Miscellaneous Thoughts

Collection of things I find relevant or interesting. Probably lots of stuff about dogs. :)

[catchymemes]

[fauxastrology]

things the signs should do by november 6th

[fauxastrology]

aries: vote

taurus: vote

gemini: vote

cancer: vote

leo: vote

virgo: vote

libra: vote

scorpio: vote

sagittarius: vote

capricorn: vote

aquarius: vote

pisces: vote

[pulldogs-deactivated20210622]

Ya gotta CHOMP the grass… Ya just gotta

Fun fact, one of Ruby’s daughters does the same grass plucking and shaking shit and neither I or that dog’s owner have any idea wtf that’s about

[photosetavenue]

Hello September, Hello Fall 

[gifbro]

[4gifs]

A Somali Red cheats at a cat show by getting cozy with the judge

[cannibality-deactivated20250227]

i love that the judge can’t resist giving this fluffo a smooch, thats exactly what i would do if i was a cat technician

[3-l4l59]

cat technician

[parliamentrook]

the money skull, reblog for money and or skulls

[datcatwhatcameback-deactivated2]

Can I at least have some skulls?

[datcatwhatcameback-deactivated2]

NOTE:

Guys I… I think it actually worked. 0.0;

My deepest thanks to the amazing person who has enabled me to buy a Nintendo Switch as a random act of kindness. <3

(dunno if they want to be named or not)

[luvtonique]

Either one would be good right now, I could go for some Taco Bell and I spent my last skull getting the material for my costume yesterday.

[goawfma]

this is an insult

[blame-my-muses]

I once applied and interviewed at a bookstore cafe for a barista position. It was way closer to my home, and I had almost a decade of experience working in a coffee shop at that point. 

Got to the interview, and it turned out they didn’t want a barista, they wanted someone to spearhead their new cafe, as the cafe that had been in the store before didn’t want to resign their lease with the bookshop. They wanted to put their own cafe in its place, all new menus etc. They needed someone experienced to train their new staff, to handle window displays, to communicate with the bookstore owners about changes and needs of the cafe, to be able to handle inventory and ordering.

Okay, I had basically done most of that stuff at my previous job. I asked if cafe positions would also be required/trained to work the bookstore. They would. They would be required to run the book sale counter, stock and reshelf books, and help bookshop customers find things. They would also–despite having an outside cleaning company–have to help maintain bathroom cleanliness. They’d have to take out trash, and clean spills, and vacuum.  Wow, that’s a lot, I said. Is this a manager’s position, then?

No, I was told, it wasn’t, but there was a chance that after a training period it might become one. And that made me pause, because I’d been working as the front-of-house manager at my cafe, and I knew how much work that entailed, and what kind of money I was making, and it was only the commute that had me looking for a new job. So I asked what the job paid. $8. E I G H T  D O L L A R S. Per hour. Barely above minimum. For all of that work. For someone they expected to get an entirely new cafe up and running, and then also do the work of the bookstore and the cleaning company as well.  I thanked the woman for the interview, said I’d have to talk to my significant other about the impact a four dollar pay cut would have on our finances, and that I wasn’t sure it was the job for me. She asked me to sleep on it, and she’d call me the next day.  This is a job I was way more than qualified for. I had years of experience doing exactly the things they wanted. It was a convenient location, close to my home–I could walk there if I absolutely had to. I did not go home and talk about that four dollar pay cut and what it would do to our finances. I knew as soon as she told me that not only was it not feasible for us, it was downright insulting. That little money? For a frankly ridiculous list of responsibilities and expectations? She called back the next day. I thanked her again, and told her in no uncertain terms that my time was worth way more than what they were offering. And whenever people bitch about Millennials being lazy, not spending money, not buying houses…whatever the complaint of the month is…I think about the very nice lady who conducted this interview, and how confused she was that I didn’t want the job. 

[hostilemuppet]

this headline gave me heart problems

[dusky-phantom]

Y'all know Jim parsons left the big bang theory cuz its toxic right??

Y'all know he os a gay man with moneywho is actually a really cool dude in rl??

Why all this “sorry gay/bi ppl gotta deal with this” from the straights??

Fuck you straight people, I am excited to see where this goes

[tinyhatonapumpkin]

Yea outside of TBBT he’s been a huge queer advocate, and shuts down homophobic bullshit. Like for example when Love, Simon came out and everyone was like “don’t we have enough of this/isn’t it too late for this?” He was like “do you people say that about every straight rom com that comes out??”

Plus his work outside of TBBT has mostly BEEN queer shit, including being in a movie about how shit the government was in regards to the AIDS crisis.

TBBT was his big break, he was a nobody before it. And unfortunately he got stuck with it for a while. Although he wasn’t afraid to use his newfound fame for a good purpose. And now that he’s free of it? We’re only gonna see more of his queer activism side.

Don’t forget that he’s an actor, not the character jfc. A gay guy trying to get a break signs a contract and gets stuck with a show, playing a shitty character….. Like. That’s not…. Don’t hate him for his first big role, yea?

[skull-heads]

Target Practice.

[feminismfuckyeah]

The soccer gender pay gap is ridiculous

[dying--pretty]

I wonder how many calories having a panic attack burns

[myendlessj0urney]

If this doesnt describe me idk what does

[hurleyquinnzel]

Bridesmaid to a waiter: What a beautiful wedding

Waiter, about to reveal that the poor groom’s bride is a whore: Oh you haven’t heard?

[hurleyquinnzel]

the number of people making comments on this post about how there’s nothing wrong with being a whore is far too high like i’m not trying to shame people who are promiscuous or sex workers this is a fucking reference to a song and if you dont understand the reference dont reblog with some idiotic trying too hard to be progressive shit its literally a joke about a lyric from a song it was never, and never will be, that fucking deep. if you dont get the reference literally just shut up and dont reblog this post oh my god

[christopher-bryant]

by fall out boy

[roqo-deactivated20201013]

Reminder that protesting is worth getting suspended for

[timetravelrabbit]

#yeah a walkout is disruptive but you know what’s more disruptive? FUCKING SHOOTINGS

[junecsea]

I’m reblogging this again because I wanted to add a note: PROTEST ANYWAYS.

If your schools threaten to suspend you, protest anyways. En masse. Because you know what gets tracked by district, state and federal administration? Suspensions.

Schools and schools systems *must report* their suspension levels etc. Every year all this data from the state gets compiled into a huge report and presented to the State Board of Education and the state legislators. By. School.

You know what happens to schools districts with unusually high rates? Big Trouble.

So if your principal/superintendent threatens to suspend any student participating in a walkout? Still do it. Because here’s what will happen: You’ll walk out, get suspended, the school will be empty basically for *days* effectively starting a strike, the principal will have to report it to the district, the district will have to report it to the state and there’s a solid chance your school’s administrative team could be replaced.

YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS HERE. Don’t let them think otherwise. There is literally nothing they can threaten you with that won’t come back to bite them square in the ass.

[non-binary-bun]

All y’all saying ed sheeran doesn’t have struggles like

Being that ugly can’t be easy

[dantecain]

This is like… really mean?

Ed Sheeran does have struggles and he’s been through some rough shit.

You know he ran away from home at 14, right?

[non-binary-bun]

What really? Fuck I had no idea

[dantecain]

Yeah.

And The Shire hasn’t been the same without him.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Australia pays fast-food workers $20 an hour and the sky hasn’t fallen

High minimum wages can reduce the burden on the state and the taxpayer

Australia and Canada share much in common, but one striking point of difference is the minimum wage. While Canada has been engulfed in a debate around the minimum wage in recent months, it’s a given in Australia that a barista making your latte or a fast-food worker serving your burger is earning at least $20 an hour.

The principle that employees must be paid a “living wage” dates back to a 1907 decision of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, which stated that if an employer was unable to pay a living wage, it was not entitled to operate a business. A living wage was defined in the decision as being sufficient to permit an unskilled worker, a dependent spouse and three dependent children to live in “frugal comfort.”

Today, the majority (around 60 per cent) of all Australian employees are covered by one of two collectively determined standards – Modern Awards or Enterprise Agreements. Modern Awards set wages by industry or occupation and take into account levels of experience, skill and responsibility within the workplace. Additional pay is usually required for overtime and work on nights and weekends. Enterprise Agreements are much like Canadian collective agreements and largely exist at the workplace level. They must build upon minimum Modern Award standards, often through a wage increase of some description.

Wages for service sector jobs tend to be much higher than in Canada, where the dollar currently trades at par with the Australian currency. Entry-level fast-food workers, for example, are paid $20.08 an hour as a base hourly wage. Pay goes up to $25.10 on Saturday, $29.12 on Sunday, and overtime hours are $30.12 for the first two hours and $40.16 for each hour thereafter. On top of this, employers pay 9.5 per cent of wages to every employee’s nominated retirement fund. Workers who are non-permanent “casual” employees are generally paid a further 25 per cent of their wages on top of these amounts.

Has the economy crumbled under the weight of high wages? No. The Australian economy has fared quite well by international standards. GDP per capita is healthy at around US$48,000, compared with Canada’s $44,000. The unemployment rate is low, at 5.4 per cent nationally. There has not been a recession since the early 1990s. This is arguably in part a result of the buoyancy of demand created by high wages.

Continue Reading.

[dragongirltitties]

“if an employer was unable to pay a living wage, it was not entitled to operate a business”

[nemfrog]

Source.  Source.  Source.  Source.  Source.

Source.  Source.  Source.  Source.  Source.

[azariel888]

For each and every young person that did this I am so freaking proud of you. You all are so young and already you show this much courage, this much will to fight. Keep it up you beautiful souls. Many of us hear you and we stand with you.

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

Solidarity 😌