*wakes up and turns on my giant complicated yet charming series of rube goldberg machines that make my breakfast but i mess up the combination and get scorching hot eggs tossed in my face*
Pretty fucked up to see people uncritically reblogging this when OP’s automated hedge-trimmer rendered all my topiaries cubist as well as slicing my belt in two, causing my pants to fall down and reveal a whimsically-patterned pair of boxer shorts :/
pacific rim was really like "our giant monster-killing robots are powered by the tender, intimate, powerful connection of soulmates - romantic, platonic, or familial" and i've never recovered from how the sheer brilliance of that concept made me feel
like i'm sorry but these enormous metal robots so vast and powerful that they run on nuclear reactor cores welded into their chests can only be moved and controlled by the power of love??? how does that not drive you utterly insane just thinking about it???
if you haven’t heard what disney just did to their college program cast members, including the ones who came from other countries, do me a favor and learn about it, talk about it, share it, spread it, i need this to be known. i need this to not go away. they need to face consequences for what they just did to THOUSANDS of employees (most of which are under the age of 25) with such a short notice. please dont let them hide what they just did.
here’s someone on twitter explaining it in better words than i can handle right now.
they laid off thousands on saturday, told them to get out of their housing in less than four days, told the ICPs (international college program) employees they need to be out in less than 4 days despite them being in another country on their own during travel bans no longer allowing them to fly home with their work visas no longer extended since they no longer work for the company, they told them that this is for their safety but they dont care that they just threw THOUSANDS of young adults into homelessness during a pandemic. and then they dropped Frozen 2 on disney+ because they needed to cover it. dont let them get away with that.
npr:
With just about 500,000 employers, the United States Postal Services is one of the country’s largest employers, but many workers say they’re not receiving the training or supplies they need to deal safely with the coronavirus. They fear becoming carriers of another kind — catching and unwittingly spreading the virus.
“The management isn’t giving us gloves. They’re not providing hand sanitizer, and there’s no place on the street for us to wash our hands every so often,” says Beth, a letter carrier in the Midwest, who has a lot of big apartment buildings on her route. (Beth isn’t her real name. She fears that if she complains, she’ll be disciplined and could even lose her job.)
Beth says the instructions she and her co-workers are getting — wash your hands and if you’re sick, don’t come to work — aren’t good enough.
“In the Postal Service, basically if you call in like more than three days in a row, you get a letter of warning,” Beth says. She fears that unofficial policy could encourage sick workers to come in and spread the virus.
A petition on coworker.org to demand the United States Postal Service provide:
Leave with full pay for employees who are high risk or who care for high risk individuals,
emergency sick leave to be granted to all employees who contract or are suspected to have contracted COVID-19,
hazard pay (time and a half) for employees remaining at work,
as well as new safety protocols and supplies provided during work.
With just about 500,000 employers, the United States Postal Services is one of the country’s largest employers, but many workers say they’re not receiving the training or supplies they need to deal safely with the coronavirus. They fear becoming carriers of another kind — catching and unwittingly spreading the virus.
“The management isn’t giving us gloves. They’re not providing hand sanitizer, and there’s no place on the street for us to wash our hands every so often,” says Beth, a letter carrier in the Midwest, who has a lot of big apartment buildings on her route. (Beth isn’t her real name. She fears that if she complains, she’ll be disciplined and could even lose her job.)
Beth says the instructions she and her co-workers are getting — wash your hands and if you’re sick, don’t come to work — aren’t good enough.
“In the Postal Service, basically if you call in like more than three days in a row, you get a letter of warning,” Beth says. She fears that unofficial policy could encourage sick workers to come in and spread the virus.
Leave with full pay for employees who are high risk or who care for high risk individuals,
emergency sick leave to be granted to all employees who contract or are suspected to have contracted COVID-19,
hazard pay (time and a half) for employees remaining at work,
as well as new safety protocols and supplies provided during work.
ACNH Online Guide: To get villagers you don’t like to move you gotta stop talking to them, specifically talk to everyone BUT them to make them feel lonely, and once they’re wandering around with a sad cloud over their head that means their ready to go.
Me:
I assumed everyone knew this, but
candy desk . yeah I know you’re like “it would be stupid in a tv show if a senator famous for being a libertarian idiot whose ribs got broken in a fistfight over yard waste was infected with a virus from a one-in-a-century pandemic and continued to rifle around in the senate republican’s candy pile”. well sorry Sorkin but this is the real world and that’s just how it is
oh yeah because I forgot to mention, it was Rand Paul because of fucking course it was
my radical plan for stimulating the economy is what if you gave money to human beings. i’ve heard that most money that gets spent is actually spent by human beings. wild if true
oh you think your life is hard? try being a gay rat living in france who hates your dad and just wants to cook
actually there is, she has one line at the end when she says “how do you know?”
ok I just skimmed though the movie again, and here she is in the beginning, she just doesn’t say anything, and you wouldn’t guess she was a girl because they didn’t do that weird humanizing, tits and longer eyelashes thing that most movies with animals do.
i’m pretty sure that all the female coded rats are the smaller rats, which is apparently accurate to real rats. Remmy is also really small. after going though the movie I realized that there are only five rats that have actual lines. Remmy, Emile, the dad, the really big bodyguard rat, and the rat at the end. whack.
remmy: dad i think im a boy
dad: sure son
remmy: also im tired of eating literal rotted garbage
The French newspaper Le Monde has a daily livestream where people can send questions or comments about the lockdown and journalists will answer them, and this woman’s comment is killing me:
“I have a chicken that escaped her coop and ran away on the road. The police officers on duty laughed and told me to stay home and that they would bring her back. It’s been half an hour and they’re still chasing after her, meanwhile I’m having coffee and watching them and laughing.”
maybe i’m just going slowly insane but the picture they used in this article about gay people walking fast i found today while procrastinating on my writing is driving me to hysterics. there are actual tears running down my face right now.
