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This morning (7 pm but we don't talk about that) when I awoke from my fever dream, I realized somthing... Baby animals shit.

For some reason it never occurred to me that a puppy or a kitten...would SHIT. Like????

Why have I never seen baby animal shit? It's so weird.

So, this hasn't crossed my dash yet. (Not blaming anyone, there is soooo much going on in the world and I'd also missed it in the noise).

There is currently a strike at Frito-Lay. in Topeka. These workers are striking because:

They were being forced to work 84 hour weeks. The company's best offer so far is a 60 hour cap. This is shit we fought for a century ago, people.

Their generous offer also includes a whole 4 percent wage increase...over the next 2 years. I'm not sure what COL is in Topeka, but... Well, it's better than the entire 77 cents they've apparently gotten in the last decade.

There's also a report that a worker literally collapsed and dropped dead on the line and the foreman's response was to make them move the body out of the way and put in a replacement. (However, this is unconfirmed and, of course, the company denies it).

There have been multiple OSHA violations at this plant over the last few years, including a forklift accident that's under investigation.

They've now been striking since July 5 but, of course, it only hit the national media yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/14/frito-lay-strike-forced-overtime/

So, why am I signal boosting this?

Because Frito-Lay is refusing to budge. They are attempting to make the excuse that union leadership agreed to the 60 hour work week and crappy pay cut...when union leadership only agreed to put it to a vote.

And this means that we need to put the thumbscrews on them. Remember, this is about 19th century style working conditions.

So, I'm calling on my followers to boycott Frito Lay's until the strike is involved.

Frito-Lay owns:

Lay's

Doritos (Sorry. I really am. I KNOW there's no good alternative to Doritos, although Zapp's are good if you can find them).

Fritos

Tostitos

Cheetos

Ruffles

Sun Chips

Baken-ets

Chester's

Cracker Jack

Islen plantain chips

Funyuns

Grandma's (the cookies)

Matador Meat Snacks

Maui style potato chips

Miss Vickie's

Munchies

Munchos

Rolled Gold

Sabritones

Santitas

Simply

Smartfood

Stacys

The Walking Taco

NatuChips

PopCorners (this one wasn't on their website, but was bought by Pepsi's in 2019 with the intent of adding it. So best avoided just in case). Yes, this really is more than half of the snack aisle. Suggested alternatives:

Kettle Brand Chips

Zapp's (If you can find them. My supermarket had them once and not since, so I'm guessing the culinary cowards in this neighborhood were afraid of "Voodoo" flavored chips).

Pringles

On the Border for salsa.

Wise Cheez Doodles

Bugles

Utz

Store own brand alternatives, if your store has ones that are any good.

Cheez-its

Check before you buy and let's tell these people they don't get to treat workers like that.

OUGH

Had a dream that I saw this ad in a paper

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renders i made with Tami_Taoli's models on sketchfab :33

understimulation was never an issue for me growing up because i could visit the beach and get my hands and feet and arms and legs all scraped up by sand and rocks and then take a dip in the salt water and feel it in every open wound on my body

there hasn't been a more recent one of these, so after last night's tennocon reveals, i decided i would make it myself. choices are a combination of recent plot points and older ones that i don't recall having been on previous polls.

as usual, reblog for a wider sample size!

https://medium.com/@katelynburns/im-a-trans-woman-and-i-don-t-know-how-to-do-this-6958817a29b7

Hey, y'all. Newsflash for all you people clogging up the various Cluster-B tags with bullshit “Narcissistic Abuse” type shit.

People with Cluster-B disorders aren’t your fucking scapegoats. We aren’t here for you to point at and say “those people are monsters, we’re better than them because we aren’t like them”. You don’t get to call yourself a better person than me because you can feel empathy and I can’t, you don’t get to say that people like me are nothing but abusers and monsters without giving us even the ghost of a chance, and you don’t get to use our disorders as the reasons for everything wrong with the world.

That politician isn’t a “Narcissist” he’s a bad person who is too privileged to care about other people. That celebrity isn’t a “Sociopath” she just is more focused on wealth and showing off than actually helping people. All you do when you give bad people an armchair diagnosis is stigmatize and harm a vulnerable group of people and give shitty people an excuse as to why they’re bad people.

Trying to pretend that all bad people have to have some kind of disorder only hurts us. Yes, you can be a bad person without a personality disorder. Yes, you can hurt people without a personality disorder.

People like you hurt people, and people like me take the blame.

Take some fucking responsibility and stop acting like you are some kind of a good person because you weren’t traumatized so horribly you lost your ability to feel empathy. I’m not here to be a scapegoat so that you feel better about yourself.

You don’t need empathy to be a good person, and having empathy doesn’t automatically make you not a bad one.

@carnagecritter

Swamp QUEEN.