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“[…] Fallon was running a segment in which he and guest John Oliver were playing a game where they were attempting to get Amazon’s Alexa to say particular words. “Speak from your heart, Alexa. Your rotten heart,“ Oliver chimed in, before shifting gears and asking, “How bad are Amazon working conditions?”

Fallon tries to interrupt in a way that comes off as just a little too desperate and panicked to be completely in on the joke, leading Oliver to ask “Alexa, what is union-busting?” At this point Fallon starts begging the surveillance unit to listen to him, instead of Oliver.“

[…] The clip comes as workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama try to unionize their workforce, and after they got support from President Biden in a video defending the importance of unions.

Amazon’s working conditions are often described as dystopian for good reason.

Come for the digital rewards systems straight out of Black Mirror that track worker productivity, stay for the mandatory graveyard shifts called “megacycles” or lose your job. The company’s success is no small part owed to its inhumane productivity quotas that create unsafe working conditions, which the company then turns around and offers to fix with surveillance―not to mention operations it already conducts to monitor workers’ personal lives in the United States and Europe. The company may flaunt its $15 minimum wage for warehouse workers, but zoom out and you’ll see Amazon is exploiting its monopoly and monopsony power to suppress wages in areas where it is one of the only major employers.

When it comes to union-busting, Amazon is king.

It has only ever had two union elections: one in Delaware in 2014 and the one currently ongoing in Bessemer, Alabama.

That’s because Amazon is religiously committed to busting unions whenever the threat appears, whether that means:  illegally firing workers in retaliation for organizing, breaking the rules of companies it owns to spread anti-union propaganda, hiring people solely to walk around warehouses wearing “Vote NO” buttons, kindly reminding warehouse workers to vote NO while it watches them, and creating a website for workers to visit to learn why Amazon’s exploitation is preferable to collective bargaining rights.”

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MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) - Lil Nas X

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Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton

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I've never watched Arrested Development but Jessica Walter brought us some of the best gifs on the planet so rest in peace to the icon behind these:

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Also, the fish man wasn’t done only with CGI, some of it was practical. The main areas of CGI for the fish man was making his eyelids close sideways and hiding his giant fish man dong

STOP making prequels to stuff esp horror movies. Not knowing how a thing started or why is the whole POINT

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My mom is a Tagalog/white mixed person who has been asked if she was “working” while walking down the street in pjs. Asian Women need to be seen as human beings! Asian sex workers need to be supported and protected! White people need to stop fetishizing Asian women!

(via Сhristine Liwag Dixon on Twitter @ cmliwagdixon)

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So there’s this artist, Alex Schaefer, who makes a bunch of paintings of Chase Bank burning.

There’s just

so many of these

and I think it’s incredibly funny but

I just read this bit from the artist and

This is a "plein air" painting which means I set up my easel right across the street of this Chase bank in my city and painted it like it had caught fire. The police questioned me on the spot. Three weeks later Homeland Security was knocking on the door to my home. The question they kept asking me was "Do you hate these banks?" I can honestly say yes.

And I just think this is the greatest artist statement I’ve ever read.

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Why Women Kill  Lucy Liu. Ginnifer Goodwin. Kirby Howell-Baptiste.

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btw the thing she couldn’t ignore was someone calling her out for saying anti-depressants/hormone therapy are only perscribed by lazy doctors

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White allies and white leftists and liberals need to read this.

In regards to posts about racism or intersectionality with race involved you MUST listen. Not respond. LISTEN

What I have seen so many white “allies” do is add onto posts (my own included) to put their own thoughts and opinions. In some cases take the words of the original poster and try to “translate” what is being said to other white people.

You are ACTIVELY taking away the voices of poc and speaking over them when you do this. When you tack on your own personal anecdotes or try to to give a definition of what a person or color is saying you are in the simplest of ways insulting their intelligence

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I watched Velvet Goldmine last night and now I'm an emotional wreck

I blame @lostbutnot-found 100% because if they hadn't brought it up, I still wouldn't know about that movie existing.

""Your death could not kill our love for you"

"Of darkness and disgrace, we are the human race"

11/10 would watch and rip my heart out again. Cover yourself in glitter more often.

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These stats are truly horrifying

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Tonight (March 17 2021) in Atlanta, at least eight workers are dead after a series of targeted shootings in massage spas. The shooting is the latest in escalating Anti-Asian hate crimes, which have increased nearly 150% over the past year alone.

Below are a few links to organizations to consider supporting, all of whom are fighting for the rights of AAPI, as always feel free to add on any (credible) links or updates:

Gofundme for the AAPI Community Fund

Stop AAPI Hate

Asian Americans Advancing Justice

Red Canary Song

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wishing all my asian american mutuals a very safe and good day today

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RACISM IS NOT COMEDY!

useful carrds to get educated on what's happening towards asian community:

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Jessica throws a Halloween party and invites paul Jared and embry (cause she thinks they're hot) bella asks them what they're going as they say the cullens she assumes they ironically are going as vampires but she gets there and they are dressed as clowns. This was obviously after new moon!