#I NEED THIS FOR MY CHOIR!!!

[the-bibrarian]

I see a lot of incomprehension online about our pension reform and the anger it generates in France, and what it often boils down to is "why are they so angry, 64 is plenty young to retire?"

I don't agree, but even if I did I would still oppose the reform. Here are some of the reasons why:

We already need 43 full years of work and tax contributions to be able to retire. Which means college-educated people were never going to retire at 64 anyway, let alone 62. This reform is aimed at people who start working early, mostly in low-paying jobs.

There's very little provision made in this law for hard/dangerous/manual labour.

There's no provision made for women who stop working to raise their children (51% of women already retire without a "complete career," which means they only retire on a partial pension, vs. 25% of men).

At 64, 1/3 of the poorest workers will already be dead. In France, between the richest and the poorest men, there's a 13 years gap in life expectancy.

Beyond life expectancy, at that age a lot of people (especially poorer, non-college educated) have too many health-related issues to be able to work. Not only is it cruel to ask them to work longer, if they can't work at all that's two more years to hold on with no pension

Unemployment in France is still fairly high (7%). Young people already have a hard time finding work, and this is going to make things even harder for them

Macron cut taxes on the rich and lost the country around 16 Billions € in tax revenue. Our estimated pension deficit should peak at 12 Billions worst case scenario.

While I'm on wealth redistribution (no, not soviet style, but I think there should be a cap on wealth concentration. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.): some of the massive profits of last year should go to workers and to the state to be redistributed, including to fund pensions. The state subsidized companies and corporations during the pandemic, Macron even said "no matter the cost" and spent 206 Billions € on businesses. Now he's going after the poorest workers in the country for an hypothetical 12 Billions??

Implicit in all of this is the question of systemic racism. French workers from immigrant families are already more likely to have started their careers early, to have low-paying jobs, are less likely to be college-educated, more at risk for disabilities and chronic illnesses, etc., so this is going to disproportionately affect them

This is not even touching on the fact that he didn't let lawmakers vote on it, meaning he knew he wouldn't get a majority of votes in parliament, or that 70% of the population is against this law. Pushing it through anyway is blatant authoritarianism.

TL;DR: This is only tangentially about retirement age. The reform will make life harder for people with low incomes, or with no higher education, for manual workers, for women—mothers especially, for POC, for people with disabilities or chronic conditions, etc. This is about solidarity.

Hope (sincerely) this helps.

[gremlinwithakeyboard]

ok so hear me out, superpowers as a metaphor for neurodivergency

but like not in the “neurodivergency is a/gives you superpowers” type way

more in a sort of “everyone acts like it’s a superpower and anyone who doesn’t think so isn’t thinking positively enough”

Oh you don’t like being a telepath? Come on! You’ve got a gift there! You’re lucky! Just please stay away from me so you don’t read my mind.

Your fire powers are awesome! You’d stop accidentally setting things on fire if you just put your mind to it.

What do you mean your super gravity powers being treated like rubbish telekinesis gave you lasting childhood trauma? At least you’ve got powers!

You lost your voice pushing your noise amplification powers to the limit? That’s kinda sad but just don’t do that next time! Your powers are still super and your voice will come back for you to do more cool tricks for us with!

[undefeatablesin]

Anyway, please behold my special boy that I love dearly and my other hunters loathe 💕

[karnaca78]

An improvised work inspired by @wikipedianna's short fanfic Silence (a sequel to In Ictu Oculi). All the dialogue is from the fic. It punched me in the gut beyond my expectations 🥺

[celestialhouses]

@torpublishinggroup

[thekagepro24]

if uhhh any MP100 fans were wondering where the 3rd OP’s assets came from, I found nearly all of them and put it into video format

despite scouring several websites, i couldn’t find much in the way of listing where everything came from. i saw a couple posts that sourced a few but decided to do it myself and found that there’s 200+ assets from seasons 1 and 2 in this opening...

i feel like with as many MP100 fans i’ve seen there’s probably been a bunch of people wondering about this as well, so here’s hoping this finds anyone who was curious! 

[malwarewolf404]

He said “people are going to be without purpose in a post-scarcity world!”

[mj-thrush-gxn]

el coro

[vore-scientist]

im still alive

im still PhD'ing

[dummpsterfire]

They put it on spotify!!!!!

Guys guys guys guys guys

They finally put it on spotify!!!!!!!!

https://open.spotify.com/track/492ceDtqmafb6QD1Xfhpmo?si=0SEO0QqNQK2_RH6mQjOoLQ

I can rest in peace now :]

[chilei-the-hotsauce]

choir member oc for bloodborne <3

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on my run And I feel just like Jesus son (x)

the original. “rama,” i hear you ask, “why is the original on its side?” Well, being that I’m on xbox, I’ve found that the only way i can get the uh, je ne sais quoi sort of dimensions I’d like, i have to rotate the camera by a full 90 degrees, which you can imagine looks very stupid as I then have to lay on the couch or tilt my head at an angle that my twenty nine year old neck doesnt really appreciate

[baura-bear]

what's pissing me off most about the election is how many people who have similar opinions are absolutely tearing into each other in search of someone to "blame" for the trump win. It doesn't matter what we could've done differently because at the end of the day it's done. blaming each other and turning on each other is only gonna help the white supremacists who want to run this country. so instead we need to focus on creating community so that we have a network of resistance and care built into our lives. tear into trump supporters all you want but if you are anti trump, if you were discontent with both options, if you were/are whatever, focus on people who share the same ideas as you and how you can build each other up and make your community stronger. that is where revolution begins. not yelling about ballots that have already been cast.

[undefeatablesin]

Watch out ya'll, Sin's sketching Bloodborne comics again! 💀

[synthwayve]

Bloodborne is so cool I wish blood was real

[septfair]

it's me and the rtc production i made up in my head against the world