"Just after starting on Cars 2, I was told by a superior that I would be uninvited from all weekly art department meetings because Lasseter 'has a hard time controlling himself' around young women... It was clear that the institution was working hard to protect him, at the expense of women like me."
9 people in front of a Starbucks store show off their union vote papers and celebrate.
FACT: Starbucks has spent unfathomable amounts on union-busting their own workers.
ANOTHER FACT: Baristas are cutting through the corporate BS and continuing to WIN!
Congratulations to workers at Colorado's 14th & Tomichi store - they just won their union!!! ✊🔥
And here's the clip, thanks to James: bsky.app/profile/jame...
There’s never been a better time to join the Green Party if you share our values. I’ve been a member since 2014 when we were very excited to overtake UKIP with ~45k members, now we’re on nearly 5x that! 215k 💚
Oh okay reaching across the aisle!
The War in Iran is costing taxpayers nearly $1 billion a day.
While Trump funds another illegal war, Republicans in Congress are cutting healthcare and food assistance.
Invest in the American people, not more endless wars.
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Regina Hall shouts out Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo at the NAACP Image Awards:
“Take a moment to the two kings who are in this audience and just send you so much love for your class.”
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
My latest review for @bookforum.bsky.social is also out now. In it, I think alongside Namwali Serpell’s resplendently rigorous new book on Toni Morrison about the last greatest living writer’s legacy and how we’re meant to read her.
As we warned years ago: staying on X and stewing your brain in Elon Musk's juices makes you more bigoted, more hateful and more cruel
It doesn't matter how immune you think you are to this. It creeps in at a deep and lingering level. Everyone around you can tell, even if you can't.
Enough can’t be said about how “machine-learning” simply reiterates the anti-blackness of tech bros and their ilk. And that includes the violence of disregard: “oh, we didn’t anticipate that as a possible problem.” That’s racist too.
During a screed against undocumented immigrants, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) shouted at Trump, yelling, “You have killed Americans,” and “You should be ashamed.”
You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.
the Black Panthers were right
It is Ash Wednesday no one has schmutz on their forehead Today, 8:25 AM
Setting this reminder was perhaps my most brilliant move ever
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
I sometimes worry I go a bit too hard with my resentment of British newspaper journalists as a class, but then I am reminded of stuff like this and am reaffirmed in my belief that we simply do not loathe them enough.
A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.
I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.
I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.
1 square = 1 year.
Man couldnt answer a single damn question about what he is making. No one ever does. “Im so productive!” To make WHAT. What do we need all this supposed software for? How is it helping us? What problems are you solving that arent “make me feel like a special technical boi“?
“She’s not from here.”
> To those who [...] use fear and intimidation to help sell the agenda of the big tech CEOs who [...] use coal-fired GPUs to capture society’s output and sell it back to us[...]: I not only scold you, I shun you. That goes double if I once admired and respected you.
ratfactor.com/tech-nope2
WARNING IT IS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THIS BUT NOT UNALTERED
Roses are red
Our resolve hasn't faltered
Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪
Damn look at those legs
I remember when we were 12-18 months out from AI white collar job automation, 12-18 months ago.
No field of study has had more predictive power for our current moment, and this of course is why they want to shutter it
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
