SHOCKING THOUGHTS

Apparently Tumblr is working on a deal to let so-called "A.I." companies scrape the site -- and our posts -- for content to feed their systems. Supposedly we'll be able to opt out, but I haven't been able to find an opt-out button yet in my settings.

First: GROSS.

Second: NO.

Third: It should be OPT-IN, not OPT-OUT. I don't want to spend my time having to track which services I use are going to start this kind of trash policies. I shouldn't have to opt-out - it should be opt-out by default since I didn't approve it when I first signed up.

Third: If anyone finds the opt-out button, please do let me know where it is.

Fourth: GROSS AND NO.

UPDATE: Okay, I found the setting! Go to "Settings," then click on the icon for your blog under "Blogs." Then scroll to "Visibility" and there should be an option to UNCLICK the setting that reads "Prevent third-party sharing."

Still: GROSS and NO.

Canadian union actors have been locked out of commercial work by union-busting agencies for over 500 days.

Because a lot of people don't really understand what is happening here, I'm going to take a moment to talk about what a lockout is.

A lockout is like the opposite of a strike: in a strike, workers withhold their labour until employers agree to their demands for improved conditions, while in a lockout employers essentially starve workers of work-- and by extension, crucially, wages-- to force them into accepting unacceptable conditions.

In the context of a factory, it might look like literally shutting down the factory because the owner can afford to simply eat the short-term loss while they sit and wait for the workers to grow desperate. Or they may bring in what are euphemistically referred to as "replacement workers". You may know them by the more familiar term: scabs. Those who are willing to put up with more for less, and in so doing worsen labour conditions across the whole industry. This is economically advantageous to the employers, and they can just sit there in comfort while they wait for the union and its members to break.

A lockout is a cruel power play in what is already an unequal relationship. It is intentional infliction of desperation and psychological distress.

The Institute of Canadian Agencies' lockout of ACTRA members has been going on for more than 500 days. It has intentionally inflicted more than 500 days of psychological distress and existential threat on thousands of people. And in the midst of this the ICA has done little but employ DARVO strategies (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender), when it has initiated this essentially in protest of not being given the freedom to slash union commercial actors' compensation by 80%. ACTRA has been ready and willing to bargain this whole time, but the ICA insists it's ACTRA holding its own members down.

The ICA's client companies are hugely recognised brands whose CEOs take home untold millions every year in salaries while the average ACTRA commercial actor makes well under 10k a year. Professional actors' work is important and needed-- if it wasn't the agencies wouldn't be bringing in scabs-- and yet they are forced into conditions where they literally cannot live. They cannot afford to put a roof over their heads and food on the table in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.

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The OC I’m drawing will be serialized as a web comic. It will be serialized from May 25th on the web manga site “Mato Grosso”. We plan to update once every 3 weeks. I will do my best to draw good comics！

Fanart of @rariatoo ‘s character Noss the Nosferatu because my little Noss plush from Makeship arrived this week! She’s so cute. :)

三人「暑い夏が！Tシャツの季節がやってきたぞー！」 ってやりたかったのに今年は冷夏らしいっすねぇ・・・ 発売当時（去年4月）に描いていて放置してたのをようやく完成させました 未だ部屋着として大活躍しておりますこのTシャツ 皆さんはまだ着ておりますでしょうか

某俳優の悲しいニュースを見ていたら生来ネガティブな自分も引きずられて とてもリュウの誕生日絵をどうにかしようという精神状態に持っていけなかったので描きかけのものに手を加えてたけど （そもそもコスコンのデザインを練っていたから手をつけるのが遅かった） 少しだけ気力が回復したからこれから何か一枚絵を描けたらいいな

三人「暑い夏が！Tシャツの季節がやってきたぞー！」 ってやりたかったのに今年は冷夏らしいっすねぇ・・・ 発売当時（去年4月）に描いていて放置してたのをようやく完成させました 未だ部屋着として大活躍しておりますこのTシャツ 皆さんはまだ着ておりますでしょうか

某俳優の悲しいニュースを見ていたら生来ネガティブな自分も引きずられて とてもリュウの誕生日絵をどうにかしようという精神状態に持っていけなかったので描きかけのものに手を加えてたけど （そもそもコスコンのデザインを練っていたから手をつけるのが遅かった） 少しだけ気力が回復したからこれから何か一枚絵を描けたらいいな

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