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So I’ve been to see COYOTE VS. ACME

And briefly: it’s hilarious, and (by my way of thinking) well worth seeing. 😄 In fact I’ll be going to see it again next week when it releases wide, as there are some things I want to look at more clisely.

I’ll do a post about it tomorrow.

Joy and whimsy not detected! Being overworked is not joyful nor whimsical!

Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

the slogan is in that order for a reason! It is listed in order of effectiveness and impact; if you can't reduce, reuse. If you can't reuse, recycle.

What goes unsaid here is why they’re all “re-“ prefixed: it’s about circularity. Keeping the resources in use means that we don’t have to keep incurring the environmental costs of production over and over on infinite one-way trips of new stuff starting in the earth, through human society, and right back into the earth in landfill.

American Century of Humiliation

Source

Might I add:

"why do you know that" i am curious about the world around me

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

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Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:

If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.

Every food in the entire country - including dog food - wasn't being recalled every other day when a Latino man was Secretary of Health.

Planes weren't falling out of the sky when a gay man was Secretary of Transportation.

We weren't getting our asses kicked by Iran when a Black man was Secretary of Defense.

White people have complete control of the federal government and everything turned to shit.

~mAsTeR rAcE~, huh?

The Kids just aren't being taught how to write a cv or cover letter huh

I've seen ones today including photos, dates of birth, place of birth even!

And also several formatted like they were writing a message to a friend! Full of exclamation marks! This is a formal document!

this one is formatted like a powerpoint presentation. to be clear I'm not in charge of any descision making I'm just going through redacting identifying/potentially biasing info but like...some of these formatting decisions are also potentially biasing

Yeah, I remember getting some wild ones when I was hiring manager

So many women feel the need to mention their young children in their cover letters and CVs. Some young people slip in that they can't drive, a sort of pre-emptive "but it's okay I have a bus pass". So many people go and shove their mental health issues with anxiety and depression in there.

I remember one girl had clearly been told that she needed to explain any gaps in employment in the cover letter (terrible blanket advice), and so had described how she had developed depression after a traumatic miscarriage and spent a year in a terrible spiral getting worse and worse before getting on a new medication that, and I quote, "seemed to be finally starting to work." There are ways she could have written that information if she was desperately wanting to include it (I cannot stress enough that she should not have included a word of it), but the way it was written was almost literally a description of how she would be a horrendously unreliable employee who could dip out at a moment's notice and would never be seen again, while also demonstrating that she cannot determine appropriate professional communication.

(And for the record, the latter is the actual issue. I have no problems at all hiring employees with mental health issues, and did several times hire people in recovery to help them get back on their feet. Only once did that not work out; all others were amazing, and two became some of our best employees - one is now a manager there, in fact. But if an employee can't be trusted not to over share personal information with customers or colleagues, particularly triggering topics... That's a different issue. She did herself no favours at all there, and nor did whoever told her employers will always need employment gaps explaining in a cover letter).

Another guy once wrote in his cover letter "I want this job because after years of messing about I now have a little girl, so I need to sort my life out for her, and if I can't do it even for her then more fool me." Which, like, I admire the drive and passion. But again. Why are you telling an employer that you're a flight risk. Why are you telling us this.

One 18 year old volunteered, unforced, that he was gay. Just right in the cover letter. That he sent to a future employer.

And then, of course, the thousands that send in CVs and cover letters that are horrendously mis-spelled. Again, as an employer, I care dick-all if you're dyslexic or what have you; but I do care that you didn't think it was important to get someone to proofread a professional document for you before submission. That tells me quite a big thing about the level of professionalism I can expect from you in the role. It wasn't massively relevant for the job I was hiring for (escape room game master), but if we'd had slightly different job duties (e.g. writing official soc med posts), that would be the difference between getting an interview or not.

Honestly, half of my role as a hiring manager was just... having to explain to the other hiring manager that she was being biased based on information neither of us should have had in the first place. And she wasn't a bad person, but bias gets you even if you don't want it to. Give yourself the best chance. Don't fuck it by sending in a dumbass cover letter.

@bitchesgetriches this seems relevant to your expertise

My god this is bleak.

I'll link to more of our advice below, but the general rule is: do not volunteer information about your personal life to a potential employer. Just don't. It's none of their business (literally).

I had a friend recently tell me they were having trouble getting past the interview stage. Turns out they opened every interview with "I'm queer and disabled." I told them to FUCKING STOP DOING THAT and they got the very next job they interviewed for.

It's illegal to discriminate based on protected status, blah blah blah... but if a potential employer becomes aware of something like that, suddenly their unconscious biases come into play. Don't tell them about your personal struggles. Tell them how you're going to be a good lil worker bee for them. I don't care if it feels dishonest. You need an income to survive, and I support you doing just about anything to get it.

I WILL BE LOOKING OVER ALL OF THESE LINKS LATER!!!! also the only thing that stuck with me about writing cover letters was you are supposed to boast about yourself and what you have to offer to the potential employer,, and what you hope to gain from this employment. Highlight your skills,, do not volunteer personal information. Which i get! I get it! But it makes it difficult if you don’t volunteer that information during interviews and then if you need any kind of accommodation they will turn around and tell you you should’ve said something during the interview (or brought medical diagnosis paperwork in beforehand ect ect) WHICH IS SO STUPID,, guess no accommodations for me in my future jobs.

they can say that but you didnt want to work for a place that unprofessional anyway.

maybe its different in other countries, ive only worked in the us, but the way its supposed to work is: you disclose any accommodations you need when you receive a job offer, and you disclose only as much about your disability as is relevant to those accommodations. you may need to provide paperwork, which should only contain basically "i, dr. so-and-so, state that this employee has a condition requiring this accommodation."

if they say "you should have provided this information sooner in the process", what they mean is "we would not have hired you if we knew you were disabled".

they dont get to say "you didnt tell us in time to bias our hiring decision so we won't give you legally required reasonable accommodations."

Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you.

Progress on my stained glass Narsil.

the evils of ~cortisol~ becoming a hot topic in the pop-(pseudo)science / wellness grifter sphere is both fascinating and irritating to me bc yes, there is a worthwhile conversation to be had about the physiological effects of long term stress (including elevated cortisol levels) which can be deadly and also trigger the onset of various chronic diseases, including those usually and erroneously blamed on weight. stress is indeed bad for you! cortisol itself is not, and the idea that you should focus on personally reducing one particular hormone level rather than addressing structural sources of debilitating and immiserating stress at the societal level (such as, idk, poverty and racism) seems like yet another instance in which one particular word becomes a clichéd stand-in that reduces a thorny and societal issue to a personalized and medicalized symptom.

and then the part that's sort of funny to me though is that while reducing stress would be good for us all, and ultimately requires societal transformations and material shifts in shitty life circumstances that no influencer can sell you, you do not actually want to drastically reduce or eliminate cortisol itself. I am part of a fun little subgroup whose bodies just did that anyway and it's called 'your adrenal glands stop working and you cannot produce cortisol (or aldosterone)' aka addison's disease, which can kill you. so I have to take replacement medications for that forever. bc actually having no or too low cortisol is not good and does not make you un-stressed lol

The substantive difference between Obama and FDR or Biden and FDR is that FDR had a 60%+ senate majority (often 70%+) from Innauguration Day 1933 all the way until the 78th congress was sworn in in 1943.

Obama had two months of exactly 60%. Biden relied on a coal baron and an idiot ideologue just to get 50%.

You will get more left wing progress with a moderate who agrees with you half the time and a senate that can give him every bill he wants than an ideologically perfect presidnt with a Senate margin so thin all he can do is budgets and executive orders. We aren't fascists, "tear shit down" and "hurt vulnerable people" may be doable with just the presidency but it isn't what any of us want (or at least claim to want).

Had FDR had Biden's senate, you would call him a right wing shill. Had Biden had FDR's Senate, millions who are now dead would be alive and the American institutional landscape would have been revolutionized.