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Why would the physical manifestation of oppression come from Naboo it’s not like our planet is segregated and the native population can’t travel off world or trade with the greater galaxy unless it’s through our spaceport. It’s all cool though cause we let Jarjar in the senate so we technically let them off planet to represent themselves.

Please sign and share this petition. Sonam Wangchuk, a prominent engineer, innovator and educator is currently on Day 20 of his indefinite hunger strike. His demands? Accountability for the NEET UG (entrance exam for medicine and allied fields in India that lakhs of candidates, mainly 17-20 year old students appear in) paper leaks and stricter exam conduction. The government, instead of opening a dialogue to at least hear what he has to say, won't even ACKNOWLEDGE it.

You might already know him if you have watched 3 idiots. Yes, the character of Rancho/Phunsuk Wangdu was based on him.

This petition is NOT about asking Sonam Wangchuk to withdraw his hunger strike. It is urging the establishment to open a dialogue

Enigma has told us that hunger strikes "are a staple of Gandhian politics," a way of peacefully but forcefully protesting. "Unfortunately," she goes on to say, "it only works when your opponent has a conscience."

Personally, I would never criticise anyone who feels driven to hunger strike (also a staple of early suffragette and Northern Irish protests during the height of the Troubles - i.e. as last-ditch means to reach the ears of oppressive regimes from people who felt as though they had no other power) as their only resort to be heard, no matter how terrifying that seems to me, but I will ABSOLUTELY criticise people in power who treat such desperation with the contempt of silence.

my worst relatives try to sneak meat or meat products into my food despite the fact that I'm a vegetarian

my ex's brother gave his mother an edible without her knowledge and when she got freaked out and paranoid they laughed, and people I've told that go "yeah that's shitty but it's just weed"

when I go to the doctor and ask them to describe what they are going to do before touching me they get frustrated

when I ask a friends of a friend who is a small influencer to keep me out of frame in videos they film for social media in public they look at me like I've pissed in their cereal

It harms your lungs and it’s especially bad for children (and pets!) or anyone with health problems. There are all kinds of chemicals in that smoke. It’s not only trees that are burning. The heat already makes it harder to breath. This makes it worse.

If any of you are experiencing it, feel free to tell about it in the comments. 💚

Image #2: Illustrated guide titled: How To Build A Corsi-Rosenthal Box. Body text reads: The Corsi-Rosenthal Box is an affordable DIY air-cleaning system made with simple materials found in hardware stores. The box fan pulls air through the filters on the sides and blows out clean air. It is proven to reduce indoor exposure to airborne particles including those containing the virus that causes Covid-19. The box can also decrease the levels of other particles in the air, such as dust or wildfire smoke.

Illustration by Amanda Hu: Unassembled Corsi-Rosentheal Box, arrow pointing to assembled box. Text:

Filters can last up to a year

Keep away from walls and corners

The Materials. Illustration: 2 air filters, a box fan, scissors, a utility knife, tape. Text:

Filters 3M 1900 MPR (20" x 20" x 1" or 20" x 25" x 1") or MERV 13 (20" x 20" x 2" or 20" x 20" x 1" or 20" x 25" x 2" or 20" x 25" x 1" [2-inch preferred)

Lasko or Mainstays 20-inch Box Fan

Scissors, Utility Knife, Duct Tape

The Cube. Illustration: 4 filters arranged to form a cube; hands taping the edges of 2 filters together at a right angle; 4 filters taped together to make a cube. Text:

Arrange the filters to create a symmetrical structure

Ensure the arrows are pointed inwards

Duct tape the four edges

Vertical orientation of the pleats is preferred

Illustration: An air filter, with arrows on the outside edge corners. One corner, with the arrow, is circled in and enlarged.

The Base. Illustration: A cardboard square on top of the cube made of air filters; hands taping the cardboard square onto the cube; the cardboard square taped to the cube on all 4 sides. Text:

Use one side of the fan's cardboard box

Cut the cardboard box to fit the base of the cube

Duct tape it on all fours sides

The Fan. Illustration: A box fan on top of the cube made of air filters; hands taping the box fan to the cube; the fan taped to the cube, with an enlarged circle on a corner showing the tape leaves no gaps. Text:

Place the fan on top of the cube

Seal all sides, including corners

Ensure any holes on the side of the fan are sealed off with duct tape

The Shroud. Illustration: A cardboard square with a large circle cut in the middle of it; that cardboard square on top of the box fan; hands taping the cardboard square to the top of the fan which is on top of the cube made of air filters. Text:

Cut the other cardboard sheet to fit the top of the fan

Cut a circular hole (15.75" diameter)

Place the shroud on the fan and tape it on all four sides

The shroud increases efficiency and decreases the noise level

With 7 days left of our campaign, cast member Karim Kronfli introduces us Nicholas Hickman — the so-called 'Lord of Beck’s End'.

Support for Beck's End has been amazing, but we won't be able to make it unless we achieve at least 100% funding. Consider backing us at becksend.com

WONDERFUL NEWS!!

on the off chance that anyone cares ....

I've watched this movie about a dozen times and will probably continue to watch it every other month until the day I die.

It's ye olde supercop vs gangster boss movie, but also not at all. It's about morality, the danger of seeing the world in black and white, and the power of storytelling. It's about the meaning of justice and what makes a criminal a criminal. It's about these two guys who are very normal about each other.

It's a remake of the 2017 Tamil movie, but I love this one because Hrithik Roshan is just absolutely stunning.

Non-binary day

There are real labor problems here. Base pay is often insulting. Customer tips carry too much of the burden. Workers need better protections, more transparent algorithms, protection from arbitrary deactivation, and actual recourse when the app or a customer screws them over. Car-dependent delivery is also an environmental and infrastructural problem, though in a denser city I’d still be doing this work; I’d just be doing it by bike.

But when people talk about delivery work, I rarely see them talk to actual delivery workers. I see a lot of abstract arguments about convenience, consumer decadence, “hustle culture,” and internalized neoliberalism. Meanwhile, when I’m out working and waiting in restaurants for orders, the other Dashers I meet are usually people who only speak Spanish, people who read as neurodivergent, visibly physically disabled people, or some combination of the above.

I have not met this mythical Disco Elysium poor ultraliberal hustlegrinder-wannabe people seem to be arguing with. Maybe that archetype exists somewhere. If it exists among any kind of gig worker, it would probably be rideshare drivers. But most of what I see looks less like “rise and grind” and more like “this is one of the few forms of work available to people who need flexibility, low barriers to entry, limited managerial surveillance, or a way to work around language barriers, disability, burnout, chronic illnesses and injuries with symptoms that come and go unpredictably, caregiving, résumé gaps, or discrimination.”

That does not make the current system good. It means the current system is filling a real gap that a lot of supposedly better systems do not even acknowledge.

As a disabled person who is burnout-prone and demand-sensitive, contracting as a delivery driver has given me an unprecedented level of financial flexibility. I can work when I have capacity. I can stop when I’m deteriorating. I can build my day around my actual body instead of being trapped under a manager who thinks “reliable” means “able to perform the same way every day no matter what.” That matters. It does not cancel out the exploitation, but it is also not fake just because it is politically inconvenient.

And delivery itself is not some inherently decadent evil. Sometimes people live alone. Sometimes they are sick. Sometimes they are disabled, exhausted, overwhelmed, grieving, overloaded, or recovering from something else - perhaps the stress and fatigue induced by their own job. Sometimes they need medicine, groceries, or a meal that will actually unplug their sinuses instead of whatever generic community-care slop someone thinks they should be grateful for. Humans are allowed to need specificity. “Food” is not the same as “the food I can actually eat right now.”

A serious labor critique would ask how to make delivery work safer, better-paid, less tip-dependent, less car-dependent, less algorithmically punitive, and less precarious. It would ask what kinds of flexible, accessible work should exist for people who cannot thrive in conventional employment. It would ask how cities could support bike delivery, worker cooperatives, public infrastructure, and real protections without simply replacing one bad system with a moral sermon about how nobody should ever want takeout.

But a lot of the discourse does not do that. It treats convenience itself as suspicious. It treats wanting flexible work as false consciousness. It treats the needs of disabled people, immigrants, and other people who can't fit into traditional employment structures as details to be swept aside in favor of a cleaner political image.