OH I LOVE SENTA MOSES NOW

(^ woman who made the "OH MY F*CKING GOD" tweets with the proposal points and the below. and thanks to Neil Gaiman for continuing to reblog GOOD ACCURATE information on the strike [there's a lot of well-intentioned -- and very ill-intentioned -- misinformation about it] )

here's all the SAG-AFTRA pages she posted (source)

parts that made my eyebrows fly to the ceiling:

(not posted in a specific order and doesn't include even close to everything. sorry. and if i'm misunderstanding a point -- PLEASE let me know and provide a source so i can learn more, and i'll correct this post)

PENALTIES FOR NOT PROVIDING MEAL BREAKS HAVEN'T BEEN UPDATED FOR OVER 60 YEARS (inflation between 1961 and 2023 is roughly 920.43% [source] )

"APPLY ... REST PERIODS AND PROTECTIONS FOR MINORS" - REJECTED

"PERFORMERS HIRED BY THE WEEK ... SHOULD BE GIVEN AT LEAST A TENTATIVE WINDOW OF WORK DATES" BECAUSE THE JOB MIGHT GIVE THEM A CONTRACT THAT SAYS THEY CAN'T TAKE OTHER WORK IN THE MEANTIME

"TELEVISION SERIES REGULARS" ARE CURRENTLY MADE TO BE COUNTED AS "RESIDENTS" OF WHERE THEY WORK, WHICH MEANS THEY CAN'T GET REIMBURSED FOR HOUSING AND OTHER EXPENSES.

IN RESPONSE, THE COMPANIES OFFERED "FIXED 'STIPENDS' " THAT DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH "THE ACTUAL COST OF SPENDING MONTHS AWAY FROM HOME TO WORK ON TELEVISION SHOWS"

TENTATIVELY AGREED PERFORMERS DON'T NEED TO AUDITION IN THE NUDE OR BE REQUIRED TO DO A STUNT IN AN AUDITION

this is a long one so (fortunately these are currently "tentatively agreed" on [even though that still means this WASN'T standard practice before / maybe isn't yet] ):

YOUR ARBITRATOR (more or less company-appointed lawyer) NEEDS TO BE ALIVE

and a random comment that got me to chuckle about that last point above:

hold the line. please hold the line. i can't believe these problems are from 2023 and not 1923

edit - i needed to include this comment because seriously:

“Is it possible to turn things around by 2050? The answer is absolutely yes,” says Kai Chan, a professor at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.

Many scientists have been telling us how the world will look like, if we don’t act now. However, others, like Chan, are tracking what success might look like.

They are not simply day-dreamers either. They aren’t being too optimistic. They are putting together road maps for how to safely get to the planet envisioned in the 2015 Paris Agreement, where temperatures hold at 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than before we started burning fossil fuels, this article from July states.

“Three decades is enough to do a lot of important things. In the next few years—if we get started on them—they will pay dividends in the coming decades,” says Chan, the lead author of the chapter on achieving a sustainable future in a recent UN report that predicted the possible extinction of a million species.

Making these changes won’t mean years of being poor, cold and hungry before things get comfortable again, the scientists insist. They say that if we start acting seriously NOW, we stand a decent chance of transforming society without huge disruption. 

No doubt, it will take a massive switch in society’s energy use. But without us noticing, that’s already happening. Not fast enough, maybe, but it is. Solar panels and offshore wind power plummet in price.  Iceland and Paraguay have stripped the carbon from their grids, according to a new energy outlook report from Bloomberg. Europe is on track to be 90 per cent carbon-free by 2040. And Ottawa says that Canada is already at 81 per cent, thanks to hydro, nuclear, wind and solar. 

Decarbonizing the whole economy is within grasp. We can do this.

“If we have five years of really sustained efforts, making sure we reorient our businesses and our governments toward sustainability, then from that point on, this transition will seem quite seamless. Because it will just be this gradual reshaping of options,” Chan says, adding: “All these things seem very natural when the system is changing around you.”

Hoping people with more relevant knowledge and science parsing skills than I do might comment on this …

I think it is absolutely vital that people be able to picture The Healed World. Honestly I think it’s one of the most important things we can do.

Look at how many different apocalypses people can visualise. Our brains can freely feast on unlimited scenes of scarcity, competition and fear. Everywhere we turn we can consume endless content about killing our neighbors for scraps, about hurting children, about bleak planets and extinction, and lots and lots of guns. It is easy, accessible and cheap. Our minds gobble up as much of this content as the market generates and the market gleefully generates more. We feed and feed upon a future of suffering and loss. We feast on images of brown children being hurt, unnecessarily, and say smugly that “that’s just what humanity is like.” Our brains are programmed away from the natural human responses to crises (fix it, help each other, rebuild and hope) and TOWARDS the mindsets of fictional apocalypse (cause it, turn on each other [it’s just what humans do! We’ve all seen the same stories!], collapse, fight each other for crumbs, the world is doomed anyway.)

It’s pretty unnecessary. And frankly pretty cringe. Imagine being part of some of the most prosperous, empowered, educated, connected group of humans to ever exist, and having a brain that can only picture the future as apocalypse-movie.

And where is the food of abundance, equality, beauty, hope, diversity? Where is the actual food of the future? Oh. It’s in, like, three solarpunk anthologies, huh?

Huh.

Anyway not to get all Amitav Ghosh on main but we have GOT to address this unnecessary and EMBARRASSING failure of imagination. Because we are the generation currently failing in our responsibilities as caretakers of the earth, because of this deranged inability to picture the world as being a real place, and the future being a place where people will live.

So, basically, yes, let’s just say it and start saying it regularly. The work is now and we have to do it. It isn’t impossible. Yes there is hope. Yes it can all be done. Yes there is a future for fucksake. It’s within our grasp. that is what futures are.

👆 Not sure if I’ve already reblogged this, but @elodieunderglass is 100% right here. We find it so easy to picture doom, but we find it so hard to picture healing.

Also, giving up on a future that is still possible means not only giving up on your own life, but the lives of your loved ones, on the poor and disadvantaged people who will face the worst impacts of the climate crisis, and giving up on nature itself.

For some people, climate disaster is already here. There are millions of people already fighting for survival. They don’t have the privilege of sitting back, giving up, and waiting for the apocalypse to come.

They don’t have the privilege of saying “Oh well, the world’s doomed anyway so why should we bother?” And neither should anyone else.

Okay so, when I took a free online course in Positive Psychology (highly recommend, very interesting subject) I learnt something that I’ve said here already and will now talk about again. 

People are biologically and from birth programmed to be pessimists. The professor (Martin E. P. Seligman, one of the founders of Positive Psychology) explained it with something he called “the ice age theory”, or something among those lines, and it goes like this: if people went out one day, and saw beautiful blue skies, and the sun was shining and their reaction was ‘this is such a great day, I better get some rest’, and the next day came with extreme weather (such as the ice age), they wouldn’t be ready. They wouldn’t have food stored, they wouldn’t have warm clothes, and so they wouldn’t survive. However, if they went outside on a good day and said ‘this is such a great day, tomorrow might be way worse. I should get ready for any situation’, they might survive. So this pessimistic mindset is very natural for humans and has at least some biological bases, I believe.

And I think this psychological theory somewhat explains what @climatesupport said here, that we so easily imagine the absolute worst case scenario, but find it so hard to picture what healing would look like.

Hey, reblogging some old articles here! Also, what I explained here is the theory I mentioned in the Introduction post, if anyone is interested :)

Unfriendly reminder that all you idiots being like "yeah just pirate media now, fuck corporations!" posting links and just openly telling people where to download pirated media are why it's so hard to find safe, working sites for it anymore.

I've been doing this shit for over 20 years and the availability has gone down as it's become more mainstream. The more you publicly talk about all these sites the less there are. Shut up. Tell people in private or don't tell them at all.

Did I meme right?

“The deeds done by House Damodred had blackened the name.”

Ok but thinking about Galad in this is so insane, like he’s twenty nine and an unmarried noble there were no politically favourable marriages or interest in him?? Like he was fourteen when Taringail died and we know he was angling him for the throne, he made no allegiances before that or did they all slip away? (Further does Galad KNOW how his father really died?? He may not care considering his relationship with Morgase but still what a thing to happen in a teenagers life!) Is Morgase not interested either in the potential political benefits of marrying her stepson that has no other role to fulfill in the Andoran hierarchy? What is his purpose imagine being TWENTY NINE and just following your younger half siblings around all the time god no wonder he was a target for Valda. He didn’t even get to go train with the Warders until Elayne and Gawyn went.

Wait. Galad was 29? And single? What was Morgase thinking? He was literally the most drop dead gorgeous man in existence (apparently) and no one thought that maybe he would be a good option to marry off? That's dumb.

But also, a drop dead gorgeous man who's suspiciously single and totally uninterested in women screams gay. I hope Rafe makes him gay.

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Tony Hawk is probably the best evidence that people would never recognize Clark Kent as Superman in real life.

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

He was right.

Pollo al burro (Florentine butter chicken with burst cherry tomatoes & basil)

I… I can’t believe this joke is real and came out of the party popper my sister just opened.

Holding the actual joke in my hand again and still can’t believe it’s real.

A joke around being trans that isn’t offensive. Hell yeah.

oh no i can feel the rand hate rising guess i’d better dust off my “rand is an intentional critique on the super-special-chosen-white-boy trope” essay

do NOT leave ur analysis in the tags SAY THAT @far-dareis-me​ 👏#yes he is a boring farm boy from bumfuck nowhere that is not qualified for this and doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing #and that! is! the! point! #he’s also clever and good hearted and all those ~hero~ things #but when he tries to play out the arc of the hero he fucking fails! a lot! badly! #because of course he does! because the battle they fight cannot actually be won by one man! #in the same way frodo is a purposeful subversion of this trope rand is actively a condemnation of it!

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jesus fucking christ

"i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it" good news! it's amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike

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