thatdiabolicalfeminist:

A really common strike tactic in the pre-internet days was form a
picket line. Basically, the striking workers would hold up signs
explaining their strike and surround their place of work with a line of
people all chanting and marching. This not only got the public
interested in the strike, but it also physically blocked people from
entering the business they were striking against.

When
workers strike, businesses sometimes hire “scabs”, or workers willing to
step in and replace the strikers to make the strike meaningless. A
picket line would mean that even if the business got a full complement
of scabs, they would still take a huge hit financially during the
strike.

“Never cross a picket line” is something union and
other pro-labour parents used to teach their children, and it meant both
“never be a scab” and also “never patronize a business currently under strike.”

Amazon will likely
hire scabs during a widespread strike to pick up at least some of the
slack. But this time, workers can’t use a physical picket line to block
access, because Amazon is an online business. But it’s still important
to make sure the company isn’t able to bring in a lot of profits during
the strike – hence the calls for boycott online.

Amazon knows they need their employees. They just think they can get away with abusing them. The boycott and the strike are not to convince them to think anything, it’s to make it so unprofitable to continue that they have no choice but to concede to the strikers’ demands.

darklordtomarry:

ronaldswheezy:

sp00kylexa:

harry can’t duel

harry can’t duel

harry cannot duel

he only uses expelliarmus and he cannot duel

even if he’s dueling the FUCKING DARK LORD

Imagine the conversation ministry officials must be having when they see his auror application:

“He’s Harry Potter!”

“I know but that doesn’t change the fact-”

“Harry! Freaking! Potter!”

“We still need him to attend extra duelling lessons-”

“We can’t put Harry Potter in extra duelling lessons!”

“He only ever uses one spell-”

“Yeah, but he’s really good at it.”

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times. – Bruce Lee

liztalkstrash:

missionlameturtle:

jackymedan:

theshmaylor:

lierdumoa:

ur-gal:

mapsontheweb:

US divided by cultural identity.

my favorite thing about CA is how “northern california” takes up ¾ of the whole state

I love how Pittsburgh and Austin are both trying to secede from their respective states.

if you try and tell anyone from NC or SC that they’re part of the “south atlantic” instead of the South, they will cut you

@missionlameturtle

I have a few quibbles (of course), but overall this seems accurate to my region!

wtf is east great lakes, thats not a Thing

This map *definitely* has its problems (where is the Rust Belt; wtf is a “Mountain Frontier”; totally misses the way parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, northern Iowa, & the majority of the Dakotas are a coherent subculture; where’s the Great Basin, aka Nevada is its Own Thing; & those are just the ones I’m personally invested in enough to comment on) but honestly this is lightyears beyond any other similar maps I’ve seen circulating tumblr in that it at least ATTEMPTS to present the US regions as they view themselves (if with, uh, some pretty unusual names for the different regions) rather than just presenting the viewpoint of someone from either New England or California.

Like, honestly, mostly I’m just glad this map isn’t trying to lump me in with the Midwest (what) or the West Coast (no).

Source: reddit.com