#all power to the unions

[left-reminders]

[frodo-a-gogo]

Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms

[bruqh]

normally clerics use divine magic to work miracles amongst the living but i think kristen is going to use her mortality to work miracles amongst divinity

[green-elf-magicks]

I want to underscore that the creator of the audio has stated multiple times in their other videos (and in the full length video this audio is from), that she recognizes that voting/demonstrating/calling your reps DOES indeed have an impact, however, they go on to explain that the impact is simply NOT ENOUGH at this point; that by itself, protest is ineffective without making other disruptions to the system. I highly encourage you to check out his other videos. She has a lot of great content that breaks things down.

You can find their videos at this link:

[ahaura]

from @/JoshuaPHilll, via More Perfect Union

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Look i know strikes are good and ill keep telling that to myself but the public transportation keeps doing that for a few days every week at this point and i wanna cry because i have no other way of getting to work.. luckily my parents live near my workplace so i can sleep there but i cannot wind down there also cant take my laptop with me because it would be too heavy to carry to work with me so no digital art either...

[martyrbat]

my turn to be scary — dcu halloween special (2009)

(ID in alt!)

[honeybeejohn]

“we need to make this the tiniest, most insubstantial fractional half a miracle we have ever performed”

… resulting in a 27 lazari miracle setting off all alarms in heaven and blasting a massive beam of energy from earth

imagine them doing this again, intentionally, in do-or-die circumstances in S3. working together to overcome whatever is being thrown at them. the power in their union and love… whatever happens afterwards, heaven and hell would have to leave them alone. forever free to make out in their south downs cottage

[meadowlarkx]

One of my favorite things about the worldbuilding in The Left Hand of Darkness is the "perverts" in Gethenian society—those who are permanently in one of the kemmer forms. The "normal" person on Gethen goes through a kemmer cycle with periods of somer, but that's not every Gethenian. People whose bodies don't work this way get treated with repulsion. Genly compares them to "homosexuals" in his society, and that comparison is really instructive. Gethenians may not have gender roles and identities the way we do, but they do have societal norms, including about bodies and sexuality. And those norms leave people out. They are imperfect and sometimes they are unfair. I think this is part of the point.

In subtle ways, this theme is woven throughout the book's descriptions of Gethenian cultures. To stick to sexuality, something similar can be said about the different norms surrounding incest on Gethen and the empathic treatment of Estraven's past relationship with Arek. There is no taboo about incest between siblings on Gethen, only on siblings vowing kemmering, but if a child is born of it, the parents have to separate (and it seems like Estraven is separated from Sorve because of this). The reason for including this element, in my reading, isn't to impose our own moral standards by "showing" that Estraven's relationship with Arek was "bad" (in fact, we learn fairly little about it, beyond that Estraven cared deeply for him.) Instead, I think it's partly to demonstrate the dissonance between Gethenian mores and our own, and unsettle both. Because, like Genly, we see Gethenian norms as strange, we can notice that they bring about particular situations and cause particular hurts. Even the custom of vowing kemmering monogamously for life, which sounds more familiar, is shown as double-edged. Estraven breaks a taboo by making his "false" vow to Ashe, but was trying to build a new life with Ashe really wrong?

These things are not 1:1 to any "real life" issue, but like everything else in this story, I think they're chosen because they are provocative. It's really meaningful to me that even in terms of gender and sexuality, Gethen isn't painted as a utopia, but as a real place. Le Guin shows us two sets of norms and asks us not just "are our norms arbitrary and/or constructed rather than essential truths?" but also "are norms always socially constructed? Should we question them sometimes? What harm is done to maintain them? Who is being left out?"

[stupiditysphere]

how do sexist portal fans exist. the entire story is about the experience of women in male dominated fields and the cycles of workplace abuse that situation perpetuates

[useless-englandfacts]

please explain how

[clonerightsagenda]

TLT but the cavaliers have a union

[bidokja]

happy labor day i think kimcom should unionize

[roboticchibitan]

Fun story idea: Stereotypical "fall in love with the emperor" isekai except the female lead is really into unions and nooooot so much bosses or emperors and she's not afraid to go to war with the bosses about shit cuz she woke up in a body with a ton of powers and is using them for good (good in this case being blowing up the local strikebreaking boss's house). The emperor sees this and is like you know what sign me up and now the entire country is unionized.

The power of unions love

[apollon-emos]

shut down ports and call for ceasefire [and arms embargo and humanitarian corridors.] sit in at/demonstrate before/blockade your government buildings. disrupt political rallies. please get organized, god, we are not in the awareness campaign stage of this crisis. we're not even in the donations stage. please. radical collective action is our only only hope.

[foxgirltail]

"you all complained that we did not give you enough time to prepare for a 1 day general strike by telling you 2 days before and then 3 days before so now we are asking you to do a weeklong strike while giving you 4 days notice"

I do not think you understood the actual reasons that caused the previous attempts to fail