elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

the hollywood studios are the dumbest people alive bc now every american city with a large film/TV industry (LA, NYC, Atlanta, etc) are going to be overrun by grown up theatre kids (professional writers and actors) hanging out together in public for months on end with nothing to do but emulate newsies. whole american cities are about to look like the inside of a suburban dennys at 11 pm on a saturday after a high school musical closes. they have trapped millions of people in a hell of unimaginable proportions.

shittymoviedetails:

ajoofsthered:

ajoofsthered:

zvaigzdelasas:

thyrell:

zvaigzdelasas:

UPS strike in US could be costliest in at least a century, report says

A threatened U.S. strike at United Parcel Service could be "one of the costliest in at least a century," a think tank specializing in the ec

Reuters

13 Jul 23

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yes that’s how bourgeois media tries to trick workers into being against strikes. Any delays are solely due to United Parcels Service incorporated not properly paying their workers.

By not negotiating, the company - hand-in-hand with the bourgeois media trying to make that the sob story - are actually holding medical equipment for ransom.

If you’re concerned about medical equipment maybe UPS should stop forcing its preload to go faster than it is safe, leaving open packages all over the place because they say that slows us down, loading tractor trailers not only to the ceiling but to the point where you can’t even open them because they’re that packed in. UPS is causing this shit, not Teamsters, not the employees.

UPS has never respected things like medical equipment and your packages. They don’t care, it’s all the bottom line.

This is what the company thinks of everyone’s packages, these are all from average days. This is what the Teamsters want to prevent by making kig conditions materially better for us.

I was quite literally told to stop repairing and taping open boxes by a manager because when you stop unloading a trailer for even ten seconds it “hurts production”.

swinging-stars-from-satellites:

thegangkillsakaiju:

goldblumgf:

HAPPY 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PACIFIC RIM!!

you know what it is, bitch

HAPPY 10 YEARS TO PACIFIC RIM (2013) DIR. GUILLERMO DEL TORO

whetstonefires:

nos4ra2:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

The problem with Batman in his present incarnation is that we need simultaneously to believe that this is a man who can effortlessly ninja his way through dozens of gun-toting mercenaries, and that this is a man to whom Danny DeVito with an umbrella is a credible threat.

Okay, that was glib – let me expand. I’m fully aware that Batman comics generally don’t have him fighting guys like the Penguin one on one these days. That’s not the problem. The problem is that superhero power creep has rendered Batman functionally immune to hired goons, but owing to his roots as a street-level vigilante, like half of his classic villains are guys whose primary threat vector is the ability to field arbitrary numbers of hired goons. There just aren’t a lot of ways to work around that without either doing violence to the villain’s idiom or making Batman carry the idiot ball – though I’ll grant that some of the attempted workarounds have been very entertaining!

#i say we give the goons powercreep too #some goon moves to gotham and is gobsmacked at the average goons fighting ability; that would render them their own mob boss in another city (via @chaoticspacedust)

You joke, but that’s literally one of the workarounds I’m referring to. One of the reasons that recent Batman stories keep looping back around to ancient ninja conspiracy stuff is that an answer to “how do we make hired goons a credible threat when Batman is an invincible ninja?” is “the hired goons are also ninjas”.

Imagine turning to crime out of financial desperation and you can’t even land a job as a dumb knuckle cracking brawler anymore without five years of martial arts training, a CDL in evasive getaway driving and a hand written recommendation from an active member of The Court of Owls.

batman gentrifying the crime industry smh

powerfulexplosive:

wakeupthemembersofbylernation:

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This is fine, everything is fine 🙂

Me, at the greedy executives:

Originally posted by dailystrangerthings

i love when companies try to use propaganda to scare their workers into ending their strike.. capitalism is so so wild

astoundingbeyondbelief:

astoundingbeyondbelief:

astoundingbeyondbelief:

The next Toho Godzilla film finally has a title, and it’s coming to U.S. theaters at warp speed—less than a month after it releases in Japan! The Forbes article that broke the news says that according to Toho International President Koji Ueda, Godzilla Minus One is in continuity with Shin Godzilla, but I’m wondering if that was a miscommunication; it’d be hard to pull off, to put it mildly.

The article’s now been edited—no continuity between Shin Godzilla and Minus One.

wooshofficial:

wooshofficial:

Girl what the fuck is going on in tumblr offices right now to let the decisions they just dropped be made

To the executive who made the decision and the RND staff that told said exec to make that decision: the only reason you’re winning the race right now is because you’re the tortoise. Don’t be the fucking hare.

“Valley what the fuck are you talking about”

Today, tumblr staff posted a very long announcement on their blog, which you can find here.

It’s a long post that’s pretty hard to read, mostly because the entire thing reads like the writer was held at gunpoint by the zuck himself. (To the poor staff member who had to write this shitshow, I’m so sorry, may you get a raise for your efforts) Here are some of the main points:

• Tumblr (the company) is concerned about gaining more users from outside sources, such as other social media sites
• They’re planning on doing this by updating their advertising practices to the industry standard (basically, advertising tumblr the way Meta advertises Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, or the way Twitter advertises itself)
• They want to change how tumblr looks when you’re not logged in so that more people are convinced to sign up (they didn’t say how, exactly) but that’s not fully fleshed out yet
• Gave a very interesting statistic that the average tumblr user scrolls though 25 posts a day and did not specify wether or not this is good or bad (most likely because it’s fucking wrong)
• Plan to improve their “algorithmic ranking capabilities on all feeds” (which I don’t understand fully, but it sure fucking sounds like data mining)
• Plan to change thread mechanics again, but this time they’re collapsible
• Plan on putting new creators in the forefront by boosting their visibility on all dashes, and “improving the feedback loop for creators” (which once again I don’t understand fully)
• Plan on implementing spam filters when posts make rounds
• There’s a lot more RND on their end about to happen, regarding notifications, emails and staff-to-user communications
• Want to make emails more personal per creator (??????????)
• Backend stuff regarding site stability and performance on mobile

TL;DR: Tumblr is attempting to catch up with other social medias by becoming more like Twitter, even though the whole reason they had a massive influx of users recently was because of their lack of invasive, intrusive and vile business practices to sell themself.

Needless to say, people are fucking pissed. A lot of this is the exact opposite of what tumblr users want, and feels like the thing that’ll make this site finally crash and burn alongside the others. Which is terrifying!

So if staff are reading this, I’m gonna repeat my statement: the singular reason your site ended up being refuge in this time of dying socials is because the bar is in hell, and you barely jumped it by not having the bells and whistles that everyone’s tired of. Don’t trip while you’re still ahead.

astoundingbeyondbelief:

I had the pleasure of attending the second half of the Mahoning Drive-In’s Godzilla-Palooza Raids Again earlier this month—King Kong vs. Godzilla, Rodan, and GMK on Saturday, Destroy All Monsters on Sunday. We got rained on both nights, but it was still a magical time, thanks in no small part to a giant Godzilla statue, complete with lights and sound, that two brothers put together for the event. That’s me and @kyodaikino at its feet.