When John Oliver mentioned the Bessemer Amazon union drive in this week’s show I was really expecting him to talk about how the vote was found to be illegal and a revote has been called, because despite the huge media coverage of the first vote almost no one seems to know that another one is happening and needs support and talking about that on such a popular show would really help get the word out, but he just… never brought it up
Amazon has already started mandatory anti-union propaganda meetings (they started in the first half of October, actually) but nobody is talking about it. They’re not getting the outside support they’ll need to win. They’re only getting Amazon’s side of the story
Please don’t let this vote come and go unnoticed. Post about it, talk about it with your friends, bring it up to coworkers and strangers, whatever it takes to get people to actually pay attention. They need it
Here’s their website, with links to their social media at the bottom for updates
this vid is about them looking for the source material for the dude whos on fire but im obsessed with how this looks like a true crime cold case video about dewey
If I were a security guard for a person who’s being targeted by assassins I simply wouldn’t devote my entire attention span to every single noise I hear.
this image of Mongolia's best known paleontologist, Altangerel Perle, standing in between the fossilized arms of Deinocherius is undeniably the most powerful image in paleontological history
fictional character discourse would be more fun if we all internalized the fact that characters are narrative tools, not people. once we have that basic fact down, we can start talking about what story the author is trying to tell using these characters, whether they’re successful, whether the story itself is successful and by what means we are measuring success—which are all really fun and interesting things to discuss! but we simply cannot get to that point unless we first accept that fictional characters simply do not have thoughts, feelings, opinions, or any agency on their own. a fictional character has more in common with the fictional chair theyre sitting on than with a real person
my cat hates taking his pills. the only way we can get him to eat them is to turn it into an elaborate pantomime - we take the packet out of the cupboard slowly and hold it up, saying “oh!! what’s this? what’s this? a TREAT? a TREAT for louis????” while making surprised faces. we offer him a pill… then, before he has a chance to sniff it, we wag our fingers at him and replace it in the packet so it becomes a Tantalising Forbidden Mystery. we continue doing this until he’s so confused and excited that he will eat the pill as fast as possible, just so he can find out what it is before we can take it away from him again. as soon as he’s eaten it he looks utterly disappointed and betrayed, like a child who just ate a delicious sweet only to find it was a chocolate-coated brussels sprout. it never gets old