I think some folks read these extensions as savvy politics, but I don’t think those folks understand the panic and disorder it causes people to get so close to these deadlines just to extend the uncertainty. It doesn’t have the affect people think it does.
We should cancel them.
my favorite YA author becoming a TERF who bullies trans ppl online for fun feels like a more heavy handed met metaphor for the death of my childhood than Hedwig falling from the sky & exploding
The US recently imposed 'sanctions' on Cambodia which is considered 'too friendly' with China. In the 1960s/70s the US dropped more bombs on Cambodia than during all of WW2. According to one study, 750,000 people were killed. No reparations were ever paid.
Borders are dumb af let people vibe wherever they want
“uhh you were born here so imo you should probably be forced to spend your life here”
-a sicko and a freak
@communoah I mean I think this is being said by trans men after testosterone and I think it's weird to say that these men are just not passing and that they're silly for thinking they do. Idk this comes off as mean spirited.
Thread on how Amazon treats its workers
Context:
Amazon full-time warehouse employees make $31,200 a year. Jeff Bezos makes that every 12 seconds.
Cost to give warehouse workers 2 weeks paid sick leave + pay bumps so they don't qualify for food stamps = 0.9% of Bezos' fortune
BREAKING: A HUGE, HISTORIC UNION WIN
NLRB's final count is 2,654 to unionize, 2,131 against
Many experts said it would be nearly impossible to unionize an Amazon warehouse because Amazon is so fiercely anti-union
Big congratulations to Christian Smalls & the Amazon Labor Union