#an injury to one is an injury to all

[thefugitivesaint]

Appropriated images for your consumption. Source

[industrial-meat]

The fight for a better world, is many fights: for all workers, in all countries and nations, in all industries and jobs, of all genders and sexualities.

[image description: a circular trans flag sticker, overlaid with the IWW hissing black cat (sab-tabby or sabotabby), and circled with the words “An injury to one is an injury to all”.]

[victusinveritas]

[monstromax]

Happy May Day! (The original labour day)

May this May Day, the international workers day, inspire us more than ever to continue the struggle for the liberty of workers everywhere, especially for the abolition of colonialism, imperialism and systems of exploitation that harm the working class around the world.

Solidarity especially to the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, and to those in the West mobilizing against Israeli bombardment and occupation. As I write this, students at Columbia University have been violently forced off campus after non-violent organized protesting, but organizing continues both in that community and on other university campuses. Stay strong and hold the line!

An injury to one is an injury to all. Keep organizing, in the workplace and in the streets.

[nickjb]

Sporting figures standing up to fascists.

[maeamian]

Another thing you can do, if you're in the US, is contact your senator, whichever party they're in and demand JD Vance be censured for this shit, his conduct is deeply unbecoming of the alleged dignity of the US Senate, something that your senator probably believes in a lot more than I do, and it is unacceptable for them to sit by and do nothing while he targets his own constituents for bomb threats.

Greg Pak over on bsky dot app put together this sample script to help you out if you're struggling for how to phrase it.

Hey y'all, now is a particularly good time to show solidarity with the Haitian refugee community of Ohio by donating to groups working on their behalf like The Haitian Bridge Alliance or Advocates for Basic Legal Equity.

The Republican goons are trying to stir up a racist hate mob against them based on extremely sinister lies. To hell with the sorts of people who want racist violence and for those of us nowhere near Ohio, this sort of donation is a decent way of telling both the Haitian community and their tormentors that we have the backs of refugees.

[eydilily]

small victories ^^

[hinamie]

alongside someone like you

[mimimar]

finally completed my comic based on the song ivy by taylor swift!✿ please zoom in to read the text and see the details~

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you can get the digital zine pdf here! it includes extras like character profiles, costume design, more art of willow and ivy, zine-exclusive sketches and an illustrated guide to the symbolism of all the flowers in this comic.

you can also get prints of individual pages here!

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[thefugitivesaint]

Jamelle Bouie bringing it. As a straight, white, cis-gender male in his late 40s, I endorse this message. Read the whole opinion piece, it’s worth a few minutes of your time.  “The attacks on transgender people and L.G.B.T.Q. rights are of a piece with the attack on abortion and reproductive rights. It is a singular assault on the bodily autonomy of all Americans, meant to uphold and reinforce traditional hierarchies of sex and gender. Politicians and those of us in the media tend to frame these conflicts as part of a “culture war,” which downplays their significance to our lives — not just as people living in the world, but as presumably equal citizens in a democracy. Democracy, remember, is not just a set of rules and institutions, but a way of life. In the democratic ideal, we meet one another in the public sphere as political and social equals, imbued with dignity and entitled to the same rights and privileges.”

.... “The denial of dignity to one segment of the political community, then, threatens the dignity of all...To deny equal respect and dignity to any part of the citizenry is to place the entire country on the road to tiered citizenship and limited rights, to liberty for some and hierarchy for the rest.

Put plainly, the attack on the dignity of transgender Americans is an attack on the dignity of all Americans.”

[industrial-meat]

oh god, the painkillers are definitely properly worn off.

I want to bite something so bad. My knees are fizzing, shoulders creak when I move (and clunk in n out if I lay on 'em), my back is threatening to go on strike. (Well, 'tis the day for it...), and I'm pretty sure some unscrupulous sod has filled my hip and elbows with grinding paste.

Long weekend full of activity and holy shit am I feeling it rn. (Workers Memorial march on Friday, family birthday on Saturday, May Day March (and the stall) on Sunday)

Good job I have a week of work ahead of me, wheeeeee

[silusvesuius]

baby👶 drawings. these are very dear to me rn.. 2nd pic is my Nelavis with @barvin0k's Varonur 🩵 last one is a baby bosmer and snow elf, hairiest of them all. although the bosmer was meant to be my girl Barletta too lols

[hysteriamodes]

How dare some people advocate letting artists have a livelihood, apparently. The audacity of someone not being lazy and learning a skill or trade.

I didn't realize arguing against automonimation, something that's been discussed for well over a century, was ~reactionary~. It's almost like this whole argument has roots in labor rights or something.

Take that, Upton Sinclair!

genuinely the way ai discourse is evolving is so scary to me bc like yeah there are lots of legitimate problems and criticisms around it but the overwhelming majority of the takes ive seen treat it like it has an Evil Essence that makes anything it touches Disgusting and Corrupt. like i feel like im watching reactionary ideology develop in real time and develop in ppl id thought would be more resistant to that sort of thing

we stopped calling people out for being extremely reactionary on this website for some reason and its really come back to bite us

[tevinter]

Veilguard fails to realise that for those who believe, faith is stronger than anything, even facts.

Right in the beginning of Veilguard all the Dalish/veil jumpers are so nonchalant and against their gods returning, as if they were convinced offscreen that their whole faith was based on a lie (even though they all still wear vallaslin) and their gods were Evil™. This, again, fails to consider that the vast majority of the Dalish would either not believe or not care because it's their religion, their faith.

Morally ambiguous gods exist in real life religions too and it didn't stop people from believing in them. Divine morality transcends mortal understanding, so their actions are always rightful. This also leads to the concept of a 'god-fearing' person - even the term used (θεοσεβής) can mean both respect and fear. Mortals are humbled by the gods' power and greatness, and willfully submit to their divine authority.

You needn't go further than the goddamn Bible itself to see countless examples of unethical things that God did/supported including legitimization of slavery and punishment (Exodus 21:20-21 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property." is one unhinged example), cannibalism, many kinds of violence, war, and of course, genocide, one of which was literally the deliberate destruction of nearly all humanity and living creatures on earth. The god of the most widely practiced religion in the world for millenia. Ask a devout Christian if they would stop believing in God just because 'um actually he is bad'.

Mystery is also a great aspect of religion, which also makes it an excellent worldbuilding element for writers. Mystery adds to the immersion because just like the characters, we don’t know everything except the beliefs and unanswered questions. And we're not supposed to, because this is how religion works in real life, where faith is about belief rather than what’s fully understood. It makes the story feel more real and engaging. Professional writers - of a AAA title no less - should know this.

Religion was one of the greatest themes in all previous games, especially Andrastianism and the Elven pantheon. Reducing it all to 'the Evanuris did it' is disappointing to say the least, and even if it was the truth that only the writers knew, they should have kept it that way, or at least some of the mystery. It adds immersion, drama, nuance, it encourages thought and discussion. For all Veilguard failed in the 'show, don't tell' rule, in this case this is too much exposure, and not even done in a good way. ''Religion is fake, so now everyone's atheist or unfazed. Oh, except for one (1) person who is mildly upset'' is not how faith works, especially in a setting so religious as Thedas.

[kurakuradon]

captain & nurse

[smthnsmthn-whumpblog]

i would like to see more permanent brain damage in whump please and thank you.

and not just traumatic head injuries, though they are fun, but also shit like hypoxia. you know how much fun you can have with that? like, maybe your whumpee drowns and is fully dead for a hot second, and there’s just. no air inside them for a while. they come to after someone saves their life and they’re just hacking and coughing and spluttering and desperately trying to suck down air, you know the drill. or maybe they get shot, in the liver or something, and they just won’t stop bleeding. when they eventually do, they’ve lost so much blood that they’re on death’s door, and there’s a race to get them a blood transfusion before it’s too late. the team manages, but only just, and whumpee’s brain has been deprived of oxygen for so long that when they eventually wake up, they’re so confused, and weak, and scared. fun stuff, right?

and then you have the brain damage. there is so much fucking potential here for whumpy recovery shit. maybe they can’t talk anymore, maybe they can’t understand people anymore, maybe they can’t move properly anymore, maybe they become a different person entirely, a la phineas gage. and they don’t know what to do. their entire life has just been permanently altered, their fucking brain is different now. they lash out more, they wished they didn’t but they can’t help it. or maybe they just become apathetic, and they can’t feel any emotions strongly so they’re just left with this dull, droning sense of guilt for being such a dick. maybe they start crying every now and then, and they don’t really know why, they just feel so fucking sad. maybe they get consumed by this dreadful feeling of isolation, unable to communicate with their friends like they used to.

and then the team has to try and rehabilitate them.