Seems like the source is @ benjaindewey on instagram!
Thank you for finding the source!
Im learning that way too many of you have no regard for your own safety or the safety of your data and also that you would be found by bailifs in a day
No but really, pro tip. If you never ever respond to your name until you know who is on the phone, then anyone chasing debts cannot confirm that you are at that number.
Caller: "hello, can I speak to [name] / am I speaking with [name]?"
You: "I'd like to know who's calling / who am I speaking with?"
Caller "this is [caller]"
You: "why do you need to speak with [name]?"
Don't give them ANY information about you til you know who they are and why they're calling. Even if you're not in any financial trouble or have any debts this is real good practice
and if you're going to do that, also ensure you don't have your name on your voicemail greeting.
In before I start seeing people bitching about rainbow capitalism MY favorite rainbow capitalism story is about Subaru. Yes the Japanese car company.
In the nineties, they were struggling. They were competing with a dozen other companies targeting the main demographic at the time: white men ages 18-35, especially after a failed luxury car launch with a new ad agency. “What we need is to focus on niche demographics,” they decided, and then focused on people who enjoyed the outdoors. The Subaru was excellent at driving on dirt roads that many other vehicles couldn’t at the time, so it was perfect for all those off-road campers; they started making all-wheel drive standard in all their cars to help with that. And the people who wanted cars to go do outdoor stuff? Lesbians.
Okay. Of course it wasn’t only lesbians buying Subarus. They’re on the list with educators, health-care professionals, and IT people. But the point is, this Japanese car company interviewed this strange demographic (single, female head of household) and realized one important factor: They were lesbians. They liked to be able to use the cars to go do outdoorsy stuff, and they liked that they could use the cars to haul stuff rather than a big truck or van. Subaru had a choice to make then. They had four other demographics they could market to, after all–the educators, the health-care professionals, IT professionals, and straight outdoorsy couples. Their company didn’t hinge on this one “problematic” demographic.
And they decided “fuck it,” and marketed to lesbians anyway. This included offering benefits to American gay and lesbian employees for their domestic partners, so it didn’t look like a cash grab. (This was not a problem. They already offered those in Canada.)
Yes, there was some backlash. They got letters from a grassroots group accusing them of promoting homosexuality, and every letter said they’d no longer be buying from Subaru. “You didn’t buy from us before, either,” Subaru realized, and ignored them. It helped that the team really cared about the plan, and that they had many straight allies to back them up. There was also some initial backlash when Subaru hired women to play a lesbian couple in the commercial, but they quickly found that lesbians preferred more subtlety; “XENA LVR” on a license plate, or bumper stickers with the names of popular LGBTQ+ destinations, or taglines of “Get out. Stay out.” that could be used for the outdoors–or the closet.
Subaru said “We see you. We support you.” They sponsored Pride parades and partnered with Rainbow Card and hired Martina Navratilova as spokeswoman. They put their money where their mouth is and went into it whole hog. In a time where companies did not want to take our money, Subaru said, “Why not? They’re people who drive.” And that was groundbreaking.
It wasn’t blatant, it was cheeky and pretty low key, but really really effective. It played into the “if you know you know” vibe in exactly the right way.
i had to explain the Lesbian Subaru Stereotype recently, so, here you go.
a gallon of milk but with this kind of cap:
quick suggestion
idmangapasta
let me raise you an idea ive been keeping for years, just for this moment
The unholy trinity.
the-stalwart-system
crazy-go-lucky
only the finest culinary experiences for my followers
Tim: Which one of you was going to tell me that tea tastes different if you put it in hot water?
Barbara: You were putting it in cold water?
Cassandra: Tim. Answer the question, Tim.
Tim: Yeah? I though for, like, five years that people just put it in hot water to speed up the tea-ification process. Didn't realize there was an actual reason. You think I have the patience to boil water, what the fuck???
Duke: You don't have the patience to microwave water for three minutes?
Damian: Why are you putting it in the microwave to boil it?
Duke: Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove?
Damian: It takes less than a minute.
Stephanie: Bestie is your stovetop powered by the fucking sun?
Damian: How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove?
Stephanie: Like seven minutes.
Bruce: Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat and it boils in like two minutes.
Dick: You're putting the whole mug on the stove?
Jason: Every single person in this family is a fucking lunatic.
Alfred: Do none of you own a fucking kettle?
This is Bruce
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Hero
Direct Action
"But Weber’s argument was carefully grounded in history. Price controls, she argued, had been an essential element of the U.S. mobilization strategy during the Second World War. And there were several striking similarities between the economy of the nineteen-forties and that of the present day, including very high consumer demand for goods, record corporate profits, and production bottlenecks in important areas. Back then, the Office of Price Administration simply prohibited companies from raising prices above certain levels. Violators could be sued, or worse. In 1944, Montgomery Ward, the department-store chain, refused to accept the terms of a collective-bargaining agreement—a cap on the price of labor—brokered by the government. President Roosevelt ordered the National Guard to seize the business and remove Sewell Avery, its chairman, from its headquarters." (source)
Source: twitter.com
"you don't owe anybody anything" has done irreparable damage to the minds of the youth
this ordeal of living is collaborative. we owe each other as much as we're able to give. come take ibuprofen with me.
"okay but..." "this only applies to..." "but what about..."
we owe all we're able to give. what are you able to give?
the notes are angering me so i'm going to reblog this again and stress something
DON'T EQUATE "WHAT YOU ARE ABLE TO GIVE" WITH "WHAT YOU HAVE" IN YOUR MIND. people are choosing to read the former in this post as the latter when it is not there. only you can judge what you are able to give. on some days, that may be nothing. so don't give anything on those days. only give what you are able to.
this isn't about unhealthily prioritizing doing as much as possible for others over doing anything for yourself, it's about not succumbing to individualism and being willing to help others where you can because that strengthens everyone! it's good to be connected to people and mutually supportive!!
You can't serve tea from an empty cup
Wondering how Twitter is going? Something like this.
It's really fucking bad
Our blessed tumblr
A holy site
Nah nah nah, you ain’t hiding this in the tags
Not one of the 7 deadly sins, but a secret 8th sin
sorry what
“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!
Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”
Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero
Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”
hylocereus–undatus
Grace Hopper did more than coin the term “bug”. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computer’s operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.
also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.
tomboy-toni
Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.
Reblogging to do
what the failed education
system never did.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Adding Wendy Carlos to the list! Trans icon and pioneer of synthesized music!!
Also, just about every computerized device outside of desktops is running ARM chips now. Your phone, your keyboard, your car, your watch. Basically everything.
And ARM was primarily designed by Sophie Wilson, a trans woman.
The fucking legendary WAIT to fake bomb them to show them you knew the whole time.
Legend.
i love that there was definitely an intelligence briefing where someone in charge heard that there was a fake airfield in progress and went, "...hey you know what would be funny?" and then everyone else agreed it was indeed SO funny that they would devote man-hours and a sizable log to making a fake bomb to drop on it while being only somewhat busy fighting a war, but never too busy for a funny craft project