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[vicholas]

I want more people to know that while the Palestine Olympic team consists of only 8 athletes, at least 69 Palestinian Olympic athletes have been killed since October 2023. This includes athletes who were going to compete in these games and retired athletes such as Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, who died of kidney failure in a refugee camp product of lack of medical treatment.

Remember them during these games.

[themightytej]

My wife and I each received a fundraising text from a presidential campaign today. The difference in quality is fascinating.

[fluentisonus]

hi hello can we talk about this page of turner's sketchbook which they think is a study of lot and his daughters fleeing the destruction of sodom & how the page itself is straight up cut away behind them. because the physical hole in the paper is doing insane things for me. normally in a painting of this story you'd see flames or falling buildings or something in the background but here there's instead this horrifying emptiness in the material itself. like the paper world they exist in is literally dissolving away behind them. or what they don't see it just too awful to comprehend. insane

[mysteriouslytransparentwitch]

I am on sick leave until August 2 and it is renewable due to overwork at work

[thoughtstherapy]

Which one is your favourite? @thoughtstherapy

[creature-wizard]

Whatever happens, two things remain true: 1. Trump might be distancing himself from Project 2025, but his Agenda 47, which is on his website, is basically the same thing. 2. Third party voting is useless without ranked choice voting; it's mathematically impossible to elect a third party candidate. DO NOT SPLIT THE VOTE.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Splitting the vote is what got him the white house in 2016. Russians helped with propaganda here and on social media. This has been proven.

Anyone discouraging you from voting is actively trying to suppress your vote. Don't fall for that shit.

Not voting is not boycotting. Boycotting requires preventing income, like boycotting Starbucks because they support Israel. Voting is your power, and by not using it you are giving up your power.

Republicans ALWAYS vote. They know if democrats always vote, there will be no republican wins, so they do whatever it takes to keep democrats from winning. That means removing people from the voting registry, reducing the number and places to vote, removing and reducing rhe number of ballot dropboxes, fake ballot dropboxes, propaganda, and even violence.

Vote blue! Yeah, no matter who. All the way down the ballot.

[thepoetrytheorist]

If you love Disney, its parks, its media, and its merch, listen up.

So I work for Disneyland, and we are talking about striking very soon. So soon, in fact, that we've been hosting rallies just outside of the parks. Yesterday was the 69th birthday of Disneyland Anaheim... it was also a monumental rally.

I haven't seen anyone on tumblr talking about the impending strikes against Disney. Not even going through the Disney tags or searching tumblr for "Disneyland Strike."

Let's talk about why we're striking:

Cost of living in the immediate SoCal region is nearly 2x as much as we are getting paid.

Cast members that have worked for the company for long periods of time are still paid as mucha s new hires.

Disney has showed up to union negotiations with insulting offers, including at 25 cent raise. Most cast members make $19.90

Disney rarely schedules you. In some areas and departments, you are fighting with your fellow cast members for hours. I have heard of cast members who are only scheduled for 1 4-hour shift per week. Many of those cast members have upwards of an hour commute to and from work.

Disney Admin has told attractions castmembers [so: rides, rollercoasters, and anything fun you get to do and see at the parks] that we are losing them money, which is why they refuse to schedule us and pay us. In the words of my partner, who also works at the parks, Disney without attractions is an over glorified mall and a food court. Disney needs us, and they know it, but they do not respect us.

Disney has an unfair attendance policy. It can be very difficult to get a needed day off, even when it has been requested weeks or months in advance. When you do take a day off [with-out accrued sick or vacation time] it counts against you. You can have 3 a month, 6 in 90 days, 9 in 180 days, or 12 in a year. How do you accrue sick/vacation? Hours worked, which can be impossible with the scheduling practices mentioned above. (Most cast members trade shifts among themselves to get around this.)

Cast members feel unsafe and unsupported in the parks. Many cast members have felt threatened by entitled guests upset that they are following policy. Disney Leads and Managers have to say yes to these guests and make things happen, though. [Which only makes this behavior worse and more dangerous for cast members who are only doing their job.]

Cast members also report feeling threatened, or even being literally threatened, by management in the parks. Especially cast members who have a second job. Especially cast members who know their rights.

Further, cast members work in hazardous conditions with pay that does not reflect that. Many cast members report losses of hearing, sore throats, and severe back and shoulder pain. Cast members are also exposed to infectious diseases at a much higher rate.

The vote scheduled for July 19 could pave the way for a union coalition to call for a strike at Disney theme parks for the first time in 40

https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/union-button-contract-dispute-19515296.php?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2u5o_mvU3i6jpIyHxBUZpEzD2GRSKFf5Pem4uRXqa6vKWDgZuffvINd1g_aem_AA1L0fI1phugJIluYMcDSw

[bardly-working]

Update: Disneyland Anaheim workers have voted to authorize a strike. They are not officially on strike yet, as the unions will be meeting with Disney to negotiate on Monday and Tuesday. Following that, if they don't come to an agreement, a strike may be called at any time.

Disneyland workers authorize potential strike ahead of ongoing contract negotiations

Thousands of workers at Disney’s theme park and resort properties in California have voted to authorize a potential strike, as contract nego

[antifranchael]

Not blog relevant, but please share! When workers go on strike for better working conditions, I think people should always support that.

[aspiring-weird-old-man]

So out of curiosity I went to see what people here are writing about Kamala Harris, and just a head's up, if you see someone being critical of her and using Code Pink as a "source" for their criticism, that's an election interference account.

Code Pink claims to be a women-led peace organisation, but the "peace" they're arguing for is to cut all aid to Ukraine and leave them to be destroyed by russia. Which is actually full-scale genocide, not "peace". And all their arguments for why Ukraine should get no more aid sound suspiciously similar to kremlin talking points.

Block those fuckers on sight.

[pixielight-dee-foxfire]

Kamala Harris’s Record on Trans Rights Isn’t “Mixed”.

Kamala Harris’s public record on trans rights began the moment she stepped into elected office in 2003 as San Francisco’s District…

good news for trans women: kamala harris is not, in fact, a vicious transmisogynist. the actions of her office and of the california department of corrections were wrongly attributed to her and her alone by people who wanted someone else to win, and when harris did become involved in the cases, she rewrote the entire policy for dealing with trans inmates so that they would get the care they need.

[blueandbluer]

This is a good reminder, because I would not be surprised if people start trotting this nonsense out again 

[zelamorre]

Doyle Canon: This is Dr. John Watson. He has managed to have multiple love affairs on three different continents. He is a love machine. A sex god, if you will. Able to woo multiple Victorian ladies.

80% of Sherlock Holmes Adaptations: This is Dr. John Watson. He looks like a hamster.

[watsonsdetective]

I’m crying laughing over this I had to share

[shiroikabocha]

Some adaptations take it further than others.

[baddywronglegs]

Doyle canon: “No seriously this man is Adonis reborn - yours earnestly, reliable narrator Dr John Watson”

[batboyblog]

Among the other things that seem to pop out of nowhere, I hear that Harris is apparently "very pro-cop" as a reason why we shouldn't vote for her. I would like some clarification about that and also maybe reasons why we should be voting for her, just for the naysayers.

The Kamala cop thing comes from her jobs as San Francisco District Attorney and California Attorney General, and the fact that Kamala and Cop have a kind of ring to them.

the fact that Harris had worked on enforcing the law was used against her in the height of "Defund the Police" but ultimately was pretty unfair, just quickly I found an article from a public defender about Harris progressive record to be short as both DA and AG she fought to scale back incarceration, she refused to seek the death penalty, she wouldn't prosecute marijuana possession cases (back in 2004), as DA along with then Mayor of San Fran Gavin Newsom she took part in the city's short lived gay marriage moment in 2004

here she is in 2004 marrying a nice Lesbian couple, over 10 years before gay marriage would be legal nation wide and 8 years before President Obama announced her supported it.

Harris put a particular stress on prosecuting sex criminals, rapists and human traffickers, and well

"She Prosecuted Sex Predators, He is One"

thats the answer, every time.

[rouge-the-bat]

we need less reassuring people by saying "dont worry, thats not weird!" and more "who cares if its weird or not? its not hurting anyone"

do it weird style. freak it up

[cutecipher]

Getting my neck stepped on but the cop is yelling at me the whole time about how this isnt because im trans

[manisthebastard]

She literally put trans women in men's prison

[euniexenoblade]

Didn't she go out of her way to make sure a trans woman couldn't have hrt in prison?

[love-notes-to-survivors]

I've come to realise that whenever I experience a traumatic event, my paranoia of people increases tenfold. I get extremely paranoid that everyone hates me or that no one actually cares about me at all, that they think I'm a terrible person and that they would all be better off if I didn't exist. All of the trauma-related fears I hold increase exponentially to such a severe degree when I'm experiencing more trauma and it's so exhausting and difficult trying to discern what's real from what isn't.

[rocktheholygrail]

There are so many unintended consequences to well-intentioned actions. It feels like a game you can’t win.

[rocktheholygrail]

#CHIDI WAS RIGHT

[cosmik-homo]

The Good Place really went with making their new Point ‘there is no ethical consumption under capitalism’ and I respect that

[ghost-cassette]

And then went on to say “blaming individuals for all of this is absurd and evil, as is locking them up for punishment instead of rehabilitation” and I respect that

[autisticbisexualsokka]

Also, “consequentialism is a fundamentally flawed branch of ethics”

[botanyshitposts]

it’s a shame k.r. sporne is dead bc if he wasn’t I would ask him to sign the copy of ‘the morphology of gymnosperms’ I just found in a half priced books. when I wrote my paper on isoetes in college I cited a different but similar book of his so much it should have not been allowed but it was because like 3 people have spoken out so honest and true about isoetes sex like k.r. sporne did…. there was a hand drawn image of isoetes sperm within those pages… the man saw it with his own two eyes. imagine

[botanyshitposts]

if you’re just a guy and you see fern or lycophyte sperm under a microscope raw in person, idk what happens to you. i think nobody knows

[omgthatdress]

Behind the Bastards, a podcast that I love because it's usually really thorough with its research and the host, Robert Evans, has a really great, complex understanding of history, recently did two episodes about Beau Brummel and the invention of the modern suit which..... I have a few issues with.

Beau Brummel is a name that comes up A LOT with a period known as "the great male renunciation," that is, the period at the turn of the 19th century when menswear went from colorful and flamboyant to being simple and subdued.

Brummell often gets credited at the sole reason behind this trend, and while he was one of the people who played a tremendous role in shaping it, it's false to say that he and he alone was the reason it became fashionable.

Now I will give BtB a lot of credit because they do recognize that Brummel was very much shaped by the environment he grew up in, and recognize that social change was a major factor behind the great male renunciation (for real, I'd say the episodes are worth listening to), but there's a lot that they leave out.

While they talk about the American and French revolutions shaking up the British upper class, they ignore the third, even bigger revolution that was changing the very nature of wealth and masculinity: the industrial revolution.

Suddenly, men who had been born poor could make amounts of wealth equaling and even exceeding the titled nobility. Simply having shitloads of money was no longer sufficient to be considered a gentleman, so the nature of being a gentleman had to change.

This was a trend that Brummell noticed and became an icon of. Rather than slathering yourself in expensive perfumes, you should bathe daily. Rather than gaudy, over-the-top colorful silks, a man should focus on the quality of his fabrics and clothes. This is where the upper class concept of "taste" came in.

It's not enough to buy ostentatious displays of wealth, it's how to display your wealth without being obvious. A sort of secret language that only a truly fine gentleman can understand.

There were bigger changes that went beyond Brummell. While he still lived the life of an upper-class dilettante, the definition of "a man of quality" was changing to go against that type. A true gentleman was educated, worldly, serious, studious and industrious. He had more to offer than his wealth and wit, although those never truly went out of style.

In a lot of ways, Brummell defined and exemplified this era, but he wasn't the sole reason behind all of it. If Brummell's serious, simple military-inspired outfits were the prototype for the modern suit, there's a lot of reasons that they caught on and became what they are today.