jncos:

As a real nerd I prefer Star Trek to Star Wars because Star Wars only teases you by showing you a glimpse of ongoing trade negotiations while Star Trek will get right in there and examine the state of those negotiations in a lengthy debate, possibly resolving it without the firing of a single laser beam.

(via sun-praiser)

also I’m actually excited to go to sleep because tomorrow morning I’m gonna wrap up my process essay for a final project. I transformed my lit review into a fake npr segment to publicly present my research. it ruled.

so, I’m:

• slogging through end of semester stuff right now
  
• moving in w/ Ben in a month, lease is signed and we’re just like, bickering about couches occasionally
  
• pretty stressed out about internship things but whatever
  
• watching more tv that’s not a daylong-netflix-marathon
• same but for video games

mostly I’m just trying to keep my head above water and survive but like, I’m fairly healthy and reasonably satisfied w/ my life. hope you are all doing well!

I’m good. Schoolwork plus work just got intense and I had to prioritise for a while. I’ll be back after the semester maybe

I also forgot how to use this website and I meant to answer this privately, my bad

I left this website to do homework for a few months and now everyone’s obsessed with a broadway musical.

I have not had time to be on Tumblr for several months, but I hope you all are
doing well and that the website itself continues to improve. see ya later!

billhitchert:

to dine by your side

(Source: stoneroses, via qyns)

Fast food workers in NY just won a $15/hr wage.

I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interpersonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr.

And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me?

Good for them.

Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.”

And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it.

My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and cashiers and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them.

The workers in NY *made* them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.

(Source: accidentalambience, via traversefamilypicnic)

night-vale-community-radio:

The Roaring 20s. The Screaming 30s. The Ungodly Shrieking 40s. The Oddly Silent 50s.

(via executive-cleric)