Holy shit this got really funny to really sad really quick

rebump

oh my god it’s the real one. I’m so used to the stupid Skyrim edit.

I’M IN HYSTERICS

“L-O-U-S-Y T-S-H-I-R-T.” “‘T-Shirt’ has a hyphen.”

THERE IS A VOTING MISINFORMATION POST GOING AROUND.

 It looks like this:

THIS IS NOT TRUE. Voting laws vary state to state, and in some—such as North Carolina—poll workers actually HAVE to mark your ballot in order for it to be counted. If you pick a fight with poll workers about them marking your ballot in one of these states, YOU WILL LOOK VERY SILLY AND MAY GET IN TROUBLE.

Snopes has done a piece discounting this misinformational post and others like it. Tumblr doesn’t like links, but google ‘Snopes handwriting ballots invalidated’ and it will come right up. Here are screenshots of the article. I will reply to to this post with a direct link to the article.

Please read up on your local voting laws. Don’t be fooled by seemingly well-intentioned posts that rely on your trust and ignorance to succeed. If it doesn’t have a source, try to do some research before you spread it around.

And, uh, please consider spreading this sourced post around, because I don’t want people potentially getting kicked out of the polling place over this.

Love how users on here will ensure that people know that Biden doesn’t actually bury dogs then go around and give the screencapped post like a gazillion notes with little fact-checking

More than 10% of all Americans live in California, so I think it’s really important that as we start voting we all know about Prop 22, which you might see adds for on Tumblr. Here’s a couple things:

Companies are spending millions of dollars to keep themselves from having to cover benefits for their employees instead of spending that money on, for instance, employee benefits.

And they’re doing this at a time when the job these workers do has become the most dangerous for drivers and in the highest demand for deliverers.

Their attempt is so transparently heinous that they had to dispute a neutral description of the proposal.

And their add campaigns are exactly the bullshit Amazon tries to pull, where they have people of color talk about how important their job is or how much “freedom” they need in their work life. If you’ve ever lived in a community with an Amazon warehouse/distribution center, you’d know they regularly chew up and spit out workers in poor and often minority communities desperate for work.

Please, we can’t erode the rights of workers in the most populous state in the nation or allow giant corporations to exploit the pandemic for profit.

tl;dr version

VOTE NO ON PROP 22 in CA

It’s the gig economy corporations fighting hard to have the right to exploit workers and deny them the basic benefits of employment. 

Like, you know, the right to be paid for all the time you spend on the job, not the time you spend doing specific tasks. Like the right to overtime payments. The right to have your employer pay for necessary equipment. (In this case, being paid for gas, car maintenance, insurance, and so on.) 

OR - if this really were “independent contractors just using an app to find clients” - the right to negotiate directly with those clients. The right to set their own rates. The right to discuss the terms of the work - like, agreeing to a delay on one side or the other. The right to build  up a regular clientele. The right to refuse clients without penalty. The right to know the details of a job before agreeing to it. (Did you know that Uber and Lyft drivers don’t know the destination before they accept a job?) 

Fuck this bill and its supporters.

You’re going to hear a lot of guff about 22 if you’re in Cali, don’t fall for it. No on 22 has been endorsed by pretty much every blue-collar union in the state. As a union employee, I know that voting in any law that weakens collective bargaining (and don’t be fooled; that is exactly what Prop 22 is) is going to get a lot of workers the shaft in the end.

And also fuck Uber and Lyft for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on propaganda instead of on their employees.

Unmute !

I just wanna thank the person who put this across my dash cause I’m sad as hell but I still laughed a little

WAGHGHHHH

From the Museum of Seminole County History’s facebook page, a preview for an upcoming exhibition:

Image ID: a white paper hanging on an off-white wall. Printed on the paper is the following:

In the waning days of a global pandemic, the citizens of the United States grapple at the ballot box. The issues:

The Republican slogan “America First” competes with a more international Democratic globalist vision.

The Republicans pledge a return to normal in the face of this chaos. The Democrats seek to implement a new, more progressive normal.

This is the Election of 1920.

History doesn’t exactly repeat.

It’s more like a helix: going in circles, while escalating.

Mostly just we're learning who always thought the wrong side of history was the right one.

STAR TREK DISCOVERY (2017 - )

Day 27 watch out I’m coming!

Just gonna leave this here…

PER MILLION. THAT’S PER MILLION PEOPLE

adhd is: telling yourself “ alright time to get started” every 30 minutes and continuing to not move

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

white people can and should reblog this

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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there’s a movie adaptation of this! it’s obviously more dramatized/they use different names but i really really loved the movie! it’s called mission mangal and it was the first time i had heard of this and i was so surprised that literally? no one talked about it??? what they accomplished is incredible.

ALSO, Mangalyaan launched in 2013 and was meant to be a 6 month mission. It’s been in orbit around Mars now for more than 5 years and has enough propellant to keep going for even longer.

“The kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

FUCK YES. THIS IS THE TYPE OF REPRESENTATION I’VE BEEN HERE FOR!!

I love how the dudes at back are pure happy!!