it’s not… live action… “photorealistic” does not mean “live action” those aren’t real talking lions dude. there are no humans in the movie. none of the action is live. its cg animation. there’s nothing wrong with cg animation! just say it’s cg. it’s not live action. just because it’s not stylized and cartoony doesn’t mean it’s live action. stop calling it live action
I’m glad that tumblr is moving onto it’s labor rights phrase but if you’re going to strike you need
clear and concrete demands (i.e. $15 an hour minimum wage, paid sick time, the ability to recieve your schedule a month in advance, etc)
unity. one person skipping work is not gonna make a difference. you’ll just be fired. an entire workplace striking will yield results
mutual aid. if y’all striking y’all not gonna get paid and people have bills and children. you need to raise money for a strike, find a sympathetic rich person or unionize and pay dues
this is not an overnight process. it can take months or years and if you live in major metropolitan area there’s probably already a committee of some sort (DM if you live in New Orleans and want to join one) if not you can form one or join the iww. you can’t just tell people to not show up for work with no plan. because most people aren’t gonna do that.
Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”
AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE
so that’s the function of a rubber duck
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.
I use this for writing, actually. Explain what I’m doing and what I want to do and the different ways i can get to point B from A, as well as the different problems, amazingly working them out as I explain why I could or couldn’t the different things. I love the Rubber Duck theory.
Former programmer, can confirm. We didn’t have a duck in our office so our other programmer, who I shared a space with, used me as a duck proxy. (For the explaining, not the throwing.)
There was more than one day where I’d casually hear “Hey can you be a duck for a minute?”
I always knew that exclusionists were out of touch, but after working in offline, physical LGBTQ+ spaces it reeeeaaaallllly hits that point home. At the LGBTQ+ Center I work at, we encourage everyone who comes in to sign in. This is because the more visitors they get, the more funding they’re given. Trying to deny resources to people you don’t think are “gay enough” is literally counter-productive because of how funding works. The only time we’re going to have a problem with you is if you’re openly being disrespectful or bigoted, which is how communities should be filtered. That’s why you’re gonna be asked to leave if you’re being a dick to the aroace kid or the bi girl with her boyfriend or the straight ally who walks in. We’re not prioritizing them over you for their orientation or yours, you’re just an asshole.
this is so funny because no actual exclusionist cares about cishet aces/aros or cis aroaces coming to an lgbt center because lgbt centers are just community centers that are lgbt-friendly
when we talk about resources we mean actual real resources that can determine if someone lives or not like lgbt shelters, suicide hotlines, etc.
i mean but yeah continue to call other gay and trans people who might be actual victims of gatekeeping regs and continue to think that just because you went outside once in your 24 years of life you know everything and be smug to a bunch of teenagers online
Here’s the thing, though: homeless shelters and suicide hotlines? Those are also things that get funding based on how many people use them. Because, again, this is how non-profits are supposed to work. Also, there’s a phenomenon that seems to be going on with exclusionists on this website that we like to call Schrödinger’s Asexual: cishet aces don’t get kicked out of their homes for being ace, but they’re taking all the beds at the homeless shelter! Cishet aces don’t get bullied or feel suicidal for being ace, but they’re clogging up the suicide hotlines! Supposedly! I have yet to see an instance of this being as widespread of an issue as it’s claimed to be. And even if it were, then clearly there’s a problem here. There are people hurting and they need help that we can provide.
i love how you assume every cishet ace/aro and aroace is middle to upper class and they dont experience class oppression dont get me wrong it seems most of them are but i tried to give yall the benefit of the doubt. but anyways you know you dont have to be kicked out of your home to be able to go to a shelter. you can simply no longer be in your house for other reasons and need a place to stay but if that cishet ace thinks theyre entitled to a bed at the limited lgbt shelters when many homophobic and transphobic shelters would readily take them in thats you know, bad
theres also no reason for cishet aces/aros and cis aroaces to be calling into lgbt suicide hotlines and not a normal one because there is no reason you should be feeling suicidal over people online saying you’re not lgbt or your family and friends not understanding your asexuality/aromanticism when theres people in the best case scenario worrying about how people are going to react and treat them if they find out theyre lgbt. just because cishet aces/aros and cis aroaces feel like theyre different from other cishet people it does not entitle them to our resources that they can basically aquire anywhere else where these resources are very limited to lgbt people.
I love that you’re downplaying the problem of ace acceptance from family and peers. You’re assuming that the biggest problem aces and aros face in their interpersonal lives is just people not understanding them. You assume that no one has ever been subject to outright rejection or even violence for being a-spec. I especially love that you just outright claim that no one has a reason to feel suicidal over the lack of ace acceptance, as if anyone needs an acceptable “reason” to feel suicidal. (Seriously, are you kidding me with this?) There is no reason at all for LGBTQ+ hotlines to not have scripts for asexuals and aromantics. It’s not just for a-specs who are cis and/or het, either. LGBTQ+ a-specs can use them, too. Threatening to pull funding from organizations like the Trevor Project for having an a-spec script (which actually happened) is literally taking resources away from LGBTQ+ people.
Something I forgot to mention in my previous response: you seem to seriously misunderstand what LGBTQ Centers actually do for the community. They’re more than just a meeting place. They offer addiction programs, STI/HIV testing, support groups, literature, LGBTQ-friendly doctors and lawyers and businesses, just to name a few examples. And no one is going to take or receive resources if they don’t need them. And if they do need them? Then they’re welcome to use them. We want people who need them to use them.
99.9% of the time, the phrase “identifies as” is completely unnecessary in whatever you’re saying. Instead of saying “identifies as” you can just say “is” and it will almost always be more accurate, more clear, and less invalidating.
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