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skepticamongthefaithful:

If you witness a white person explode into orange juice then please inform Zilvia that I have succeeded.

It’s of great importance.



Because I seem to have gone AWOL these last few days and will probably remain so (I’m not gone, I’m just going to here here less…like an hour every day instead of the whole day…), and just in case tumblr gets run into the ground— though it probably was going to anyway— y’all can get me at themindislimitless@gmail.com if you care to stay in touch. *shrug*

Have a lovely life. I’ll check in here from time to time and reblog stuff, in case anyone leaves stuffs. Take care, you darling people.



cleophatrajones:

yannickbrouwer:

This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis

How glorious is this?! Upcycling at its finest…


American workers are more likely to be killed by their boss than a terrorist.

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Every day, workers are forced to minimize safety in order to keep their jobs. The vast majority of American workers have no unions to defend their right to workplace safety. The U.S. Department of Labor and other federal agencies do not protect workers from being killed on the job.

The explosion in West, Texas was as big as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh, yet there will be no war on this kind of terrorism. This is because the prevailing philosophy is profit before people.

American workers are more likely to be killed by their boss than a terrorist. Last year, approximately 5,000 workers were killed at work by unsafe conditions.

Kevin Harrington, New York City

(via socialismartnature)

Truth. 

Congress has been doing its best to gut OSHA for a long, long time now: fines have not risen in ages (big companies can absorb the “you willfully killed an employee” fine without blinking), and OSHA has had a shit of a time promulgating new regulations. Most OSHA regs date back to ANSI standards of the late 60s, and iirc, the last big update of chemical standards was in the mid-80s. (One of the last reg updates — hexavalent chrome, the same chemical that the Julia Roberts film was about — only happened because a union had sued for AN ETERNITY to get it. They won several times running — once to say, yes, you shall have your regulation; again to say, what, you mean you wanted it in a timely manner??; and again to say, what, when you said “timely manner” you meant timely-timely and not just whenever?? — before the courts finally told Congress to BACK THE FUCK OFF and let OSHA make their reg already.) 

…do I need to tell you how much manufacturing has changed since 1969? How about the chemical industry? SO MANY NEW CHEMICALS SINCE THE 1980s.

Hell, it’s gotten so bad, that the chemists (industrial hygienists, they’re called) employed by OSHA and NIOSH formed their own professional organization (the NCGIH), which publishes a book every year of what the regulations WOULD be if they got to have their say. And employers-of-conscience use THAT book in addition to the OSHA regs. But then a bunch of industry lobbyists up and sued NCGIH, trying to force them to stop publishing that book, because the book was making them look bad and sometimes helping employees win employer-negligence lawsuits.

(this is my bitter laugh)

And mind you, this all is far, far worse when viewed from an intersectionality perspective. F’rinstance, immigrants are FAR more likely to be killed on the job than other workers: some of that roots in language or culture (not knowing they have rights to a safer workplace than they’ve got, or not believing in those rights, once told; or alternatively, not being able to communicate with coworkers/employers well enough to understand what is or is not a dangerous way to do something), some of it is being in such an economically precarious position that they can’t afford to take the risk of trusting in whistleblower protections (which are far, far from perfect), and some of it is living in dead fear of *other* branches of the federal government (ICE!) and thus being justifiably unwilling to cooperate with *any* government inspectors. (In Oregon, there is a law expressly forbidding OR-OSHA inspectors from sharing info with immigration or police, to help back the “no really, you can trust me, I won’t turn you in, even if I *wanted* to the law forbids me from doing so, just tell me, IS YOUR EMPLOYER TRING TO KILL YOU?” Some white people are as mad as hell about that law and want it gutted, as you might imagine. God forbid that undocumented workers should have any kind of protection from their employers!)

The situation is a long, long way from how it was supposed to work, back when it was all set up in 1971. And yes, union-busting is part of the reason for that.

…and y’know, I’m just going to stop talking now, because I could go on about this for a long, long time.

But in summation: you should be able to go to work and come home with as many body parts as you left with, and you should be able to come home with them all in good working order, too. You really, really fucking should. 

(via sanguinarysanguinity)



That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the ‘war on terror’ will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week’s big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military historian Andrew Bacevich has spent years warning that US policy planners have adopted an explicit doctrine of ‘endless war’. Obama officials, despite repeatedly boasting that they have delivered permanently crippling blows to al-Qaida, are now, as clearly as the English language permits, openly declaring this to be so. It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single greatest cause of that threat.

— Glenn Greenwald (via nexistepas)



thechanelmuse:

Photos that speak: Fuck your fountain. Fuck your tree. Fuck voter suppression. Fuck your labels. Fuck your stereotypes. Fuck your hatred. Fuck your restaurants. Fuck that dude. Fuck police brutality. Fuck white supremacy. 


Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart.

— Hafiz (via freedominlibya)



shiamuslim replied to your post: shiamuslim replied to your post: shiamuslim…

did u leave again? :(

I’m here and there— I leave and come back for little bits of time. But I haven’t forgotten, you need oppressing O_o



Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.

— David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War   (via thepeacefulterrorist)



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negelirelden:

I’d just like to add a clarification to what I asked Zilvia last night, on the topic of abuse. My point was not at all to imply that children should, as a matter of course, resent their mothers. Part of the emotion behind my post was driven by something I’ve posted recently on the topic of why I don’t begrudge my parents not giving me siblings. I feel like the argument that, as children, we should automatically be thankful to our mothers for being born no matter the circumstances is inherently flawed. We should remember that the commencement of our lives was not our choice- if anything, we should at least be grateful to ourselves, to whatever higher power (if you believe in one) for keeping us alive and continuing the lives we were given. But, especially in an abusive situation, arguing for loyalty to your mother simply for dealing you a hand you had no choice in is putting the blame on the victim.

If anything, we are reflections of our mothers’ choices. There is no harm in being grateful to our mothers for choosing to give us life- in fact, in healthy parent-child relationships, that’s an excellent point to focus on. But not all parent-child relationships are healthy, and there is harm in using that gift as an argument, as leverage for loyalty that might not always necessarily be warranted. Our mothers are people, too. They are fallible, just like the rest of us. And, in the cases where they succumb to whatever outside pressures drive them to abuse (as could any of us), it’s important to remember that, as people, it’s okay to deal with them as we would with any other abuser in our lives.