How are you feeling?

I don't think helping blind people is what prevents the dismantling of nuclear weapons

Holding the laptop’s power button down because it’s crashed and there’s no other way to turn it off feels so unsettling. It makes me feel like I’m holding a cushion over its face while the life slowly ebbs out of it.

Orc BBQ would be fucking unreal

they would go fucking crazy. they'd have like. hickory smoked leviathan sausage

Antique Pink Chandelier Lighting With Tulip Lamp Shades by AmandaLighting

i would have put more but alas theres a limit to poll choices. feel free to rb if you like

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i wanna join in with doing one of these <3 ok so

mooooom i can feel the soil falling over my head make it stop

they were doing a chicken and airline miles scam on his big day.

wake up besties, new quiz just dropped 😌

what form of love do you embody?

results include but are not limited to: love as devotion, love as light, love as being known, love as a choice

you know that quote "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" bc that's how i feel whenever i have a lysol wipe in my hand

Thanks for hanging out with me! Was I cool? did you like me? What do you think of me in detail? Do you hate me?

ok what’s *your* fiona apple song? i’ve seen these for so many artists, but one for ms. apple has never actually crossed my dash. so what’s the fiona apple song that’s uniquely yours? mine’s left alone lmfao

a tumblrina with a job is like a butterfly with her wings clipped

I don't want to set unrealistic expectations for folks, not every union will be able to win things like a $42/hour wage. That has to do with the strength of the teamsters and the outrageous profits ups has seen in recent years. I'm union and I don't even make half that, but before our new contract (which we were able to win because we have had a surge of new members and activism within the union) I made even less. But beyond that we have been able to win things specific to our work, like compensation for speaking multiple languages, training new staff during our regular shifts, additional sick time, and a new, fairer, standardized system for requesting time off.

A union also offers you protection, it's pretty standard to my understanding that you have a right for a steward be present with you for any disciplinary meeting with management, and through the union's intervention, we were able to get severance when we were laid off last year with a week's notice when management planned to offer us nothing, and I also gained priority when I applied to other positions at the company, which is why I'm still fortunate enough to be part of this amazing union. Being part of a union doesn't make your workplace perfect, and a union requires work and involvement--it doesn't happen in the background, its strength comes from the commitment of everyone in it--and it can ask a lot of you if you are someone who's willing to be more involved.

But I think something my generation can barely fathom is the concept of being at a workplace for years and years and years, something that was so common for our grandparents. It's virtually impossible to do it and it's not even desirable; most places are a revolving door of dissatisfied, overworked staff and I think a lot of people have experienced working at a place and every single one of your coworkers turning over by the time youre fed up with the poor conditions and treatment and leave for another job where the same thing happens. Through a union, though, you can shape a place you want to stay at for a long time, or shape a place you care about and make it better for people who will be there after you. Union employees are more likely to stay at our workplace for longer, we form a stronger community at our site. We're better paid, get better benefits, and have an avenue to shape the place we spend so much of our lives. We aren't powerless. Yes, something like $25 is taken out of all my paychecks, but I think to anyone in this nightmare of a workforce, that has to sound well worth it for all the benefits being part of a union gives you and your coworkers.

holding my own face in my own hands and screaming “there is no connection without an open heart! you must be brave! you must be honest! you must be true!” in the mirror