The Middens of History
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Ghost 2 Ghost communication… you understand
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elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
so SAG-AFTRA finally released some official guidance for fans, viewers, creators/influencers, critics, and more during the strike. here’s what you need to know:
- if you see a publication/news source/journalist talking about a piece of struck work, that’s ok. they’re allowed to do that.
2. they’re asking regular viewers and fans to DONATE TO STRIKE FUNDS, SHOW UP TO PICKETS IF YOU CAN, and please do NOT boycott streaming services or movies in theaters.
3. influencers, content creators, cosplayers, and anything in between is still a bit of a grey area, but they’re asking people to use their best judgement. “organically” means UNPAID promo (like an invite to a premiere without being paid, being sent a publicity box, letting the company’s social media post a photo of you in cosplay, etc).
obviously this doesn’t answer every question, and isn’t hard and fast rules for fanworks, but it can at least inform how you personally choose to move forward when posting online and moving publically. i hope this helps!
(via missingrache)
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“Plane 33930 damaged in bad landing when Pilot’s overalls were caught in control … . Minor damage to plane, no injuries sustained to fliers.” July 18, 1918.
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
Image description: A biplane is crashed on the ground, with one wing and its tail up in the air. The other wing is smashed into wooden struts and fabric.
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Every single person I know who did football in high school, without exception, has a chronic injury. Many regret what it’s done to their knees and back, even major organs like the brain.
There is no serious legislative push to ban high school football.
Also, like, if you want to talk about social pressure on minors to undertake activities that will result in regrettable, irreversible damage to their bodies:
No one, *ever*, tried to persuade me to transition.
My gym teacher tried to persuade me to try out for the football team almost every single day that I was in junior high.
And if you had asked me, even back then, whether I would rather lose my reproductive capacity or suffer irreversible brain damage, I know that I would have chosen the former without a second’s hesitation.
It is an actual fact that 99.9% of football players have some sort of brain damage, not to mention other bodily injuries.
Football is fundamentally a brutal sport that rapidly degrades cerebral function and mobility.
It shouldn’t be a sport and it definitely shouldn’t be a high school sport.
(via specspectacle)
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You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!
A history of company towns
by Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore
(Continue Reading)
…So when you hear talk of certain corporate bigwigs intending to build Company Cities in Texas…
…be concerned. Be very concerned. :/
(via specspectacle)
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(via Homo naledi were burying their dead at least 100,000 years before humans | Ars Technica)
Now the same expedition team has announced the discovery of H. naledi bodies deposited in fetal positions, indicating intentional burials. This predates the earliest known burials by Homo sapiens by at least 100,000 years, suggesting that brain size might not be the definitive factor behind such complex behavior. The team also found crosshatched symbols engraved on the walls of the cave that could date as far back as 241,000–335,000 years, although testing is still ongoing…
“I think we are facing a remarkable discovery here of hominids with brains a third the size of living humans, and slightly larger than chimpanzees, burying their dead—something previously only found in large-brained hominids—as well as etching meaning-making symbols on the wall,” said Lee Berger, a paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer in Residence who leads the Rising Star Project. “This would mean not only are humans not unique in the development of symbolic practices, but [they] may not even have invented such behaviors.”
(via specspectacle)
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Okay fine, yall wanna know the real reason everyone’s seemingly fine with billionaires and multi millionaires dying in a cut-corners submersible?
Because they only get that much money, and ESPECIALLY this dude only got that money, by viewing safety as expendable, not caring about human life, and trying to maximize joy riding and profits as much as possible at the cost of any life they can get away with taking and millions of poor people around the world have died under horrific circumstances because of it.
In ovens that are still way too hot and should have cooled off properly before anyone climbed in to fix a conveyor but the company head didn’t want to lose profits with it turned off to cool for that long, in crudely made buses where additional seating was added to maximize patronage without spending money to make the brakes support the load, in horrific fires because some venue owner overfilled beyond capacity and oversold tickets while not expending the money to install fire sprinklers or keep it up to code, in cheaped out airplanes where repairs that should have been obvious were put off for money saving time and time again, in air conditionless amazon warehouses of heat stroke collapsed on the floors while other workers are instructed to just step over their corpses and get back to work, crushed under machinery that should have had safety backup features to stop it from rolling or should have been operated by people with the appropriate schooling and licensing to operate it-and that was skipped out on too just to save a buck and get back to productivity faster.
These things happen every single day. Every. Single day. And if you don’t think it does, ask a firefighter, ask an emergency worker, ask the people who clean up after these CEO’s messes. Ask a judge. God, ask the lawyers.
And for once, ONE TIME, the person responsible for the disaster by cutting corners ate his own bullet instead of forcing everyone else to.
I have a hunger that only the rich can satiate.
(via specspectacle)
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ALTTHIS^^^
And if you do get paid for your ideas/writing during the strike, that is considered scabbing and you will be barred from the WGA for life, as per this email from the Blacklist:
And, because a lot of people don’t understand this bit, this is about you selling your ideas or writing to US-based TV studios or movie studios who are part of the AMPTP. There is no strike against book publishers. Nor audiobooks, graphic novels, or poetry publishing. Or just writing.
Read the above from the WGA.
Just a note that it’s not just members of the AMPTP, all US Theatrical, Film, TV and New Media Production companies are currently covered by the WGA strike, and there are no independent producer waivers this time because they were abused in the past. Hence why the Tony awards were cut down to not include any pre-scripted material so they wouldn’t be picketed. (The sole exception is IATSE 839 jurisdiction Animation Writers. https://animationguild.org/wga-strike-qa/)
Alas, being an “Independent” production company does not always mean the same thing as a being on the side of the workers.
(via specspectacle)
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ALTSave the Date!
Barricades: A Les Mis Convention will return on July 12-14, 2024!
Proceeds from Barricades 2024 will go to support Black & Pink National.
Black & Pink National is a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing.
“We will always be partners with those impacted by the prison industrial complex, the atrocities it enacts, and we will not rest until it is completely dismantled. Because we not only imagine a world without prisons, we demand it.” - Black & Pink NationalKeep an eye on our socials for more information throughout the year, including general registration, guests of honor, and more!
As always, if you’d like to get involved in Barricades, please join our planning discord.
(via fremedon)