slightly behind fallen angel

You've got to join the IWW

I'm not saying you should be a guns blazing organizer

1. The best organizers are lowkey up to the last second

2. If you're afraid, if you're tired, there is a bare minimum option

Sign up, get looped in with your local, pay your dues into the branch and get a free training.

Now you've got one job, you need to get your coworkers worries and their contact info.

Sues got a bad back and needs more breaks n others do. Sammy takes three buses to work each day and can't have last minute schedule changes. Saul frankly checked out from the world years ago, but you built up some rapport.

And you have their phone numbers/emails

You've at this point risked bubkis more than you would otherwise, and have been paying into your branches relief funds all this time (6 to 33 dollars a month sliding scale, Upstate NY has additional options for itinerant workers and those in crisis)

The day things get intolerable. Management change, lay offs, sexual harassment or assault from management, twelve hour days, or just one issue too many

You have a much better chance of running a safe and effective campaign than if you did nothing and have better odds of weathering the crisis that went too far for you to take.

Anyone in the Northeast United States hit us up on our site or email [email protected] to get directed to your nearest branch. All other workers worldwide there are IWW or CNT unions almost everywhere and we can help you track one down.

If you are not ready to join our UK branches have put together a written guide https://iww.org.uk/resource/one-to-one-conversations-the-basics/ and our twin cities branch has put together a very helpful and bluntly honest reading we have all new members read https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/twin-cities-iww-weakening-the-dam

You can also reach us by mail at PO Box 77 Altamont NY 12009

Request free stickers if you have a NY, VT, or Western Mass address

DM me for discounted CD's of labor songs in English, Yiddish and Spanish, or to pick up 4 dollar press stamps to support our North American publications

Order CD's at https://jamesconnollyupstatenyiww.bandcamp.com/album/rebel-tongues-living-tongues

We also have an audio version of Weakening the Dam available now. https://soundcloud.com/user-860760625/sets/weakening-the-dam-audio?si=2d2c6125e51c47729c60478b094925e9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

As someone who's had to bake gluten free for several years, watching ppl do shit like this with regular bread feels like literal space age magic to me. Gluten free dough is a consumptive Victorian child who must be coddled and wrapped in silk and prayed over night and day if he stands half a chance of making it to adulthood as anything but a slab of featureless rice mush, and regular bread bakers are out here making whole ass sculptures and quilts and shit. Screw riches and eternal youth, baby, if the devil was real i'd sell my soul in a heartbeat just to be able to rip apart one of these loaves like a feral hog. If you're intestinally capable of digesting gluten I need you to do something for me right now and close your eyes and spend a moment treasuring this fact. and then go and deep-throat a baguette in my honor

everyone be cool about my horrible vibe please

also once i get dairy goats it's mozzarella city baybey

I feel like I would have been diagnosed with OCD a lot earlier if the vast majority of screening questions (for mental illnesses in general) weren't based on the person's perception of their own behavior, in isolation. and what i mean by that is asking someone with OCD "do you wash your hands excessively?" is not a good question.

a person with OCD believes they are washing their hands the correct number of times. it's not excessive. we believe we're exhibiting best practices and helping to keep everything clean.

better questions might be, "does it seem like you wash your hands a lot more than your friends or family?" "do you get dry patches or cuts on your hands from washing your hands?" "do you find it deeply distressing, more so than how you've seen other people react, when you get something on your hands that you can't clean off right away?"

being asked "are you overly preoccupied with bugs, symmetry, and contamination?" also got "no" responses from me years ago in my life. what they didn't ask for, and didn't know, was what *exactly* I was doing in my day to day life that genuinely ate up my time and mental space to a concerning degree, but I *didn't know* that other people don't do this.

"do you spend a lot of time cleaning?" -> no, it's not a lot. it's a good amount. why?

"do you become frustrated because it seems like no one else meets your organizational and cleanliness standards - do you often 'take over' for other people because they can't do it right - do new friends seem surprised by how strict you can be about your living space?" -> oh. yeah. yeah I get it now.

That day you realized you can just beat the shit out of people until they pass out or die.

Men of the French 288th Infantry Regiment (reserve regiment). Most of them wear P2 type pads, pressed against the face thanks to a handkerchief under the chin. The man on the right hand side of the photograph wears a T. Les Paroches gas mask. Verdun 1915

please, white woman was my father. call me fart explosion.

remembering all the times i spent money

Poison Ivy, my fav. These are redraws of drawings I did last year, which are still floating around on this site, haunting me

Shout-out to all the artists who'd be drawing so much weird porn if they didn't have to worry about all that professional reputation bullshit.

@leftsidejeans replied:

About the best I can say for it is that many of the fandom's community organisers were, themselves, children at the time, so a lot of what went on in terms of building essential community infrastructures on the back of uncompensated child labour was merely inadvisable rather than outright unethical.

(The same cannot, of course, be said for the comic itself.)

everyone shut the fuck up and look at this snake named barcode

You can watch the whole video if you want, but at 13 seconds when he pulls the blob out of the furnace and WHOOOSH it's suddenly a ghost?

Good stuff.

Corning Museum Instagram but their youtube has full demonstrations and livestreams.

Chris Rochelle Instagram has lots of neat things but mostly this ghost.

“nobody is making you do this” i am driven by unnatural forces you will never even begin to comprehend

love the variety of animal that I like to call “the sneefers”

^ the sneefers

DON'T FORGET THE BLACK AND RUFOUS ELEPHANT SHREW