Their flagship store and New York has unionized along with 3-4 other stores! This is happening! People are tired of being seen as dollar signs and being made to work just to get to work more, to survive instead of thrive. Keep it UP.Â
Resident physicians are unionizing and (in at least one case) striking too! CIR, the biggest resident union, is leading the charge in trying to make it so the young doctors taking care of you aren’t sleeping in their cars. Their Instagram is probably the easiest place to learn about their work.
“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.
the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.
Good news! You can let Tumblr Staff know what you think about every version of Tumblr in a way that they might listen to! Here is a long survey from a blog associated with Staff and here is a short survey from the same blog. The blog, although full of surveys, does not allow reblogs. However, I took the long survey and later they improved one thing I complained about, so there is a chance more people complaining about changes could halt their enshittification. I cannot retake the surveys, so I must ask you all to send feedback where I cannot.
Pasting these links all at the end too for ease of access:
I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this. There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways. I can tell you when, though.
here’s my hot take about my generation and people younger than me (I’m 22 years old)
The reason current teenagers and people in their really early 20s are conservative on accident and have such shitty takes on the internet is because our generation was much more sheltered than previous generations and because we were raised to be ok with orwellian servailence and that is 100% the fault of our parents, Reagan Era kidnapping panics, and the rise of technology all coming together to prevent us from doing the sketchy shit that sends parents into panic mode but which is also completely fundemental to childhood development. If your parents had even a crumb of money to their name and even a shred of free time they started tracking your phone as soon as it was possible to. I did not experience this because my parents are actively trying to live like it’s the 1990s and still have not gotten cell phones of their own, and did not let me have one until I was 18 years old and it was no longer their choice, but literally over half of my friends in middle and high school had their phones tracked by their parents at some point or other, and we would occasionally find this out, not because their parents told them, but when we were trying to do the aforementioned sketchy shit and their parent’s car would pull up. And I would, like a reasonable person after finding this out, encourage my friends to just leave their phones at home, and their response would be “What if I get kidnapped” or “My parents are just trying to keep me safe”
This in my estimation has lead to a combination of kids being terminally online because they do have internet access and are better at deleting search history than their parents think they are, but don’t have the freedom to go out and do shit without their parents’ knowledge or consent, so they have the most privacy from the people who control their lives while they’re on the internet, and kids not having the real world experiences they should have, not knowing how to connect with other people irl, not feeling comfortable leaving the house because of the horror story lies their parents told them to make them ok with the surveillance they were inflicting on their kids. Kids these days are growing up in the fucking panopticon when they should be out in the woods playing with knives or stealing cigarettes from their older sibling and going out to an empty parking lot to smoke them or whatever and that shit is sticking with them into adulthood. Things that were “tee hee we could get in trouble isn’t this so fun and daring” in the 1990s and 2000s have become in the 2010s and 2020s things that are “If I do that without texting my parents some sort of lie to excuse where my location is my parent’s car will pull up and I will get grounded for the next two weeks.”
Like even when I was 19 I had a 16 year old friend who would volunteer their time at a food shelf and that’s how we knew each other. We would talk about dungeons and dragons together, and the game store was 4 blocks from the food shelf. One day we left the food shelf earlier than they had told their parents they would and they got punished for that. We were literally just going to look at dungeons and dragons miniatures and dice, which was self evident if you could see where we started and how far we walked and where too. I have to assume that this isn’t uncommon. It’s wrong, but it’s not uncommon.
Ok it has become apparent to me that people do not understand what I mean by conservative on accident.
Nobody my age is voting republican. Let’s be clear on that. With the exception of a small minority of gamer gaters and people who were raised in actual cults most people my age are either commies or good liberals who votes straight blue down the ticket. This is because of the greta thunberg effect. We’re all afraid of dying of thirst because there’s no water anymore at the age of 35. Wealthy white children are no longer safe with the republican party which has become less of a political party and more of a death cult, and white children are less wealthy than they used to be (I specify white because POC by in large never voted for the party of the southern strategy for obvious reasons). We as a generation are so insanely blue that they’re trying to raise the voting age to 25 about it.
This liberalism and party affiliation doesn’t preclude them from being conservative on accident. What I mean by that is… Well
No kink at pride is a great example. The assumption that pride should exist at all makes them think that they’re immune to conservative logic but they’re still trying to enforce a dominant ideology onto a minority group. That person who made the tweet about how you shouldn’t have sex in houses where there are children in the other room and if you can’t avoid it you’re a sex addict. That’s a great example of like straight up puritanism coming out of the mouth of someone who proports themselves to be a leftist
If you ever see a discourse that feels like an obvious psyop as an adult and you can’t understand why these supposed leftist youths are falling for it it’s because that kid has never had sex in the woods and had to try to buy plan b under their parent’s nose. My generation is dumb about sex. We’re dumb about drugs. We’re dumb about theft. We moralize literally everything. We’re so dumb about stranger danger that we never learned how to community organize so while the vast vast majority of us are crushed by existential dread about debt and climate change but we never do anything about it because we just don’t know how to organize because we’re raised to see everyone else as a threat and we never went to or organized parties as teens because our parents would always know and stop us.
They managed to invent a generation that hates capitalism but fully buys into individualism and who is supportive of queer people and way less monogamous than previous generations but who still buys into the base assumptions of the nuclear family and thinks sex is evil. The levels of politics going on here are way weirder and stupider and more complicated than “young people vote republican and watch Fox news”
taking any college course on societal issues in the united states is just like: *realizes its bc of reagan* *traces the cause back to reagan* *discovers the original policy came out of the reagan administration* *finds factual inaccuracies ignored by the reagan administration that are then used to push policy* *finds statistics that show the severity of the aids crisis as well as the beginning of mass incarceration of poc were caused by reagan* *hates reagan*
Hopefully people will start to realize why trades in general are so expensive. You’re paying for someone’s experience to make a good finished product that takes skill and years of practice.
However there is also a giant gap that needs to be filled in trades. As people are aging out of jobs like tailors, carpenters, bookbinders, leatherworkers, etc, there aren’t enough young people going INTO the trades to repopulate the jobs.
Please. Please. Consider going into trades.
These are the kinds of jobs people “fall into,” because they aren’t visible, and are never talked about.
Kids never grow up telling people they want to be a bookbinder. They don’t know they even exist. And schools never ever present them as valid options. And if they do talk about them, they are treated as invalid compaired to NFL Linebacker, President, and Brain Surgeon. After all “jewelry maker” is something people do to supplement their “burger flipping” income, and not an extension of blacksmithing.
But that’s the crux of it, isn’t it? Crafting and trade skills are an extension of artistic skills, which are often seen as completely invalid, and a total waist of time.
As the daughter of a professional bookbinder/book restorer, I had to reblog.
reblogging because I was in a course at college that covered Artisan skills such as these. I have friends who have since gone on to do Jewellery, Carpentry, Ceramics, Glasswork AND Blacksmithing. Ironically I ‘fell into’ comics.
windows to Artisan jobs are still around, the rising interest of upcycling and restoration has brought young folk into doing them.
Boosting because Artisan trades should be valued and carried on.
Skip college! Go get an apprenticeship! My partner is a bell maker, currently making trombone horns. Like, that’s so cool! I have my love of making utilitarian pottery, but that’s on pause since I’m without a studio.
But honestly, real talk, trades are a wonderful line of work for people with autistic/nerodivergent traits. Repetitive physical actions that you can see and feel in real time your abilities improve with each piece you make. Like that’s so satisfying. And you don’t have to make conversation with someone if you’re working at a table with glowing hot metal or tiny screws (like, I’m sure you could, but I don’t, I’d rather just do the task at hand)
Trades are great for those seeking answers in moral philosophy and struggling to come to grips with an existential mindset:
The things you create will be used and potentially cherished by others. You are helping people with the things you learned to create. For those struggling with the idea of existentialism, being a craftsperson gives you inherent purpose and value where none otherwise exists.
So you make a bowl. A person uses that bowl every day. It is integral to their daily life and being. It holds value to them, which you as a creator created, giving it the existence it needs so it can hold value, thus making you valuable and have a purpose. This valuable thing, that may help or spark joy in another human, was created by someone who cared enough to learn how to make something that lasts for another.
Which isn’t it the little things that are what remind us what it’s all about? And for those who ask: what do we owe each other? We all need shoes, bowls, windows, clocks, tables, pans, pipes, baskets, the list is long and vast as you may not realize.
Being someone who helps others helps us all. Actions done with sincerity and earnest will make this world continue to exist. When we can’t see the stars, oceans, forests, or mountains to remind us how small we truly are, it’s in our kitchens, bedrooms, where these created items bind us together in the shared human experience. And while we can’t change the whole world with our voices or ideas, we can rest knowing out there we could be the maker of someone’s favorite coffee mug, the quilt they grab when the first frost falls, the ring passed on from mother to daughter, or the trombone a kid uses to inspire his own love of creating music for others.
My favourite thing about tumblr, that in my opinion makes it far superior to other social media sites, is that new posts live side by side with old posts. These days, there’s a prioritization of new content. It not only shortens the lifespan of people’s work, memes and such, but it also devalues the work that goes into making certain things.
Sure, a lot of posts are just random thoughts spewed into the ether, but some posts are carefully crafted videos, photos, artwork, prose, that take the creator a considerable amount of time and effort to craft. So, as a content creator, it’s nice to see that you can put work into a piece of content on here and it can have a life of its own. Unlike other platforms where posts live and die in a matter of day, sometimes, hours
Colorized photo of Vincent van Gogh at his home in Arles in 1869.
No it isn’t you lying ass
Other ai giveaways other than the fucked up hands-
Leaves have no form or order- they’re a green mass without reasonable veins or connection points to stems. See the weird bit that crosses Vince’s arm
Same with the yellow flowers tbh they look pasted on and are all the same level of blur despite the leaves being crisply in focus, and several seem to not have stems
The metal in the window has no actual pattern and isn’t continued into the second window
The chunk of rock texture in the middle of the wood next to the window
The folds on Vince’s clothes don’t seem to fall in a natural way and seem excessive, especially on his pants.
Overall the space is… Odd. Where is he? A random corner against a plain blue wall? Why is one wall made of wood and the other has no discernible texture? Why does the stone part have that weird corner and have the foundation so high up in comparison to where Vince’s feet should be? Why doesn’t the stone wall match the geography of its base? What is the fabric thing on the lefthand side that’s conveniently the same blue as the house and jacket?
Anyway, good practice to train your eye for ai generated images
Really good example of how AI generated images tend to skimp on small details
If you look at his left arm, there’s something off about the shape of it. It’s because it’s not actually “bent” at the elbow. There’s actually…not an elbow there.
If you look at the right arm, at the spot where the leaves intersect, there’s just a chunk missing, in that little dark triangle there. The AI didn’t draw or imagine an arm BEHIND some leaves, that’s just two halves of an arm being bisected by leaves.
The perspective on the window is…off. That entire corner feels like it’s leaning inwards.
Coming from a capitalistic nation, I’m not surprised that the big name streaming services and production companies are quadrupling hard in how disrespectful they are to writers and the WGA as a whole. They’re literally showing how they don’t value people or see the very same people they employed as human beings.
During these difficult times where everyone’s a second away from being out on the street homeless if any unfortunately detrimental event were to happen, these companies have the nerve to openly admit that they want to literally starve out the emergency savings of their writers so they have no choice but to stop striking and accept being mistreated, cuz better to have a job that degrades you than to be jobless with bills and other financial obligations never ending.
The whole point of unions in the 1st place is to stop predatory practices in the workplace like this, to hold accountable the ones on top so workers can have a voice, and yet the bigwigs are showing their true colors again and without care that they are still parasitic to the creatives who made them so much money that they can’t even spend it within their lifetime or their descendants lifetimes.
Have the gall to call what they’re doing “a necessary evil”. Well if that’s the case, then there’s also a necessary good and right now, somethings gotta give.
ICYMI, there was fear that companies were scraping public AO3 fics to train their AI without the consent of AO3 or its users. That fear has been confirmed.
