Golden Chips Empire

(Sound on.) We’re all doomed.

Dean: lol Cas is such a silly nerdy angel

Everyone else: dear god Castiel is heavenly wrath personified. He is filled with bloodlust and has killed more of his brethren than any angel who came before him. He can kill you before you even know you’re dead or he can torture you so effectively you forget your own name. He is the most deadliest soldier heaven has ever produced, even when his grace has been stripped from him and he is left as nothing but a human. Those who have tried to control him have paid dearly for their hubris. No one can keep him dead, not even God himself

Dean: lmao Cas come watch a cowboy movie with me in our matching cowboy hats

You know what, fuck you. *Romanticizes the monstrous in a way that is deeply compelling to people who feel they've been ostracized from mainstream society in one way or another, and also at least a little bit horny*

~ angels blaming dean and trying to fix cas.

anyone who says “the bible is clear” about an issue, is 100% of the time wrong. the bible wasnt clear once. the bible couldnt be clear about how to make a table if it came in an ikea box

Exodus 25:23-30

well ill be darned

Foreman just watching Chase fall into anaphylatic shock makes me giggle because he had so much time to break Chase's fall but Foreman's too drunk to react on time so he ends up just watching him pass out. Just observing the emergency.

Needs the last part

@heatandapathy you forgot the best part

you are never living this down

godawful post i made when i was 14. let me escape it please god

so much rage for anyone who tells the story of the radium girls like “ohoho weren’t people in the 20s fucking stupid” and not like “corporate greed has always cost people’s lives and health”

History Lesson:

The Radium Girls were factory workers who painted glowing markers on watches. They pointed their paint brushes with their lips after being told do so and that it was safe for them to do so by their managers. The paint had radium in it to promote the glow.

Dentists became the first people aware of the medical complications happening amongst all the women working in this factory. Complaints of loose bones, teeth, ulcers, etc. began to circulate amongst the staff.

Eventually, the girls started to die. The first one’s jaw literally came off her skull before her death as a result of radiation poisoning.

Perhaps all of that you could say was “stupidity” on behalf of the workers and corporation.

But what came next wasn’t. The corporation, the U.S. Radium Corporation, originally called the Radium Luminous Material Corporation, lied to the public and said that their workers were dying from alternate causes such as syphilis. They continued to instruct their staff to work business as usual, perpetuating more deaths and illness amongst their staff so their product could continue to be made.

The Radium Corp offered to change the method of painting dials, but the alternative brushes slowed down work and they were paid by the dial. To continue earning the wages they needed, the girls were forced to continue to use the brushes that they had to wet with their mouths.

The girls eventually took the matter to court. They took it to court eight times because Radium Corp continued to appeal until 1939.

As a result of their win, which provided a settlement to each girl a lump sum, a yearly stipend, and medical expensed paid by the company, LABOR LAW changed to ensure that companies could be held accountable for not properly protecting their employees from disease. New health regulations and standards were put in place to keep workers safe and they stopped using the brushes after that point.

(I don’t have the data to say if there was a corresponding wage increase to factor for lost wages due to a slowing down after new regulations were made).

The point, though, is that this company willfully knew that its staff was geting sick and dying from the procedures they put in place, and lied to their staff and started a public smear campaign saying these women had sexually transmitted diseases instead.

That’s not on the “stupid” women, that’s corporate greed.

I’d also like to add that they were intentionally delaying the court case so there would be less girls left alive to be there. Even after they’re caught, they are still heartless shits. Don’t ever forget these poor women and the company that thought cycling through workers and leaving a trail of bodies was worth making more money at the top.

When they say regulations are written in blood, this is what they mean. Remember that when the government tries to cut back regulations, saying they cost companies too much money.

Oh buddy, it gets way worse: you should read Kate Moore’s “The Radium Girls: America’s Shining Women”, because it will make you understand the true depth of company cravenness.

Grace Fryer and her 4 friends were the first litigants to win against USRC. Only one singular other girl won her case, AFTER Grace and co, before USRC got completely found out. One. And I do mean girls - many of these young women were teenagers when they painted dials, and became ill as they hit their 20’s. Not many of them made it to 25.

Not to mention - USRC wasn’t the only supplier of luminous watch dials painted by hand using radium paint. There were others. Their court cases also failed to gain traction for decades. One simply settled any cases brought against it for minuscule amounts.

And that law change? It wasn’t actually enough to compensate the workers falling ill and dying. The law at first ONLY applied to radium-induced jaw infections, making it too narrow to be applied in women whose bones had shattered inside their bodies under the weight of walking or who developed sarcomas or other cancers - a later version also included radium poisoning, but the statute of limitations was so short that it would pass before the women could litigate it. And, said law wasn’t retroactive - only those who became ill after it was passed were able to use it to be compensated.

In one case, Peg Looney, USRC admitted her to their own hospital, and when she died, the family literally had to stop them from burying her secretly. Instead they offered to give her an autopsy, which the family accepted. They stole Peg Looney’s hole-riddled radium-filled jawbone and told her family that she had died of diphtheria.

Literally. Go read that book. There’s so, so much. If you have ever trusted a corporation to do the right thing, that book will adjust your perspective.

Had to do a double take when I first saw this; I thought the peel was a creature. May I gift you: pineapple dragon?

@elodieunderglass

Enchanting! Thank you! The pineapple dragon would be so well-armoured against piercing attacks 🥹

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

What do you mean it’s only from 2020???

love this country

do these people ever get new material?

YouGov did a whole official poll on Americans' views of the middle ages and I’m obsessed

I'm in the 9% of respondents who think that the black death was based

This is the kind of messaging you really want to be seeing from the global hegemon

why are cyberpunk tabletop things so obsessed with decency and personhood being tied to how many surgeries you haven’t had

“if you have a prosthetic it takes out a part of your soul” like thanks shadowrun

in early cyberpunk, the point was more along the lines of “if we integrate technology into our bodies we risk becoming dependent upon the people and institutions who control that technology, who would then use that to enrich themselves at our expense”

unfortunately that was too anti-corporate for American mainstream culture so as cyberpunk moved out of its niche it became “uhhh it eats your soul I guess”

tags by @rubyvroom: 

#this is important context #if you weren’t around at the time it is easy to miss but #anti-corporate sentiment was pretty much the lynchpin of cyberpunk until there were movies and games making money off it #it was the 1980s you guys #the entire point was that corporations are evil and technology should be used to circumvent them and escape their control over our lives #and not be used to make ourselves into another product #now that the internet is entirely monetized and corporate it’s harder to remember that originally it was synonymous w freedom & independence

Yes, exactly. Cyberpunk is anti-corporations, not anti-body-modification.

#the real horror is medical debt ( tag via @bronanlynch )

And they (the original message, not Shadowrun) were right. So many people with prosthetics and sensory aids and insulin pumps and so forth are at the mercy of the bloodthirsty corporations who own the rights to their devices.