Dear My Closest Friend

  Definitely not as advertised /shrug

[rains-return]

It's my 14 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[anexperimentallife]

[labelleizzy]

Everyone reblog this. Mandatory.

[tamarrud]

This is Israel putting its genocidal concept of "shrinking civilians" to work, where Israel shrinks what it means to be a civilian by declaring everyone in Gaza to be a combatant, mainly because of their approximity to Hamas, by creating scenarios like this.

[tongzi-ziqing]

They are s till acting like israel gives a shit about hostages huh? if i see another fucking cunt calling western news media reliable again i'm gonna lost it

[rui-cifer]

Yes, this is terrifying, and further, I must note that this is also what the USA originated in the Philippines during the Philippine–American War. For the first time in modern human warfare, the USA tried out "a zone of concentration" on the indigenous people of the Philippines by putting people in concentration camps and declaring any Pilipino merely existing outside of the the camps as combatants. This gave them a justification for the US military to slaughter anyone that didn't go willingly into the concentration camps. Israel, the genocidal colonial state, learned from the best genocidal colonial state in the world: the United States of America.

[hairtusk]

Marilyn French, The Women's Room (1977)

[anarchapella]

Please fucking lie to your employer. Like they don’t need to know your mental health issues or what drugs you do. Ffs

[thecolorsfucked]

its not lying if its to employers or cops

and look up ur rights on what they can and cannot ask u many places ban asking about ur record and transportation status and things like that resources will also tell u how they reword sketchy questions so ur prepared

[mixingpumpkins]

Hey. Take it from a former HR person… this goes double right now. I just spent some time putting in some job applications myself (not for HR, lol) and got about 15 interviews. And idk if it’s because of COVID uncertainty or if places just don’t fucking care anymore because they know people are desperate for work, but the amount of straight up illegal shit my interviewers asked me was appalling. (That’s not even counting the questions that were technically legal but clearly fishing for information they’re not legally allowed to ask.)

A tame example? Two questions into a phone interview, the guy on the other end of the line asked: “How old are you?” I said “Excuse me?” - giving him a chance to rethink that. He didn’t. “How old are you?” “Sir, you are not allowed to ask me that question.” “Well, I want to know. I’m asking.” “And you’re legally not allowed to ask me that. I’m not required to tell you my age.” At that point, I guess he managed to remember an old HR bulletin or something (I hope to god he wasn’t actually HR himself), and he said, “Well, I need to know if you’re over the age of 18.” (Which is what he should have asked in the first place… or not, since that was in the application that he could have read.) “Yes. I’m over the age of 18.”  And we moved on. Two questions later, he tried another illegal question. I called him on it again and ended the interview, citing that a workplace with such a clear disregard for the law, especially upon first contact with a potential employee, was not going to be a good fit. (They offered me the job anyway, lol. I didn’t send a thank-you or a response.)

At a different interview, the majority of questions were “fishing” questions - just looking for that info they’re not actually allowed to ask. (This person was also either not really HR or an HR person who was exceptionally bad at their job.)

I could tell they were getting frustrated when I dodged answering the personal stuff, and they actually got extremely upset when I mentioned later in the interview (re: less relevant work experience) I had worked in HR. They were super flustered for the remainder of our time, and I watched them skip over questions on their sheet they had clearly planned on asking. They KNEW they were being sketchy and were counting on me not knowing anything about HR - or my rights - and so they got upset when I did. These were super tame examples. I’m begging you, if you’re job searching right now, PLEASE know your rights. Please know what interviewers are allowed to ask. Please don’t volunteer information or elaborate more than you’re required to about personal things. Save your words (and everyone’s time) by elaborating why you’re good for the position/what you can do. I may create a resource list on this shit later but PLEASE PLEASE KNOW THIS STUFF BEFORE YOU TALK TO AN EMPLOYER. This goes for anywhere you’re interviewing as well as your current employer. This also goes for HR. HR may be the person you go to when shitty stuff happens, but that doesn’t mean they’re your friend (or competent). They don’t need to know your age (beyond 16+, 18+, or 21+, depending on the job). They don’t need to know your medical history. (For the love of god, do NOT answer the “have you been diagnosed with depression?” question.) They don’t need to know if you have kids or whatever. They don’t need to know a LOT of those things that may appear on an application, including your veteran status, whether you’re on/have been on unemployment, etc. They’re not entitled to know specifics about your transportation (unless you’re using that transportation for the job, like Uber/delivery drivers). Look this up for your state/the job’s state. Beware questions like “What year did you graduate?” if you’re like me and don’t put dates on your resume (I just put amount of time spent at employers, not dates of employment). They’re fishing for your age. It’s “Oh, you know, 100 years ago,” if you feel comfortable making a joke, or “About [generic number, like 5 or 10] years ago” if not. Also beware things like the “What do you do in your free time?” question, even if you already work there. This is not a friendly getting-to-know-you question. This is a basis for judgement. Not up to an invisible standard? They’re going to be biased against you for pay raises, promotions, etc. Mention kids/lots of family/social engagements? That’s a tick against you for not being the kind of person who lives to work (yes, it’s gross and stupid). Mention lots of solitary things? Cool, that’s their mental note to ask more from you because you’re “not doing anything anyway.” By all means, be friendly with your coworkers/talk about shared interests if you want, but it is none of your boss’s business, and be aware what could get back to them.  Don’t. Tell. Employers. Shit.

[ruby-white-rabbit]

I just learned the tiktok AI voice that reads all the text out loud is a STOLEN VOICE

Bev Standing is a voiceover actress and did NOT consent to this. Tiktok took previous content she created and utilized it without her permission or knowledge, and with NO compensation.

Here is a short interview regarding the issue

She is also now suing them and if you want to help support her in doing so, here is a gofund me helping her be able to do so.

Stand with Bev Standing, organized by Maria Pendolino

Bev Standing  is a lot of things in the voiceover industry. She is a voice actor, a coach, a m… Maria Pendolino needs your support for Stand

[tikkety-tok]

Please watch this.

[dizzyiszy]

As a Deaf person and caption user, please caption videos or provide a transcript. 🥺

[honeynuttkrunch]

[menacevessel-deactivated2020083]

[take0fftheblues]

Infinity Song and Peter Collins playing a beautiful rendition of "I Don't Feel Noways Tired"

[rosecrystal]

[ludmo-blog1]

oof

[what-even-is-thiss]

I want a relationship like this

[sandersstudies]

The himbo energy here is impeccable

[isoltsayre]

“A must see clip to understand the level of hate and racism taught to Azeri kids from a young age against Armenians. This is why Artsakh required and requires its independence.” 

[chaberkowepole]

Spread this shit I’m begging you, there needs to be international outrage about those atrocities

[mjalti]

sometimes it’s “no one loves me” other times it’s “I am not brave enough to look those who love me in the eye”

[nativenews]

[conceivablyanyone]

Demands

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Justice 4 Kayla Moore

Justice 4 Kayla Moore. 871 likes. Celebrate the Life of Kayla Moore: 4-17-71 to 2-13-13 Berkeley Police Officers may have taken her body, b

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[catchymemes]

[savleye]

mutuals since tumblr banned cock and areolas

[ecologiadigital]

Remember when that cop pepper-sprayed students in 2011? UC Davis paid $175K to scrub it from the internet’s memory https://t.co/5prbgrx1WL

— Xeni (@xeni) April 14, 2016

[daggers-drawn]

Nice try fuckers.

[steeleman]

$175K wasted with every reblog.

Let’s make sure they DON’T get their money’s worth.

[repost-this-image]

Oh hey, my 2020 vision says THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS, MOTHERFUCKERS.

[cluegrrl]

Hey, so what exactly was that cops name again…?

[elfwreck]

Lt. John Pike. It took more than two years of legal battles to get his name, and the names of other officers involved, released to the public. 

He got fired… but retained his retirement benefits, and got  $38,000 worth of worker’s compensation for the stress he went through after the incident.

The students collectively received $1m, with each pepper-sprayed student receiving $30,000 individually.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Conservative MP Steve Double BANNED from cafes in his Cornwall constituency over free school meals vote - Cornwall Live

Tory MP banned from local cafes over free school meals vote

Two venues in Cornwall have banned their local Conservative MP after he voted against the motion to extend free school meals over half-term

I am very much here for MPs seeing real consequences to their actions.

[splend-42]

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-10-23/rishi-sunak-barred-for-life-from-pub-in-his-constituency-over-vote-against-free-school-meals

I’m liking this trend.

[pyaasa]

A shop window in Lancashire