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thatdiabolicalfeminist:

A really common strike tactic in the pre-internet days was form a
picket line. Basically, the striking workers would hold up signs
explaining their strike and surround their place of work with a line of
people all chanting and marching. This not only got the public
interested in the strike, but it also physically blocked people from
entering the business they were striking against.

When
workers strike, businesses sometimes hire “scabs”, or workers willing to
step in and replace the strikers to make the strike meaningless. A
picket line would mean that even if the business got a full complement
of scabs, they would still take a huge hit financially during the
strike.

“Never cross a picket line” is something union and
other pro-labour parents used to teach their children, and it meant both
“never be a scab” and also “never patronize a business currently under strike.”

Amazon will likely
hire scabs during a widespread strike to pick up at least some of the
slack. But this time, workers can’t use a physical picket line to block
access, because Amazon is an online business. But it’s still important
to make sure the company isn’t able to bring in a lot of profits during
the strike – hence the calls for boycott online.

Amazon knows they need their employees. They just think they can get away with abusing them. The boycott and the strike are not to convince them to think anything, it’s to make it so unprofitable to continue that they have no choice but to concede to the strikers’ demands.

someone needs to clear this up for me:

do non-ace people ACTUALLY have like physical reactions/sensations when they see someone they’re attracted to?? like, the butterflies and warmth and stuff described in books/fic/whatever a real thing that actually happens??

Repo! The Genetic Opera

dreams-in-flowers:

This movie is a hell of a ride. I forget I’ve seen it, and then something just reminds me of it, and I’m like “That exists! That doesn’t just exist, I’ve seen it. And I liked it!” 

Like this movie is a roller coaster of “what the hell?” It includes:

-The girl from Spy Kids. But goth!

-Sarah Freaking Brightman. But goth!

-Giles?!!?

-Legit the most emotionally stable person is probably the grave robbing drug dealer who lives in a dumpster and narrates in his free time. 

-Zydrate comes in a little glass vial. (A little glass vial?)

-Paris Hilton?

-Its actually an opera. Everything is sung. Everything.

-There is so much going on that when someone’s face falls off, its not even in the top 5 WTF moments. 

Its not a movie I would recommend for everyone. There’s drugs, murder, a ridiculous amount of blood, organ harvesting, and like someone’s face actually falls off. But if you want a strange bizaro journey of “What am I watching? What is this? What did I watch? I think I might have liked it???” and a soundtrack that gets stuck in your head, yeah check it out.