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By Scott Scheffer
Having been in a defensive mode for decades, union workers are chipping away at the widest income gap since the 1970s. Successful strikes are giving confidence to other workers, who then go on strike. That was the case after a successful academic workers’ strike at the University of California reportedly inspired nearby University of Southern California academic workers to walk out and win.
#strike#school workers#class struggle#Los Angeles#hospital workers#unions#labor#USC#UCLA#students#workers#unity#solidarity#Struggle La Lucha
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3 Delaware School Workers Fed Takis with Hot Sauce to Student They Knew Had Digestive Disability: Police https://people.com/school-workers-spicy-takis-student-digestive-disability-8742471
#people#people magazine#delaware#school workers#takis hot 🔥 🥵 😍 😋 ♥️ 👌 sauce#hot sauce#digestive disability
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Cried at work today hahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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i have reached the part of the steddie hyperfixation where i make them domesticated men in their 50s. having a blast! (twitter) [ID in ALT text]
#steddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#steve x eddie#stranger things#art#my art#fan art#my fan art#look. i love them and i also love AD videos#why? because i’m nosy! i’m a nosy person!#i have a whole backstory for them re: this video in my head#their apartment is super clutter decor v maximalist#oranges and teals and blacks and dark greens#eddie got big with a metal band in the 90s#steve was a steel worker until his 30s then became a school teacher#they got together in the 80s got civil unioned in vermont in 98#married in 2015#eddie takes steve’s last name bc they thought it’d be funny to piss of steve’s dad (it was)#steve stayed pretty private until he fully retired in 2015 (early ofc)#eddie has become twitters Old Man because his online footprint is ridiculous so he has a renaissance#so steve starts coming along for the spare interview and everyone’s like holy shit eddie’s husbands hot#during the video eddie points to a lamp and says this is a lamp we got from the flea market!#then points to a box next to it and says and this is a box of our friend max’s baby teeth#did you want all this? no. but you got it
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Thinking again about how many disabled people end up getting shunted into art/craft work because like. You can technically do it. Sometimes. Yeah you make a pittance at best and are almost certainly going to make your physical health worse by pushing yourself to get things done, but what else are you gonna do? You're too sick for anyone to hire you. You're "not sick enough" to qualify for benefits. Just devote every scrap of time and energy you have to a chronically underpaid, low-prestige, incredibly labor-intensive industry. A few people manage to make it work with luck and help and the right skills. Many people don't. Everyone gets pressured to monetize their hobbies, but it's especially insidious if you're disabled because any tiny thing you manage to accomplish to bring yourself joy gets twisted into proof that you should somehow be able to work.
#curseblogging#the thing is like#i went to bookbinding school#i saw what it was like to try to make a living as a craft worker for able-bodied people with significant starting resources#and the answer is: fucking hard!#people generally being like well if you work long hours and never allow yourself a break#and do a bunch of events and shows and teaching#and are good at not just the work but at finances and marketing and every other aspect of business management#(and ideally have a spouse with a regular job so you don't have to pay for your own healthcare. because this is America)#then maybe#MAYBE#you can make a reasonable living as a craftsperson#but this same VERY DIFFICULT PROFESSION#gets pushed on disabled people as something obvious and easy#and a lot of people do try their best to make it work because what other choice do they have?!
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This entire thread is horrifying. I was so lucky that my ochem professor let me take the final the next day after I missed it (and in that case it was my own fault, read the time wrong and thought it was later than it actually was)
#professors and grade school teachers who do this shit should be fired#not even joking there needs to be federal protections in place to prevent this from happening to students and workers#like blatant disability discrimination aside its still fucked for people to be punished for a car accident or for a death in the family
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okay because i am DEATHLY curious about this, please select from the options below. reblog with your country of origin as well please.
ETA BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE GETTING SNARKY: i am asking it this specific way with these specific poll options (american vs non-american) because it's my understanding and experience that most US state public schools actively suppress any teaching of labor history in any concrete way to the point of editing textbooks. i'm not trying to be an american exclusionist here or say that there weren't non-american labor movements. i'm saying that as a historian with degrees i have noticed that there is a very different attitude towards teaching labor history in the united states than there is in other countries. for fuck's sake.
#DEEPLY curious about this#labor history#history#poll#because i feel like a lot of americans don't actually realize that public schools (and private schools) teach JACK SHIT about labor history#the number of people i have met who have no idea what the battle of blair mountain is#anyway#shut up alix no one cares#labor rights#workers rights#sometimes alix goes viral
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Promt:
Bruce kept trackers in the people he loved. Ever since Dick was a young boy prone to get kidnapped. Some with consent, some… not so much. But it was a crime he was willing to commit, if only for the way it calmed his nerves when he looked at the little dots on his screen.
Alfred, in the kitchen, working tirelessly on lunch.
Tim, in Drake Manor (much to his annoyance, but he was working on that one), probably enjoying the weekend before school.
Dick, in Bludhaven (again, much to his annoyance) spending his day off with some friends in a coffee shop.
Barbara, in the library, helping visitors.
And the one little dot that always pained him to look at, but couldn’t bring himself to disarm, right above-
Where is it?
There.
Why in all Hell’s name was his son’s body in the hospital instead of the cemetery?
#bruce wayne#barbara gordon#dc universe#dick grayson#dcu#jason todd#alfred pennyworth#tim drake#Bruce yelling at cemetery workers for not informing him that his baby boy’s body was go e#I’d love to be a fly on that wall#Alfred standing gourd by Jason’s body with a shotgun#the hospital workers don’t dare to say anything#Dick reads Jason Pride and Prejudice while he’s in the coma#Tim skips school to be by his side#fic welcome#oh and btw Barbara killed the Joker long before this#Bruce cried and thanked her#after he failed that one time she just reached him faster when he came back#but it’s okay#at this point it was you snooze you loose#and he forgot to call dibs
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Eta on the YouTube video? No rush, just exchange
im gonna be honest man please do not count on me here lmao. my follow through rate for these projects is like 5%. real ones remember gourdquest and other related failed projects i came close to the sun on. if i succeed it will be huge for me on a genuine personal level and it will be the first time i've finished a creative project at all in years but if i do not. neither you nor me should be surprised
#lichens#yeahhh not gonna lie#the reason ive never added like a ko-fi or anything to this blog is because i see my dim reflection in a million failed internet projects#i almost added a ko-fi once and actually got a couple donations but i refunded them and closed it because i was like. no. this wont work#my dream job would indeed be to be a youtube essayist that talks about plant topics#but im at my most reliable as like. a capitalism worker clocking in and out at a set time at the work location lol#this is also why i have not gone back to grad school yet lmao like i just do not trust myself not to deviate from the set topic#also im starting my EMT classes and jobs very very very soon so i was trying to get it done before that but as the time comes i go o. oh no
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Luther and Sloane should of had a family in s4 both because i think Luther and Sloane deserve happiness but also because it would have been a fun parallel to Diego and Lila.
Where Diego and Lila are struggling, Luther and Sloane are thriving. Diego's in a job he hates while Luther is, I don't know, a security guard at a zoo and loving it. Lila chases what her life used to be while Sloane is thrilled to give it all up to instead chase her dreams.
Diego gets to look at Luther and wonder what happened that he is doing the family guy thing with no issue but he's struggling. How does he seem to have it all.
This then would lead to them actually talking things out, Luther providing advice and sharing struggles that Diego didn't get to see. Sibling bonding on a neutral ground - how can i be a better father? how can I still be myself while in this role?
#tua#the umbrella academy#luther hargreeves#diego hargreeves#team zero my loves#i like to think sloane is a marketing exec who travels constantly and luther was previously the stay at home dad#but the kids are now in daycare to learn proper social interaction bc sloane and luther remember what it was like and do Not want to wait#for school to get a headstart on that. so now luther works at a zoo and gets free entry for those with him. and has charmed all the food#workers so he gets discounted/free food
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I love how one of the usual arguments to dismiss Snape as a victim of abuse is the typical “Well, I was bullied too, and I didn’t turn out to be a bad person.” First of all, that’s a textbook ad hominem fallacy, second, it’s often said to downplay the abuse from the Marauders, which I find to be a massive cognitive dissonance, and third, it’s a really dirty form of victim blaming.
But what amuses me the most is using individual personalism to judge trauma management behaviors that are widespread. And the worst part is that it’s easily debatable. For example, I could say I’ve met spoiled kids from wealthy families who always got what they wanted, never being told “no” to anything, and yet they didn’t go around bullying people with their friends just because they didn’t like them. I’ve also met rich kids from deeply religious, Catholic families, like those involved with Opus Dei, which is basically a sect of Christian extremists, who had many issues with their families but didn’t project their problems onto people with fewer resources or opportunities, and certainly never tried to kill them.
Idk guys, my mom taught at a private school, and the children of teachers could study there without our parents having to spend all their savings. I met a lot of rich kids, and they didn’t go around tormenting the scholarship students, for example. So, I don’t know, if we start being subjective by talking about personal cases, anyone can counter with fallacies.
#like one of my school best friends didn’t talk with her family since she was 18#and she was a really kind person#she’s now a social worker#so i’m sorry but sirius background didn’t excuse his actions#severus snape#pro severus snape#pro snape#james potter#harry potter#marauders#severus snape defense#sirius black#snapedom
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By Scott Scheffer
Jailynn Butler-Thomas is a student at Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. She spoke with Struggle-La Lucha about support for the recent Los Angeles Unified Public School District (LAUSD) strike and opposition to armed police in public schools.
There’s so much backlash that myself and my peers and those who are fighting for police-free schools have to deal with. The main factor that rallies students behind UTLA and Local 99 is that they’re struggling, and we’re struggling, and that unites us.
#Students Deserve#Los Angeles#strike#solidarity#youth#students#lausd#school workers#teachers#protest#racism#police brutality#killer cops#UTLA#SEIU#Jailynn Butler-Thomas#Dorsey High#Struggle La Lucha
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"-and on that note let us discuss and review the youngling centre safety protocols. Kim, Max, any thoughts or concerns?"
"Well Calis, we'd like to make a pamphlet of sorts to be given to current and future practicum students about the key differences between species."
"Not every species, because then that'd end up being a 15 volume book," laughs and chuckles. "just key differences between predators, herbivores, omnivores, and the most common differences between species."
"That can be arranged. Anything else?"
"We have a list of things around the classroom we'd like repaired or reinforced, do you want me to read them out now or just send it to you?"
"Just send me the list and I'll get back to you before the weekend about what can and can't be done."
"Alright then, I think that's it-"
The room goes quiet as the doors open. A small youngling scampers in clutching a small bag in their claws making a beeline for first mate Calis.
"Mapa, Mapa! Look at the treats I got from the party!" they scramble onto their parent's lap, wiggling in and pushing away their documents and holopad.
"Oh um...very good Dali. They look delicious."
"Try one!"
"Maybe later my little star, Mapa is-"
"Here!" determined to share this delicious and mouthwatering treat without delay Dali crams a treat into Cails' mouth
"....very good." the whole room murmurs with giggles and coos as they watch the usually stoic first mate flush blue as their child tries to feed them more.
"Teachers try it!" tiny arms reach out as the youngling basically crawls across the large meeting room table to hand out more treats.
"Very tasty Dali!" Kim calls while walking to the meeting room door to see if Calis' mate is nearby. She gives the first mate a large grin as she passes him.
"Mmm, what is this?" with a mere scoop Max grabs the youngling off the table and places them on his knee.
"It's a mip, they're like your earth's cookies."
"Yeah they're like a coconut cookie I had." he smiles as he watches Kim bring in a giggling Gala who gives Calis a loving nuzzle much to their embarrassment.
"Dali~ You know not to come in here when mapa is having a meeting. Now let's say goodbye to everyone and wait for mapa outside with those delicious treats, alright my glorious star?" the youngling and parent give everyone a wave except for Calis who receives a kiss and hug from both their mate and child.
"...not one word from any of you." they seethe face very flushed.
"Calis, there's no need to be embarrassed. Me and Max hear from Dali all the time about how much you love them and Gala. Underneath that stoic side of you is a easily flustered romantic." the human beams.
"..."
"Kim I don't think that's what they want to hear now."
#humans are space orcs#humans are space oddities#humans in space#the adventures of kim and max running a space child centre#had a meeting with my co-workers and the boss outside by the playground where the school was throwing a picnic#and a kid from the after school program runs up to me hands me half her cookie and then runs off#and for a moment i stand there slightly embarrassed in front of all my co-workers and boss with half a chocolate chip cookie#which gave birth to this!#cookie was good#i am sick now#not from the cookie but from the season changing
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Some guy at my school made a pornographic deepfake of one of our teachers and she might be getting fired for this... The hellworld has come ladies, any man can turn us into pornography and have us punished for it
#i never had her class before but this is so sad#whether or not shes a poor teacher doing something like that is horrible#this is why i hate teenage boys#the boys at our school got our school banned from going to the mcdonalds nearby bc they were calling the workers homophobic slurs#last year the freshman boys set a fire in the school bc they were burning the tampons our school was raising for this event#called tampon tuesday#where we raise menstrual products to donate#the boys at my school fucking SUCK and show perfectly the male condition#which is being misogynistic pigs
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Evening School for Workers by Lazar Shtyrmer, 1969
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if you love books, save a library!
I hear people on Tumblr talk a lot about the importance of libraries; now’s your chance to help save one!
At Vermont State University is a newly merging Uni in so-called North America, pushing together three previously separate universities: Castleton University, Northern Vermont University, and Vermont Technical College.
Just last week, the new VTSU administration sent out an email to faculty, staff and students announcing that all the libraries at each of the 5 campuses contained within these universities would be moving to an ‘all-digital’ model. Librarians will lose their jobs if this plan goes ahead; in fact, librarians were only informed of this change 11 minutes before the email was sent out.
We have come to understand that this means that all physical material will be removed from the library. They seem to want to do other things with the space, such as set up ‘a coffee or smoothie bar’ and determine ‘what students want’ to do with the space. This plan would go into effect on July 1st, 2023.
The fact is, students want to keep the library as it is. Quiet, and full of stacks and stacks of physical books. The administration cannot claim they are listening to students when we have demonstrated, via hundreds of emails and impassioned testimonies in front of the administration at a forum last week, that we hate this plan and oppose it vehemently. And the faculty and staff are with us, and they too have been speaking out. Not only that, the communities that surround these colleges greatly value having access to a research library, particularly in rural Vermont, and are opposing the plan as well, because, as far as I know, they will completely lose access to these resources if everything goes digital.
The image of the books above are what I just checked out today. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed browsing the stacks, in one case (not pictured above) finding a tiny book of Milton’s poetry inscribed with a reader’s name and the year 1865. So many important and precious books like that one are to be found in our library. Each book I checked out hasn’t been checked out for at least 10 years, and that’s one of the administration’s excuses for taking all our books away: that circulation is down, and that, somehow, it costs money to let books sit on a shelf. As many people have rebutted, though, just because books aren’t being checked out doesn’t mean they aren’t being read within the library and, most importantly, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have value.
Below I will post some links to various local news article on this subject as well as one radio broadcast that will probably be able to articulate this situation better than I can.
I’m just so angry and upset about this. I’ve seen students and faculty alike crying about this situation, and an old lady braver than me telling the administration that maybe they should consider lowering their own salaries before taking away our books. I think everyone here feels powerless, because the administration isn’t backing down, despite all our protests, because ultimately their goal is profit and to make sure that this new ‘equitable’ University makes as much money as possible.
At the Castleton forum, the president of the University said he was ‘deeply humiliated’, by the outrage, by the heckling, the ‘throwing of verbal tomatoes’ as I have taken to calling it, by having his and his fellow’s bullshit exposed and questioned.
Please, please, if you care about books, about libraries, about the problems with big tech and the way it continues to invade all our lives, replacing physical experiences with their more hollow, less engaging counterparts; if you care about the interests of the people triumphing over the interests of capital, about students, about education, then please -- help save our books by spreading the word however and wherever you can, by flooding the inboxes of the capitalists below; tell them how you feel about this decision and its larger implications for books and libraries in general! Not so much to convince them that they’re wrong (they already know that and don’t care), but to make going forward with this plan more of a nuisance and a PR nightmare than cancelling it would be.
I don’t know if anyone will read or see this post, but please if you do and you care, reblog, educate yourself on what’s going on, and take action if you can.
A few disclaimers:
Any specifics I mention pertain primarily to what I, as a student at Castleton University, have either heard via word of mouth or seen with my own eyes. I am not officially speaking on behalf of anyone but myself.
The only exception to all the physical materials being removed from the libraries seem to be the books deemed ‘most used’ and some valuable historical collections. This was not clear from the beginning and not yet fully clear in any further specificity.
please try not to use violent rhetoric - as much as I’m not into policing people’s speech and anger, I don’t want this to backfire and I don’t want them to crackdown harder on us or make a big stink about it if they receive those kinds of messages
Email addresses of administration officials responsible for this decision:
VTSU President Grewal: [email protected]
VTSU Provost Atkins: [email protected]
VSC Chancellor Zdatny [email protected]
VSC Board of Trustees Chair: Eileen “Lynn” Dickinson [email protected]
News articles + broadcast:
https://www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2023-02-10/vermont-state-university-president-on-move-to-all-digital-libraries-changes-in-athletic-programs
https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/local/castleton-community-protests-vtsu-library-cuts/article_100d9539-c6ca-569e-a9b9-ecd6b3cef0ad.html
https://vtdigger.org/2023/02/08/vermont-state-university-to-close-libraries-downgrade-sports-programs/
http://www.castletonspartan.com/2023/02/12/vtsu-library-plan-sparks-outrage-and-emotion/
#signal boost#save libraries#books#total liberation#my post#anarchism#public services#capitalism#fight back#boost#please help#mutual aid#libraries#libraries are the best#support local libraries#academic libraries#school libraries#librarians#workers rights
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