Unfortunate Circumstances

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[love--without--sleep]

"There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things."

- alex turner

reblog and put who it was for you :)

[mooreaux]

The chilly rainy weather has me thinking of DA2 and.... them ✨

[theholetheyfoundsaddamin-deacti]

[guerrillatech]

[reagan-was-a-horrible-president]

Yeah, they’re gonna lift the working class right into a company town.

Only rich people would think this was a good idea.

[beaniebaneenie]

Learn your history, people!

We DID this shit- for DECADES. It was fucking awful. Companies paid people in “scrip” which was only good for use at the Company Store. So effectively, the company got your money coming and going, and they didn’t pay you at all. And the longer it went on, the less likely you were to have savings that could have helped you move away or get a different job.

I’ve already seen one ad trying very sneakily to promote the idea of “AmazonBucks”, including giving them to workers as rewards, or instead of things like healthcare, sick days, and PTO.

Here’s your reminder that scrip is fucking illegal, that company towns are always a shit idea that should stay dead and buried, and that if unions didn’t work? Every big company out there wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail to destroy them.

#UnionStrong #SolidarityForever

[retvenkos]

alright but here’s the real personality quiz: do you wear a fabric mask with some kind of pattern or a plain colored mask, or one of those disposable masks that they use in hospitals?

[adinskyy]

[chongoblog]

Every so often, I remember that like 80% of Tumblr (myself included) was completely enraptured by a show where the big twist was that the main character forgot his childhood friend was murdered by his sister, and for some reason only remembers his childhood friend ever existing as a dog.

[chongoblog]

And in that same episode it’s revealed that the same sister…..like…..hypnotized (?) the main character’s arch rival into hating him by, like, staring at him for a few minutes.

[chongoblog]

In our collective defense, this is when we all decided “hey we should probably stop watching Sherlock”

[ninjakittenarmy]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

#Sherlock #I only watched the first two seasons? (via @raptortooth)

god i wish that were me

[abadbowlofsoup]

Wait What?

[bemusedlybespectacled]

series 3 of sherlock: john marries mary morstan off-camera, the show mocks all the fans who kept the hype up during a two year hiatus, mary turns out to be an assassin who shoots sherlock, during which time he has a near-death-experience dream about his dog redbeard who was put down. also there’s a weird scene where john is revealed to be attracted to danger and so he dated mary because he was subconsciously picking up the fact that she used to be an assassin. also the series ends with sherlock committing murder in front of witnesses to save john and mary.

christmas special: sherlock goes on a bender where he hallucinates a victorian-era case, the episode ends with moriarty seemingly returning via social media and mycroft making a cryptic reference to “the other one.” oh, also any consequences from sherlock committing murder are immediately negated.

series 4: HOO BOY.

episode 1: mary is killed due to her assassin past, but no one really cares since she’s only been in the show for all of four episodes. she keeps coming back as a recorded voice/hallucination.

episode 2: john goes to a new grief counseler. also he keeps hallucinating mary. sherlock is told to solve a murder by the murderer’s daughter, but it turns out that while the murderer has a daughter, it’s not the woman who gave him the case to solve! eurus, sherlock and mycroft’s sister, has simultaneously masqueraded as john’s grief counseler and the murderer’s daughter and a random woman who keeps following sherlock because she’s a master of disguise! (to be fair, this is a legitimately cool reveal and I genuinely didn’t see it coming)

episode 3: HOO. FUCKING. BOY. eurus is sherlock and mycroft’s sister who’s been in a prison for the criminally insane for decades. mycroft has withheld this knowledge from both sherlock and their parents by claiming she died in a fire she started. turns out she’s able to hypnotize people with ???? her superior intellect ???????? and so even talking to her makes people want to do things for her like commit murder ????????? and so she’s somehow able to do things like escape from her scary island prison and then take herself back, blow up baker street, kidnap multiple people, and then pull Saw-esque morality problems on Mycroft and Sherlock and John where she just murders people for funsies with no apparent motive. IT IS DURING THIS SEQUENCE THAT IT IS REVEALED THAT SHERLOCK HAD A HUMAN BEST FRIEND THAT EURUS MURDERED BUT REWROTE HIS OWN MEMORIES TO IMAGINE IT WAS A PET DOG WHO DIED.

Y’ALL. IT IS SO DUMB. IT IS SO DUMB THAT THE FANDOM GENUINELY HAD A CONSPIRACY THEORY GOING FOR A WHILE THAT THERE HAD TO BE A SECRET FOURTH EPISODE - OF A SHOW THAT ONLY EVER HAD THREE EPISODES PER SERIES - BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WAY THAT SOMETHING THAT BAD COULD BE THE FUCKING FINAL EPISODE.

[earhartsease]

I am so grateful to this post for vindicating my decision never to watch s4

[starryvioletnight]

1. I wish I was you.

3. Everything in this post is real

[palecrepegold]

Here’s something for anyone who suspected that Sherlock was also kind of bad in seasons 1, 2 and/or 3:

[starcatching]

FKA twigs - sad day

The “Sad Day” film is the culmination of three years of training in the art of Wushu for FKA twigs, who originally took up the discipline in 2017 under the guidance of Master Wu of the Shaolin Wushu Centre, the highest ranking Wushu master in the west. As twigs herself states “everything I’ve previously done with my body, all the training and dancing, has led to this point.”

[squeeful]

Nabisco bakers across the US are on strike, potentially disrupting Oreo supply

Hundreds of workers at Nabisco bakeries across the country are on strike over a proposal to change their work shifts and health care benefit

Hundreds of union employees at three U.S. Nabisco bakeries that make Oreo and Chips Ahoy cookies and Ritz Crackers have gone on strike to protest proposed changes amid contract negotiations with parent company Mondelez International, Inc.

Approximately 200 workers at a factory in Portland, Oregon, have been on strike for two weeks and were joined on Monday by about 400 employees at Nabisco's bakery in Richmond, Virginia. On Thursday, workers at Nabisco's bakery in Chicago also walked off the job to go on strike.

Employees at a sales distribution center in Aurora, Colorado, also joined the strike on Aug. 12. All of the workers on strike are members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers International Union, which announced the Chicago strike on Thursday.

"This fight is about maintaining what we already have," Mike Burlingham, vice president of BCTGM Local 364 in Portland, told TODAY Food. "During the pandemic, we all were putting in a lot of hours, demand was higher, people were at home, and the snack food industry did phenomenally well.

"Mondelez made record profits and they want to thank us by closing two of the U.S. bakeries (last month) and telling the rest of us we have to take concessions, what kind of thanks is that? We make them a lot of money. It's very disheartening. How is that supposed to make us feel?"

The union is in the midst of negotiating a new four-year contract with Mondelez after the previous one expired in May.

Union leaders say that Mondelez has proposed switching from eight-hour shifts, five days a week, to 12-hour shifts, three or four days a week, without overtime, and with increased mandatory work on weekends without extra pay.

[iammyfather]

Don't let them go the way of Hostess.

[autistic-speedbump]

Oh man, this is gonna be messy. I’ve said it loads of times in both fantasy and real life, and it always rings true : you NEVER cross the bakers’ guild.

Read up on the New York bagel famines. Bagel Bakers Local 338 practically brought the city to a standstill back in the day.

[marvinetta]

If you also didn’t hear, Danny DeVito got unverified briefly by Twitter for voicing solidarity with the union. Dan Rather got involved. It’s messy. Don’t cross the line if you can. 

No contracts. No snacks. 

[saxophonechihuahua]

[mycupofstars]

[queen-mabs-revenge]

A strike can only go on as long as its strike fund is deep. Workers have set up a GoFundMe - if you can, support them in solidarity!

BCTGM Local 364 Strike Support, organized by Cameron Taylor

Starting August 10, 2021, BCTGM Local 364 in Portland, OR is on strike against Nabisc… Cameron Taylor needs your support for BCTGM Local

[guerrillatech]

[patrocles]

i don’t normally like to add onto posts but i thought this thread was pretty insightful (link)

[fizzywrench]

(via Jovishark)

[lethendralis-paints]

Anders and Sonya Hawke - an art commission.

[zoesupreme]

Back when I worked at walgreens I didn't know witch hazel was a real thing people would come in asking for it and I'd be like yeah it's on aisle 3 next to the wolfsbane and eye of newt you fucking idiot bastard

[zoesupreme]

By talos this can't be happening again

[godtwink-deactivated20220913]

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of Keyleth and the statue of Vax'ildan in Byroden at night. Keyleth tucks some snowdrops behind the statue's ear, looking at his face with a sad smile. End description.]

Thinking of you always

[nephrosoupp]

weird little treetop girl

[theoptia]

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; July 29th, 1926

Text ID: one must not transport infinity into love; one must know that it is a human thing.

[shaidis]

► Black Light Burns - The City

Full Image here

[It’s an old work. I referenced some of the game screenshots for this drawing]