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.

Hi friends, if you’ve read my stories you know how grateful I am for all the support I’ve received since I was attacked and I can’t thank you all enough. Every time I begin to feel hopeless I think about all the messages and texts I’ve gotten - and how kind it is that you know I hate phone calls so you keep it to text. Thanks to all of your shares we’ve gotten about halfway to the goal to replace the majority of my income for the week. I’m officially out of work until my sight returns and my equilibrium stabilizes, which will hopefully be when the internal swelling is no longer pressing on my optic nerve/messing with my inner ear, which hopefully means I will be back singing showtunes by Thursday.

If we can continue to boost this signal it would mean a lot to me and my family.

Also if you know any actvists in the community please share directly with them. Not simply because of my fundraiser but because the queer community needs to know this happened and how little effort has been made by NYPD to catch my attacker. NYC is supposed to be a safe place for queer people, and our city is failing to protect our vulnerable populations. The only reason this attack didn’t end worse than it did is because of brave New Yorkers stepping in to help me, reminding me the heart of this city has been and always will be its people.

This is the person who attacked me. Be on the lookout. If you see them, call the police immediately and get away from them as fast as possible. If you know who this person is call the police or DM me here I will keep your confidence. The other two men were helping me, especially the person in blue. Please be careful.

So, adversity brings out all parts of humanity. I caught a catfish trying to use my trauma and desperation for a check cashing/money laundering scam. Here is a screenshot of his blog. Block him. His likes are almost exclusively folks in need seeking mutual aid. Don’t let this person scam you in your hour of need.

More positively I am about $1300 away from my goal, about halfway there. I had to increase the fundraiser to include my wages for this upcoming week. I still can’t see or hear on my right side and until that returns there is no way for me to sing or dance at my job. Let alone be safe for the serving/restaurant side of my job. Lacking spatial/depth perception isn’t safe for me, my coworkers or the guests. Thank you all for keeping my signal strong. Be careful out there. Be careful with the catfish too.

Went to the ENT today, my doctor noted hearing loss in lower frequencies which matches what I’m feeling. I can hear most higher/treble stuff but anything resonating in that bass area hard to hear or gone. Hence why I feel like I’m underwater. I was prescribed a steroid and a follow up on six months. The doctor doesn’t predict this loss to be permanent. Everything is acute not chronic so far. Tomorrow I see the ortho for my neck. Already getting some collections texts even though I haven’t received a statement yet so gotta gird my loins for that fight. Gotta love the American healthcare system.

Today was the first day I took a subway, and the trauma response is worse than the injuries. I was only able to stomach about ten minutes at a time before getting off the train and walking or being forced to use Lyfts/rideshare. The anxiety using the subway is going to be my biggest hurdle to jump, and psychiatry and counseling are also the hardest appointments to arrange. My spouse’s graduation was yesterday and there was no way for me to go thanks to the train trauma and how expensive a Lyft/taxi would have been. My assailant has taken so much from me.

Please continue to boost my signal it’s made such a difference but I’m still out of work so no income is coming in aside from the fundraiser. I haven’t heard from the detective assigned to my case in a few days so obviously no one has been caught. It’s a big mess and it’s hard not to feel hopeless. Thank you to everyone boosting my signal and reaching out. It DOES help.

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.

Hey everyone something is wrong, my pain and symptoms are increasing not decreasing. I’m heading back to the ER as we speak. It seems likely a concussion was missed by the first ER I went to. They were super busy and outside of a CAT scan I was barely examined. They didn’t even look at my defensive wounds.

I keep seeing the phrase "when the news finally reached Texas" in reference to Juneteenth. Let's be super clear. White people in Texas knew slavery was over. They just chose not to tell the Black people. Juneteenth was when the Black people finally found out. History is so whitewashed that we accept the euphemisms as gospel. It didn't take 2 1/2 years for the messenger to bring the news. The rest of the Union didn't forget to tell Texas. White Texans just got away with keeping their slavery way of life for 2 extra years and nobody said shit. Hell yes, #Juneteenth should be a federal fucking holiday, but ALSO we should be teaching #CriticalRaceTheory in our schools so we don't get watered down versions of history.

Can we also talk about the fact that SO MANY of my teachers not only presented the “It took two years for the word of slavery ending to get across the country” lie as totally normal but also ALWAYS had this tone that seemed to imply how funny that was to them. Even if it was true that it took that long for everyone to find out, it SHOULD have been presented in a respectful somber way, but every teacher who spoke about it, I distinctly remember them seeming like they were about to laugh. “L-O-L black people were kept as objects two more years than it was actually legal. Isn’t it just so funny that people were tortured for more time than than they were legally allowed to be.” Unpacking my school years is a never ending process.

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.

Hi friends, if you’ve read my stories you know how grateful I am for all the support I’ve received since I was attacked and I can’t thank you all enough. Every time I begin to feel hopeless I think about all the messages and texts I’ve gotten - and how kind it is that you know I hate phone calls so you keep it to text. Thanks to all of your shares we’ve gotten about halfway to the goal to replace the majority of my income for the week. I’m officially out of work until my sight returns and my equilibrium stabilizes, which will hopefully be when the internal swelling is no longer pressing on my optic nerve/messing with my inner ear, which hopefully means I will be back singing showtunes by Thursday.

If we can continue to boost this signal it would mean a lot to me and my family.

Also if you know any actvists in the community please share directly with them. Not simply because of my fundraiser but because the queer community needs to know this happened and how little effort has been made by NYPD to catch my attacker. NYC is supposed to be a safe place for queer people, and our city is failing to protect our vulnerable populations. The only reason this attack didn’t end worse than it did is because of brave New Yorkers stepping in to help me, reminding me the heart of this city has been and always will be its people.

This is the person who attacked me. Be on the lookout. If you see them, call the police immediately and get away from them as fast as possible. If you know who this person is call the police or DM me here I will keep your confidence. The other two men were helping me, especially the person in blue. Please be careful.

So, adversity brings out all parts of humanity. I caught a catfish trying to use my trauma and desperation for a check cashing/money laundering scam. Here is a screenshot of his blog. Block him. His likes are almost exclusively folks in need seeking mutual aid. Don’t let this person scam you in your hour of need.

More positively I am about $1300 away from my goal, about halfway there. I had to increase the fundraiser to include my wages for this upcoming week. I still can’t see or hear on my right side and until that returns there is no way for me to sing or dance at my job. Let alone be safe for the serving/restaurant side of my job. Lacking spatial/depth perception isn’t safe for me, my coworkers or the guests. Thank you all for keeping my signal strong. Be careful out there. Be careful with the catfish too.

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.

Hi friends, if you’ve read my stories you know how grateful I am for all the support I’ve received since I was attacked and I can’t thank you all enough. Every time I begin to feel hopeless I think about all the messages and texts I’ve gotten - and how kind it is that you know I hate phone calls so you keep it to text. Thanks to all of your shares we’ve gotten about halfway to the goal to replace the majority of my income for the week. I’m officially out of work until my sight returns and my equilibrium stabilizes, which will hopefully be when the internal swelling is no longer pressing on my optic nerve/messing with my inner ear, which hopefully means I will be back singing showtunes by Thursday.

If we can continue to boost this signal it would mean a lot to me and my family.

Also if you know any actvists in the community please share directly with them. Not simply because of my fundraiser but because the queer community needs to know this happened and how little effort has been made by NYPD to catch my attacker. NYC is supposed to be a safe place for queer people, and our city is failing to protect our vulnerable populations. The only reason this attack didn’t end worse than it did is because of brave New Yorkers stepping in to help me, reminding me the heart of this city has been and always will be its people.

This is the person who attacked me. Be on the lookout. If you see them, call the police immediately and get away from them as fast as possible. If you know who this person is call the police or DM me here I will keep your confidence. The other two men were helping me, especially the person in blue. Please be careful.

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.

Hi friends, if you’ve read my stories you know how grateful I am for all the support I’ve received since I was attacked and I can’t thank you all enough. Every time I begin to feel hopeless I think about all the messages and texts I’ve gotten - and how kind it is that you know I hate phone calls so you keep it to text. Thanks to all of your shares we’ve gotten about halfway to the goal to replace the majority of my income for the week. I’m officially out of work until my sight returns and my equilibrium stabilizes, which will hopefully be when the internal swelling is no longer pressing on my optic nerve/messing with my inner ear, which hopefully means I will be back singing showtunes by Thursday.

If we can continue to boost this signal it would mean a lot to me and my family.

Also if you know any actvists in the community please share directly with them. Not simply because of my fundraiser but because the queer community needs to know this happened and how little effort has been made by NYPD to catch my attacker. NYC is supposed to be a safe place for queer people, and our city is failing to protect our vulnerable populations. The only reason this attack didn’t end worse than it did is because of brave New Yorkers stepping in to help me, reminding me the heart of this city has been and always will be its people.

Elon Musk: the most dangerous Antisemite

Hey non-Jewish leftists and progressives who consider yourselves allies to Jews or, at a minimum, not antisemitic: now is an exceptionally great time to step up

This is shockingly similar to Henry Ford — i.e. an automotive mogul seen as an innovator in the general public uses his fortune and outsized influence to establish a large media presence and spread antisemitism.

There are some important distinctions, but nothing that makes me feel better about the situation.

1. At its height, Henry Ford’s publication, “The Dearborn Independent,” had a circulation of 900,000. The largest circulation in America at the time was 950,000.

2. Ford marketed explicit antisemitism, which eventually led to the downfall of his publication — you’ve probably heard of “The international Jew” and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

3. Ford was eventually forced to publicly apologize after he made the mistake of attacking Jewish attorney Aaron Sapiro for more than a year, until Sapiro eventually sued Ford for libel (i.e. he fucked around and found out lol). Ford eventually lost the case and was forced to publicly apologize (his apology was written by associates and his signature on it was reportedly forged). The magazine was shut down soon afterwards.

Despite everything, Ford was able to secure his position in history, albeit with some, um, unfortunate footnotes and the occasional caveat being mentioned.*

All in all, this feels very similar to Trump copying David Duke’s run for the Louisiana legislature, but that’s a story for a different day.

* some additional footnotes and caveats:

- Hitler quoted Ford in his infamous book

- Ford was a notorious union buster

- Ford received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle in 1938, the highest honor a foreigner could receive from Nazi Germany, with personal congratulations from Hitler

- After issuing the aforementioned “public apology” in 1927, Ford said that he would like restart the publication of “The International Jew.” In 1940. 13 years later.

- It’s just my personal opinion, but we probably shouldn’t honor literal nazis, but whatever

- To this day, no one at my synagogue will buy a ford car. I don’t know if this is the norm in other places, but I imagine that it’s not uncommon.

- Yes, I’m aware that nobody explicitly praises Henry Ford anymore, and everybody knows what a shithole he was. While “Henry Ford hated the Jews” is a common refrain, specific knowledge of his hatred is lacking, and I think it’s important to point to explicit hatred in the past, because hatred is normally hidden nowadays and needs to be identified outside of the group receiving the hatred.

This is an incredibly important addition

It’s a personal preference allowed to the actors(although from what I have been told Broadway leaned more in the icky Christine wants to fuck her dad’s ghost thing thanks to a particular resident director’s preferences). From what I understand some singers struggled with the pitch/phrasing of the consonants of “Far Reaching Gaze” vs “Fathering Gaze” hence why there appears to be no rhyme or reason as to when and where the OG lyric pops up. And as a singer I totally GET how far reaching is much harder to sing in the key that bit of the show is in… BUT I also prefer the OG lyric regardless because I HATE the icky incestuous vibe “fathering” implies. The Phantom is problematic but we do not need a whole ass Christine is sexually attracted to the ghost of her dad thrown in for shits and giggles. I feel it does a disservice to the story regardless of difficulty in phrasing.

Love that they put “a sense of impending doom” as one of the symptoms of a heart attack, like girl, that’s just how it is to be alive these days, you’re gonna have to be more specific

This made me chuckle but after scrolling away I felt the need to come back to it.

Because as someone who has felt this I can not stress how different it actually is from anxiety. Which is saying a lot because I have a massive anxiety disorder.

I've only felt this twice in my life - once when I was going into kidney failure due to an infection and again when my body was going into shock due to dehydration and malnourishment due to GI issues - and I can not stress how much it saved my life. It's hard to even put it into words. It's not like a panic attack, or anxiety. It is a horrific gut turning feeling of absolute dread.

Especially if you have anxiety you'll know the difference honestly. It's so much worse. It's every cell in your body and your brain screaming that there's something horribly wrong in a way you've never felt. It's your brain screaming out that you are going to die in a way no panic attack has ever done before.

I can not stress how important it is to get yourself to the ER if you feel this way. Especially if your having other physical symptoms.

This is amazing and incredibly helpful, oh my god. Thank you.

Experienced this when I had a uti that traveled into my kidneys, it’s what led me to call an ambulance. The paramedics tried to refuse to take me to the hospital claiming there was just a bad stomach virus going around they wouldn’t even let me lay down on the stretcher they made me sit upright even though my skin was grey and any movement made me groan in pain in a way that you’ve only ever heard from horror movie monsters. If I had listened to them I would have been dead within 24/48 hours according to the docs who took care of me.

The reason I’m telling you this, if you feel this sensation do NOT let someone invalidate you. Get your ass to a hospital STAT. And if the ER won’t take you in, go to a different one. This sensation is so much more telling than anything anyone else can possibly say to diminish what you’re feeling.

“The average US president has been charged with 1.54 felonies” factoid isn’t true. The average US President has been charged with 0 felonies. Donald trump, who has been charged with 71, is a statistical outlier and should not have been counted

BTW, just to make sure everyone knows, this isn't just some internet rando commenting on her observations on the internet.

They are an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University and literally just finished writing The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, a book on the history of the computer industry in the 70s.

This tweet isn't just an observation, it's the result of years of research and study. And it's absolutely true.

i rly wanna know like americans and non-americans- were u immunised against chicken pox or did ur parents rather u just get infected as a child??

I was born just a few years before the vaccine was even available, and I contracted chickenpox before the vaccine was part of routine vaccination (and mandatory in schools).

Which doesn’t sound so bad on its own, but at sixteen my immune system collapsed, and the previous mild case of chickenpox I had at nine suddenly gave me a violent and atypical case of shingles. My whole damn body was covered in pustules, even down my throat. Wherever there was skin, it was covered in pox. I nearly died. The doctors told my mother if she had waited just two more hours to get me to the hospital in Indy (my hometown hospital refused to even give me an E.R. bed ‘because it’s just chickenpox’, despite our pleas that I was immunocompromised), I would have died.

I was out of school for three months with a PICC line going straight to my heart pumping acyclovir into me even after I was discharged from the PICU. I never recovered academically and I ended up forced out of school the next year because they hated that I was wrecking attendance records with my frequent illnesses.

It’s only in the last five years that most of the pox scars have faded. I was sixteen then. I’m thirty now.

People/parents love to think that chickenpox is a normal and harmless part of childhood, almost a right of passage. Oh it’s just a week or so if mild itching, life will go on. No need to get my child vaccinated. Hell, let’s intentionally infect our young child by hosting chickenpox party! Better to have it at a young age, they say! But I wasn’t immunocompromised yet when I got chickenpox at 9. And at sixteen that same “harmless” virus latent within me nearly killed me. And even with the basic chickenpox, things can and have gone catastrophically wrong. Your perfectly healthy kid might come into contact with another kid on chemo. Suddenly that kid can die just like I almost did. Even your perfectly healthy kid can have a freak reaction and be killed by chickenpox.

The chickenpox vaccine has been around and available for over two decades now. Chickenpox and further complications like shingles are completely avoidable. Get your kid vaccinated

A vaccine wasn’t available when I was a kid so I picked it up at the age of four. My brother’s best friend came to visit and sat with me awhile to cheer me up- only to catch them himself at 15. He took them home to his dad- never had them. Half his family ended up in the hospital and his dad nearly died. Get your vaccines, folks.

This!

And look, I get it. Back before there were vaccines for chickenpox, it really was treated as a kind of right of passage — how else were you going to approach it? There was nothing else to do about it! People made the best of it and put a positive spin on it, even though we all knew that it was a dangerous disease. Because when there’s nothing else you can do, people tend to just adopt an attitude that helps you get through the scary bits of life.

But we have vaccines now! We don’t have to make the best of it anymore! We don’t have to try to find an attitude that makes thescary thing manageable!

We can just prevent it!

Get your vaccine!

OK. OKAY. YOU GUYS.

I am LOVING the fucking chocolate guy’s netflix show! It’s FANTASTIC! Anf hold on to your fucking boots y’all cause it’s actually not what I was expecting at all!

Do you miss the gentleness of the Great British Bake-Off? THIS SHOW IS SO KIND AND GENTLE! For fuck’s sake, NO ONE GETS KICKED OFF! No. No, Listen to this! When they lose the first challenge (a pastry one), the punishment is… They get private lessons with Amaury to help improve what brought their scores down instead of competing in the second chocolate challenge. 

When the one black lady contestant messed up the first challenge I was super bummed and like, OF COURSE. But NO. She got lessons! She struggled! she worked hard! and she won a later challenge! GROWTH MY DUDES! They are there TO LEARN and GROW and Maybe Win a Big Prize!

They ALL get to stay and keep doing their best! and at the end the one who did the best overall is the one who gets the money prize!

Look at this lovely line up! they make COOL LOOKING FANCY THINGS! Amaury tells us how he does some of the fancy things he does! They OFFER TO HELP EACH OTHER WHEN THEY FINISH EARLY AND GET PROPS FOR THAT! (not taunted for not using their own time better). The set up even kinda makes the one who is like, I’m in it to win it, is the villain and doing bad. The rest who are like, I’m here to learn and grow and maybe make friends! AUGH YOU GUYS!

Amaury is soft spoken and kind, and has a pretty voice and a pretty smile and that’s nice to watch too. The chefs are talented and artistic and they actually give the THE TIME to make nice things! It’s not “Wham out some half-assed garbage in 2 hours so we can shotgun the production and laugh at your garbage” like most cooking shows nowadays. NO! 14 hour challenges! They’re still hard, but they get to actually make cool stuff! fancy stuff! Stuff I want to look at and cheer for them!

The episodes average 38 min and aren’t a huge time commitment, the first episode being the longest one, and there are only 8 total so it’s not like you have to really get in for the long haul. \

WATCH IT! Pump it! we need more cooking shows like this and less that are sad and mean!

There is a distinct technique used by capitalists to bypass the legal and contractual rights of workers which to my knowledge has no name currently - so I’m giving it one - Lunch Grinding.

Lunch Grinding is a manipulative erosion of worker rights both in and out of the workplace. It bypasses legal and contractual standards through informal social pressures which the bosses cannot be held directly accountable for.

Lunch Grinding is named after one of the most common examples. It begins by asking a few employees to skip lunch in order to finish a project. Workers who are already insecure about their position due to economic anxiety will see this as an opportunity to prove they are a good employee. Those who refuse to do so may receive blame for failing to finish the project on time.

The issue becomes compounded when the bosses begin to purposefully schedule less time to complete the same projects. A distinct class begins to appear ignoring their contractual right to a lunch break - who become hostile to those who refuse to work during lunch for being “lazy” or “the reason we didn’t finish on time.”

At this point the management no longer needs to influence anyone directly to work through lunch break, simply by keeping up the sense of constantly being a little late for the project they have ensured the lunch-grinders will apply pressure to their peers who aren’t working through breaks.

As workplace hostility increases towards the “unproductive” members who are expressing their formal right to a break - they will be replaced with new individuals who may not even realize they have the right to a lunch break because working through the hour has become normalized by their peers.

Thus formal written standards from contracts and legal code become functionally non-existent. After which a new standard will be identified by management for erosion some examples include:

+Accepting uncertain hours. +Working off-the-clock. +Staying “On-Call” at all times. +Finishing projects / responding to emails at home. +Never using time off or sick leave.

All of which are socially conditioned in the same format - starting with “The Good Worker” who does a little favor for their boss - and ending as a peer enforced pressure and a perpetual hostility from management claiming productivity isn’t as high as expected. 

people in the US: you may be able to order 4 more free covid tests as long as you do so by 11:59pm May 31st, when the government will be ending the program. it takes like 10 seconds

on the announcement that Disney+ is removing a plethora of shows and films from its service, please read these tweets from Willow writer John Bickerstaff. this is not a tax writeoff like Batgirl, because these projects have already been released. this is a move designed to cut off financial support in the form of residuals, and break the spirit of the strike. here is the deadline article that lists the films/shows that will be removed.

as always, donate to the entertainment community fund, vocally support the WGA online and irl, or join a picket in a major US city if you can. let them know they can't keep getting away with things like this.