#auto-promotion

[drakshadowdraws]

⁂COMMISSION OPEN⁂ :

⁜ Pokemon style:

⁜ Furry or Scalie style:

⁜ Original character in my style:

Here is the link to contact me (～￣▽￣)～:

[observatoiredumensonge]

L’auto-promotion à outrance continue.

Par Nanouche Pendant ce “En même temps”, depuis 2017 ? MonSaigneur créateur de misère : la pauvreté explose ! Nous soutenir : L’auto-promotion à outrance continue. Saturation médiatique de Narcisse1er pendant une semaine et comme Logorrhée1er ne parle pas suffisamment soit pour se vanter, soit pour ne rien dire ou l’inverse de ce qu’il a dit, il s’est invité dimanche soir à TF1 et France2…

[everytingbagl]

yes im mentally ill yes i have an IS obsession. and what about it!!

[iamaperture]

elon: I'll get rid of the block button. Nobody uses it, its pointless.

Me, meanwhile:

[little-whats-her-name]

Shock Treatment text posts

[actuallylorelaigilmore]

sometimes i’m scrolling news headlines and i pass by one that makes me stop and go....wtf? usually in an amusing way. but scrolling the new york times website and seeing KFC Apologizes for Linking Chicken Promotion to Kristallnacht is just a whole other level of wtf today

[luckyemocode]

do people know what extension and what setting hides pinned blog posts lmao

[geneticdriftwood]

proud to announce I deleted ~150,000 emails today, deeply ashamed to announce I had a decade of junk emails that needed deleting

[hypaalicious]

Hypaa speakin truth in the tags lmao

Or, I just do some unhinged, unrelated ramble. 😂

But Re: adults in fandom, I’m always gone be on the necks of kids who think it’s bad for adults to do anything outside of go to work, pay bills, eat and sleep. It’s so unserious 😭 Do they think we just figuratively DIE or something once we pass the age of 22? Tuh.

[un-pearable]

for the audience of exactly one who knows about it. thinking about the heart & soul au

[priconstella]

Tumblr's doing a feedback survey! It's disguised as a beta sign up sheet, but the survey comes first, and you can fill it out and then opt of it the beta/prototype testing stuff.

Featuring such questions as:

- If you could change one thing about Tumblr, what would it be and why? If you would not change anything, please explain why. (Question 11)

- How satisfied are you with the search functionality on Tumblr? (Question 12)

- How satisfied are you with the current system for reporting harassment on Tumblr? (Question 13! The most important one, IMO)

I don't know how to access it outside the banner, once I finished it closed, otherwise I'd link it here. But if you want to give feedback (+complain about current anythings) I'd say go do that

[jessielynngraphics]

Express Auto of Michigan Program Cards and Postcard

One of our clients during my time at KH Complete Advertising was Express Auto, a used car dealership based in Michigan. One of the projects I redesigned for them was program cards and postcards for each of their 4 locations.

[mandelene]

If I ever make the big bucks…

But in reality this is the car I’m likely going to get:

Nothing wrong with a Subaru Crosstrek. But it’s no Corvette. 😂😩

[s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s]

Hi Friends. Quick update on my life. I'm very excited about having new music to share, but I just wanted to let you know that one of the reasons why I haven't been able to participate in the press and promotion leading up to the release of Javelin is bc I am in the hospital. Last month I woke up one morning and couldn't walk. My hands, arms and legs were numb and tingling and I had no strength, no feeling, no mobility. My brother drove me to the ER and after a series of tests—MRIs, EMGs, cat scans, X-rays, spinal taps (!), echo-cardiograms, etc.—the neurologists diagnosed me with an auto immune disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Luckily there's treatment for this — they administer immuno-hemoglobin infusions for five days and pray that the disease doesn't spread to the lungs, heart and brain. Very scary, but it worked. I spent about two weeks in Med/Surg, stuck in a bed, while my doctors did all the things to keep me alive and stabilize my condition. I owe them my life.

On September 8, I was transferred to acute rehab, where I am now undergoing intensive physical therapy/occupational therapy, strength building etc. to get my body back in shape and to learn to walk again. It's a slow process, but they say I will "recover," it just takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work. Most people who have GBS learn to walk again on their own within a year, so I am hopeful. I'm only in my second week of rehab but it is going really well and I am working really hard to get back on my feet. I'm committed to getting better, I'm in good spirits, and I'm surrounded by a really great team. I want to be well!

I'll keep you posted as I progress. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers. And a huge shout out to all the incredible caretakers of the world working night and day to help us heal. They are living saints.

Be well, be joyful, stay sane, stay safe. I love you.

yours truly from a wheelchair XOXOXO Sufjan Stevens

[reasonsforhope]

"For the first time in almost 60 years, a state has formally overturned a so-called “right to work” law, clearing the way for workers to organize new union locals, collectively bargain, and make their voices heard at election time.

This week, Michigan finalized the process of eliminating a decade-old “right to work” law, which began with the shift in control of the state legislature from anti-union Republicans to pro-union Democrats following the 2022 election. “This moment has been decades in the making,” declared Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber. “By standing up and taking their power back, at the ballot box and in the workplace, workers have made it clear Michigan is and always will be the beating heart of the modern American labor movement.”

[Note: The article doesn't actually explain it, so anyway, "right to work" laws are powerful and deceptively named pieces of anti-union legislation. What right to work laws do is ban "union shops," or companies where every worker that benefits from a union is required to pay dues to the union. Right-to-work laws really undermine the leverage and especially the funding of unions, by letting non-union members receive most of the benefits of a union without helping sustain them. Sources: x, x, x, x]

In addition to formally scrapping the anti-labor law on Tuesday [February 13, 2024], Michigan also restored prevailing-wage protections for construction workers, expanded collective bargaining rights for public school employees, and restored organizing rights for graduate student research assistants at the state’s public colleges and universities. But even amid all of these wins for labor, it was the overturning of the “right to work” law that caught the attention of unions nationwide...

Now, the tide has begun to turn—beginning in a state with a rich labor history. And that’s got the attention of union activists and working-class people nationwide...

At a time when the labor movement is showing renewed vigor—and notching a string of high-profile victories, including last year’s successful strike by the United Auto Workers union against the Big Three carmakers, the historic UPS contract victory by the Teamsters, the SAG-AFTRA strike win in a struggle over abuses of AI technology in particular and the future of work in general, and the explosion of grassroots union organizing at workplaces across the country—the overturning of Michigan’s “right to work” law and the implementation of a sweeping pro-union agenda provides tangible evidence of how much has changed in recent years for workers and their unions...

By the mid-2010s, 27 states had “right to work” laws on the books.

But then, as a new generation of workers embraced “Fight for 15” organizing to raise wages, and campaigns to sign up workers at Starbucks and Amazon began to take off, the corporate-sponsored crusade to enact “right to work” measures stalled. New Hampshire’s legislature blocked a proposed “right to work” law in 2017 (and again in 2021), despite the fact that the measure was promoted by Republican Governor Chris Sununu. And in 2018, Missouri voters rejected a “right to work” referendum by a 67-33 margin.

Preventing anti-union legislation from being enacted and implemented is one thing, however. Actually overturning an existing law is something else altogether.

But that’s what happened in Michigan after 2022 voting saw the reelection of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a labor ally, and—thanks to the overturning of gerrymandered legislative district maps that had favored the GOP—the election of Democratic majorities in the state House and state Senate. For the first time in four decades, the Democrats controlled all the major levers of power in Michigan, and they used them to implement a sweeping pro-labor agenda. That was a significant shift for Michigan, to be sure. But it was also an indication of what could be done in other states across the Great Lakes region, and nationwide.

“Michigan Democrats took full control of the state government for the first time in 40 years. They used that power to repeal the state’s ‘right to work’ law,” explained a delighted former US secretary of labor Robert Reich, who added, “This is why we have to show up for our state and local elections.”"

-via The Nation, February 16, 2024