People die on the job every summer. Remember that water and shade breaks are crucial when working in the heat, and calling emergency services for signs of serious heat illness (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, headaches, dizziness, clammy skin, confusion, agitation, slurred speech, high body temperature, rapid heart rate, etc.) is entirely appropriate. If you’re afraid to call 911 for reasons such as being undocumented, you’ll need to get very familiar with how to prevent, recognize, and treat heat illness. If you are symptomatic and not allowed a break, water, or medical treatment, walk out. No matter how broke you are, your job is not worth your life.
I think a corollary to this is I don’t want my fandom experiences to be unique, I want them to be sincere
That’s why I enjoy reading the same tropes over and over again. Those authors are writing those stories from a genuine love of both the tropes and the characters.
It’s why I enjoy 17 gif sets about the same 3-second interaction on screen. Each one of those sets was pulled and recoloured and captioned and adjusted because each one of those gif makers wanted to capture that moment and celebrate it.
It’s why every “I’m glad you enjoyed it” reply makes me smile when I get one on a comment I left. Because I know replying to comments is hard and kind of awkward, but I also know that the author really *is* glad and I’m happy that I could let them know I enjoyed their work.
I love things that are new, sure. But I also love things that have been done a million times already because I know the person doing it loves that thing too. I love the love they’re showing. I love the genuine joy and celebration and community it fills me with.
do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button
does tumblr know about tim misny??? like has the level of tim misny awareness that exists in northeast ohio broken containment and become known online yet???
ok so tim misny is a personal injury lawyer here in ohio.
that’s him. you do not have to remember his face from this image because you’re gonna see it a lot in this post. so mainly i think we all kinda honed in on tim misny because of his slogan
he’s gonna make them pay. he’s gonna get you that money but also it’s a little threatening like he’s gonna fully fuck his legal opponent’s shit up. this sprung tons of local memes. then there were the billboards which were normal at first.
but here’s the thing; we already know what misny does. he makes them pay. so it turns into just saying “you know what i do” which is funny enough if you don’t at all have the context.
but this is not where the absurdity caps out, my friends. no. this is what it has evolved to and they. are. everywhere.
that’s right. no text. just the judging eyes of tim misny, glaring through our skin and into our souls. there is no god. there is no devil. there is just tim misny and he’s gonna make them pay.
I’m still thinking about that “is OSHA regulations Cop Behavior” post. Like. You know who thinks regulations are for losers? People who build submersibles out of logitech gamepads and rejected carbon fibre. People who trust starlink as their only surface lifeline.
Do you wanna be like the fine film on the floor of the Atlantic that was once a billionaire? Is that the hill you’re really gonna die on?
We have an expression in my field- “Regulations Are Written In Blood”
People don’t have fucking safety standards as a power trip, we have them because somewhere in the past, NOT having those regulations killed or maimed someone.
A lot of laws out there are bullshit- safety regulations sure as fuck aren’t. I have the literal scars to prove it.
Please please please remember that bosses and CEOs hate safety regulations.
Doing things safely cuts into their profits and lets workers survive long enough to learn.
If you’re ever irritated at how long it takes to be safe?
Remember your bosses hate it twice as much!
Then be even safer.
Safety regulations are there because businesses see workers as expendable.
me a few years ago: its so weird how right wingers always wanna blame the “elite” given that alot of them are in the global 1% of wealth and therefore almost by definition the same “elite” they claim to hate. weird right? lol right wing logic makes no sense
me now: oh my god they mean Jewish people. its always been Jewish people. and the insistence of online leftists to use words like “elite” and “cabal” (to refer to a handful of ultra rich people who dictate a lot of how our lives are run) kinda makes them sound like antisemites too. maybe this whole idea that the world is run by a select few is a gross oversimplification which only serves to reinforce antisemitic stereotypes… oh no. maybe i have a lot of shit to unlearn. maybe i need to start vocally defending Jewish ppl. also local community building is the only way out of this
This post has been making the rounds on jumblr and I’ve had a few different reactions so I just wanna weigh into some things here.
First up:
Jews I love you and I’m so glad that this little thoughtramble I wrote a month ago resonated with so many of you. I hope it helps with educating some people on just how widespread and insidious antisemitism is.
Secondly: I’m a gentile so I’m by no means an authority on these things. But a couple fellow gentiles in the notes are saying stuff along the lines of, “but can’t we criticise billionnaires?”
To which I say, watch where you step, cus you’re on thin ice. I’ve learned a litte the past few years and here’s my conclusions:
Of course a lot of stuff a lot of billionnaires do is reprehensible. On the left we should absolutely be criticising them! The best way to do this while avoiding antisemitism is to be specific about who you’re criticising, and what for.
E.g. “The people running Exxon, Shell and BP have been sweeping climate change under the rug for decades while actively contributing it, they think their profits are more important than sustaining life on earth and that’s abhorrent. We need better laws and processes to stop them from poisoning the planet.”
E.g. “Elon Musk is a ridiculous manchild who’s ruining Twitter and endangering people with his self driving cars and stupid ideas. He’s an entitled dickhead and his wealth is mostly derived from colonial exploitation that his parents did. He does not pay enough taxes on what he earns. We need better inheritance laws and to close tax loopholes that allow him and people like him to hoard wealth.”
E.g. “Jeff Bezos exploits his workers and has an unfair monopoly over online shopping and other convenience services. He needs to pay his taxes and pay his workers more and we need better monopoly laws to stop businesses from being able to control the market like this.”
Also, please consider your motives:
Are you trying to make a positive difference for, e.g. Amazon workers? Go ahead, raise awareness of their plight and push for unionisation.
Are you just trying to find a group that is acceptable to hate? Stop right there and reconsider. No matter how privileged or powerful that supposed group, you’re wayyyyyy too close to bigoted talking points.
Are you just making sweeping statements in order to rile up emotions and get people on your side? That’s fascist tactics. Please don’t.
And especially,
If you find yourself wanting to say, “I’m not antisemitic, but–” Please just don’t say whatever you were going to say. If you have to make that qualification, there is an extremely high probability that what you’re about to say is, in fact, very antisemitic. Compare to “I’m not racist but-” or “I’m not transphobic but-” followed by the most vile bigotry you’ve ever heard. Don’t be that person.
Lastly I want to highlight these as well:
Absolutely correct. The amount of times I’ve come across online bigots who are like “George Soros is funding BLM!” or “LGBTs are elites trying to plunge this country into immorality!” This is all antisemitism. In general just be wary of anyone wanting to blame “elites” or “rich people” (yeah even that one cus historically Jews are stereotyped to have money!!! and also not all rich ppl are inherently evil!!!!) or “shadow government” or “globalists” or “lizard people” or really, literally anything that seems to imply that a small, select group of people is secretly running the world: That’s antisemitism baby. It’s all antisemitism. It’s disgustingly common.
By all means, criticise billionnaires. But be specific. It’s one of the best ways to make sure it’s not veering into antisemitism. We know who these billionnaires are, for the most part; we know their names and we know their crimes. Talk about them specifically.
It doesn’t help if you just swap out “elites” with “billionnaires” or “the 1%” if the rest of your rhetoric remains the same. It sounds exactly the same to antisemites, and they will feel empowered. In truth, it is much more complicated than “billionnaires are running the world and fucking us all over”; some billionnaires are using their fortune for good, and they don’t directly cause our problems - they may exploit a system that was set up long before they were born, sure, but your problems are also caused by Sue from accounting and your neighbour ratting you out to the authorities and that kid across the road yelling slurs at you. Your problems exist because society lets them exist, and that includes everyone. The system makes it hard to fight this, and sure, most billionnaires don’t help the issue. But again if you’re just looking for someone to hate on, it’s very likely you’re actually reinforcing oppression rather than “punching up”.
Sweeping statements are dangerous and a lot of your talking points have been used to justify genocide in the past. Just cus the world’s been a lil less overt about its antisemitism post-Holocaust, does not mean antisemitism has disappeared, far from it. And it’s being revived at an alarming rate just now so please, Gentiles, pay attention to what the dogwhistles look like and don’t reinforce harmful stereotypes.
Thank you.
PS: A few blogs that have helped me unlearn and unpack antisemitism are @spacelazarwolf, @hadeantaiga and @gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda with a special shout out to @softness-and-shattering for being very patient with me rambling about jewish/antisemitism related stuff in dms. Youre all soooo great n I appreciate you soooo much <3
There’s also lots of Jewish ppl in the notes of this post, I’m sure a lot of them have lovely blogs to follow.
There’s some reading recs in the notes as well:
Jews Don’t Count by David Baddiel,
People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn,
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
I haven’t read these books myself, I’ve read a preview of Jews Don’t Count and it’s on my list of books to order when I have more money, but basically, go look at what actual Jewish folks have written on the subject, I’m just a random Gentile who doesn’t like bigotry so don’t take it just from me.
OP, I don’t even like kissing people on the mouth and I’m kissing you on the mouth.
last song i listened to: Everyday by Buddy Holly [i rewatched good omens 2 lol] but as like a song i actually listened to Move Along by The All-American Rejects
currently watching: lol Golden Girls. have to appreciate a classic in between new series.
currently reading: i’m very slowly making my way through The Legacy of Yangchen by F. C. Yee. very slowly…along with all the graphic novels i bought on a whim and forgot about lol
current obsession: lowkey, i’ve been falling back into my Rise of the Guardians obsession, but there’s not a whole lot there lol so i’ve been trying to get back into writing again. gotta decode my notes about my own stories lol
Venezilloparvus is a small armadillid isopod now common throughout the tropics. I collected these pleasantly round fellows a few weeks ago, and one has already had a litter of babies!
I’m going to watch the Barbie movie while being Cognizant of its function as a spectacle of a commodity and enjoy the aesthetic but think the dialogue could use a little more polish from the writers and then I’m going to go home and make sweet tender love with Karl Marx who will have been sleeping in my bathtub all day. And afterwards he will kiss me so tenderly and say “I’m glad you enjoyed the movie. The masses deserve to have as much joy and art in whatever they can access in their every day. It is not through media or representation that we will find liberation but the self activity of the working class in the smashing if the capitalist state. Anyway can you review this fanfiction I wrote of Engels getting down silly style for me before I send it to him?”
I think I was suffering heat stroke when I typed this pls don’t cast your spell upon me
“Closed at 6pm” does not mean “The entry door locks up at 6, but if you’re already inside you can keep on shopping.”
It means, “you should be finished and out of the store at 6pm.”
This is not up for debate
This is just how things work
I just feel like if we just straight up vacuum sealed the building at 6:01 and let bitches fend for themselves Dawn of the Dead style then word would get around
youtubers love to say “i hope i’m pronouncing that correctly” while recording themselves in a video that they upload to the internet, which they have access to
Hint: its because the video is not as well researched as its presentation implies
Hint: it’s because sometimes it’s hard to pronounce words especially if you don’t use them very often
Don’t leave this in the tags!! They’re good points! An attempt is better than nothing!
It’s one thing to listen to a correct pronunciation. It’s another to actually have your mouth form the words, especially when you’re using a sound you don’t normally use in your native language.
Maybe they’re not saying “I didn’t look up the actual pronunciation and I’m just winging it.” Maybe it’s “I looked it up and it uses a sound that I don’t use in my day to day speech and I don’t think I did it quite right but I tried.”
And sometimes, there aren’t sufficient resources to teach you the correct pronunciation! Sometimes you’ll get bot-made videos that contradict each other.
This this this this. As someone who struggles to pronounce a couple of words I use fairly often my FIRST LANGUAGE, thanks to those particular sounds just being difficult shapes for me to string together coherently, I am constantly afraid of fucking up words in other languages or even just with roots in other languages.
It’s one thing to not even try, but the “I hope I’m doing this correctly” isn’t always “I’m hoping I can just wing this word with whatever I think it’s supposed to sound like,” a lot of times it “okay so I’ve looked it up and tried it a few times so I’m really hoping its coming out right, but I’m not used enough to the language to really be sure .”
Languages are fucking DIFFICULT for a lot of people. Not just the repeating/speaking part, but also the ability to HEAR and RECOGNIZE the patterns and sounds.
“They’re on the internet why not look it up” because the Internet is huge and full of misinformation. Odds are they did look it up and they found information but nothing airtight. Even people speaking the same language can pronounce the same word dozens of different ways (hello, accents!) so they’d have no way of knowing for sure.
Most people’s go to in that case is google translate’s text to speech, and let me tell ya, it doesn’t help much.
also casual weigh in because I am a youtuber who does long form video essays and also is really bad at pronunciation: sometimes you just misspeak. I do that all the time in life casually and it happens sometimes on video when you’re 30 min into a take. Sometimes you don’t notice it happening, or do but have to accept the error. Shooting absolutely perfect is hard- I’m disabled which is a factor here, but I usually end my day of filming very ill and exhausted, and getting every word 100% is not a feasible demand.
I always try my best and I think most people do. But sometimes words are hard and you just make a mistake
Remember when someone was like “haha the funniest thing tumblr could do right now is make it so you get a badge for looking at 600 posts instead of what twitters doing lol” and then they did it. That was pretty awesome. I think the funniest thing tumblr could do right now is stop flagging trans women’s post as sexual right fucking now lol and fix prev tags and get rid of the fucking bigots and racists and nazis for once haha and also apologize for this shit. Wouldn’t that be pretty funny lol haha it would be so funny if they did this
