crow girl

[hawkpartys]

this image came to me in a dream

[hawkpartys]

guess

[elbiotipo]

[suddenlysomewherethatsgreen]

(1986) Little Shop Of Horrors

[theconcealedweapon]

Homes are expensive because of landlords hoarding them for profit, not because of regulations.

[gmbeowulf]

Time to bring back my favorite picture: The reason there have been so many food and consumer good recalls in the past few years. (If you got listeria from cold cuts? Direct result of Trump's actions!) Regulations exist to protect consumers from profit-hungry corporations.

[inhumaninterest]

Remember, there is no "lesson learned" from those regulations. They aren't safety procedures where now that people know putting lead in cinnamon is a bad thing that they won't do it even if you take the regulation away. The regulations were created because, when given a chance, these people leapt at the chance to destroy housing, poison food, and blight the planet.

Everytime a regulation like that is removed you should be concerned about who was being "held back" by a law preventing them from selling disease riddled meat.

[thatgirlonstage]

A salient example, since lead got brought up specifically—

A while ago it occurred to me to wonder how long we’ve known lead is poisonous, since it was so ubiquitous in paint and construction and so many other places until just a few decades ago, so I went on a wiki dive to see when the first alarm bells were sounded about the health hazards of lead.

Want to guess?

Ancient Rome.

People have known lead is poisonous since at least Ancient Rome.

It didn’t stop people using it.

Your safety regulations are written in blood, not by accident, not because people didn’t know there were dangers, but because without them, blood is cheap.

[headspace-hotel]

Lead was used as a pesticide in the early 20th century, so I reckon we knew it was poison

[bogleech]

Let's not forget that a chunk of workplace safety regulations are owed to the coal wars, when Appalachian miners had to wage an actual civil war against their bosses, police, military and hired goons just to get any rights at all on the job; their employers preferred to hire militias and kill people rather than agree to pay for better safety equipment and give people breaks.

Then there were the "radium girls" in the 1920s who worked at factories assembling products that used radium in order to glow in the dark. They were told to use their mouths to wet their brushes so the company could save more time and material. Their bodies began falling apart, literally, their tissues were dying and breaking off, and the retaliation they led - while any of them were still alive - resulted in a set of laws addressing workplace related illness, setting in motion waves of additional regulation and scrutiny we all still benefit from.

There's more events like these all through history, industries willing to kill people to save money, and all that ever ended any of it was the "government interference" hated so much by conservatives. Almost every single regulation they fight against or already destroyed was a response to a big business damaging human beings over as little as a few cents at a time.

Meanwhile, the rules and red tape conservatives enjoy and enforce are the kind that limit where homeless people can sleep or what food stamps can buy.

[fantabulisticity]

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - Wikipedia

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.[1] The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men[2] – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian or Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23;[3][4] of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese.[5]

...

Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked[1][8] – a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft[9] – many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows. There were no sprinklers in the building.[10] The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.

[bogleech]

THEY WERE LOCKED IN, UNABLE TO ESCAPE THE FIRE, IN ORDER TO "DISCOURAGE UNAUTHORIZED BREAKS AND REDUCE THEFTS."

Businesses like Amazon are doing absolutely everything they can within the law to "discourage" breaks and thefts, but the law says you can't fucking lock your workers in like prisoners. They currently would if they could, and they'd love those rules to disappear.

[broccoli-bitching]

Have you ever been bitten by a white person?

Yes

No

Voting ended onSep 22, 2024

[broccoli-bitching]

No I will not explain why I'm asking

[broccoli-bitching]

I love how this post has become white people just admitting they bite people

[skygenders]

damn is shooting at Donald Trump turning into a three times the charm situation 😭

[hibiderry]

posts that immediately make you go check the news

[animentality]

[brucebocchi]

[skellaloose]

First rule of being a graphic designer…they will absolutely just print and use your fake placeholder copy so just go into it expecting that

[flipocrite]

[tits-n-trix]

What a super casual and average response, thanks for your contribution :)

[seagiri]

no te olvides de mí

[kuma-kami]

Visit Original Link

[snowdaysforever]

DELETE THIS POST

[theoldspaceevibes-deactivated20]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[froborr]

*clicks play in morbid curiosity*

*hammers reblog button*

[chongoblog]

I think I find this post every April Fools Day and I am so happy that I do

[puluhuzi]

it's

fuckin'

[fusgia]

hey guys you wanna see a really really bad image of a pelican

YEAH you do. here it is. jesus fucking christ

[puluhuzi]

manga:

anime:

[3y3-see-you]

My take on the homophobic vase from MAG 38! If I stop posting it’s because I got eaten by it <3

[theriverbeyond]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LESBIAN JESUS

[toxicyuribracket]

Toxic Yuri Bracket Round 31 (Re-match)

Which ship is more toxic?

Hinako Hanamura/Airi Sezaki (Kitanai Kimi ga Ichiban Kawaii)

Kohaku/Akiha Tohno (Tsukihime)

Voting ended onDec 23, 2023

[bogleech]

I've never been able to remember their username or find eviyfir any of this again but back in the day on the cracked.com writing forum there was a user who lived in a dirt cave she dug under the roots of a tree. We knew this because she would post naked selfies in the dirt cave but we weren't sure how she was using the internet in there. Eventually she had to be banned because she'd just viciously trash other people's article pitches and all of her own pitches had to be rejected because they were all about the benefits of drinking your own piss.

[s-8-t-a-n]

Being on tumblr feels like living in a house full of women. Every other social media feels like being out in public.