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mysharona1987

guerrillatech

Fun with graffiti on the TTC

mysharona1987

mw-draws

PROTEIN. I NEED PROTEIN.

WALNUTS!

Brilliant

cAn't understand you. HOW MANY WORDS.

one. One word! uhH SHAKE! MILK! SHAKE! Milk! MILK!

no, not milk!

um,

shake,

shake, SHAKE! COCKTAIL SHAKE! YOU WANT A

HARVEY WALLBANGER!!

hARVEY WALLBANGER?!

wELL, I don't knOW

hoW IS HARVEY WALLBANGER ONE WORD??!

what do you need doctor!?

SALT. I WAS MIMING SALT. SALT, I NEED SOMETHING SALTY!

what about THIS?

What is it?!

SALT

That's too salty.

oH, tHaT's tOo sALtY

What about this?

mMM!

What's that?

Anchovies.

What is it? What else?

GuGH

Um, it's a song!

mmmmmMAMMY

I DON'T KNOW! CAMPTOWN RACES!

cAMPTOWN RACES?!1!!1?

all right then,

TOWERING INFERNO!

stephen-lyons-hate-blog

Day 261: I still hate Stephen Lyons

socialistsephardi

thetearsofunfathomablesadness

mutuals do this

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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.

literaryillusions

Favorite Moments of Consent in Romance Novels

Since I started one that was just favorite lines I wanted to add one about moments of consent. Help me highlight some of your favorites?

1. “Breaking the kiss, she unwrapped her legs. ‘Let me down.’ Uncertainty flashed across his face, but he didn’t hesitate, allowing her feet to touch the floor. ‘Everything okay?’ he asked, moving his hands off her and taking a step back, giving her more than enough space to make a run for the door. ‘You don’t have to do this.’ (Tomboy by Avery Flynn)

2. “And since in the world of unwritten rules, not touching a woman unless she invited him to was bold, underlined, and all in caps, she needed to leave.” (Hot Pursuit, Julie Ann Walker)

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3. [Having just been intimate and being rather unclothed together.] “Wait,” she repeated, this time lifting her knee, pressing it against him. Pushing him away as she scrambled to sit up. “No.” He stopped instantly at the word, reeling back, his warm hand on her thigh. “What is it?” (Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean)

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4. “I just want it to be clear that this isn’t some binding contract. I know this wasn’t the plan. So just tell me if you need me to back off, and I will. Us doing this once doesn’t mean I have any expectations that it’s how things will go while you’re here. Hopes but no expectations.: (The Ones Who Got Away by Roni Loren)

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I don’t have anything to add to this, I just want to say that one of my absolute most favorite things about authors explicitly including consent in their books is when the heroine says “stop” and the hero immediately pulls away and is halfway across the room in an instant to keep himself from touching her.

christinaroseandrews

Consent is amazeballs. Also it doesn’t have to break the flow. Literally consent can be as easy as “Do you like this?” and you can make it part of the dirty talk… I’m looking at you BDSM

timeagainreviews

The Filler Fluff of the Cybermen

When is a two-parter not a two-parter? When the first part is tonight’s episode “Ascension of the Cybermen.” As stories go, that was pretty damn sparse. I’ll be honest, friends, I don’t have a lot to say about tonight’s story. But that’s not why you come here, so I will try my damnedest to find something to talk about in this latest episode of Doctor Who. Right, now, how many words was that? Sixty-seven? Christ. This is going to be a slog.

I honestly shouldn’t be surprised. It had to happen. I was saying just last week that I hadn’t seen an episode I outright hated so far this series. We were due. That’s not to say I actually feel hate for this episode, more accurately, I feel very little about this episode. Usually, I endeavour to do more than simply trash an episode, but tonight, it’s either that, or I end the review here. So apologies ahead of time.

Keep reading

kristenbouchard

women’s pants should have reinforced inner thighs i swear to god if i have to keep replacing my jeans every few months simply because i have thighs and i like to walk….

teaboot

Psst. If you trace the shape of the inner thighs on wax paper, cut out the shape,and use that as a stencil to cut out some denim, canvas, or leather, you can easily pin it to the fabric of the pant crotch and stitch it in for extra reinforcement.

My credentials: Big thighs, degree in fashion design, broke hoe

shiobookmark

My question is how do you do this with cotton pants where stitching is going to show no matter how lightly you do it. Like with denim okay, you can just catch a few threads. Not so much with my linen pants?

teaboot

Honestly when you’re wearing them it’s not super noticeable. Thread of a matching color and a modified backstitch or whipstitch does the trick for me, but it can take some time and practice. Worst case scenario, check out double-sided fuseable interfacing- that shit has saved my Life in the past

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congalineofdurin

dear god, let it be enough

belf-on-the-shelf

i took a vow to reblog this each and every time i see it

excessunrated

I AM WHEEZING

darkmeanderings

Haven’t seen this in ages…. 😶🤣

diaryofandnwoman

guillotinaturner

OH. MY. GAH.

mysral

You know a tattoo is good when you reflexively wince in sympathy because your eyes are convinced that that arm actually got embroidered on.

seat-safety-switch

For the last decade or so, I’ve been routinely attending a ride-on lawnmower race. I’ve always wanted to participate, but the high cost of used mowers is better spent on more practical vehicles, like literally anything else. Sometimes, though, the universe sends you a message. And in my case, that message came in the form of an awkward leg of a huge trade-in scam.

Picture, if you will, the humble redneck. They await the approach of big, fast domestic mowers. John Deeres, Cub Cadets, even weird modified Chinese stuff they looted from Aliexpress. There is jubilance, but that soon comes to an awkward hush. An unfamiliar engine note approaches.

My International 1480 combine harvester, all ten tons of it, is barrelling down the highway at a clip somewhere between “tepid” and “jaunty.” Even though I have shown up for a race, I am sandbagging a little bit, making sure that the bets get settled against my vehicle before I show them the might of a fully operational monster such as mine.

Technically, there is no violation. I had looked at the rulebook from every angle in the previous year: it has the correct number of wheels, the proper agricultural intent, and with precise work on the tiller, it can even (poorly) mow a suburban lawn. Is it modified? Oh yes, yes indeed, but I see the nitrous bottles poking out from the rows of Kubotas at the starting line.

And when I leave the starting line, it is a thing of beauty. At least for a few milliseconds. It seems that the wizards at International Harvester simply did not comprehend of a situation in which the frame of their combine would be launched into the air by means of one thousand eight hundred foot-pounds of supercharger-bolstered torque. I had erroneously believed that the loose soil of the rural community would let the wheels dip in, but now I am facing directly into the sky, having twelve o’ clocked hard on my wheelie, shooting flames from my exhaust and whirling vertical blades of death towards the grandstand.

It’s not about whether you win or lose. Sometimes it’s about how many pages you add to the rulebook.

andalwaysburning

“It’s not about whether you win or lose. Sometimes it’s about how many pages you add to the rulebook. “

I am but a mild-mannered urban being and have no idea what happened in this story, but with all the Gods as my witness I am getting the above text put on a plaque and hanging it in my living room.

headspace-hotel

Legendary quote

politicalsci

aint-coming-back-lol-deactivate

Seeing biblical teachings being reversed into conservative teachings is one of the funniest things holy shit. Like this makes it painfully clear that Jesus taught the exact opposite of all these things yet conservatives in the US wanna call themselves “men of god”.

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thislanguageisunderrated

I don’t really do this a lot, but, please, if you can, give this post attention, even though it is not a grammar lesson.

In Romania, there is a museum called the Bran Museum. It shows village life in the area, having real houses to showcase, along with objects used in day to day life and other important objects, of historical, ethnographic and cultural value.

All of this may be wiped away and demolished because of a retrocession of the plot of land the museum is on. The plot of land is near Bran Castle, also known as Dracula’s Castle. The people who will take over have plans to build a “Dracula land” in place of this invaluable treasure.

Why? Because of Dracula’s tale in the Western world, the place is a hotspot for tourism from people who heard the tale and nothing else of Romania. They bring money into the country, and gems like this place, where people can truly see what Romania is like, are overshadowed, forgotten and destroyed because of the legacy of an Irish writer that never visited the place, heard a story here of the undead and another story of a ruthless ruler, and combined them, with little thought of the consequences it would have on the people. Time and time again I meet people that never heard of my beautiful country, yet if I say Dracula or Transylvania, they either tell me straight they thought they were made up, or that they heard of them and nothing else from here.

Please sign this petition to keep the museum alive, if you can. There is no money required, no donations, just sign and please spread the world to keep it alive.

http://www.salveazamuzeulbran.ro/

Muzeul Național Bran este în pericol de a dispărea! Hai să nu lăsăm să dispară istoria și tradiția noastră! Semnează petiția!

bluestockingbaby

@forthegothicheroine @cryptophelia Calling all Dracula fans! This shouldn’t be happening, and a story, no matter how famous, should never displace and harm the real people where it’s set. Let’s show our goodwill and support a great museum!

Here’s the Google Translate, since I don’t speak Romanian, but I do want to know what I’m supporting.

MANIFEST

Established in 1960, the museum risks being demolished following a false relocation allowed by the ministry, to replace it with Dracula Land, a project of foreigners.

The Ministry of Culture pretends that there are no illegal measures reached and they are not checked and prevented.

The fate of the 33 employees, 18 monuments, thousands of heritage pieces and the treasure on the field are decided by all kinds of lawyers and others who do not have this power legally.

And for them it is a challenge to evacuate the state’s heritage because it is not easy for them to find people who risk the prison for their interests.

Many are involved and there is a lot of money at stake, being one hectare in the busiest tourist spot in Romania.

We bring the news to the ministry, but we also bring it to the Romanians, to sign the petitions and to be present at the protest.

SHORT HISTORY

1960 - Bran National Museum is established. It also has Bran Castle and Medieval Customs

2006 - Bran Castle and Medieval Customs are removed from the Museum’s patrimony. But this is another adventure.

2001 - The procedure of retrocession of the land to the descendants of a large land banker, who were nationalized in 1950, begins.

2016 - A buyer takes the litigation rights of 2/3 AFTER the process was won by the Museum and tries the second round.

2015 - The Ministry of Culture imposes inadequate lawyers and permanently maintains the vulnerability of land and heritage.

17.02.2020 - The executor will come to illegally close the museum, if someone from the ministry doesn’t stop it.

See the whole story

Listen to court recorder 20.01.2020

WE CARE!

If you care about tradition, culture, come to us. Sign the petition by completing the form below and let’s save the Bran National Museum. It takes 30 seconds!

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