a rating of all the frogs in my neighbors’ frog-themed bathroom
very round and good! his face shows an emotion that i can’t quite describe. 10/10
here we have an arts and crafts frog! he has a nice figure but his lack of eyes is unsettling. 6/10
this is a truly excellent frog, he’s going places and he doesn’t care how long it takes. 12/10 for realism.
this frog looks like he’s having a cheeky little giggle at you for being in the bathroom for so long. something about him unsettles me. 2/10
this is the woodchime frog. he watches you smugly. i don’t like how he’s watching me, 5/10 because he’s kinda cute anyway
i hate it. 0/10
this fellow is perched right next to the toilet. one eye stares directly at your back, while the other looks at the wall. 6/10 good frog shape but still very unsettling
a truly excellent pair of comrades! double frog points 20/10
Unionized UPS Teamsters – 260,000 of them – are set to strike in the
biggest American strike since UPS’s unionized drivers walked out in
1997.
Superficially, the issue is about the company moving to seven-day
delivery, but the issue that’s forcing the strike is the sizable cohort
of union members who are unwilling to accept a two-tier workplace where
established workers get the full protection of the union and younger
hires are given a worse deal. This has been a traditional way that
employers have split, weakened and ultimately killed their workers’
unions – by buying off the long-established employees with better deals
that make the workers who’ll replace them feel that unions have nothing
to offer them, which establishes divisions that can be exploited later
to lay off those higher-paid workers, leaving only the lowest-paid
employees and no union they can use to press for better pay.
It seems like some of UPS’s Teamsters have figured out that solidarity pays.
Yo, if they do strike, don’t listen to the media bitching about those workers being uppity or what the fuck ever. Transit and shipping is a increasingly huge industry in the US, and the Teamsters should be cheered on and congratulated for demanding solidarity and support for junior workers–formal union members or not.
If you’re waiting longer on Amazon packages or whatever, of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t complain–but frame your complaints to aim at UPS management for failing to treat its workers well and negotiate, not at the workers themselves. In this Second Gilded Age, that’s the only way we’re ever going to see any kind of improvement from the exploitation of the nation by the uber-wealthy–and UPS certainly qualifies.
Solidarity, motherfuckers.
Fucking a
If you scroll back to January, I called this on this blog. Granted, I had inside information.
Thing is, this isn’t just for UPS. This is the largest labor contract in all of the Americas. This is so very important symbolically. This is for all of your unions too. Join the Teamsters. Just shut this shit down.
How to support a strike:
1) Don’t cross the picket line to use the service/buy goods.
2) Stand and march with them, if you can – if you have time, if you have energy and the ability. Even a little while helps.
3) Bring snacks; bring coffee; bring supplies appropriate to the location and weather: sunblock and water for a summer strike; extra pair of gloves or a scarf to give away for one in winter; rain poncho if it’s wet, and so on. Basically, look at where the strike is happening and ask yourself, “If I were camping in these conditions, what would I need?”
4) Visit if you can; tell them you support the strike. Honk to show support; smile and thumbs-up as you walk past on your way to school, and so on.
5) Don’t buy any of the corporate lies about how strikes will cost you money or make your life worse – they do this “play the workers against each other” trick where they tell YOU that those OTHER WORKERS are the ones causing you problems, not the corporations that refuse to cover decent health care for everyone that would allow you to pay higher prices for shipping. Remember:
That judge who asked young children if they even knew what a lawyer was and then continued to proceed on their cases is a piece of shit and I hope he rots slowly while alive, he should have refused, what a pathetic evil motherfucker who actually spoke to these children face to face and still proceeded to treat them like criminals and send them off to god knows what kinda awful shit, I hope that sick fuck gets a very slow painful disease
William C Snoufer die bitch
So what this post is talking about is the short film: Unaccompanied: Alone in America, which is a dramatic representation of the plight of unaccompanied minors seeking refuge through America’s immigration courts.
As the Department of Justice does not allow recording devices in immigration courts the film maker used actors to recreate the process as best she could.
William C Snoufer is a retired Judge who agreed to return to the seat to help make the film, he is not someone actually judging these children and I think it was really commendable of him to be a part of this project.
Also I think it’s prudent to note, this project began work in 2014. Unaccompanied children have not had access to US immigration lawyers or translators since at least then, and probably longer. This is not a new problem for the US, just one that has been recently brought to light in the most horrific way possible.
PLEASE SPREAD THIS VERSION
Do not accidentally tar a retired judge who helped call attention to this issue when he’s not the one who did this!!
This is issue is horrible, but William C Snoufer is not the villain in it! Judges still on the bench (and ICE, and the general system) are!!
Feeling tired but not wanting to go to sleep because you don’t want to miss the little time you have at home to relax from work although you are too tired to do anything else is a hopeless feeling.
As an FYI, Tumblr doesn’t make your inline images blurry randomly or for no reason. It’s a predictable outcome of two conflicting rules fighting each other (because Tumblr is a well designed site).
1. If you try to post an inline image that’s more than 810 pixels tall, Tumblr will resizie it so that it’s 810 pixels tall, adjusting the width proportionately. On the face of it this is reasonable; if this rule didn’t exist, assholes could bork your dash by posting an image that’s one pixel wide and a million pixels tall, forcing you to scroll forever.
e.g., if you post an inline image that’s 600 pixels wide and 2000 pixels tall, it will be resized to 243 pixels wide and 810 pixels tall, enforcing a maximum height of 810 pixels while retaining the same relative dimensions.
2. If you post an image that’s at least 300 pixels wide, Tumblr stretches it to be exactly as wide as the main column (currently 540 pixels), adjusting the height proportionately. This rule seems to exist in order to give Tumblr the freedom to tinker with the width of the main column without creating weird gaps at the sides of historical posts; whether this is a reasonable solution to that problem or not is… debateable.
e.g., if you post an inline image that’s 350 pixels wide and 500 pixels tall, it will be stretched to 540 pixels wide and 771 pixels tall, setting the width exactly equal to the main column width while retaining the same relative dimensions.
Now here’s the trick: rule 2 does not take any resizing performed due to rule 1 into account; it decides whether or not to stretch the image based on whether the original width was at least 300 pixels wide.
So let’s take that first example a step further. First, it takes your 600×2000 image and resizes it to 243×810 to achieve a maximum height of 810 pixels. Then, because the original width was at least 300 pixels, it takes the resized 243×810 image and stretches it to 540×1800, an effective “zoom” of over 220% – hence the blurriness.
This rules conflict can lead to some entertainingly stupid results in certain edge cases. For example, suppose that you posted an inline image 350 pixels wide by 10000 pixels tall – a real dash-buster! Tumblr would resize it to 28×810 – but since the original image was at least 300 pixels wide, it would promptly stretch that 28×810 image to 540×15621, resulting in an even more obnoxious image than you started out with, while also rendering its contents almost entirely indecipherable due to the effective 1900% zoom.
Of course, you can avoid all this simply by keeping any inline images that are taller than they are wide under 810 pixels in height and either under 300 pixels or at least 540 pixels in width, which is probably the best way to go unless you enjoy doing math. (With the caveat that it could all break hilarious the next time @staff dinks with how undersize and oversize images are handled, of course, but that would have been true anyway.)
Organized Chaos 