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[piinfeathers]

just in case anyone missed this in the news or maybe not in the loop, Disney is currently refusing to meet with or acknowledge the newly formed animation production workers union that just voted to join IASTE and become an official part of TAG, the animators and animation artists guild

production workers across all studios are currently voting to be recognized for their hard work and invaluable skill at keeping these productions running, but studios are refusing to meet with them to let them negotiate deals or even exist

as someone who works in animation as a designer i know i wouldn't be able to do my job at all without any of my production workers. they are the incredibly hard working people who oversee pretty much everything in animation. they make sure everything is running on time, that schedules are being followed, they have to know pretty much every single word of the scripts and beats from the storyboards to make sure nothing is missed, and most importantly, they make sure artists are being taken care of and not overworked. they really are the unsung heroes of the animation world

production workers are also by far the most exploited workers in animation currently. they make about a fraction of what artists make for just as much work put in, and currently have no agreement for health coverage or other benefits that artists protected by the union are guaranteed

BUT! there is some good news. right now there's a petition on IATSE's website that has over 80,000 signatures currently addressed to disney leadership to do the right thing and meet with this new union and recognized their vote to form. it still needs roughly 21,000 signatures and only takes a minute to sign! anyone with a zip or postal code can sign, meaning both US and Canadian residents can sign and help this union get the deal it deserves!!

PETITION: Demand Disney recognizes Animation Production Workers' Union!

IATSE

[captaincrais]

i was able to sign from Germany so international zip codes also seem to work!

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[envelopandkissme]

this fucks

[An Entity]

[annabelle--cane]

like as a feminist and an asexual if you ever imply that not having sex / not having "enough" of it is a conservative or reactionary trait I will be running you over with a bus pronto

[annabelle--cane]

you do not need to have sex ever. if you don't want to then you can just not do it. you don't need to have sex in order to mature as a person. you don't need to have sex to prove that you don't think it's immoral. you don't need to have sex to be a good partner. you don't need to have sex to be physically and/or mentally healthy. all of these goals can be achieved by hundreds of means other than sex. you can chose to do it for any reason you want, but you can also chose not to do it for any reason you want, including just not really feeling like it at any given time in any situation. the only thing not having sex says about your life and character is that you decided not to have sex. you can really really just not do it and that will be 1000x better for you in every conceivable way than making yourself do it when you don't want to.

[An Entity]

[vesper-of-roses]

Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific

[An Entity]

[self-healing]

stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.

[jorrmungandr]

Any time I feel the grip of anxiety that I’m too old or don’t have time to do something with my limited hours after work, I just remember the wisdom of the ancients:

[veritasrose]

Look. My mom is 65. She just divorced my shitty dad, is in therapy, wearing what she actually wants, cutting her hair how how she likes, and is exploring her gender and sexual identity. She went from being stuck in the middle of nowhere watching fox news 24/7 to a guest house in the city where she paints and reads, goes to dance classes and botanical gardens, and has started playing D&D with her kids and our friends. She says this is the life she always wanted and she has never been happier.

It’s never too late!

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[fatehbaz]

Timeline.

Stage 1: A poisoning.

Stage 2: A poisoning.

Stage 3: A poisoning.

People die at every stage of the process: during the original extraction; during the use of the extracted material; and then during the eventual waste disposal.

1. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned, during the initial extraction and mining of uranium, living in the site worst affected by poisoning of groundwater, radiation, and mining. (Majority of US uranium mines in Four Corners region; radioactive soil; hundreds of unrepaired mines; poisoned streams; largest single radioactive waste disaster in US in 1979 located on Navajo land.)

2. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned during atomic bomb testing, living in the site worst affected by radiation after radioactive materials have been processed and manipulated. (Majority of nuclear weapons testing fallout and iodine-131 poisoning in Four Corners region.)

3. Navajo, Pueblo, Ute, Hopi, Latine communities, and other local people get poisoned,  during the disposal of radioactive waste, living in the site worst affect by radiation after the uranium has been processed and profited from and then returned to mills in the Four Corners region. (Majority of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive uranium waste, even when processed or used elsewhere across the continent, is then shipped back and stored in Four Corners region.)

Meanwhile, none of the profit/“wealth” is shared with people living in the region, where access to groceries, drinking water, utilities, etc. is extremely limited.

Some “unrelated” maps just tossed together:

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Desert ecoregions get designated as empty “wastelands” and therefore available for domination and extraction. Then people die. People die at every stage of the process: during the original resource extraction; during the refining and use of the extracted material; and then during the eventual waste disposal.

Just my impression, idk.

[hightimebykaceymusgraves]

[ID: Each map is of the United States, and has the Four Corners region (the meeting of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico) circled and/or emphasized on it by the data indicators. The map titles in order are: “Iodine-131 Deposits from 1953 A-Tests”, “Overlapping sites of both (1) uranium extraction and (2) exposure to the worst radiation from nuclear weapons testing”, “American Indian and Alaska Native Population”, “Radioactive waste storage sites” (2 maps here: first map is of the entire US, second map is zoomed in closer on the Western US), “Navajo Nation”, “The Uranium Legacy of the Western U.S.” (which is a map of abandoned uranium mines and ‘mine features’), “Activities of I-131 Deposited Per Unit Area of Ground: Test Series: Upshot-Knothole” (2 maps here: first map is labeled ‘Test: Harry’, second is labeled ‘Test: Simon’), “Uranium Resources of the United States”, “Per capita thyroid doses for the population of each county”, “More than a third of Americans are at risk of losing affordable drinking water”, “County Poverty Rate for the Untied States: 2013-2017”, “Approved Radioactive Waste Shipments for White Mesa Mill: 1993-2018”, “Radiation exposure from atomic weapons testing (Total, 1951-1970)”. End ID.]

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[rthko]

Something that gets lost in the contemporary pressure to have an iron-clad identity is the subversive power of saying "it's none of your business."

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[leporellian]

this is going to be the most redcore post but i genuinely think giant puppet dragons are holy beings

[leporellian]

Angels

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[magnetothemagnificent]

Transphobes aren't attacking bathrooms randomly. It's not about protecting women and children, it's about preventing trans people from participating in public life.

Access to toilet facilities are essential to being able to participate in public life.

It's why society was so reluctant to introduce public bathrooms for women, because before that all public bathrooms were for men only.

It's why society was so reluctant to desegregate toilets for Black people.

It's why society was and is so reluctant to create disability-accessible bathroom stalls.

If a person can't access a toilet, then it's extremely difficult to impossible for them to participate in society.

So, the best way to exclude a group of people from society without putting up a literal sign saying "x group of people not allowed" is to prevent them from accessing the bathroom.

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[eldritchidiot]

the whole squad

[kalichnikov]

Thanks I hate it: sarcastic disdain, you don't enjoy this at all
that's insufferable, I love it: prankster solidarity. A compliment for mischief.
You gotta try this dude, it sucks: solidarity through communal self-flagellation
It's terrible, watch it immediately: Your classic so-bad-it's-good media

[simplyclockwork]

@annecumberbatch

Can’t forget, ‘gross, I love it’

[rosetta-stoned-bitch]

Not to forget the iconic

[severedned]

How could people forget Data?

[lindleland]

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[wildersage]

the impulse to hide what I'm doing at my computer still sits so deep even tho I'm literally never looking at anything objectionable , the door will open and I'll hurry to close the page like oh fuck no one can know I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the Balkans

[naamahdarling]

I just don't want them asking me WHY I'm reading up on, like, turnips, because then I'll have to make something up, say something bland like "just curious", or admit I was Googling something like "the most unfuckable fruit" and went for a ride.

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[defectivegembrain]

babygirl I'm bothered by noises you wouldn't even hear

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[cock-holliday]

I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.

Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.

People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.

Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.

People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.

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[thickness-protection-program]

"my friend from England" "my friend form Ecuador" "my friend from Australia" "my friend from Brazil".. me talking about my mutuals who I've never spoken directly to

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[mwagneto]

i genuinely dont care if the creation of all media comes to a screeching halt btw i will very gladly live with no new movies no new tv shows no new anything for years if that's what it takes for the people who create them to be treated like human beings. i hope every other facet of the entertainment industry goes on strike too and i hope all the ones that havent unionised yet will. i want media creation to become completely impossible and i want the people who could make it possible again to hold out until they get every single thing they want. btw