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“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, if first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”
— Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016 (via waltzingwithmidnight)
everyone in the comments like “its just focaccia” “he’s never seen someone bake focaccia before?” shut the fuck up
Body positivity and mental health for men, by Lena Dirscherl (BoPoLena on IG). More under the cut!
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Oh, no.
*Homer Simpson voice* Stupid Sexy Sanders...
Remember every fucking time your workplace had you over a barrel and used that barrel to force you to serve their needs.
Now apply those learned lessons.
We are the Service Employees International Union, an organization of 2-million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of work
And if you're not unionized, for fuck's sake, search for restaurant unions or food service unions and REACH OUT TO THEM.
Our members are food service workers in corporate cafeterias, airports, universities, public school districts, sports stadiums, event center
We are the Service Employees International Union, an organization of 2-million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of work
The SEIU covers childcare workers, janitors, food service workers, healthcare workers, and probably a whole lot more.
Winning private and public sector workers in NY, NJ & CT
Over 12 million people work in American restaurants, and only 1.3 percent percent of them are union members.
[ID: A Twitter thread by Los Angeles Black Coyote Collective. Transcription is as follows:
If you work at one of those understaffed restaurants we keep hearing about, here's a few things that are much more doable in this current moment than they possibly ever have been:
-apply for another job. Even if you don't actually want to leave your current job, apply for one with a signing bonus and higher pay advertised on the job posting. If you get it, take that offer back to your boss and tell them you need a raise if they want to keep you.
-talk to your few remaining coworkers. They're probably overwhelmed too, and you can much more easily organize a walkout or a slowdown to demand higher pay and better benefits. Write a list of demands, aim high, and take action. What are they gonna do? Fire you? In this economy?
-don't hold back the next time some nasty customer chews you out for shit that's not your fault. Tell them to go fuck themselves. Your boss is struggling to hire anyone at all and they simply can't afford to fire you. You deserve the dignity of defending yourself from that shit.
-take advantage of these 'unprecedented times' to get what you can from your workplace for you and your coworkers. Threaten to leave. Get that raise, get those benefits to bribe you to stay. It's harder for them to reduce your pay later. This is a rare moment, don't waste it.
One bad week can ruin these businesses, and they know it. Whatever money they save not paying you more they will lose in a matter of days without you. Collective action gets more than individual action though, so it's crucial that you work with your coworkers to make your threats
This moment will pass, don't fuck yourself and your comrades in the industry over in the long term by not taking full advantage of it.
Solidarity forever 🖤🏴 [black heart emoji, black flag emoji]
Example list of demands
-higher starting pay
-medical insurance
-full time work options
-schedules set in advance and with consistency guaranteed
-a yearly raise schedule
-more sick time and PTO
-no more "lean staffing"
-and any other demands specific to your workplace
One last fun fact:
You don't actually have to get offered another job in order to tell your boss that you did and they offered you more money. You can just lie. I guarantee they don't have the time right now to follow up and verify. And they can't compel you to provide proof. End transcript.]
Btw: you can force a company or manager to "agree" to anything. The only thing that will create change that will last longer than 6 months? A contract. The only way to get that contract? A union.
So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.
Stay woke
Is this true?
Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”
You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.
Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST
Some links…
http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/
http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/
http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has
(reblogged in honor of my mother, who died of breast cancer, 11/13/97)
Reblog every time I see it. Roughly once a month.
Also please never forget the pink fracking drill bit
that’s right fracking you know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply
http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pink-drill-bits-bring-complaints-komen-tie-fracking-n223166
It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst
Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.
My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Cancer Research Institute
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
63 four star rated cancer charities on charity navigator
Signal boosting this
Reblogging from myself because it’s October now
My mom and grandma are both breast cancer survivors and they both loathe the Komen foundation.
I knew that’s something was off. It never made sense that after many years of the organization, progress was so small especially with the grown tech and science. Fuck Komen. People are dying because of her greed.
Remus took great joy in that he convinced the marauders that the left twix was good and the right twix was evil.
'When muggles eat twixes they are okay but when wizards eat them the power of the right twix overtakes the left and the wizard becomes evil so none of you can eat it okay?'
'But you're eating it mo-'
'I'm a werewolf it cancels out now gimme yours!'
They followed this carefully always giving Remus the right twix of their packets until one day in 6th year they saw Lily eating both and freaked out. Remus had to explain to them he'd been lying to get more chocolate before any of the marauders would go near Lily again.
A few years ago I had this idea of dnd characters playing a human version of dnd…Finally made a small comic about it lol
Speaking as someone who has participated in stunt training with industry professionals, and has seen the aggressive way in which stunt industry performers have to unionize and defend one another or else nobody else will care:
I think there should be fewer stunts in films. I think extremely dangerous and complex feats of superhuman physical exertion should be reserved for animation. I think there are some things that stunt crews should just...not be made to do anymore.
Too many stunt performers have died for some of this shit to be worth it.
Sure, they make a big deal about how "no animals were harmed in the making of this movie," and not being able to have that literal seal of approval in your end credits is a BIG DEAL that always causes a controversy, but they don't have to ever verify that no human workers were injured, do they?
Imagine a world where "no cast or crew were harmed in the making of this film" was considered a basic standard, and any production that couldn't meet it got investigated and held accountable if it proved necessary.
Imagine.
sometimes there’s videos that make me happy to exist on this planet
i’d reblog this even if it was a still image
I know it’s a sesame street clip but seriously, who is the target audience for this?
Parents watching it with their kids, I guess?
literally everyone
Everyone. No, really… everyone.
For adults, the appeal is Sir Patrick Stewart doing a kid’s educational bit in full Shakespearean dress and style; there’s a delightful cognitive dissonance between the very serious presentation and the very simple content.
For very small children, it’s educational: this is the letter “B”; here’s how it’s shaped; here’s some words you know that start with it. Oh, and here’s a word you may not be familiar with that starts with it, so you can recognize that it’s the sound that matters, and not whatever other connection you made between the other two words.
For older kids: you’ve probably heard that “to be or not to be?” speech, or at least part of it, so you can enjoy some of the parody the adults are watching. Also, here’s how to describe how a letter is made - how to teach young siblings who don’t read yet, how to explain both the shape and the sound.
For kids with dyslexia: here’s how you differentiate a “B” from a P or D or E. You may have to go slowly and look carefully at the exact shapes that make up the whole, but there are differences and you can learn to recognize them.
For teens or young college students: In addition to whichever parts of those are relevant to you, here’s what Shakespearean acting sounds like. Here’s how to enunciate clearly and slowly, so your audience can understand terms they may not recognize and still follow the gist of what you’re saying. If you’re reading Shakespeare in school, try sounding it out like this and see if that helps it make sense.
For new RenFaire workers: Here’s how to pronounce “zounds.”
One of the most glorious things in the world is Shakespearean actors doing stuff like this.
If begineth even be a word
