#may day strike

[elliesgaymachete]

All the articles talking about how the marvels had the lowest box office opening of any marvel movie conveniently forget to mention that it’s the ONLY marvel movie to come out in the midst of an actors strike and didn’t get any of the press that all the other movies would have gotten 🙃

#before anyone yells at me i know the strike ended like the day it came out but press typically happens in the weeks BEFORE the release #anyway #sometimes i care about marvel when they make stuff that isn’t just about white dudes #kamala may honestly be my favorite mcu character #bc mcu ruined america chavez 😔 #the marvels

[fantasykiri5]

Day 13 of @hermitadaymay !

Flee with extra flee!!!

#my art #tango strikes me as a ring wearer (<- projecting so hard) #hermitcraft #hermitcraft fanart #tango tek #tango tek fanart #hermit-a-day may

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

A princess wink 😉

#princess leia #carrie fisher #empire strikes back #star wars #star wars day #may the fourth be with you

[decolonize-the-left]

GENERAL STRIKE TIME BABEY. READ THE WHOLE POST.

While we're all mad at government sending money to Israel that police budgets are so inflated because of how often they pay settlements.

And also that it's a verified fact that our police train with Israeli soldiers. Remember when they were black bagging people in PDX? It reminded me of this ex-Israeli soldier talking about how they'd do the same thing to innocent Palestinians just to terrorize them and their neighbors. It was intentional terrorism when they did it.

Police budgets pay for all that.

Correction, we pay.

To put it more bluntly,

We pay for them to kill and terrorize people.

Just as our taxes pay for the deaths of Black and Brown people all over the world from Turtle Island to Sudan and Palestine.

In Dec. 2022, Louisville Metro Government agreed to pay Walker $2 million to settle lawsuits against the city. Metro government previously paid a $12 million settlement to Taylor’s family in Sept. 2020

We paid for Breonna Taylor's death.

And her murderers were never arrested btw. Not that there aren't still people trying to arrest them of course. But our money paid for their lawyers and wouldn't you know it, no charges have stuck.

Four years to the day after Breonna Taylor’s death, federal prosecutors are moving forward with a re-trial of one of the officers involved in the botched raid that ended her life. At a status conference Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings scheduled Brett Hankison’s final pre-trial hearing for September 13th. His re-trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 15. In November of last year, Hankinson was tried for violating the Constitutional rights of Breonna Taylor, her boyfriend, and three neighbors when he fired through two covered windows during the raid. Prosecutors argued he used excessive force when he shot into the apartment complex blindly. Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, had fired at officers executing the search, claiming he thought they were intruders.

And Myles Cosgrove?

Yeah we're paying him to terrorize more people. He got a job as a fucking sheriff's deputy.

Myles Cosgrove, the former Louisville police officer, who was fired for fatally shooting Breonna Taylor in a botched 2020 police raid and hired earlier this year as a sheriff’s deputy in Carroll County, rammed a resident’s truck with his cruiser Monday and then pointed a gun at the owner and several bystanders, witnesses said.

Witnesses told The Courier Journal that Cosgrove barreled into Happy Hollow Private Resort Park trailer park at a high rate of speed without his emergency lights on, then struck William Joshua Short’s pickup truck with such force that it sent the vehicle flying into a building, breaking off two cinder blocks.

And Johnathan Mattingly wrote a fucking book about it to make money off of his role in her murder. $15 on Amazon.

He also wanted to sue Kenneth Walker, Breonna's boyfriend. You know why? For damages and injuries he sustained while killing Breonna Taylor.

WE PAID FOR ALL THAT. ALL OF IT.

Our power is in our dollar.

American politics and officials don't care for our lives. It's why they're content to watch us protest for months. Because we're still going to work. We are the worker ants simply fulfilling our duty, receiving the bare minimum to survive for our labor.

We're still building their bombs. Paying our taxes, so much that hardly any of us could afford more than rent.

We are just drones fulfilling our purpose to the upper class who doesn't give a shit about us beyond what we do for them and how little we will do it for.

If we want change we're gonna have to stop working. We're going to have to deprive them of products they sell, of our taxes, of our low cost labor.

And the strike that UAW is planning in May 2028 has inspired a lot of others to start looking at the opportunity to join in.

If you haven't heard of it yet, a strike is when workers organize and stop showing up for work. And a general strike is a mass strike across various industries around similar demands or bargaining positions.

There have been multiple calls for a general strike since then, predominantly from individuals and groups on social media, which has often resulted in confusion about what a general strike would actually look like. To be clear, a general strike is not a protest or a rally, a single picket line, or a boycott. It is, as I’ve previously defined, “a labor action in which a significant number of workers from a number of different industries who comprise a majority of the total labor force within a particular city, region, or country come together to take collective action.”

Throughout history, workers have used this tactic as a nuclear option to shut down entire cities when needed, including Philadelphia in 1835, Seattle in 1919, and beyond.[...]

If even four or five of the unions representing the workers mentioned above banded together in a nationwide general strike, the entire country would grind to a halt. When Shawn Fain asks his fellow unions to set the timer for May 2028, what he’s really saying is, get ready to shut sh*t down and level the playing field between bosses and workers once and for all.

JOIN A UNION. AND TALK ABOUT THIS.

And make one of the demands out to be an end of American support to countries participating in apartheid and genocide.

End the taxes for police budgets and settlements. If they want police departments so bad then they should FIND funding for themselves like the government makes USPS do.

One of the biggest pushbacks we hear is that there is never any official backing for calls to a general strike. Well here it is! Make sure you tell EVERYONE

This could be a global strike if other countries choose to participate on the same date

No, I don't think Palestine has 3 years so in the mean time join a union, keep protesting, start rioting, answer Every call to action coming from a Palestine and Sudan and the DRC and sign this strike card

#workers rights #workers party #general strike #strike #leftist #communist #anarchist #end the occupation #end the genocide #abolish the police #class war #no war but class war #2028 #UAW strike #united auto workers #may 2028 #may day #solidarity #classism #capitalism #biden #current events #new

[newyorkthegoldenage]

For years, May 1 was celebrated as International Workers' Day, also known as Labor Day in some countries, and often referred to as May Day. Here, in 1929, these five South Carolinan textile strike leaders marched in the Communist May Day Parade at Union Square. They carried signs, some of which pleaded for help, and others read, "Everyone on the picket line! Defy the Injunction!" May Day in New York passed quietly.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

#vintage New York #old NY #1920s #1 May #May 1 #May Day #workers #labor #unions #strikes #collective bargaining #parade #Communism #Union Square

[theoryofwhatnow]

like minds shitpost (20/24)

#we’re back fellas #*20th century studios intro plays* #we need more fanfic in this godforsaken fandom #i couldn’t think of any better tumblr names for them sorry #kinda just went with the first thing that came to mind #it’s been almost a year since i watched this movie #i can say with complete confidence that i have thought about every day since then #i don’t plan on stopping anytime soon either #if i’m lying may god strike me down where i stand #as always apologies if any of these have been made before #like minds #nigel colbie #alex forbes #murderous intent #tom sturridge #eddie redmayne #the sandman #like minds 2006 #text posts

[that-one-english-nerd]

today feels like a good day to introduce may (chuck/roger) to this fandom. think about it and thank me later ;)

#the boys in the boat #roger morris #chuck day #chuck day / roger morris #may bitb #or chugger if you will #anyways a one shot may or may not be in the works #pun intended :) #these two #look at these idiots #they’re adorable look at them #sam strike #thomas elms

[rederiswrites]

This May Day--International Worker's Day--it's worth noting that the international labor movement was deeply affected by the Haymarket Incident of Chicago (1886). Protests against long work hours, as well as police brutality against workers the day before, became a riot after an unknown individual set off a bomb behind police lines. In the wake of the riot, eight men were convicted of conspiracy, most of whom hadn't even been at the riots and none of whom had solid evidence tying them to the explosion. Four were hung, one committed suicide, and the rest served life sentences.

The riot and the hangings brought international protest, and affected the international labor movement strongly, leading in part to the establishment of International Worker's Day--which the US does not recognize.

#so add that one to the pile of 'why don't you just strike' #may day

[providence-park]

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU ALWAYS

= HAPPY STAR WARS DAY | MAY 4TH =

#mygifs #starwars #star wars #may the 4th be with you #star wars day #the mandalorian #andor #a new hope #empire strikes back #return of the jedi #the phantom menace #attack of the clones #revenge of the sith #the force awakens #the last jedi #the rise of skywalker #rogue one #Millennium Falcon #Star Destroyer #may the force be with queue #razor crest #science fiction #scifi

[pocketoon]

what's this?? :0c im gunna start streaming this coming week!! come check me out and the vtuber model i worked very hard on :)

https://www.twitch.tv/pocketoon

[TEXT SCHEDULE]

Monday: nothing! Strike day!

Tuesday 4PM PST: Neopets the Darkest Faerie

Wednesday 4PM PST: Art and Animation Stream

Thursday 4PM PST: Corn Kidz 64

Friday 4PM PST: Frogger 2 Speedrun Practice

#vtuber #furry #anthro #streaming #twitch #oldweb #webcore #windows xp #i was gunna start on monday but because its a strike day i pushed it a day! #also if you like my little bunny guy you'll see him on stream! #and wednesday i may animate him some more! #pocket art #pocket streams

[miramisaki]

36(???) days until Charlie...

#mira draws stuff #fate charlemagne #charlemagne #fgo #fate grand order #fate extella link #charlemagne countdown #sorry for the relatively small ratio of Charlie to picture today I realized it was 11 p.m. and went oH CRAP #so smol Crane Game AU Charlie strikes again #the class work and the existential ennui have been kicking my butt #hopefully I'll feel up to drawing something more detailed soon... #thank you to those of you who've put well wishes in your reblog tags I see them and I love you #and for those who missed my post about it like forty(?) days ago I do know we'll be getting charlie earlier than my countdown predicts #but changing the numbering when we don't have an official release date would be too confusing #so I'm waiting until we have proper confirmation of the release date before updating the countdown number #prayer circle for Traum on May 10

[huntingrays]

man, i have an idea for a jason revival fic/valgrace fic that i rlly wanna do, but I already have like… 3 valgrace wips, one of them being a different revival fic. also i dont have much of a plan for the whole fic, just some small ideas.

basically, the premise is that due to the prophecies n shit being messed up in toa, peoples’s fates are messed up as well.

so, after toa, the fates are trying to fix the fates of those whose fates were messed up by the whole ordeal. one of them was jason. so, they bring him back (but don’t bother to tell him… or anyone else, really).

the only problem? the classic issue of bringing someone back. jason comes back wrong. instead of being normal human jason, he can shift into a wolf, and a big one at that (my personal headcanon is that he’s like torso/shoulder height on an average, fully grown adult. ye, a big boi). also, he comes back in wolf form, and can’t shift back. he’s vaguely aware of who he is, but not much beyond that. he’s also vaguely aware of the smells of people he knows and trusts (but not what they look like or specifically why they’re important to him… or that he should somehow inform them that he is jason grace, back from the dead and now a wolf).

so basically, leo is sent on some quest (mayhaps a solo quest? or he’s separated from his friends for a time) and during it, he ends up having to fight vicious beasts under the control of some monsters. they decide to start out with their most vicious, which is wolf jason. leo doesn’t want to fight an innocent creature so he thinks fast and he’s able to escape with both himself and the wolf. once they’re safe, he takes off the device controlling wolf jason, and the two end up becoming friends. jason doesn’t realize leo is his best friend, but he gets from his smell that leo is important to him and that he’d do anything to keep him safe, which is just what he decides to do. leo doesn’t know this wolf is jason (literally why would he?), but he does think the wolf reminds him a lot of jason (with blue eyes and a scar on his muzzle that reminds him of the scar on jason’s lip) so he decides to call him “jay” and keeps him around as a much needed companion.

that’s pretty much the bulk of what i wanted to write. didn’t have much else planned besides that… expect for a vague idea for how the reveal/shift back happens. basically, the idea i had was somehow, maybe towards the end of the quest, there’s a fight by a cliff. also, maybe others are there, for more people to bant with and added tension. in the fight, leo nearly gets knocked off and is hanging on by just a hand. wolf jason goes to save him, but he doesn’t have arms or hands or thumbs to grabs him with, so he just like, bites his arm and starts to drag him up that way. however, as he’s pulling him up, the ground crumbles under them and they both fall. and jason, he cares about and loves leo. he would do anything to keep him safe. so, just in time, he manages to shift back out of sheer desperation to save leo, and safely floats them to the ground. I’d imagine leo would be very shocked (his dead best friend is now alive and as the wolf he’d been traveling with but now he’s very alive). idk what happens after that… probably meeting with some very shocked friends, bc if they were there with people, those guys just saw leo and a wolf fall to their death but suddenly float back as leo with a somehow alive jason and no wolf.

idk the only other ideas i had were just shenanigans at camp with wolf shifter jason. i imagine he’s not that scary as a wolf, just like… a big, dumb dog. a big, dumb dog that only bites if you hurt leo. leo does really mind jason being all protective, he loves any form of positive attention. he just thrives off of it. jason would definitely weaponize his sad puppy dog eyes to get leo to take a break. maybe we can apply some werewolf rules and say he like has to be in wolf form during the full moon? and leo definitely messes with him, like pretending to throw a ball but actually not, which jason gives him the silent treatment for a day after. also, jason being clean in human form doesn’t transfer over to wolf form, so leo has to give him bathes. and wolf jason hates the bathes and is very vocal about it. leo also hates the bathes because jason is very stubborn and makes it much harder than it needs to be. he ends up getting more clean than jason by the end. idk, the idea of serious jason being a silly, dramatic, goofy wolf strikes joy. i also imagine that, when he sees leo lying down, if he’s in wolf form that he just goes over to him and lays his whole body down on leo’s, much to leo’s dismay. but leo allows it bc he spoils wolf jason. also no clue how valgrace get together… just that it happens at some point. also, idk i imagine that he loves human jason and wolf jason in different ways. human jason is his bf but wolf jason is just his silly lil guy.

#pjo #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo spoilers #toa spoilers #jason grace #leo valdez #valgrace #wolf jason strikes joy #idk how to tag rambling about a wip that may never happen #maybe one day i’ll write a fic with silly wolf jason shenanigans #also i fucking love jason being protective over leo sue me #jason will be protective over him in every fic i write #i deserve to be as self indulgent as i want #and my brain wants leo to be protected by his bf #and also protected by his best friend pipes #he deserves to be taken care of #they protect him and in return he takes care of them by feeding them and tending to any wounds they may get

[ragnarvizsla]

happy Star Wars day woww already damn!

this is the may, may the fourth be with you and also… revenge of the fifth is next!

#star wars #the mandalorian #sw tbb #star wars rebels #obi wan kenobi #andor #return of the jedi #empire strikes back #a new hope #the phantom menace #attack of the clones #the clone wars #mandalorian s3 #grogu #star wars day #may the fourth be with you #revenge of the fifth #this is the may

[figures4fun]

Gotta love Star Wars day!

#may the fourth be with you #star wars day #han solo #leia organa #star wars #a new hope #the empire strikes back #empire strikes back #return of the jedi #original trilogy #hot toys #action figures #toy photography #action figure photography #figure photography #humor

[mathysphere]

Went poking around to see what kinda tutorials are out there on how to use Etsy's API (there's not much) and also to see if anyone's doing any fun stats stuff w Etsy data (doesn't seem like?), and now my recommended videos are infested with How To Earn $999,999 A Month On Etsy With AI ART / Top Ten SEO Hacks YOU NEED / Here's What Etsy Doesn't Want You To Know etc etc etc :(

But it also rec'd a 40min vid of someone poring over an Excel sheet of AO3 data, which sounds WAY closer to what I'm going for, so that's nice

#would love to see info on which keywords and trends are rising and falling this year #...which may well be in some of the clickbait vids but I just can't stand the presentation #I'm not interested in 'identifying an untapped niche' I'm just nosy and want to know what's going on #also cool to know: how early do the Christmas patterns peak #What percentage of patterns are snarky patterns #how many disney patterns are posted a day #how long does it take disney to hit those w copyright strikes #are mormons overrepresented on Etsy compared to real life #are >33% of all video game patterns Nintendo patterns #what branches of math are most represented among math patterns #...I might just have to suck it up and learn how to access their API #chit chat #etsy

[crowsquaks]

I pity Clow Reed.

His tragedy is one based on love that fucks me up.

Now before you call me out with "he fucked so much stuff up" "mans was the walking definition of a 'problem'" yes. I know- but that is exactly why I pity him and the cluster fuck he caused.

(This is way longer then I meant for it to be so it gets to go under a cut. I am completely NORMAL about this I swear.)

We get bits and pieces of who Clow was from Cardcaptor, Tsubasa, XXXHolic from an outsider view. He was weird, eccentric and powerful. Yet, when you put all of the view's together, you get this picture that I still have so many feelings with to this day.

Clow fucked up. He know he fucked up with his single thought that stopped Yuuko's time from continuing. Where she was supposed to die, and she didn't. She was stuck outside time by something he did on accident because for a split second he couldn't bear the thought to lose her. That was the moment the whole cycle started, and where he resented being as powerful as he was.

This one choice was something far worse then he could ever dream. (I will continue to pray to usagi to give me a manga, even a one shot I'm not picky, of Clow and Yuuko.)

Now, we know one thing. I will not back down from this, but Clow loved Yuuko. In what way can be interpreted however you want, family, friend, lover sort of love- but he loved her.(I can also ague Clow has a TYPE, but I digress.)He loved her so much that he lost control over his magic to try to stay with her. Which we see a theme in clamps works with the more power you have the more you have to be careful. With great power comes great responsibility.

After we see the loss of control, we don't know what happens next. Except at some point they never see each other again. What we do know is at some point Clow had Momo, but it seemed he wasn't able to use her for what he needed. What would he need her for? To try and fix his mistake with freezing Yuuko's time? Hmmmm. Well- Clamp??? Alas we'll never know, but the crumbs for us to think are there.

After that the timeline gets a little wonky, Clow makes Kero and Yue. He splits himself in 2. Makes his way to the country of Clow to fill the spot his not self is no longer in due to Fei Wong's fucking around. Then we've got nothing, no idea what actually happens to him in the clone time line, just poof. He dead and Toya is king.

The we hop back over to Eriol and he makes Suppie and Ruby moon. Which wouldn't make you suspicious, lonely dude made some friends- except butterflies. Who's mark are butterflies. Yuuko's are. There out in the open, a subtle gesture until remembering how much he loves his creations. Even if he is no longer "Clow" there is still a piece of him in there loving Yuuko.

IT MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL.

Clow Reed is a tragedy who is consumed by love and his hubris brought him to his knee's in the most human way possible.

~~

Quick side note, I wonder if the stray thought ever crossed Yuuko's mind looking at Watanuki that... if in another life she and Clow could have had a child. Would that child look as Watanuki does and is this what she couldn't have with him, because she already knows her story has ended. I like'd to to think the person she was talking to when she left was Clow.

#clow reed #yuuko ichihara #tsubasa chronicle #tsubasa reservoir chronicle #cardcaptor sakura #xxxholic #Clamp analyzation in the year of 2023 #please help me my brain hasn't known peace since i thought of this a few days ago #I beg of someone to help me #*cries* THEY WERE IN LOVE AND FATE STRIKES AGAIN #I may be a little un hinged