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wishing everyone a very good luck getting through january-march without killing yourself
once again wishing everyone a very pleasant please don’t kill yourself
great work everyone we did it
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Chanel | Fall/Winter 2025
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this is making me lose it
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Stolen. Not from slavery. Not from sharecropping. From benefits paid for in blood
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Homes are expensive because of landlords hoarding them for profit, not because of regulations.
Time to bring back my favorite picture: The reason there have been so many food and consumer good recalls in the past few years. (If you got listeria from cold cuts? Direct result of Trump's actions!) Regulations exist to protect consumers from profit-hungry corporations.
Remember, there is no "lesson learned" from those regulations. They aren't safety procedures where now that people know putting lead in cinnamon is a bad thing that they won't do it even if you take the regulation away. The regulations were created because, when given a chance, these people leapt at the chance to destroy housing, poison food, and blight the planet.
Everytime a regulation like that is removed you should be concerned about who was being "held back" by a law preventing them from selling disease riddled meat.
A salient example, since lead got brought up specifically—
A while ago it occurred to me to wonder how long we’ve known lead is poisonous, since it was so ubiquitous in paint and construction and so many other places until just a few decades ago, so I went on a wiki dive to see when the first alarm bells were sounded about the health hazards of lead.
Want to guess?
Ancient Rome.
People have known lead is poisonous since at least Ancient Rome.
It didn’t stop people using it.
Your safety regulations are written in blood, not by accident, not because people didn’t know there were dangers, but because without them, blood is cheap.
Lead was used as a pesticide in the early 20th century, so I reckon we knew it was poison
Let's not forget that a chunk of workplace safety regulations are owed to the coal wars, when Appalachian miners had to wage an actual civil war against their bosses, police, military and hired goons just to get any rights at all on the job; their employers preferred to hire militias and kill people rather than agree to pay for better safety equipment and give people breaks.
Then there were the "radium girls" in the 1920s who worked at factories assembling products that used radium in order to glow in the dark. They were told to use their mouths to wet their brushes so the company could save more time and material. Their bodies began falling apart, literally, their tissues were dying and breaking off, and the retaliation they led - while any of them were still alive - resulted in a set of laws addressing workplace related illness, setting in motion waves of additional regulation and scrutiny we all still benefit from.
There's more events like these all through history, industries willing to kill people to save money, and all that ever ended any of it was the "government interference" hated so much by conservatives. Almost every single regulation they fight against or already destroyed was a response to a big business damaging human beings over as little as a few cents at a time.
Meanwhile, the rules and red tape conservatives enjoy and enforce are the kind that limit where homeless people can sleep or what food stamps can buy.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.[1] The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men[2] – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, falling, or jumping to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Italian or Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23;[3][4] of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese.[5]
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Because the doors to the stairwells and exits were locked[1][8] – a common practice at the time to prevent workers from taking unauthorized breaks and to reduce theft[9] – many of the workers could not escape from the burning building and jumped from the high windows. There were no sprinklers in the building.[10] The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.
THEY WERE LOCKED IN, UNABLE TO ESCAPE THE FIRE, IN ORDER TO "DISCOURAGE UNAUTHORIZED BREAKS AND REDUCE THEFTS."
Businesses like Amazon are doing absolutely everything they can within the law to "discourage" breaks and thefts, but the law says you can't fucking lock your workers in like prisoners. They currently would if they could, and they'd love those rules to disappear.
guessed-starred-deactivated2025
god. i didnt even know about that part
REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD.
Not the blood of the shareholders or the executives, but the workers. Ordinary people just trying to make a living.
The person who invented leaded petrol got lead poisoning. He knew it was poisonous and hid the fact so he could make profit off of his invention. Meanwhile, leaded petrol has ensured that lead can be found on pretty much every square centimetre of the planet, as it got into the air and from there... everywhere.
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Anonymous asked:
no one wants to fuck you because you’re mean and strange
Wait hold up this is awesome. So not because I'm ugly?
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In the dog world, humans are elves that routinely live to be 500+ years old.
crowley-for-king
“They live so long…but the good ones still bond with us for our entire lives.”
“These immortals are so kind we must be good friends to them”
porygons
My heart wtf
Not gonna lie, this fucked me up a bit.
fireandshellamari
POV Fantasy slice of life book when?
“Now I am old. The fur around my muzzle is grey and my joints ache when we walk together. Yet she remains unchanged, her hair still glossy, her skin still fresh, her step still sprightly. Time doesn’t touch her and yet I love her still.”
crazypenguin159
“For generations, he has guarded over my family. Since the days of my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather he has kept us safe. For so long we thought him immortal. But now I see differently, for just as my fur grows gray and my joints grow stiff, so too do his. He did not take in my children, but gave them away to his. I will be the last that he cares for. My only hope is that I am able to last until his final moments. The death of one of his kind is so rare. The ending of a life so long is such a tragedy. He has seen so much, he knows so much. I know he takes comfort in my presence. I only wish that I will be able to give him this comfort until the end.”
SHOOK
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: ¨·.·¨ : ` ·. if you’re reading this i hope December is gentle to you. i hope your days get better, easier, brighter, happier & more exciting. be patient with yourself & watch how great things get. sending love, please accept
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