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curtwilde · 2 months

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Port workers of India stand with Palestine

#THIS IS WHY YOU NEED UNIONS PEOPLE #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #we stand with palestine #solidarity with palestine #we stand with gaza #gaza genocide #india #desiblr #desi tumblr #israel #south asia #stand with gaza #stand with palestine #from the river to the sea #ceasefire now #ceasefire

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airyairyaucontraire · 2 months

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re: Bill the malcontent in NASA mission control: nobody's MAKING you work at NASA mission control, Bill. You can always quit your job at NASA mission control, Bill. I'm sure there are at least several people who'd apply to fill that vacancy at NASA mission control, Bill.

#for all mankind #was his conversation with Margo after Gene's death just building the theme of Margo feeling unappreciated #or signalling that Bill could be a security risk because he's disgruntled and getting sloppy #or heck it could be both!#hi I'm catching up on a show from 2019 #I have been spoiled for the fact that (spoilers)#(I'm not upset about this I don't need to be surprised by every twist and turn)#Margo will defect to the Soviet Union #but I have no idea when and why so I'm watching out for possibilities all the time #anyway BILL it's not bad on your part to find that you're unhappy in a job a lot of other people would love to have #you don't have to be grateful if you've discovered it's not really what you want (you had to try it to be able to know that)#but it's both a dick move and a dumbass move on your part to stay in it #and stay grumpy and miserable instead of clearing the way for someone who would appreciate it #also setting yourself free to find an occupation you might enjoy more!#I mean you are presumably a highly qualified aerospace engineer with NASA on your CV!#so yeah BILL there's your free career advice that you can't use because you're a fictional character from an alternate history

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uu-tella · 2 months

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bluastro-yellow · 9 months

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there's only one end-of-the-day debrief :'( ?!?

#looked like a recurring event #I hope I'm getting a good grade in Kim #pointless microblogging #disco elysium #disco elysco #<- why does this tag keep coming up #what is it #some thoughts:#I'm a cop second and a disco lover first. hope those kids don't make drugs in the church after all #I'm helping them #do I need to tell the hardie boys or whatever to do their job of helping citizens?!? come on guys #you should already have helped that pigs woman #we definitely weren't trained for that lol. cops badly handling interactions with distressed mentally ill people. too realistic #thank GOD I didn't hit on that woman at the start of the game. would have made everything more awkward #but I did tell her I don't remember jack shit. whoops #I really like how there's multiple solutions for problems. probably normal for games like this but I appreciate it #I can actually become racist if I listen to Titus?? I thought I'd be faking it. I pulled out #*meathead or something. the big racist guy who guards the port #I wonder what happens if I do. Kim still would have to be my partner #does that union guy really want to help or does he want to turn the place into his playground. make the fishing village better #instead of destroying it! he's really good at sounding innocent tho

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lacnunga · 7 months

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Some people really do assume nobody under 40 works in factories huh

#if youre in your 20s obvs you only work at tiktok fast food places or stocking shelves #who cares about factory unions or factory worker healthcare or anything bc its all filled with robots now right #i dont know why so many ppl seem to think factory work in the west ended in the victorian era or some shit #im just...angery about it. a little.#not for me precisely. but for a lot of ppl my age i know who also arent gtting these things or the support for this industry #its just frustrating. we do need improvement in factory worker conditions in 'first world countries' too #bc its not an automated industry. its not just full of people aging out of it. theres still young people going into it #who need support to prevent exploitation and health problems #and insurance for their future employment against robots #that kinda stuff

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nanamivnemesis · 9 months

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Y’all please make sure you check descriptions and reviews BEFORE you buy something online!!!

That way you know if your getting what you expect or getting a weird and wonderful surprise that just might make your day:)

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#hello tumblr #i know all the adhd people are wondering where they can get these and build their army #I tried Temu that’s what happened #clip clip clip clip clip #claw clip #clip your little baby claw clips in union #we shall rise up and spread these around #oh wait senior prank idea but I’m not a senior #just imagine waking up in a room full of these #this is the seretonin boost I needed thank you shady Temu price that I said why not to #your lies made my day

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archiephd · 2 months

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man if you're voting for biden just to vote against trump, just say that. we have got to get over this harm reduction shit when what we really mean is harm reduced for us, me, mr american and literally nobody else on this bitch of an earth. if the only and most emphasized thing we do to reduce the harm our president and their platform does to the living is vote, we are reducing nothing. for anyone or ourselves, because voting alone doesn't challenge the trajectory of anything. it buys 4 more years before we have to do it all again, if that. thinking this way is what promises having to think this way again, and again, and again and again. in 2024, who american leftists vote for 1 day of the year matters little compared to what we do the other 364.

#j.txt #once again talking to me here there is a constant wailing alarm in my head like 24/7 #we aren't taught the other ways we can facilitate change on purpose #there is power in the polls but unfortunately in america it is very little compared to the power in. the union..... lol #i'm not hardcore judging scared minorities in america if they wanna vote for biden out of fear for trump this election cycle #but i am hardcore judging if it's proclaimed as the morally superior thing to do when it's just not #like at all #which is also by design!#would you like blue poison or red poison don't you love living in a country that lets you choose!#i also just hate the narrative that this is our only way out of trump's america #like if he wins it's over like people who've been organizing and agitating and fighting and being arrested won't be doing the same shit #before and after #we gotta stop seeing voting as activism let alone a meaningful challenge to facism #not that i know everything either #just. even the few history books i've opened don't hold instances of voting being the way out of a tide of facism man #we can multitask guys vote for who we think we need to but if that's all we're doing to change things um.#we will be stopping nothing and we will be here forever #these shitheads have power here in and outside of office and they will do whatever they can wherever they can do it regardless #like they tried storming the capital literally last election. like #and that's just. here in our own country #why should we expect them to act any different this go around. genuinely. i would like to be able to expect different #all that said i feel like i am going crazy every day 👍#2024 elections

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sassyandclassy94 · 2 months

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The Greatest Generation would be so heart broken to see that the American youth is now promoting the very thought and propaganda that they fought and gave their lives to keep OUT of America.

Back when I was studying World War II in high school I never would’ve dreamed that my beloved United States would be embracing and pushing the same exact propaganda as the Third Reich.

Had we lived in Nazi Germany many of you would’ve sold out the Jews and the Christians who stood up to Hitler and it shows.

#Biden is Hitler reincarnated #actually Obama is because we all know he’s behind this.#Biden’s too stupid to blow his own knows and doesn’t even know what day it is #I have never seen a group of people who hate their own country as much as democrats do #the hate you all are spewing toward the Jews is a very echo of Nazi Germany #many of you also have never opened a history book either and it’s blatantly obvious.#communism is bad guys and it has killed more people than any war has.#I wish you all would go talk to a legal immigrant from China or Venezuela or Cuba #heck go find a person who came here to flee the Soviet Union - they will tell you how bad it is and how we MUST keep it out of the US #Communism is a cancer and it must be destroyed.#anti communism #anti Biden #Trump 2024 #This is why we need to vote for Donald Trump #the future of America and our children is more important than your feelings #politics

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runthepockets · 11 months

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I really can't cope with doomers / nihilists / misanthropes. Like how do you have knowledge of the fact that the 1%, not the general public, are the cause of most of our problems and that the general public actually sympathizes more with radical sentiment / motivations than not (affordable housing, universal healthcare, an end to war overseas, families to not be seperated by bogus deportation laws, causes that help the environment, etc) and are systemically being barred from making their desires a reality and still come to the conclusion "well we're fucked cus everyone is too stupid and worthless to give a shit about anyone else and I guess I'll just cower in fear alone forever" like dude you're giving the fascists exactly what they want. Grow the fuck up.

#My old roommate was exactly like this. Like dude leave the fucking house and talk to someone.#The average person ranges from 'has no strong opinions on trans people' to 'I know a trans person. No they're not malevolent perverts. Tf.'#Most people would rather hang out with their kids than slave away at work but food needs to be put on the table somehow #and not everyone has access to resources that can let them just sit at home and doomscroll all day. That's why our jobs as Communists in the #imperial core are so important. Just turning people's opinions on unions & immigrants is a massive & powerful step in the right direction.#Don't let fascist funded and dominated media trick you lmao people care about each other a whole lot everyone is just scared & confused rn.

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asexualdreammorpheus · 2 years

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you'd think the percy jackson trailer would make me excited to watch it but no it just reminded me that actually i hated half of the characters from the book

#i know that annabeth is a popular character but I cannot stand her percy deserves better #he really said annabeth was the most powerful demigod like percy you blew up a volcano nico can command armys of the dead #was she even the most powerful because she is smart? not really everyone demigod in that series is smart #justice for grover though he deserves better #am i going to watch it to see my boy nico? oh yeah absolutely #now that I'm past my im not like other girls phase i can safely say rick did the aphrodite cabin dirty they also deserved better #you know who else deserved better? sally jackson #posideon was still into sally she absolutely should have gotten back together with him and then his wife undersea polycule #i might not watch the series but i will watch the part where sally gets rid of gabe #poseidon really speaks of sally in such a reverent tone he respects her so much and sally gets married and is pregnant again?#absolutely not rick did her dirty sally deserves to have a god in her back pocket #i did hate that some of the demigods got together and the excuse was oh theres no dna so its technically not in*est #come on their 12 and in need of therapy let them not date #the clarisse/silena achilles/patroclus parallels though *chefs kiss*#wow i really got long winded in the tags but you know percy deserves better and so does sally #and percy should unionize the demigods and people should stop being mean to the hades kids #because they are the best and also have the sickest powers hello they can travel through shadows? my anxiety is jealous #i also disliked thalia yet i don't know why #percy nico bianca and thalia should have teamed up and been like see dads it's entirely possible to get on

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radmystique · 3 months

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Twitter “activists” are something else, man.

#like why are yall getting mad at ppl for posting during the ‘strike’ when hardly anyone even knew about it #and what exactly is this strike going to do when you have no backing whatsoever from any union or anything #I’ve seen so many general strikes in the last several years and exactly 0 had any sort of impact at all #it’s just a way for people to be performative and feel morally superior #saw a white person claim an indigenous woman a genocide enabler all bc she didn’t know abt the strike and was posting about the new sw show #that’s internet activism for ya #also expecting people to call off work for a whole week with no adequate warning whatsoever is wild #in this economy??????#don’t get me wrong #I would LOVE for a strike to be successful #esp for Palestine #but the way people are going about it just dooms it to fail and it sucks #this country NEEDS a well organized general strike #and these corny social media ones aren’t going to cut it I’m sorry #someone said ‘activism in the 2020s is going as little as possible in the most disorganized and individual way and then expecting a #revolution to just happen’ and yeah. yeah that’s p accurate

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wild-at-mind · 3 months

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No offence, but ffs the general strike for Palestine thing being circulated for action this week is literally coming with caveats saying 'if you can't do anything else just don't post on social media about anything but Palestine'.....????????

#at some point it's not a strike any more when people are presenting it to you as not a strike.#look- i think a general strike supporting a ceasefire could make an impact but any kind of strike requires centralised support #e.g. if a community organiser in london who has been planning the large marches put out very clear instructions well in advance #contacted unions etc- maybe are large number of people in the country would actually do it- people here clearly care about Palestine #but literally all of this just ends up being about social media AGAIN.#did we not learn from the BLM black square saga???? social media and especially tumblr is not very useful!#btw the reason why strikes work best through workplaces if because you NEED close social support in order to do them effectively #internet support just isn't the same and it's no wonder so many people are openly saying 'I can't'#i wouldn't either! there would be no point! Sorry to be so blunt #i will 100000% take part in a strike that i am fully prepared for though but i think people should consider how last minute this has been #it's worth noting that there is a lot of guilt here: people feel they cannot do nothing but they cannot afford to strike #(might they have been able to if this was planned in advance? possibly more would have...)#so someone in the west who is not the Palestinian activist who called for the strike added the weird 'just do social media' caveats #they are literally watering down what should have been a very powerful gesture #but they HAVE to do that because they know 99% of people reading will not be equipped to actually strike meaningfully!#and it's the only way to avoid everyone guilt spiralling

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garyfischy · 6 months

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the ai art discourse is so fucking stupid man (remembers like half my friends go to art school) (clamps a hand over my mouth)

#i rlly cant see it as anything but a moral panic. ive read panicked editorials panning the use of computers in art #if it causes mass layoffs while simultaneously making every movie look like shit (have you SEEN THAT FUCKING AI GENERATED MARVEL MOVIE OUTR #then thats capitalism treating artists like it always has #im also not disabled but seeing people go “why can't you just draw using a pencil in your mouth instead of STEALING!!!!!!!”#is arguably more ableist than saying “hey lol lets see what disabled people can make with an image scraper”#ai is going to be regulated through god knows how much legal discourse. But if the act of “scraping other peoples art with an computer” its #Lf becomes illegal? Say goodbye to popart and superflat. Adobe is already lobbying for stricter copyright #im mainly concerned abt the layoffs soon to arise from this but why be morally opposed to ai itself as a tool? It's not going away #we need stronger emphasis on unions and ending harsh layoffs of artists and crunch #idk whats going to happen #i jist dont want stricter copyright thats the death of art #not a vague abt any of my followers #fish talks

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pepprs · 11 months

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prefacing this by saying im fine and its whatever and im mostly numb to it. but it kinda fucking sucks that being gaslit about my own sexuality leads to… doubting my own sexuality lol!

#purrs #just went to my first ever lavender graduation ceremony and had a convo w my dad after that touched on the EXACT horrors lol like i need to #learn to not bring this shit up around my parents bc they’re just gonna say the same things. and also it doesn’t matter bc idc about labels #and (to quote ricky) it’s a conversation not a constant. but like fucking hell. just bc ive never ‘’’’’’been with anybody’’’’’’ doesn’t #mean that i can’t know im not straight. the HORRIFIC psychic damage that did to me 5 years ago this month. the way i can’t think about #sexuality or being part of the lgbtq community since and like before then when that happened i thought i was a lesbian and was gonna try to #get involved with the school lgbtq student union . like it’s so ficking stupid and sad. and i can’t trust myself anymore i can’t tell if #anything ive ever felt for anyone is actually real bc according to my (straight and biphobic) parents ‘crushes don’t count’ and i haven’t #even had a crush in months anyway and yeah ive never ‘been with’ anybody. but like god damn. you DO NOT get to tell me i have to call myself #questioning. yeah im questioning but only i can call it that and only if i want to. i get to know me. i get to call me what i am. which also #means i get to work through the years of psychic damage this thread of conversation coming from my own parents has done to me #but i own that. i want to own that. ive had the feelings i have had. maybe they were wrong and misplaced and maybe there are other ways to #interpret them like me jus t having projection issues and whatever. but they were real to me and are real to me and shape how i show up #every single day. i get to know myself. i get to call myself what i am. even though you’re my parents you don’t get to tell me that. and you #should be sorry for how fucked in the head this has made me and how cut off i have become from other people who have felt what i have felt #and from the parts of myself that felt and hurt and loved. like lolllll. i was in a good mood and then that happened and now my heart hurts.#delete later #like i don’t talk abt this shit anymore for a reason 🤪✌️ i am not involved in lgbtq groups or communities online or offline for a reason 🤪✌️#and it’s yet another manifestation of impostor syndrome too like. ppl wonder why im like this…. there is a very good reason 💖

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pandoratheprocrasticreator · 1 year

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i watched alien (1979) with my partner a few days ago and goddamn this evil space cargo ship company can fit so many sci-fi osha violations in it

#engineering school has made it impossible to not find design flaws in every movie i watch #i know all of it is designed to get the characters where they need to be for the story to work #but also #why does the escape shuttle not have enough room to take the entire crew #you have seven people and a cat in the crew you need enough room on the space shuttle to take seven people and a cat #come on we learned this lesson after the titanic #also why is a cat even on the space cargo ship and given free reign #i know the answer is 'because the crew likes cats' but also what if that thing chews on the wires #also why is the mechanism to self destruct the cargo ship not in the escape shuttle itself #why does ripley have to trigger the mechanism and then run like halfway across the ship to get on the shuttle #bro what if she trips your ten minutes of leeway would not be enough for the crew to all get on the shuttle before the self destruct sequenc #also ripley was like. reading the instruction manual on how to trigger that self destruct #girl who trained you? if the ship has a self destruct sequence you need to learn this in work safety training #again i know i know its to make the story more dramatic #this movie is good and the actual emotional beats are not lost on me #still fun to poke fun at it tho bc if i dont id get kind of scared since i dont do well with horror #my partner says maybe in the distant future of the 2030s the space cargo ship company bought osha and yeah that tracks #the real horrifying alien was capitalism and the osha violations we made along the way #alien (1979)#the crew of the nostromo needs to unionize and lobby for better employee safety training #shut up pandora

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bluastro-yellow · 9 months

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harry you're a disaster

#OH MY GOD #IT'S MINE #I DROVE MY CAR INTO THE SEA???????!?!??!!??!?#pointless microblogging #hehehe whistling on the swing ◡̈. how does kim keep up with my bullshit #disco elysium #I want to save my thoughts so far somewhere #the scummy union leader guy basically threatened to kill a child with my gun if I fuck with his plans #is that kid cuno and could he actually die?#or is it the little books girl?!#I shoul have waited for kim to speak with him :(#can I sell the postcards or do I need them #how the hell do you make money. it's not enough to pay for the room. I had to accept the fucking scummy guy's check (but nothing else)#(where are the bottles didnI take them all?!)#I TOOK THE BULLET FROM THE HANGED MAN'S HEAD 😎. what the hell happened?!?#I should probably do drugs lol. no more alcohol for my shitty liver but drugs won't hurt too much right #that's disco babe #is the stuff joyce said about the uhhh thing between islands real? that absence of everything??? wtf #I don't like joyce but I don't like the scummy union guy either. this game sucks #like cool you're buildimg a youth centre. why are you passively forcing the fishing village people to move out #also the demand of every worker in the board or something is sus.#I don't like joyce but she's right askinh for 22.000 workers to sign every decision is very impractical #there are better and more realistic ways to make everyone partecipate! 22.000 signs is unbelievably slow #even if they achieved the goal of taking full control of the company. that's not the way to run things #so is it like idk someone sabotaging the strike like with the fake scabs?#I regret my stats choice. all brain and no physical skill :|#*2.000 something not 22.000. **taking control of the harbour not company. still sus #disco elysium spoilers

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