KittieKolb

22 yrs old, Norwegian, she/her.

[anneliis18]

the guyy

[creatureesque]

wanted to draw bdubs but then derailed. cabin core yay

[iamluminia]

Prepare for trouble!

(when they just too team rocket core and u just have to do it

(also i think they all meowth

[cc-cuttlefishculler]

its really telling where you learned about lapis lazuli. put yours in the tags

[koddlet]

personal rules for winter ❄

[dancing-crow]

solid advice

[girlzero]

Ohhh Musk has no idea how badly he's fucked up

[girlzero]

Tesla Faces its First Ever Strike after Refusing to Negotiate with Swedish Union

The strike was initiated by IF Metall after five years of Tesla refusing to negotiate a collective agreement.

It is the first formal labor conflict called against Tesla anywhere in the world.

The National Mediation Office summoned both parties, but Tesla's representatives quickly withdrew from negotiations.

The strike was then extended to include all repair shops servicing Tesla vehicles in Sweden.

Swedish employer unions have also pressured Tesla to cave and align with the country's labour model.

Strikebreakers have been sent in, a tactic forbidden since the 1930s by agreement between the Swedish unions and employers. (Ie. not illegal but liable to make the entire country hate you.)

As noted by Atle Høie, general secretary of IndustriALL, an industrial union confederation representing 50 million workers in 140 countries: “Elon Musk’s business model is to avoid respecting human rights. Now he is taken on by one of our strongest unions. We must defeat the Tesla business model, and Sweden is the best place to start.”

Sweden has one of the highest rates of unionization out of the Nordics (which have the highest rates of unionization globally alongside Cuba and Vietnam) and the thing about that is you get sympathy strikes:

Swedish Ports Threaten to Block Teslas From Entering the Country

Tesla is failing to play by Swedish labor rules, unions claim. Now a strike that started with mechanics is beginning to spread.

There's already talk of launching similar strikes here in Norway if the Swedes aren't heard. For an idea of what happens if they keep this up, let's look at the time McDonald's tried these kinds of tactics:

Or Toys R Us:

Tesla's presence in the country is limited compared to those, but I think it's fair to say their choice is going to be between pulling out or caving to their demands, because these kinds of threats to union power are not tolerated.

If you've seen news declaring the strike was called off and that the workers are all happy with their jobs: It's misinfo, those are scabs, the strike is on and it could very well break Tesla's resistance to unionization and trigger a domino effect in other countries if the Swedes win out.

[girlzero]

It's confirmed, Tesla is doubling down and the strikes are ramping up!!

The import blockade began in select cities today, and Tesla has already tired to get around it. The unions have responded by extending the blockade to every port in the country, with further measures in the works if Musk refuses to budge.

With Musk controlling Twitter/X now, discussions about it on there are predictably filled with trolls and detractors. The workers at Tesla could all be tremendously happy with their jobs and it would not change the fact that this is an attack on the entire labour model that gives other workers decent conditions. This is not just about Tesla, it's about preventing it from setting a precedent for other employers.

IF Metall have asked people to talk about this on social media, particularly on X, to counteract Musk's army of trolls and build awareness and support for the strikes, so please do if you can. Here's an up-to-date (Nov 7th) article in English which you can share:

Now the strike against Tesla is being extended

Port workers will from lunchtime block the loading of vehicles from the American auto giant. The blockade will take effect at 12 noon on Tue

Talk about it! Post about it! (Be more concise than me about it!) The hate they're getting from Musk's shills on X right now is insane.

[mtfoss]

What they try to bury here is that people uninstalled to switch to better adblockers that actually work to block youtubes bullshit

[eorzean-cabbage]

They also neglected to mention that people like me too lazy to make the switch from Google Chrome to Firefox had now made the leap based on this last minor inconvenience. So good job losing users for your other products Google.

[the-wolfbats]

Remember; If you use uBlock, the subreddit is diligently working to block each new iteration.

tldr as of Nov. 13 2023; If the block message shows up

go to uBlock settings

'purge all caches'

update now

[cottaegecore]

imagine you as a child, rummaging around in the current version of your room. what would they be drawn to?

[heartwarminganimals]

Sproing

[petermorwood]

Reblogging once again.

All cats jump, but snow leopards seem to have some Special Arrangement with Gravity.

[dzamie]

Snow leopards, being part snow, can float on a slight breeze.

[usabomber-deactivated20231218]

oh my god. superhero movies are dying but they will be replaced by videogame movies. how did i not realize this earlier? it’s so obvious. the fnaf movie the mario movie the last of us show. it’s all coming together. and the cure will be worse than the illness. you will all regret this

[psycheterminal]

Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

Back up your files! Download anything you've saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!

[bright-eyed-sunshine]

Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.

GitHub - Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter: Exports Discord chat logs to a file

Exports Discord chat logs to a file. Contribute to Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter development by creating an account on GitHub.

Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.

[jettreno]

ducktales crew: lol okay so then we wanna introduce our silicon valley villain, we’re gonna call him mark zuckerbird and-

disney legal team waking up in a cold sweat: someone’s gonna try to insult a billionaire 

[falco-lombardis-guyliner]

Same energy

[superjustaguyblog]

Unhinged cartoon creator: “what if we just hit this beehive with this cool stick I found?”

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

Shoulda let ‘em.

[annakarenina]

this comment on a tiktok where theyre crying because their dog isnt gonna live forever slaps

[leolaroot]

time of year i remind every cane user to get an ice pick so you dont fall and die

[leolaroot]

almost biffed it in a fucking parking lot so time for me to repeat this. if you are a cane user in the northern hemisphere its time to get an ice spike coming in the mail BEFORE the ice forms.

[3amsnow-deactivated20241128]

[ID: a photo of a hand holding an ice attachment for a cane against a beige and red blanket. the attachment is thin and grey, with spikes on the bottom. end ID]

[calocreek]

Getting hype for the new Life season tomorrow, so I dug up these to share!! Completely incomprehensible to most, I'm aware lol...but if you know, you know ;)

Also one of the first times I used CSP! Perspective rulers are EVERYTHING to me...just gotta get more used to the UI ugh 😵‍💫

[feelthemonster]

[psychoticallytrans]

I'm not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are "dumped" in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. "As soon as possible" is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.

If that is true, then other time-limited activities where you have to remember and plan in a tight time frame may serve a similar purpose.

[cryptic-ink]

This can have an effect hours after the traumatic event happens too! All participants were treated within about 6 hours and played for a total of 20 minutes of Tetris (with at least one play time of 10 minutes straight).

Here are the links given in the screenshot:

Trauma, treatment and Tetris: video gaming increases hippocampal volume in male patients with combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder

Tetris has been proposed as a preventive intervention to reduce intrusive memories of a traumatic event. However, no neuroimaging study has

A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that

Here is the paper that the second link uses as a source:

Preventing intrusive memories after trauma via a brief intervention involving Tetris computer game play in the emergency department: a proof

After psychological trauma, recurrent intrusive visual memories may be distressing and disruptive. Preventive interventions post trauma are

[magz]

ID: Screenshot of tweet by Glenn White @justicar.xyz on October 13, 2023, that say: "Reminder that if you see disturbing or traumatic images, playing Tetris as soon as possible afterwards can help the brain cleanse itself and lessen the impacts of it longer term. No, I'm not kidding. And no one knows how or why it works. But it Does work, and I encourage you to remember it. Lest people think I'm kidding: (insert links shown above)." End ID.

[anarchopuppy]

Here's uBlock Origin's official guide to bypassing youtube's anti-adblock popups, updated weekly. Please share widely. Don't reward google for their predatory anti-consumer bullshit

To summarize: 1. Get uBlock Origin and make sure it's updated to the latest version. 2. Click on the gear icon to get to the dashboard, go to "Filter lists", and make sure that "uBlock filters - Quick fixes" is up to date

Repeat those steps any time you get another popup (google and uBlock are having an arms race right now so it might stop working at any moment), and if you have any more problems, read the reddit thread for troubleshooting advice