Thought I Would Share This Here. Image Is A Clickable Link That Will Take You To The Account That Posted

Thought I would share this here. Image is a clickable link that will take you to the account that posted it! ID has now been corrected, and is in alt text. It is also below, please excuse the redundancy:

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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) tweeted: “No one can make you stay in an unsafe worksite. Close up and walk out with your coworkers until management or nature fixes the problem. Contact us for help.”

EWOC quoted their own tweet and added, “If your boss won’t let you evacuate: Convince as many coworkers as you can to all leave together & contact us right away. You have the right to organize & leave an unsafe worksite. If they’re not bluffing & still try to fire you after the storm, we’ll help you fight it.”

Attached to the OP is a meme of a skeleton marching away, titled “Just walk out - you can leave!” It lists, “wildfire smoke, hurricane, flooding, no heat, powers out, no water, tornado warning, AC broke, weird fumes.” Bottom text reads, “Climate sucks… hit da bricks!” Overlaid is the meme’s author, “@/organizeworkers.”

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Remember, history was awful. Never trust the romantics.

Friendly reminder to my moots that Inzoi’s build mode uses generative AI for the creation of things like art and wallpaper and it’s not worth melting our planet for a vidya game thank you

Late night thoughts, but seeing white ppl's reaction to landback & Turtle Island & Hawaii has really showed us that so many people still don't understand settler colonialism or why it's bad, or even acknowledge the fact that them being born in Turtle Island does in fact, mean that they have privilege as a result of that settler colonialism.

"My ancestors didn't do any of the killing, so they didn't do any colonizing" You being in Turtle Island is proof that they did in fact, participate in colonization. Even if you know for a fact that your ancestors didn't kill any Indigenous people, the colonizers that DID do that specifically did it so that other White settlers could replace the Indigenous population. That's what settler colonialism is. The settlers that moved here were just as much part of colonization of the Americas as people like Christopher Columbus was.

"My ancestors were mostly farmers" I said this so many times in the past, but yeah they were still colonizers. Natives were pushed off good, farmable land onto reservations (specifically areas that tended to be worse off for farming, crop planting, and hunting) specifically so that white settlers could have the good areas to themselves to farm. The U.S and Canadian government paid for White settlers' travel expenses specifically so that they could come colonize Turtle Island. The gov put out ads to "buy Indian Land!" And people definitely took them up on it. Plenty of poor White people trespassed onto what even was designated as land reserved for Native Americans, and that land automatically became theirs ( and disenfranchised from the tribe) for no reason besides that they were on it. One reason why so many White Americans believe they have specifically a Cherokee ancestor is because there's lots who faked Native lineage in order to steal land from displaced Cherokee. Theres a good chance your ancestors did any one of these things.

I think people have this image of what a "colonizer" is in their head and it's a moustache twirling white villian holding a sword or a musket, so much that they don't remember or realize that "colonizer" or "settler" does very much in fact does also include their pastoral great grandparents who were "immigrants"

I’m going to say something controversial (surprise, surprise), but what I believe to be an imperative statement, especially for all my disabled Tumblr peers! Whether you have a physical disability or a mental disability, please consider this:

This world doesn’t owe us shit! We are not victims but forever human beings endowed with divine value. We don’t need pity to feel better—we need to maintain and improve ourselves and our local resources.

And while the world may not owe us shit, we owe everything to human beings like us and to those who came before us. And everything we do now for those who will come after us MATTERS. We need to value each other more and live more as a team and realize pain is relative. What might’ve killed someone else, you might have very well survived, yes. Regardless, we need solidarity in our community. Do not gate-keep another’s experiences or their pain.

HOWEVER, this also means we should NOT be co-dependent on the acceptance of either able-bodied people or mentally healthy individuals. Remember: we are not victims; we have just as much a right to be here as anyone! And while “venting” is acceptable for everybody at times, please don’t get trapped by the idea of perpetual victimhood!

In the end, playing the victim doesn’t elicit empathy, but distain. You can’t say you want help, then not provide compromises on helpful solutions. You can’t say your support disabled solitary worldwide, but then not be active in your local community. Truly, the only thing we really can have control over is our local politics. Not to mention, victimhood makes you a dependent forever mentally and emotionally. It hurts YOU in the end too!

I hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way, either. I say this as someone with severe disabilities both physically and mentally. I also say all of this with love fully-intended.

Does anyone get what I’m saying here? Does any one have anything to add?

Lost in all of this Olympics talk is that no one has ever bothered to find out a thing about Algeria or its politics.

Literally impossible they would have sent Imane Khelif to represent them is they thought she was. She’s a straight CIS woman. She is biologically and physically a woman since birth.

Oh, but congratulations, transphobes. You just put a target on her back.