Author: queenofstardust
10 July 2018
Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.
Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.
Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.
Explain this to your friends and family who might not have heard about the boycott or the strike or why it’s necessary.
Amazon workers are literally collapsing and sometimes dying in warehouses that do not all have climate control. A few years ago Amazon stationed ambulances outside their warehouses rather than just install AC to prevent mass heatstroke for their workers, but after media picked up the story they added AC to some – only some – of their warehouses.
These workers are forced into 10+ hour shifts during which they walk 10+ miles. They’re subject to a grueling pace and fired for minor mistakes. They are not allowed to sit down and are discouraged from using the bathroom, which is often so far away in the massive warehouse that there isn’t time to use it even during their breaks. They can be fired for being ill, even with proof they were in hospital.
They are being paid so little and working such long hours – and sometimes, being charged so much by Amazon-arranged transport shuttles to take them to warehouses far from any housing – that some are forced to sleep under bridges or in the woods near their workplace. Longtime warehouse workers are saying they’ve never seen the kinds of exploitation and abuse that occurs in an Amazon warehouse.
This strike and the accompanying boycott are to pressure Amazon into giving their workers basic rights that every worker should have.
This strike is timed to coincide with the European Prime Day, when working conditions will become even more intolerable and hours even longer.
US residents are encouraged to also boycott the US Prime Day July 15-16, 2018.
Shit my shoulder
I fucking love bees
Is that legit her voice actress or what?!
Yeah. She did a bunch of NPC voices for Grand Theft Auto V
this year, don’t be afraid to be yourself. grow fangs!!! unfurl your wings!!!! vaporize unsuspecting mortal souls with your eldritch presence!!!!! stand on the rooftop and shriek at the heavens until god himself comes down to tell you to stop!!!!!!!!!!!
Before Steven was born Amethyst used to say ‘fuck’ all the time & so when he was a baby Greg had to sit her down and explain that she has to stop swearing around Steven because he’s young & impressionable
So Amethyst is like “but that’s my favourite word, when will be stop being young & impressionable so I can say it again??”
And Greg is like “uhh I don’t know, 15 I guess? 15 is probably old enough”
“Got it”
flash forward to Steven’s fifteenth birthday and he is woken at dawn by Amethyst yelling “wake the FUCK up Steven it’s FUCKING TIME”
& he spends the entire day losing his mind
Steven: w-what’s happening
Garnet: *deadpan* Amethyst just got her favourite word back
Amethyst: *running around the house* FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Greg: what’s going on
Amethyst: you said once Steven was 15 I could say fuck again
Greg, who only hazily recalls the conversation in question: ……i DID?
Amethyst: *runs outside* FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK *distant sounds of spooked birds*
Pearl: Steven the *whispering* F-word is a bad word that Amethyst USED to say before-
Steven: I know what fuck means Pearl
Amethyst: *stopping dead in her tracks* WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT??
Pearl: who taught you that word mister!!
Steven: um… Lars and Sadie… *mumbling* five years ago…
Amethyst: I’ve been denying myself my favourite word for FIVE YEARS for NOTHING??
Greg: uh even if he knows what it means it’s still not really appropriate for you t-
Amethyst: *running outside* FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCK
Steven: …
Greg: …
Pearl: …
Garnet: …*quietly* fuck
Everyone else: O_O
Garnet: what. I missed it too
also Amethyst made a banner that says HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY STEVEN in very large writing
Connie: what’s going on
Steven: Amethyst is allowed to say fuck now
Connie: oh! are we all allowed to say fuck now??
Greg & Pearl in unison: NO!!
Peridot: what’s fuck
My personal headcanon is that there is a list of words Amethyst is not allowed to say in front of Steven.
Vidalia taught her about half of them. Amethyst has shared this list with Peridot.If asked about why she did so, Amethyst would insist that is was to make sure Peri didn’t use them in case she had already picked them up from elsewhere. Everyone knows this is a transparent lie and that she just really wanted to hear Peridot discovering human swear words.
By Gem standards Peridot already swears like a sailor.
Not only does Peri swear like a sailor, when Amethyst teaches her earth swear words Peridot gives her the Home World equivalent.
When Pearl overhears the “lesson” she starts to get upset. Only to told it was an important cultural exchange in order to prevent mishaps when speaking between visiting gems in the future. One wouldn’t want to accidentally call someone a dusty hunk of
coprolite would they?I swear, it’s like Pearl doesn’t care about the Crystal Gems being able to conduct proper diplomacy. Knowing what words not to say is very important. 😉
I hc that Peri has the saltiest mouth, but her curses are always arranged in the strangest and most nonsensical ways way. “shut ur fuck” “what the bitch” “I’m so done with this ass” “hot hell”, etc.
Before Steven was born Amethyst used to say ‘fuck’ all the time & so when he was a baby Greg had to sit her down and explain that she has to stop swearing around Steven because he’s young & impressionable
So Amethyst is like “but that’s my favourite word, when will be stop being young & impressionable so I can say it again??”
And Greg is like “uhh I don’t know, 15 I guess? 15 is probably old enough”
“Got it”
flash forward to Steven’s fifteenth birthday and he is woken at dawn by Amethyst yelling “wake the FUCK up Steven it’s FUCKING TIME”
& he spends the entire day losing his mind
Steven: w-what’s happening
Garnet: *deadpan* Amethyst just got her favourite word back
Amethyst: *running around the house* FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Greg: what’s going on
Amethyst: you said once Steven was 15 I could say fuck again
Greg, who only hazily recalls the conversation in question: ……i DID?
Amethyst: *runs outside* FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK *distant sounds of spooked birds*
Pearl: Steven the *whispering* F-word is a bad word that Amethyst USED to say before-
Steven: I know what fuck means Pearl
Amethyst: *stopping dead in her tracks* WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT??
Pearl: who taught you that word mister!!
Steven: um… Lars and Sadie… *mumbling* five years ago…
Amethyst: I’ve been denying myself my favourite word for FIVE YEARS for NOTHING??
Greg: uh even if he knows what it means it’s still not really appropriate for you t-
Amethyst: *running outside* FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCK
Steven: …
Greg: …
Pearl: …
Garnet: …*quietly* fuck
Everyone else: O_O
Garnet: what. I missed it too
also Amethyst made a banner that says HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY STEVEN in very large writing
Connie: what’s going on
Steven: Amethyst is allowed to say fuck now
Connie: oh! are we all allowed to say fuck now??
Greg & Pearl in unison: NO!!
Peridot: what’s fuck
Amethyst: *whispers in Peridot’s ear*
Peridot: huh. if anything that raises further questions.
Connie: because I’m not allowed to say fuck at my house so I’d really appreciate it if I could say fuck here-
Pearl: NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO SAY FUCK!!
Everyone else: ……………….
Steven, Amethyst & Connie: *losing their minds* OHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Ne forget pas les quatres food groupes mes amis!
La pomme d’eau. La pomme de terre. Le pomme de feu. La pomme d’air. Il y a très longtemps ces quatre patates vivaient en harmonie. Mais un jour, la pomme du feu décida de passer à l’attaque.
i don’t even fucking speak french but I fucking know what that last comment says
It should be socially acceptable to change/choose your name regardless of whether your trans or not
It’s genuinely heartbreaking to hear somebody say how much they hate their name, cis or not, for any reason but don’t know/feel like they have the option to decide that’s not their name anymore
It’s YOUR name, you don’t deserve to have to live your own damn ass life with a name that you hate or even just dislike. That’s reason enough to feel justified in choosing one that you do want.
let the blood matter from space say fuck
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