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My fandoms and my fandom neighbors!

TODAY, August 12, 2024, The Animation Guild begins negotiations with the AMPTP to win a new contract for animation. This is a huge fight with severe stakes for the future of the Animation Industry in the US, and the guild needs your support!

TAG is fighting, Right Now, to stop exploitative practices that are weaponized against animation professionals across the globe, and working hard to ensure this industry has a future here in the states.

If you are a fan of animation, whether it's major or independent studios, eastern or western, tv or movies, we need you to get LOUD in support of The Animation Guild. The crews who work so hard to bring these works to life are struggling to pay their bills, if they can find work at all, while studio CEOs are getting multi-million dollar raises to cancel projects and gut streaming libraries.

We can win this fight, but we need public outcry and support. If you work in animation, if you've ever dreamed of working in animation, or if you just love animation, please stand with TAG and support the union effort to keep animation a viable career and a valuable medium!

Check out the Website Here: #StandWithAnimation

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And, you know, there are a lot of reasons that someone who is poor might have something that started out expensive: maybe they lost their job or got divorced or had a medical crisis recently, and the car is from before that. Maybe it's really old and thus cheap. Maybe it was a gift from a family member with more money than they have (I drove a Mercedes Benz to school in high school ... but it was a thirty-year-old beater that could barely maintain road speed on a flat road, and which I got for free because it had been passed through several family members before it got to me). Maybe a lot of things.

But the interesting thing is where the story about welfare recipients in Cadillacs comes from. You see, it comes from an experiment they did in a city where they wanted to see who was getting welfare checks and how they lived to give proof that they didn't "deserve" the money. So they declared that one month, instead of checks being mailed out to people, they had to come to City Hall to pick them up.

Now, the thing is, a lot of poor people don't have cars, either because they're too poor to afford them, or because they are old and can't drive any longer. So this was a major problem for a lot of people. So the local boyscout troop (which had a lot of kids from upper-class families) organized rides for all of them. So yeah, a lot of people showed up in Caddys and Lincoln Towncars and other nice cars ... not because they owned nice cars but because the people who gave them the ride owned nice cars. But the story that goes around is about the "lazy scammers who are on welfare but drive luxury cars so they can't really be poor." That's the story they tell! It's not true, but it's the story.

I refuse to sell it because it is by far the most thermally insular single thing I have and it’s the only coat/jacket I possess that is actually waterproof. It doesn’t have a hood, but it does have a collar, and honestly I’d probably be perfectly fine wearing it in New York. It’s that kind of trench coat. I wear it outside only when walking the dog in the bitter damp cold. I do not wear it ever in a store anymore and never ever wear it while alone.

But it’s a coat I found in a thrift store for $50. Expensive, yes, but I desperately needed a warm, wind-proof something and it happened to be Christmas and my mom happened to be feeling generous at the time.

But it’s never the point; the only thing they care about is Calvinist/Puritan suffering. You must not be truly poor if you have literally not sold every piece of collateral you own. You can’t be that desperate if you’re deigning to pick and choose through the food box place, knowing that half that shit is rotten. You must not actually need help with walking if you can stand on your own for two seconds. You clearly aren’t disabled if you can walk at all.

KOSA COULD BE VOTED ON IN THE SENATE VERY SOON!

IF YOU ARE A MINOR, YOUR TUMBLR ACCOUNT COULD BE AT RISK!

TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW. DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO HELP.

CALL. YOUR. SENATORS.

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@staff @badjokesbyjeff @the-one-and-only-duckduckgo @firefox-official @pukicho

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Photos from #memes-and-graphics in the Stop Internet Censorship Discord server.

Moral of the story, call your senators. Tag who you know and do what you can do to help, as the original post says. Reblog this.

QUICK, I DON'T WANT TO LOSE MY MAIN SOURCE OF ACE ATTORNEY BRAINROT

Alright, everyone. Y'all know what to do.