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  • askawelfarecaseworker:

    Casual reminder that working off the clock is illegal. Unless you’re salaried or authorized for overtime there is no reason for you to stay late. None. Your employers know this, too.

    Coming over here from Europeland one of the things that’s most bizarre is this concept people seem to have that they need to be working all the damn time. For nothing. If I’m working I’m damn well being paid. I don’t mind the odd 10 minutes here or there, but if you want me to be doing work, you are damn well paying me.

    I am super interested in my job, but [company] is being reimbursed for my effort by [customer], and I am having some of that money for myself, thanks*.

    * When I want to feel like I’m purely giving back to society, that’s what volunteering is for.

  • urdith6:

    sorcerous-kitty:

    popculturebrain:

    micdotcom:

    Watch: Samantha Bee’s brutal takedown of the GOP might have you siding with Scalia.

    I hope people don’t sleep on Full Frontal. Such sharp, savage writing and delivery.

    Her reasoning is perfect, and I’d reblog it for that alone, but “chinless dildo” for Mitch McConnell is the icing on the cake.

    DAYYYYMMMNNN…

  • wrotemyown:

    aurelia-the-aurelia:

    sizvideos:

    Australian comedian comes out as transgender in an original way – Watch the full video

    Wait is this the Axis of Awesome? This is great! Good for her!

    Grats to this brave and classy lady!

  • just so you know

    shadesofmauve:

    fogblogger:

    thatdiabolicalfeminist:

    the US minimum wage that we all agree is too low to live on ($15,080/yr) is far more than many legally disabled people receive in benefits

    the maximum SSI for a single person is $8,796/yr
    if a disabled person marries another, each drops to a max of $6,600/yr

    while you’re fighting for 15 maybe look at that too

    Not to mention we aren’t allowed to have more than $2,000 saved at a time. EVER. Like EVER or we lose all benefits completely. In the bank, in cash, it doesn’t matter. The government literally keeps us poor, while also making us pay immense amounts of money for health care that we require to even survive or function (let alone work enough to be able to get off of benefits, not to mention that there are a ton of people who will never be able to do that anyways). It’s a very, very broken system and not one that was ever meant to actually help anyone. 

    Plus, “marriage equality” is still a huge problem for disabled people (as you can see), which is something almost everyone is ignorant to/doesn’t care about. 

    DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM. 

    Limits on savings and what you can earn as supplemental income without benefits disappearing are also a factor in why some non-profits can get away with paying disabled people pennies, too. The first limit needs to DISAPPEAR, the second needs to be raised, or pro-rated, or something.

  • France’s Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Shops To Chants Of ‘Gas The Jews’

    France’s Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Shops To Chants Of ‘Gas The Jews’

    tinierpurplefishes:

    givemealltheowls:

    uzumakijpeg:

    France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars. 

    please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please 

    Listen.  I love my followers and my mutuals dearly.  You know how occasionally I post something like ‘every Jew on this site has a list in their head of who reblogs what and who ignores posts about Jews’?  I’m talking about this shit.  I have been seeing things on my dash about the situation of Jews in France for over a year, but it’s coming from other Jews 99% of the time.  Please stop ignoring this.  This is literally history repeating itself and we can’t be the only ones calling it out again.

    fucking kristallnacht shit again? ugh. please, leave them alone

    It sounds, depressingly, like this awful stuff is still going on.

    http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/01/14/463010103/after-attack-an-uproar-over-a-call-for-french-jews-to-quit-wearing-yarmulkes

  • This Is Bad

    gailsimone:

    South Dakota has voted to pass a bill, HB 1008, that deliberately targets Transgender students for humiliation and potential abuse. It prevents them from access to the bathrooms and locker rooms befitting their identities.

    This is straight-up fearmongering, and it’s going to cause more pain for a group that is already the target of way, way too much horseshit already. If the governor passes it into law, it will be legally mandated discrimination and the deliberate inflicting of emotional and physical harm. 

    Please take a moment and read this link. And thank you to the wonderful Sophia Banks for spreading awareness and always being on the frontline of decent human behavior.

    http://transgenderlawcenter.org/archives/12496

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    ursula-vernon:

    My buddy Seanan McGuire has been texting me for bird IDs lately, which
    culminated today when an owl flew into her window, screamed, and
    attacked her when she went outside to check on it. (Twitter was a
    delight today as a result!) She called me at the coffee shop, and I
    stood outside alarming passersby by saying things like…well, like
    this.

    Good times! (Owl was fine. Seanan’s got a background in
    wildlife rehab, if not in birds. Her house may belong to the owl now,
    though.)

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    I guess that makes it official then :) on Flickr.

    I guess that makes it official then :)

  • aideemoi:

    sweet-bitsy:

    If you ever feel bad about your mistakes remember that my sales district manager at Barnes & Noble once sent back an entire shipment of manga because he thought they were accidentally printed backwards

    *snert*

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    shadesofmauve:

    akameniseis:

    this, on the other hand, is not adorable.

    how can an ebook even have a limited number of copies @jinandtakaya @shadesofmauve can you explain this to me

    (I’m assuming the answer is something something licensing something $$$$$$ but that doesn’t make it less weird.)

    False scarcity bullshit. Publishers and Ebook distributers wanted at LEAST as much profit as they get w traditional books, so they place arbitrary limitations to make a digital, infinitely copyable resource work as much like a physical book as possible, if not worse. Ebook contracts usually only allow a finite number of checkouts before they must by repurchased, too.

    To the intense annoyance of basicaly everyone.

    And there I was thinking the electrons got worn out.