the kind of thing a girl sometimes finds handy in a difficult situation.

- Meanwhile, send Sophie into the opera / fine arts circles of Baltimore society to keep an eye on his activities that way.  She doesn’t find much there but collects lots of potential future clients, a few pieces of stolen jewelry, and she gets to buy a really great pair of shoes for the gala, so she’s a happy woman.

- Hardison tries to do his genius hacker thing but finds it intensely frustrating because Hannibal basically never touches electronics. You can’t hack a Rolodex, an encoded hand-written set of patient notes, or an erotic drawing. Hardison getting increasingly irritated. Maybe we can let make friends with Team Sassy Science, and they can all talk tech together while the rest of this plays out. I bet Zeller has a secret D&D group that Hardison can join.  

- Eliot’s assigned to be Will’s bodyguard (since I’m assuming Will makes the call in this scenario, or maybe Alana on Will’s behalf), which actually works out great.  Will and Eliot spend a lot of time being gruff and untalkative at each other, but in a comfortable mutually enjoyable “hanging out drinking beer on the porch with dogs” kind of way.  Their only source of friction as friends is that despite himself, Eliot’s occasionally sort of impressed with Hannibal’s cooking.  Like, yes it’s people, and yes it’s way too goddamn fussy, BUT damn if that’s not some incredibly distinctive technique.  Good knifework. Fresh, interesting ingredients (the ones that aren’t people).  Eliot can appreciate a thing done well, even when it’s a really terrible thing.

- Nate, well.  I kind of want to see Nate and Jack go a few rounds.  I have no idea who comes out of that conversation the winner, I just want to see it happen.

I do think that eventually the gang figures out enough to realize that, wow, this is really not their area.  Corporate takedown is one thing, takedown of one rich asshole with maybe one or two murders under his belt is still sort of that thing, but psychopath who has killed his way across decades and continents is really kind of out of their mandate.  So they pull up stakes and get way the hell out of town.

But I’m pretty sure that once they’re all safely out of murder range, Hardison plants enough faked-up evidence to get Hannibal caught.  Parker breaks into Hannibal’s office just before Hardison sets the capture in motion and steals back her patient record so it doesn’t end up in evidence, and maybe she kindly steals Will’s while she’s there.  Eliot takes care of mailing it back to Will, they strike up a correspondence, and once a year or so they get together to go fishing.

Everyone lives happily ever after except Hannibal, but even he has a tiny silver lining in the form of a very nice letter from Parker thanking him for being her favorite therapist she ever had.  

(Copied to @bydaybreak with my sincere apologies for…well, everything, basically.)

[bydaybreak]

i realise that this is quick becoming the reblog stuff that slippy says blog, but – well, but i’m not sorry, is all.