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it’s cause you’re always on that damn spectrum
Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)
Not much focus on rehabilitation
This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).
This also seems to be a good time to mention prison radio. Revolutionary literature created in prison. Hear from everyone from the soothing yet majestic voice of Mumia Abu Jamal to Pendleton 2. Listen to them, organise, share, donate and support them.
As Uncle Ho said, when the doors of the prison break open, the dragons will fly out. Free em all.
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It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc
I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks
(Faces censored and additional text added by me)
Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.
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This maybe sounds mean, but I think we should be able to send doctors “hey, you were wrong” letters.
I was misdiagnosed with asthma when I was 12 and took asthma meds daily for seven years, and then it turned out I hadn’t had asthma in the first place; I actually have a different breathing problem. I don’t think the doctor who told me I had asthma (my pediatrician, who I was no longer seeing by that point) ever found out she’d been wrong. (This is one of at least four misdiagnoses in my life, from a variety of doctors, that I can think of off the top of my head.) Similarly, my first therapist told me she didn’t think I was autistic because I wasn’t obsessed with trains. I don’t think she ever found out that I am, in fact, autistic, because I wasn’t seeing her by the time I was diagnosed.
I get that it might be demoralizing to have someone contact you specifically to tell you that you messed up, but I think it would be useful for doctors to have data on how often they misdiagnose patients, especially since some doctors tend to think the patient is generally wrong when attempting self-diagnosis. It would be useful for my former therapist to move me from the mental column of “people who erroneously think they’re autistic” to “people whose autism I did not notice when they were right in front of me.” It would be useful for my pediatrician to realize she needed to look more closely and listen to kids when their breathing symptoms weren’t the classic asthma ones.
Doctors can get on their high horse and refuse to believe patients a lot of the time, and the power dynamic makes that dangerous in plenty of situations. I think it would be helpful to have a way to at least alert doctors when we have proof they messed up.
I was misdiagnosed with cystic fibrosis at around age eight and told I had MAYBE five years to live.
Kind of fucked me up, y'know?
This makes so much more sense than "they canceled your favorite show because you weren't posting hard enough"
[Image Description: A Twitter thread from Peter Clines (@/PeterClines) that reads the following across five images:
I’ve seen a few folks discussing the latest slate of Netflix cancellations, and I thought “hey, this is the internet - I should share [capslock] my [end capslock] thoughts.”
So let me tell you what I think’s going on with streaming shows right now. But first... a little history.
Back in ye olden broadcast times, creative folks in television made a lot of their money on the back end—what publishing folks now call the long tail. Sure you got paid for that episode, but you also got paid the first time the network aired it. And also...
...when it got replayed later in the season (reruns!). And the big dream was syndication, when you’d make non-stop money. Okay, not tons of it, but with syndication those pennies could add up.
These are residuals. Actors get ‘em. And writers. And directors. Even the crew.
Yeah, IATSE crew members got residuals. The biggest ones, really (which tends to come as a shock to many folks). That’s why they had that amazing healthcare plan for so many years. It was funded by their residuals.
So anyway back around 2006-ish, many folks noticed their residual checks were shrinking. A lot. Because episodes weren’t getting rerun. And things weren’t going into syndication.
Why not?
Because the studios were streaming them instead. Miss an episode? Watch it online!
“Hang on,” said the creative folks. “Where’s our cut?”
“You don’t get a cut,” said the studios. “Check your contracts. Nothing about the internet in there.”
“Well let’s put it into the contracts.”
“Hahahahaaaa. No.”
And thus we had the Writers Guild (WGA) strike of 2007-2008.
Much has been said about this. Some of it by me (intrepid entertainment journalist at the time). The WGA struck to get new streaming terms put into contracts. The actors (SAG) and directors (DGA) supported them almost immediately.
IATSE... didn’t. That’s a whole ‘nother story.
Anyway the strike was overall successful and new terms became standard for streaming residuals.
With one catch. And I think that catch - that concession - is what’s shaping a lot of streaming decisions right now.
Y’see, in negotiations the studios kept *insisting* they weren’t sure streaming would make money. Even though, for example, NBC was going to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and saying they expected to make one billion in online revenue that year.
They insisted the creative folks agree to a "free window." For a set number of days, a network can stream a show and not pay ANY residuals. This would let them recoup costs in the uncertain world of the internet. Once the window's past, residuals would flow at the agreed rates.
The window? Twenty-four days for new shows, seventeen for established shows.
Networks can stream a brand new show for three and a half weeks and pocket every single cent of revenue they earn from it.
Does this timeframe sound a bit familiar?
D’you ever wonder why on so many network sites, they’d show you the latest episode, maybe the previous three... but then you have to sign up and pay?
It’s so they don’t have to pay residuals. As long as you’re watching in that 24 day window, they don’t have to share a penny.
Sounds like a model that would really benefit from you binging a lot of episodes in the first week or two, doesn’t it? And a show people don’t binge immediately would cost the studio money, because they’d have to start paying out residuals.
(and as a side note - keeping a bunch of older shows online? That also means paying residuals. Better to remove them from your service. It saves you money)
I think this is what’s driving so many studio decisions right now in regards to streaming. They've gotten used to not paying residuals to the creative folks and they want to keep it that way. That’s why popular, well-reviewed shows get cancelled (or removed from services).
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This explains so much about how Netflix has handled, for example, The Sandman.