(via dustywave)people with medical issues are not “putting a strain on the medical system”. that’s what the medical system is for. yes this includes people with substance use related medical issues and other people often considered undeserving of help
A Message From the Community to Emily Powell
hey look, a cause that affects me directly! and a petition that could actually accomplish something! please sign and share~
this is about powell’s books, the world’s largest independent bookstore and portland’s most beloved local institution, brazenly violating their union contract by engaging in external hiring when they still have more than a hundred furloughed union workers waiting to be recalled. it’s hard to read this as anything other than a deliberate move to destabilize the union, and the powell family needs to know they can’t continue to cash in on their image of being a “friendly local business” when they treat workers like trash.
heyhey, this is where i worked (up until the pandemic dropped) and hope to return to, if you’re a powell’s customer or fan of labor rights please show us a little love with this moveon petition. support on it has already got the employees’ attenion and has been great for morale among working and furloughed staff, help us get our union’s side of the story out and make the company do the right thing!
my hourly comics from this year, only took me…fifteen days? to finish…anyway enjoy :V
(via dustywave)“Recently, my son said to me after seeing a ballet on television: ‘It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it.’ And I thought, Are many grown-ups capable of such a distinction? It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it. Usually, our grown-up thinking is more along the lines of: I don’t like it, so it’s not beautiful. What would it mean to separate those two impressions for art making and for art criticism?”— “59. it’s beautiful, but I don’t like it” from 100 essays I don’t have time to write: on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater, sarah ruhl
(via likeniobe)
some very un-referenced evocation of thom yorke in his “anima” short film
costume scribbles of my current d&d character, a gloomstalker ranger named imogen. at left in her standard gear, at right in a more formal getup provided by faeries as appropriate attire for a fancy party we’re crashing in the feywild.
Are You Allowed To Have Government Aid
(via dustywave)Disabled Person Who Saved $2000.01 While on SSI ❌
Billionaire Who Doesn’t Feel Like Paying Their Workers ✅
Poor Person Who Wants Hot Food ❌
Soda Company That Wants to Artificially Deflate the Price of Soda ✅
Climate and Renewable Energy Research ❌
Um…at the risk of sounding snobby here: Do the elitist GOP get that the house doesn’t even look that good?
Not that I’m judging: I grew up in some mediocre places too. It’s fine, and there are certainly worse places. I agree with her: It was likely fine to grow up in.
But it’s a pretty mundane and rundown. By any standards.
But it’s a standing house. So apparently, per the Republicans, she’s a limousine liberal.
I second this, I grew up poor and this house…well, it’s not a “dump” or anything, but is no better a house than I was raised in with two parents barely making enough money to make the mortgage payments.
That’s what I can’t get over.
They are acting like this is some big Hollywood mansion.
And it’s really not.
This reminds me of the time Fox News tried to paint poor people as rich because 97% have a refrigerator
they got us busy on defense for obviously meritless bullshit like this, and when we engage with it—and i definitely understand the temptation to engage—we already concede their premise that someone’s background can disqualify their advocacy for a better world. and i think this is a particularly thorny one, because that kind of purity testing is something i see a lot of on the left as well, so they got us pegged. we need to get away from that if we want to grow this movement. AOC is right: they see a threat in her reality, and they see millions of potential threats in everyone who can identify with her. if we’re gonna be for the many, not the few, we need to talk inclusively, so these kinds of gatekeeping claims fail as soon as they leave the mouths of the right’s hate machine.
solid
aaaand tumblr’s absolutely wild, quality-destroying automatic image resizing algorithms strike again. the fact that in all these years there has never been a reliable way to control, anticipate, or avoid tumblr making a fuzzy mess out of an image? legendarily inept.
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