my avi is me putting mustard on burger while high

Reminder that Israel is a settler colonial nation. When anti-colonial resistance became widespread, modern day Israel changed its language alongside the trends to call itself a nation for ‘self-determination’ which is the language of anti-colonial resistance. And today it markets itself as the only democracy in ME & safe space for LGBT.

but peni parker?

here’s what peni looks like in itsv: a weebified japanese schoolgirl. if you didn’t know, the peace sign is something asian tourists in america are known for, & that’s made fun of often. also, compared to the rest of the cast, she’s drawn in a different style that looks more like anime.

here’s what peni looks like in the comics. she valiantly takes over as the pilot of sp//dr when her father, the previous pilot, mysteriously dies. she also has to be bit by the radioactive spider that controls part of sp//dr in order to pilot it, & feels overwhelmed by this responsibility. 

just looking at these screenshots you can see the staggering difference between the two portrayals. i’m half chinese & half japanese, & spiderverse peni felt incredibly disrespectful. her wiki page puts it pretty well: “[she] takes on an anime aesthetic, is incredibly perky and is shown eating numerous candies and snacks in her robot.” she fits into many kind of racist tropes, including asian & nerdy, genki girl, gratuitous japanese, & kawaiiko. 

Fallon tries to interrupt in a way that comes off as just a little too desperate and panicked to be completely in on the joke, leading Oliver to ask “Alexa, what is union-busting?” At this point Fallon starts begging the surveillance unit to listen to him, instead of Oliver.“

[…] The clip comes as workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama try to unionize their workforce, and after they got support from President Biden in a video defending the importance of unions.

Amazon’s working conditions are often described as dystopian for good reason.

Come for the digital rewards systems straight out of Black Mirror that track worker productivity, stay for the mandatory graveyard shifts called “megacycles” or lose your job. The company’s success is no small part owed to its inhumane productivity quotas that create unsafe working conditions, which the company then turns around and offers to fix with surveillance―not to mention operations it already conducts to monitor workers’ personal lives in the United States and Europe. The company may flaunt its $15 minimum wage for warehouse workers, but zoom out and you’ll see Amazon is exploiting its monopoly and monopsony power to suppress wages in areas where it is one of the only major employers.

When it comes to union-busting, Amazon is king.

It has only ever had two union elections: one in Delaware in 2014 and the one currently ongoing in Bessemer, Alabama.

That’s because Amazon is religiously committed to busting unions whenever the threat appears, whether that means:  illegally firing workers in retaliation for organizing, breaking the rules of companies it owns to spread anti-union propaganda, hiring people solely to walk around warehouses wearing “Vote NO” buttons, kindly reminding warehouse workers to vote NO while it watches them, and creating a website for workers to visit to learn why Amazon’s exploitation is preferable to collective bargaining rights.”

Cat with unusual markings posted to a Thai Facebook group.