*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document
does it look like this
i was picturing this as after a successful writing jaunt but this is so much darker
They are not as high-profile as the WGA, but I would like to bring everyone's attention to the imminent strike action by thousands of hotel workers in Los Angeles. They are set to go on strike tomorrow, July 1st, 2023.
More than 15,000 hotel workers are seeking higher pay, better benefits, and working conditions. This includes an across-the-board $5 an hour raise, as well as affordable healthcare and better pensions. They also are seeking a ban on the use of E-Verify, which is used to deny employment to undocumented workers and workers involved with the criminal justice system. You can follow what is happening at their Twitter.
girlies all the historical ag books but felicity are banned in florida lmao
This is terrible news. I’m infuriated. The banning obviously isn’t because American Girl released A Smart Girl’s Guide to Body Image last year. Otherwise they’d ban all American Girl books, not just everything but Felicity and Molly. No, they’re specifically banning anything that shows a less than perfect image of American history. Because THEY KNOW that teaching American history means teaching its history of racial oppression, slavery, child labor, antisemitism, segregation, and misogyny. They know that, because they know EXACTLY what to ban. But they don’t want YOU to know that. They don’t want YOU to understand that learning about the mistakes and atrocities of the past means you learn how not to repeat them.
@desertdollranch I mentioned this in another post but their motivations are incredibly transparent if you just look at Kaya and Josefina. They have absolutely no discussion on systemic racism, and Kaya doesn’t even meet a white person. They both have none of the eeeevil “critical race theory” discussion that these people are saying they’re banning. So why ban them? It’s OBVIOUS as hell it’s because they’re stories about people of color.
Felicity’s story has people of color but only as her family’s slaves. Molly’s books have no people of color whatsoever and she’s just a good ol’ american patriot the entire time. Meanwhile, for all the other girls who aren’t of color (because god forbid we let a woman of color LIVE)? Caroline’s father hired a talented black man for his shipyard and pays him fairly. Kirsten feels bad for indigenous people. Samantha stands up for workers’ rights, womens’ suffrage, and adopts irish immigrants into her family at a time when they were considered a minority. Rebecca’s books discuss being Jewish in a culturally-Christian country. Kit is sympathetic to the homeless. Maryellen likes vaccines and, like Samantha, stands up for a girl who wouldn’t have been considered white at the time. Julie’s a feminist environmentalist with divorced parents and her best friends are a Chinese girl and a deaf girl. Courtney deals with the AIDS crisis with a specific message lambasting disinformation which we can’t have.
It’s just… so transparent what they’re actually banned for, and I think that it’s showing best with AG right now, because they really don’t have any good excuses. We just know what their awful motives are.
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IT LOOKS LIKE A PISSED OFF LOBSTER
WELCOME TO RED LOBSTER TODAY’S SPECIAL IS GO FUCK YOURSELF
its because you always on that damn mortar and pestle
DO YOU WANT THIS HOMEMADE PESTO OR NOT
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why the FUCK does this have more than 10,000 notes
Post got so fucked up by updates it doesn’t even show ryu1964 as the OP anymore
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Julius Caesar being assasinated (44 BC, colorized)
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Is this how cookie cutters are made????
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no it’s julius caesar being assassinated
I thought this was going to be funny, but then it got too real, and now I’m just thinking about how good the Incredibles was at portraying a realistic family with real problems.
You know that Neil Gaiman is a great writer and storyteller, because he approaches this question seriously from a logistic, linguistic, and character level
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I love beluga whales because their faces are always like this
simon and garfunkel, often referred to as the dan and phil of folk rock,
oh you watched a movie I recommended????? you listened to a song I told you about ?????? you read one of my favourite books ?????? do you know that I would literally kill for you ????? let's drink each others blood
Photographer Bastiaan Ekeler made a modified zoom lens so that he could take photos of distant objects with a Gameboy camera
I love how the cat seems genuinely interested in most of these things
Yes, I know we’ve got the Ides of March are coming on March 15, but you know what other important day we’re remembering this week??
March 14.
THE DAY THAT KRABS FRIES