Good luck and Godspeed and break a leg

UBI needs to happen. via antiwork

I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say “no”. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.

To demand better, because the options are no longer “suck it up” or “die”.

The counter-argument: Not having UBI is in the interests of those in power who want to do anything to the people they are in power over in order to remain in power.

If the greed of the few should come before the need of the many.

Not-so-friendly reminder that everyone is easily 1 second away from needing a resource like this.

DO NOT think you are above the necessity for something like UBI, ESPECIALLY in the US. You could get into an accident or have a sudden health issue and now whatever money you had saved is forfeit.

The only people who are “above” this are the people standing in the way of letting UBI become a thing.

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This is AWESOME and let me tell you why.

All pet snakes need enrichment. Just because they don’t have feet doesn’t mean they don’t need to get out and stretch.

The rotating has a little bit of bounce to it, similar to a tree branch.

The snake is twisting in and out, which is good for the muscles and ligaments.

The snake is sniffing its environment, getting all the new smells and old smells and activating the little thinky parts in the brain.

The snake is safe and can go for as long as they please.

Good, happy snake 🐍

when I was in high school my dad was speeding like crazy because I was running late to my job at the cemetery. and the cop who pulled him over gave him three whole tickets because who the hell goes 95 in a 25??? but then, when my dad went to court the cop didn’t show, and so the judge looked over at the charges and just couldn’t believe it. he thought the cop must’ve been so racist that he made it up because who the hell goes 95 in a 25? so my dad got all 3 tickets dismissed bc of racism. that he didn’t even experience because he was in fact going 95 in a 25.

to clarify. my dad used to be a cab driver in ny and he also grew up in india so he just drives like a dickhead.

oh, a cabbie

How does it feel to ask for a drink and instead you get a whole artistic experience.

kittenheavenpov on tiktok

I love birdwatchers they’re like “I just saw my ALL TIME FAVORITE BIRD SPECIES! I’ve always dreamed of seeing one in the wild! I am ECSTATIC!” and it’s the most boring looking little brown bird you’ve ever seen.

And I’m watching the video like “whoaaaa what’s it going to be! woodpecker? red-headed woodpecker? eastern whip-poor-will? northern mockingbird? it’s a Bachman's sparrow? oh, okay. neat.”

I feel like I need to show you a Bachman’s sparrow for this post to truly land.

Oooooh the most bird ever.

omg this is so me my favourite bird is the short-toed treecreeper and.

like. yea...

I’m sorry to admit this and I would never do it in real life because I have an immense respect for wildlife and specifically the delicate nature of birds. That is the most grabbable animal I have ever seen. It looks free for the taking.

Process video for "Looking Back" (in the shop now) and musing about adjusting our expectations while getting back into the swing of things.

raccoon stickers are here for patreon this month and they look SOOOO good I’m so excited about them - patreon is in my pinned post and you can get one of these guys if you join this month!!

THE GOOD PLACE (2016 - 2020) I 3.07 - A Fractured Inheritance

This is one of my favourite scenes in the show.

It's "in my fridge, asking if there's ice-cream" close to home.

As the eldest grandchild by ±10 years, I remember when the kids were babies. I remember how they would have snacks made to them or easy stuff to eat while I was cooking for myself at age 5 because there was nothing. I remember how I would ask for gummy sharks (and on a lucky day) get gummy worms and be told that "is the same thing, while the kids would get the ones they asked for and I would be yelled at for buying the "wrong ones", when there wasn't the one the kids asked for. I remember how the kids would have a massive collection of Legos at ages 6+, while I got board games that I had no one to play with and dolls I didn't like.

So, I used to ask myself the same question Eleanor makes. "Why do they get this? Why do they get this family? Were they always capable of it? Was I not worthy?

Today, after going NC with all my family, it doesn't matter much. But it was a big part of how I grew up.

And, to everyone still struggling with it:

You are worthy. They're the ones dumb enough to not see it.

How I join skeins

Cleeeeeveeer!

It's good to learn, remember, and share stuff like this.

When my mom or her sisters did crochet growing up, their dickhead older brothers thought it was hilarious to snip the yarn somewhere in the middle of the bundle. I suspect mom would've found a trick like this really handy.

jeff gets it

How does superglue REFUSE to come out of the tube when you're actively trying to get some out, but as soon as you give up and put it down, the damn thing decides it's time to do world's best pineapple-with-a-werewolf-boyfriend -impression?

This website makes it impossible to communicate with normal people.

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

This is the definition of frisson for me

Best reply ^^^ with the full, infuriating story.

Link here: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/a-matter-of-principles/

Elon is recruiting randos from Twitter to compete for the chance to work themselves to death figuring out how to take away your welfare.

Nothing says efficiency like creating a whole ass new department with two co-chairs.

every part of this stupid thing (the name, the people running it, the fact that it's not gonna be an official government outlet so elon and vivek don't have to leave their businesses, etc.) causes me great pain and suffering and i am genuinely angered by the chainsaw the new administration wants to take to pretty much everything (that doesn't in some way benefit themselves)

HOWEVER, do think that despite all the justified concern about this DOGE shit they're going to find that cutting $2 trillion and "ending" the bureaucracy are not gonna be as easy as their self-important little tech bro genius complexes think it's going to be. since, one, (speaking from experience from federal govt agency) they're going to find out pretty quickly that despite how they've sold themselves as cost-cutting wizards who are gonna come in and fix everything by thinking of things no one's ever thought of before...actually people HAVE thought of all this before.

Like there are many govt oversight agencies that put out hundreds of reports on waste and inefficiency every year (GAO, for example) or produce omnibuses of options detailing how each would cut spending and the deficit (CBO mostly but there are others too). There are outside groups that do all this too and have lists of fraud and waste and whatnot, so it's pretty funny to see elon and vivek and all these guys walk in there thinking they're big important "biznes executives" and knowing that they're not really breaking new ground here (and are gonna realize that pretty fast...)

and the second thing that gives me hope is seeing these assholes say "we're going to untangle the bureaucracy and drain the swamp!" because like alright. sure. go to war with the bureaucrats. who are famously known for, well, bureaucracy. making things complicated. slowing things down. paperwork. be careful cutting all that red tape guys, you might end up strangled with it.

as stupid as this whole thing is and as much as i hate that its happening i think they might be seriously underestimating the power of mid-level career civil servants here because if they knew the truth they'd understand that america's most powerful fighting force is not the military