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When The Rich Wage War It’s The Poor Who Die

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Dave | 27 | they/them | bi | married
intersex | white | disabled | neurodivergent
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Hello everyone, I was attacked unprovoked on the Subway yesterday. I believe I was targeted because I was wearing my pride shirt work uniform I am also a bisexual woman with a very public presence on the internet and in the city as I am a performer at Ellen’s Stardust Diner in Times Square. I was beaten badly and taken to hospital by ambulance. It took two phone calls to 911 and an hour wait for police to arrive, so clearly my assailant got away. The cops also victim blamed me for the attack as if sitting quietly with your AirPods on is somehow not being vigilant enough at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a busy subway car. But what else do we expect from the NYPD at this point. I have large bruises and giant swellings on the right side of my head, and it’s caused my vision to blur, my hearing is gone because my eardrum is filled with fluid and I am dizzy and nauseas all the time. Laying down is painful because of the contusions but sitting up is miserable too. Until my visions improves, my hearing returns and my bruises and swelling fade I don’t know when I’ll be able to return to work not even considering the fear of taking the subway now. More of what happened is explained in my fundraiser I’m linking. But I could use the help of the good folks on the internet. If you could donate and share or if you can’t donate please share. My husband is the organizer and can also answer any questions you have. Please boost my signal, I really need the help right now.

debating on the safest way to transport my ativan so I can push it right when I get to the hospital for my tube change

I'm trying the change w/o sedation this time but I'm gonna take my anxiety meds cause fuck that. but also. just the method of transport is weird. do I suspend it in water ahead of time? crush the pills in the parking lot?

no officer, this is just my 60mL syringe of crushed ativan suspended in water to push into my jejunum as soon as I pull into the hospital parking lot. It's for my tube change. please.

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UPS has reached an agreement with the Teamsters union to equip its iconic brown delivery trucks with air conditioning for the first time for new units.

The agreement, announced by UPS on Tuesday, comes as the delivery giant and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters negotiate the terms of a new contract for more than 330,000 U.S. employees. (source)

Unions work, unionize.

They only just now got air conditioners?!?!?!

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Yeah it’s a huge win. Those trucks are death traps on a good day. A bunch of drivers died and more got severely ill last year from heat stroke. The temperature in the back of those vans is usually 10 degrees hotter than outside. It’s terrible, and I’m so proud of my union for how harshly they’re negotiating right now. We’ve got a bunch of smaller consessions already but this one was big.

This round of negotiations is difficult. The UPS Overlords are trying very hard to keep their billions of dollars in three pockets instead of spreading the wealth we (the workers) earned for them during the pandemic’s influx of home delivery. They’re trying to give us as little as possible and spinning the news articles to make it look like they’re super generous. Meanwhile almost everyone in my warehouse is on food stamps cuz we aren’t paid shit.

The UPS Teamsters Union are currently voting on whether or not to go on strike in August, so prepare for that. Stock up on essential supplies, just in case. We’ll let everyone know how to support us when the time comes.

This job is my first time being part of a union and I never wanna go back to not having one. It’s amazing to have so much fighting power.

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🎶 Solidarity Forever!! 🎶

We gotta take care of each other. It’s the only way to make the world better.

Fanon L: noooo, Kira is evil!!!! I have to stop him, because killing people is bad!!!!

Canon L: wow this guy is nuts lmao i wanna dissect his mind then execute him because fuck him i'm the only justice 'round these parts mf

baristas deserve 100 dollars per hour

there's a whole culture of mostly white women whose entire personality is "Don't talk to me before I've had my coffee or ill kill you" and a barista's job is to deal with those people before they've had their coffee

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yankee-defenders are really funny about their military defeats. 'we didn't lose, we just decided to stop fighting and leave.' why did you decide to do that? 'because it simply wasn't in our interests to continue fighting any more.' why wasn't it in your interests? 'a lot of factors, it was more trouble than it was worth.' weird, and the other side was causing that trouble? the trouble that was making continuing the war overall a loss for you? they caused enough trouble with your invasion force that you had no real choice but to stop the invasion and leave? so they defeated you? 'no we just decided to leave'

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it's the geopolitics idiocy version of logistics idiocy's 'no really the german tanks could have won the war if only they weren't so terrible to produce that they could only build a dozen. if it were a one-on-one Fair Fight they would have won'. this weird view of war as like, bashing action figures into each other to see which is, detached from any real context, Cooler. yeah sure if the US completely ignored its material incentives and devoted all its imperial resources towards the singular pursuit of destroying a single guerrilla force, maybe they could succeed in their occupation. but they're not going to, are they, so all that the guerrillas need to defeat them in the real world is to make occupation more costly than beneficial.

across the spiderverse must have really flipped some timeline irl because this is the first time I've seen a character in media engineered as tumblr sexyman material (faceless, overly personable, quirky mannerisms, awkward and goofy but also dangerous, hole) ignored for the actual handsome character. feeling like someone's middle aged dad rn going "isn't this spot guy kind of like sans? I thought you and your friends loved this kind of thing" to my son who is lining the walls of his room with pictures of miguel ass.

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God, what a cool fucking pair of cards. Especially these versions, with Kev Walker's art. Black and White getting the exact same effect, because the death of all fits both divine grace and unknowable horror.

And then Mr. Walker nails the fact that they're the same but different, with not just the inverted colors, but the way that Wrath of God explodes outwards, while Damnation draws all in.

Mastercraft in art here i think. Simplistic, impactful.

Im stunned.