In 1960, SAG and WGA struck to force management to adapt to the new technology of television. Without that strike and the agreement it birthed, residual use payments would not exist.
My parents stole nearly all of my salary from my entire childhood. My Star Trek residuals were all I had, and they kept me afloat for two decades while I rebuilt my life. I have healthcare and a pension because of my union. The AMPTP billionaires want to take all that security away so they can give CEOs even more grotesque wealth at the expense of the people who make our industry run.
To give some sense of what is at stake: There are actors who star in massively successful, profitable, critically acclaimed shows that are all on streaming services. You see them all the time. They are famous, A-list celebrities. Nearly all of those actors don’t earn enough to qualify for health insurance, because the studios forced them to accept a buyout for all their residuals (decade of reuse, at the least) that is less than I earned for one week on TNG. And I was the lowest paid cast member in 1988. They want to do this while studio profits and CEO compensation are at historic highs.
I mean, if not now, when? And I haven’t even touched on AI and working conditions.
We must fight for the future of our industry in the face of changing technology, the same way our elders did in 1960. So today, my Spacemom and I went to the place where it started for us, way back when, to do just that.
I see all your support. It means so much. Thank you.
if i see one more fucking ‘reject modernity embrace tradition’ meme i’m going to lose my shit
it costs literally $0 to give a fuck about jewish people and not use fucking nazi slogans as ‘memes’
just don’t say nazi shit. it’s easy. think about this: will not saying nazi shit have an adverse impact on my quality of life? if the answer is yes, then you’re probably a nazi. if the answer is no, then you can stop it and easily make the world a safer and more comfortable place
I had no idea this meme is a fascist dogwhistle thing. But I looked it up and it’s clearly a thing fascists like, taken from the first two definitions of fascism by Umberto Eco, who lived under Mussolini’s fascist reign:
The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.
every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post
1. If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.
2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:
THIS IS GOLD
oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet
When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made
I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT
STILL FUNNY
The bell
The last question
The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time
It’s all beautiful
It’s all
So beautiful
I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.
My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.
every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post
1. If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.
2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:
THIS IS GOLD
oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet
When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made
I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT
STILL FUNNY
The bell
The last question
The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time
It’s all beautiful
It’s all
So beautiful
I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.
seeing people be like ‘I know it’s going to be hard to support the sag strike because movies and shows will stop coming out but-’ is so fucking funny like can I introduce you to a beautiful concept called the million billion movies and shows that already exist that you couldn’t even get through in a lifetime if you wanted. welcome to heaven <3
Now you can understand how it sounds when i hear any siren
art
tornado sirens normally: 📢⚠️🌪 THERES A TORNADO 📢💥❗️
these tornado sirens: 💫🌸✨ there’s a tornado 🥰 🌈🌱
✨😻💖🎶four tornadoes 🎶💖😻✨
Okay we don’t get tornadoes in Wales so I am admittedly unsure of the etiquette but if four of the fuckers are going off simultaneously should he not be staying in a house right now
Tornados move fast and are erratic
it’s best to get in a storm cellar or the most internal room of your house
So… not wandering around outside making a Tiktok of the pretty sound?
Categories of answers I have received to this question:
It’s probably just Wednesday
It’s probably a test (context clues suggest these two answers are related)
Yeah but you have to go outside to see the pretty clouds first
It’s fine, the tornado is probably the other side of the town
Mid-westerners have no self-preservation instincts and like to watch the houses fly past
Thank you to everyone who submitted this data for my analysis, my conclusion is that I don’t understand America
MURICA YEAH
trans-humanish:
So fun fact, Midwestern USAmericans are seemingly uniquely habituated to tornadoes because their region is literally the most tornadoed place on earth by far.
Another website says that 75% of the Earth’s tornadoes are in the United States. I have no idea why this is the case.
Geography.
So basically, what we have that Europe doesn’t is ocean followed by A GIANT-ASS WINDBREAK (the Rocky Mountains). To give you a concept of how big the Rockies are: I live in the Valley of the Sun, aka the Phoenix Metro area. We are surrounded on all four sides by mountains: the White Tanks to the west, the McDowell Range to the northeast, the South Mountains to the, well, south, and the Sierra Estrellas to the southwest. I live thirty miles from the White Tanks. If I go about a mile out of my subdivision, so I actually have a clear range of view not blocked by houses on all sides, I CAN SEE THEM. Faintly, it needs to be a low-pollution day, but they’re still quite large from my view. The atmosphere literally gets in the way before they get too far away to see due to size.
So you’ve got an idea what that looks like, right? You can kind of imagine that in your head?
THE ROCKIES ARE ALMOST FOUR TIMES BIGGER.
And on the far side of the Rockies….it’s just flat land. For thousands of miles.
Behold, Kansas.
(That’s not a joke, by the way. This is a photograph of the Kansan prairie.)
So any windy weather that makes it over the Rockies actually has to be coming down. Like out of the sky. It’s gonna hit the east side of the Rockies like a skier and go zoom. And then once you get into the Midwest, there’s just…nothing to stop that wind from creating some pretty gnarly weather systems. It’s not humid (for the most part) because there are no oceans or huge lakes. There are no giant geological features to get in the way, and no, a city does not count as a giant geological feature. In geologic terms, New York City is a bit noticeable (mostly because it’s a heat sink). Places like St. Louis and Topeka might as well not exist when you’re talking on a scale like that.
Thus: tornadoes. Because there are no mountains to stop them.
Specifically, that cold, dry air tumbling off the Rockies with all that unimpeded momentum crashes headlong into a plume of similarly unstymied humidity rolling up from the Gulf Coast. This occurs between about the southern bit of South Dakota through to the northern bit of Texas. That cold air will fall and the hot Gulf air will rise, and it forms these massive, spectacular supercells where convection currents start a high atmosphere spin-cycle, which can and do flip sideways, making some of the strongest tornadoes on the planet.
!["Caution" sign, with an image of a crossed-out bath and shower, and an image of a human wearing a gas mask: "Smash tourney in progress [line break] Wear appreciate PPE"](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a162325d0e4cb7cf94358d8f9702a683/ce2eb0d45a7d6318-d1/s500x750/a4ac8ffc531d741e89f8445398b39701f3fa0b95.png)
