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Protect yourself during earthquakes!
If possible, DROP! COVER! HOLD ON!
Using cane, DROP! COVER! HOLD ON!
Using walker, LOCK! COVER! HOLD ON!
Using wheelchair LOCK! COVER! HOLD ON!
Oh, this is good! Very good! Must look into this organization more to see what else they might have.
Earthquake Country Alliance is fantastic! I use this image all the time in my classes as an example of efficacy and accessibility in disaster info. They helped create the Great Shakeout drill as well!
my dream for tumblr is that we all relearn the phrase "it's not for me" and we remember that this is different from "it should not exist."
something something likes charge reblogs cast
There is no situation in which antisemitism is acceptable. There are no jews who deserve antisemitism. There is nothing that jews can do to "earn" antisemitism being thrown at them. Antisemitism never has been and never will be a reasonable and acceptable politics. Antisemitism needs to be and deserves to be talked about and challenged openly without other bigotries chaperoning it. If you can't fully throatedly agree then fucking block me.
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breaking news: ur actually gonna make it through and everything will turn out just fine
Entry level jobs haven't existed since the 2008 crash. 90% of hiring managers won't hire recent graduates. A quarter of job listings are ghost jobs. Companies hire part time so that they don't have to give benefits. Federal minimum wage hasn't increased since 2009. The True Unemployment Rate is 25%. Master's are the new bachelor's. For most the job search takes over a year. 75% of resumes are never. actually seen by the hiring team.
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Imperialist core entry level jobs have been replaced with outsourcing for the working class and internships for the wealthy.
The lack of entry level jobs means that recent graduates are not hired because they are expected to know in advance how to behave in the workplace rather than being trained when they begin working.
Actually as many as 1-in-3 job listings are fake, because this allows companies to claim they are "actively recruiting and growing" even when they aren't, which looks good to investors and can lead to government benefits as well.
In the US, hiring several part time jobs allows companies to save about 30% on benefits compared to hiring one full time job. This is directly because of the US's predatory healthcare system and lack of the worker protections common in other imperialist core economies.
The US minimum wage has been static for my entire adult life, in part because efforts to pin the minimum wage to cost of living metrics are constantly stonewalled by wealthy political groups.
The US labor participation rate is around 80% of abled adults, which yes, does mean about 20% of abled adults are not working, but perhaps much more damningly, this is actually very high participation compared to a lot of US history, and yet the cost of living and pay are so mismatched that quality of life is reaching impressive lows.
Masters degrees are being devalued as a consequence of the prior devaluation of Bachelors, that itself caused by the destruction and devaluation of compulsory public schooling in the US. This combines with the absence of entry level positions in deeply fraught ways.
I am unable to corroborate the claim that US job searches average greater than a year. However they do average well over 7 months, and the US's notoriously spiteful and underpaying unemployment system cuts off support much sooner than that. If you can even get unemployment support in the first place.
And finally, yes, 75% of completed and successful applications will be automatically rejected by machines without human oversight. That's for complete applications on the company's own site with resumes attached. Just plain resumes, and applications completed on third party sites like Indeed, have much worse numbers than even that.
It's important to remember that Luigi Mangione is being framed for murder. The "evidence" they have on him is absolute clown shoes absurd.
They're trying to win this by swaying public opinion. That's why they're doing movie deals about it and staging ridiculous photo ops.
They're gonna try to give this kid the death penalty to cover up for their own gross incompetence and in the hopes that they scare the working class out of trying to fight back.
Please don't help them do this by using his name as a synonym for political assassinations. Please do not perpetuate the idea that he's guilty.
The person who committed that assassination is the Claims Adjuster. They have not proved in a court of law beyond a doubt that Luigi Mangione is the Claims Adjuster, and it is your civic duty to consider people innocent until proven guilty. Fairness or justice inherent to the Justice System aside, none of that matters if people won't even respect presumed innocence in the first place. It's a keystone holding up every other debate.
The cops were fucking embarrassing themselves in a manhunt where it was abundantly clear that they had lost their guy. And then they suddenly nab this guy at a McDonald's who suddenly got sloppy and it just so happens they found every bit of evidence they needed while they were alone with his bag with no one to corroborate the search. That is genuinely some of the most obviously staged that evidence has ever been in a high profile trial, and that's saying something. They worked harder and were less sloppy while persecuting the Black Panthers.
Everything they've done since has been a massive violation of Luigi's rights, and one of which should reasonably get the entire trial thrown out. And yet even people who claim to support The Claims Adjuster and Luigi and claim to be abolitionists are just wholesale buying and repeating the cops story. Do not. Don't let them get away with it. Whatever legal or social precedent they're allowed to set here will be used against everyone else the cops want to use as a pawn.
Do not do the cops' work for them. If you want to talk about the murderer, talk about The Claims Adjuster, but stop talking like we know it was Luigi. We don't.
Hello! Do you know of any books with bisexual butches? (In fiction since I already saw your post of non-fiction books! Love that post, thank you sm!)
this took a little digging (more bisexual butch rep in fiction please!), but here is one we have in our collection:
Errant: The Compendium by L.K. Fleet (fantasy, romance)
and two we don’t currently have:
Fortune Favors the Dead by Stephen Spotswood (historical fiction, mystery)
A Masc for Purim by Roz Alexander (romance)
these next two (part of a series) could also fit. we have Rough Trade in our collection, and hope to buy The Best Bad Things soon. gender-bending plays a big role but the gender identity doesn’t occupy an exclusively butch space. (both historical fiction, mystery, thriller, by Katrina Carrasco)
The Best Bad Things is very violent and very gender-queer, and I highly recommend.
QLL does have a YA murder mystery called One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans. The main is a bi butch martial artist with IBS and a detention problem in high school.
The next two I have not read personally so I can't attest how good or accurate the butch label is but both are available thru QLL:
The Secret Ingredient by KD Fisher (rival bakers)
In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae (lesbian hallmark-style romcom)
more bi butches 💖
following up on this to say we did purchase The Best Bad Things in our latest round of new additions!!
@staff our identities aren’t nsfw and we will not stand for them to be treated as such
Censorship is an active plague/virus…..
Silence = Death gains more meanings as the years pass….
the thing about disability is it really does sometimes boil down to "wow i wish i could do that" and then you can't. and it sucks.
accomodations are important but i think they miss the point of this post. sometimes you can't do it. at all. someone needs to do it for you or it will never happen.
"and then you force yourself anyway" folks im starting to think some of you really do not understand what it means to not be able to do things.
Wow, now there's a bot going around on Ao3 telling people that the "moderators" will delete works from "deprecated" fandoms and impose bans.
Fearmongering bullshit, but it's fearmongering bullshit that seems to be taking advantage of the recent spotlight series in order to trick authors into deleting their fics.
Just. Why.
What the hell does anyone get out of making these bots.
There's a theory already that this makes it easier for copyright infringers to steal fanfics because you can't prove the authorship of a deleted work.
This is pure evil
Spread the word
p.s. The comments look something like this:
p.p.s. There's no "new" policy that bans original works, either. Everything that was allowed, is still allowed. This is a "please read our TOS ffs" awareness campaign - not a surprise rugpull. Don't delete anything, please. It's an archive.
SoundCloud, a music-sharing platform loved by new and independent artists, updated its terms to allow it to use artists' work for AI trainin
The music distribution platform SoundCloud updated its terms of service to allow it to use artists' uploaded music to train AI.
THERE IS NO OPT-OUT.
FUCK SOUNDCLOUD.
It's so, SO important to share success stories like this. I know an actual JPL engineer who doesn't believe in climate change because, "you never hear about acid rain anymore."
He thinks climate change can be lumped in with acid rain and the ozone layer of "things that were overblown and not really important because no one talks about it anymore."
It didn't even occur to him that we actively fixed the problem. Here's the EPA page on acid rainfall.
From the page:
It's also important to talk about success stories tonfuel hope that we can overcome current and future conservation and environmental issues.
So it's less than ideal, and not what I would love to do for my audiobooks, but I kind of flipped a coin between accessibility and artistry and landed on "rough accessibility" -- this is to say I've submitted Stars Still Fall and Welcome to the Show to Apple Books's digital audiobook program. I did quiz them on where they sourced their voices, and they assured me that they paid professional voice actors to train the digital voices, that it isn't scraped.
Obviously, it won't be as good or as nuanced as if a human narrator read them, and I hope some day to be able to afford that, but considering how I pay all my self-publishing costs myself and try to make my books accessible at the cost of profit to myself...that may not happen for a while. If I win the lottery maybe!
Also, they'll be pretty affordable (looked like around $3 apiece?) in the Apple Book store, and will be made available to libraries as digital audiobooks through the Overdrive program. Anyway! It'll take a little while, but I'll let you know when they're up.
The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)
I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help
It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.
The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.
This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.
Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.
This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.
In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.
Then in 2020:
Navajo Nation say Irish generosity is the ‘good in all of the bad that is going on’
Choctaw Nation has now added a monument of their own:
A sculpture honoring the relationship between the Choctaw Nation and the people of Ireland will soon be erected on the Choctaw Capitol groun
