really fuckin tired

@colorfulblades

haven't really been active in a while, just been lurking like a cryptid

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crazy how men can just exist and i am a carefully crafted performance piece

Crazy how most people who die horribly are men, people who go to war are men, homeless are mostly men, victims of most violent crimes are men, the demographic who leave off only half the offspring are men, people in hazardous workplaces are mostly men too. It’s so unfair they just…

Exist*

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men do literally all of that to themselves lmfao, you guys cause nearly all of the issues on earth both for women and other men

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Men: *ban women from hazardous workplaces*

Also men: “WE DIE FOR YOU IN OUR JOBS!!!”

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The three stars are leaving the Test Kitchen amid months of turmoil, and their departure leaves the future of the famed video channel in question.

“I think they’re very risk-averse,” El-Waylly told Business Insider. “I think that more people of color are going to be more visible in food media. That’s more of a progressive thought, but Condé is a bit conservative and risk-averse. Maybe they’ll do it in five years after someone else makes it cool.”

This article also contains specific information on how these three were low-balled.

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DEFINITELY DON’T CLICK THIS LINK TO A GOOGLE DOC OF ANOTHER ARTICLE LOCKED BEHIND PAYWALL

I do want to highlight one quote: “More importantly, views dropped from an all-time high in April of 91.7 million to 12.9 million in July, an 86% decrease.”

Thanks to everyone who made this boycott happen - it HURT THEM

“May the flesh of kings feed the earth”

Graffiti seen in Portland, Oregon during the ongoing protests

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“A kiss may be grand, but it won’t pay the rental, on your humble flat, or help you at the automat.”

Like literally the most famous song about how much girls love jewellry is just explaining the importance of getting jewellry for when your partner leaves you penniless and alone.

The founder of Girl Scouting in the US, Juliette Gordon Low, funded her first troop by selling her pearl necklace, which was her only belonging after her husband died and left everything to his mistress.

She founded Girl Scouts to teach girls self-sufficiency so they wouldn’t have to go through what she went through when her husband died and she didn’t know how to take care of herself.

It’s incredibly frustrating to look up menstrual issues and be met with articles that amount to a collective shrug from the medical community.

We deserve treatment options other than throwing hormone pills and surgeries at a dartboard to see what works.

I’m ready to start killing cops

Your most recent emoji describes your mother’s thoughts when you were born

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the thing w zutara is that they had a ep together right? but that episode was about KATARA. it was about katara learning to forgive but not forget and find her peace of mind. it was about her learning to channel her anger into something useful and something to fight for. but this was thrown away because zuko was there. fans saw that and said “look!!! katara and zuko like each other!!!” when that was not the point of the episode. the POINT was katara learning that her anger was not meant to be channeled toward zuko. he was not the source of her anger and he shouldnt be the place she dumps her anger. she learned this in that episode, but all fans saw was a hug and said “look!! theyre in love!!” which i hate. and we see SO much talk about zuko’s arc but before the atla renissance and more outspoken criticism we saw almost none with katara. why? because fans saw the katara ep and said “look!! theyre in love.” katara’s growth and learning experiences were COMPLETELY overlooked for a romance with zuko. fandom could have interpreted them as very close friends who have a deep understanding of each other and their flaws. instead, we got a romantic pair thrown together because apparently katara is only worth mentioning when shes in a relationship.

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Reminder that Katara is a hell of a cool character and powerful woman and she deserves her own spotlight and character arcs. Katara is a lot of things and she is these things on her own, as HERSELF. She’s kind and caring, a sweet but sassy sister, a powerful warrior, an innovative bender, and she has lots of good character arcs about her struggle with needing to be a strong and motherly figure for others which is often a thankless and emotionally taxing job. Let’s talk about her more as a community.

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Full time work should entitle someone to enough pay for rent, food, bills, and leisure activities. Full time work for a full life wage. You put in your 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? You should be able to afford the basic shit you need in life, no matter where you work.

pisses me off that this is considered a radical statement.

I do agree with this but from economic standpoint if you are working at a job like McDonalds as someone flipping burgers and making fries you are getting paid for the amount of skill needed for the job. But if its any other job that requires you to have an actual skill that you can make a career out of then yeah you should be getting paid enough to live a standard life.

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If you work FULL TIME you should be able to afford to fucking live. No, it doesn’t matter if it’s flipping burgers, these people contribute to our fucking economy and they MATTER. They should be allowed to be alive.

Jesus fucking Christ do you people hear yourselves?

People like this are why we can’t move on to issues like reducing how many hours is full time, or working out UBI. We’re going to need to do that. Most people just don’t know what’s coming down the pipeline, without a major change to the structure of the economy, we’re looking at large scale permanent unemployment, even in the “skilled” labor force.

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Also? Making food is a fucking skill. Running a fast food kitchen is a fucking skill. Operating a drive-thru is a goddamn fucking skill.

I do not know how to do these things. I have a masters degree and I have no fucking clue how to operate a deep fryer or make coffee drinks. I’d probably not be very good at it, because that kind of hands-on, fast-paced work is very hard for me.

But thankfully, there are people who are good at it, so I can do my job, and they can do theirs, and we can benefit one another by putting our skills to use in different areas. People who work in fast food are not less deserving of comfort and security in their lives just because their skills aren’t valued like they should be. That is a myth developed to deprive people of rights.

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My friend works as a medical assistant and I’ve worked at McDonald’s and Starbucks. You know there’s a lot of things you gotta learn in this typa job?

Like in addition to it being physically demanding (standing up for 4-6 hours straight, carrying heavy ice/coffee, constantly getting burned by boiling water and an oven, a lot of reaching and squatting (like a lot a lot I lost 40 FUCKING pounds in a year okay this job demands a lot from the body)), there are actual skills required. Also your skin splits from using so much antibacterial soap.

Do you know what temperature different foods have to be to prevent contamination? If it’s a “cold” or “hot” plate?? Do You know how long food can be out before bacterial contamination can happen?? Do you know the difference between say 1% and heavy whipping cream? Can you teach a chemistry class using milk????? That’s p much what you gotta learn to be able to do. My friend who works as a medic was surprised, because I do more in my day than they do, and THEY told me that. They were shocked how much I actually do; I am on my feet more, talking to more people, I have a working knowledge of food germs food born illnesses and chemistry, I gotta do the same shit with sterilizing my tools the same exact way a doctor sterilizes theirs. Etc etc.

There’s no such thing as an unskilled job. There are only undervalued skills.

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“There’s no such thing as an unskilled job. There are only undervalued skills.”

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If all these “unskilled” jobs suddenly stopped tho the same people calling them “unskilled” would be in an uproar because God forbid they have to suffer any inconvenience, but sure go ahead and reap the benefits of a job you show no appreciation to

It’s “unskilled” until there’s a fucking pandemic and all of a sudden they’re all “essential”

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mutuals do this

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.

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Rb to kill wal mart

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Unionizing is our wet dream I promise you.

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.

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.

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.

Actually crippling capitalism is good and cool anyway

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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.

was anyone going to tell me that king arthur flour is an 100% employee-owned benefit corporation or were you just going to let me keep using their recipes without buying their flour

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Bob's Red Mill is Employee Owed as well!! Upon Bob's death, he gave the Employees ownership. Good man, that Bob.

Real-talk: Paul Blofis might actually be my favorite character in the series…

the straights are at it again

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Reblog if you are a greedy gay hoarding refracted light all for your greedy gay self

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I totally am, but also: I have a story. The time: 1995. The place: a small liberal arts college. We decided to participate in “denim day” which was a widespread event wherein on National Coming Out Day, you would wear denim to indicate SUPPORT FOR the LGBT community. Our support group made posters that were very, very clear about this. Wearing denim did not mean that you were coming out, it meant you supported anyone around you who might.

I have never seen so many suits and khakis IN MY LIFE. People who accidentally wore jeans went home and changed.

The community took it as a rebuke. We drew in closer to eachother, and felt unwelcome everywhere we thought we had friends before.

And I had people later tell me “You know I support you, just… I didn’t want anyone to think I was.” First off, I DON’T know you support me. Not if you refuse to, for one day, change nothing about your life to show it. Second off… why is that such a terrifying thought to you?

I remember before rainbows were a “gay thing”. They were everywhere. Church walls next to arks. School walls next to sunshine faces. People have VOLUNTARILY abandoned every other use. I have HEARD PEOPLE SAY they just couldn’t use rainbows anymore because people would think of “gay stuff.”

So I know this is a joke, and a stolen one at that, but you’ve done this to yourselves. If someone is so terrified of being perceived as queer that they will INSTANTLY abandon something they like if it has queer germs on it now or something, then they don’t deserve refracted light.

Maybe help us change the world into a place where being mistaken for queer would be just a thing to chuckle about and you can have refracted light back.

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The LGBTQ+ community didn’t steal the rainbow. The straights abandoned it.

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People are reblogging with “this is just a stolen Demetri Martin joke” as if that somehow invalidates the point so let me add a supporting incident/addendum:

There’s a largely apocryphal association of violets as a symbol of love between women as “dating back to Sappho.” This is not really true – Sappho did write poems about violets, but apparently the association really gained traction in America with a 1926 Broadway play called The Captive (adapted from the French, by Edouard Bourdet). The story is about a woman trying to deny her same-sex desire and love, marrying a man in the attempt. Spoilers for a nearly century-old play: it ends happily for the lesbians, it’s pretty cool. Unfortunately because of this, the play was shut down after 17 weeks on charges of obscenity.

Anyway. The heroine’s lover is never actually seen on stage – but in her final, victorious attempt to lead the heroine back to her side, she sends a nosegay of violets.

After the premiere, shutdown, and subsequent court hearings, violet sales plummeted. In an act of what can only be described as “intense hetero panic,” people stopped buying violets. Because of a play. A play where there isn’t even any “enacted” same-sex physicality onstage. But The Captive ends with the women happy, and together. And they exchange violets.

And that was all it took! Again, there are stories that lesbians and queer women took inspiration and used violets as signals after the play popularized the association – and I don’t doubt it, although I’m pretty sure we can trust that was mainly women who could afford to do so, financially and socially. But again, that’s largely apocryphal. What is on record is the violet farmers and florists going, “yeah, this play has really fucked us.”

Obviously queerness is not infectious, but there’s a bone-deep fear of ever being subject to the same treatment queer people receive, even for a second. And the fear of association with such innocuous, even generic symbols like flowers – like rainbows – means those same people somewhat invest in the idea that treatment is deserved. Because gay symbols are not created by a sexual minority exerting their oh-so-massive cultural influence, but by the dominant majority being more terrified of association than outraged by condemnation.

Again, as the follow-up tried to explain: it’s not about the symbol. It’s the defensive disassociation, the “I’M NOT GAY THOUGH,” which is exhausting. And telling.

Do people who mock Katara realize that she, at the age of eight, literally saw her mother’s dead body???

(That’s Katara on the left and Hakoda on the right)

When twelve-year-old Aang sees the skeleton of Gyatso, he reacts (appropriately) by going into the Avatar State, but you’re going to mock Katara for being traumatized after seeing her mother’s dead body, when she was eight, after just talking to her?

Not to mention the fact that Kya was wearing the necklace:

Which means, you know, an eight-year-old most likely took the jewelry off of her mother’s corpse and put it on, in a combination of shock and grief, but sure, let’s make jokes about how she’s overreacting when she emotionally clutches that same necklace from time to time. How did you think she got it?

Did I mention she was eight? Because she was eight.

I was just going to end the post here but one last point: she was eight and she was a civilian. You know how This Is War has the lyric “The soldier | The civilian”. That’s Sokka and Katara. Even at the age of 9/10, Sokka was clearly in Soldier Mode. He didn’t hesitate in joining the other soldiers in fight. Meanwhile, Katara didn’t hesitate in making sure that the other civilians were safe. While Sokka obviously loved Kya, of course he loved her, he was probably already a little disconnected by the reality that most soldiers have to face: that people die in wars. Then there’s the fact that he wasn’t the one who had to run to get Hakoda (”I ran as fast as I could,” Katara says, as she wished she had been faster), the fact that he was on the other side of the village, the fact that he had celebrated a victory with the other soldiers at having turned the Southern Raiders back, and the fact that he didn’t rush into the tent to immediately be confronted with her dead body…Katara’s line, “You didn’t love her like I did” is obviously incorrect, but I think it’s safe to say that he didn’t experience the trauma of losing her like Katara did, due to a variety of different factors including all of the above and the sheer fact that tragedies affect people differently, regardless of the actual variables.

I think that’s kinda the point of Avatar, isn’t it? To show that people from the same family, in the same battle, in the same war, can come out with drastically different experiences.

Honestly, “you didn’t love her like I did” is a very eight-year-old thing to say, as someone who watched Avatar on its original run. There’s lots of things where Katara gives you little painful reminders that 1) she is fourteen, and 2) she may well be stuck in an eight-year-old’s trauma. It’s the opposite energy of when I remember reading the Circle Of Magic series by Tamora Pierce.

I keep thinking about how Briar started the books on trial for his last strike of crime and getting tattooed for it, having way too many weapons, and being annoyed that Tris got traumatized by things like pirate attacks.

When I was fourteen, I loved Briar platonically because he was the ex-street-kid that adults had serious talks with, but fifteen years later I often go “WAIT!!! BRIAR WAS WAS ALREADY A CRIMINAL WITH SHAME-TATTOOS, AND ROSETHORN STRAIGHT-UP TOLD HIM HER VILLAGE GOT RAZED AND HER BEST FRIEND GOT GANG-RAPED!!! THE ADULTS PROBABLY TALKED SERIOUS WITH HIM BECAUSE THEY CAN SENSE THAT HE’S EMOTIONALLY TWENTY YEARS OLD!!! :( ”

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