V asked what’s a yawp

It’s a big ol’ yell from yr soul; I learned it from a Walt Whitman poem in this scene from The Dead Poets Society but honestly, on rewatch, the bit about the blanket only ever covering your face is much more resonant with the feeling I was referring to

Hmmmm maybe reading a story where wizards talk about immortality all the time is DRASTICALLY increasing my frequency of “midnight yawps due to thoughts of finity”?

zvaigzdelasas:

zvaigzdelasas:

UPS, Teamsters reach labor deal to avoid strike

The deal includes wage increases for both full- and part-time workers.

CNBC

Existing part-time workers will make a minimum of $21 an hour, if workers approve the new contract, the union said. Full-time workers will average $49 an hour. It would also end mandatory overtime on drivers’ days off, according to an outline of the contract provided by the Teamsters. UPS didn’t immediately confirm the potential new wages.

The tentative deal still faces a ratification vote by workers.

25 Jul 23

“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract

(WASHINGTON) – Today, the Teamsters reached the most historic tentative agreement for workers in the history of UPS, protecting and rewardin

International Brotherhood of Teamsters

Highlights of the tentative 2023-2028 UPS Teamsters National Master Agreement include:

- Historic wage increases. Existing full- and part-time UPS Teamsters will get $2.75 more per hour in 2023, and $7.50 more per hour over the length of the contract.
- Existing part-timers will be raised up to no less than $21 per hour immediately, and part-time seniority workers earning more under a market rate adjustment would still receive all new general wage increases.
- General wage increases for part-time workers will be double the amount obtained in the previous UPS Teamsters contract — and existing part-time workers will receive a 48 percent average total wage increase over the next five years.
- Wage increases for full-timers will keep UPS Teamsters the highest paid delivery drivers in the nation, improving their average top rate to $49 per hour.
- Current UPS Teamsters working part-time would receive longevity wage increases of up to $1.50 per hour on top of new hourly raises, compounding their earnings.
- New part-time hires at UPS would start at $21 per hour and advance to $23 per hour.
- All UPS Teamster drivers classified as 22.4s would be reclassified immediately to Regular Package Car Drivers and placed into seniority, ending the unfair two-tier wage system at UPS.
- Safety and health protections, including vehicle air conditioning and cargo ventilation. UPS will equip in-cab A/C in all larger delivery vehicles, sprinter vans, and package cars purchased after Jan. 1, 2024. All cars get two fans and air induction vents in the cargo compartments.
- All UPS Teamsters would receive Martin Luther King Day as a full holiday for the first time.
- No more forced overtime on Teamster drivers’ days off. Drivers would keep one of two workweek schedules and could not be forced into overtime on scheduled off-days.
- UPS Teamster part-timers will have priority to perform all seasonal support work using their own vehicles with a locked-in eight-hour guarantee. For the first time, seasonal work will be contained to five weeks only from November-December.
- The creation of 7,500 new full-time Teamster jobs at UPS and the fulfillment of 22,500 open positions, establishing more opportunities through the life of the agreement for part-timers to transition to full-time work.
- More than 60 total changes and improvements to the National Master Agreement — more than any other time in Teamsters history — and zero concessions from the rank-and-file.

kendallroy:

kendallroy:

• I’m Not Just The Hot, Young, Conniving Ice Queen Who’s Going To Marry Your Dad And Ship You Brats Off To Boarding School — I Also Have Hemorrhoids
• I’m Sick Of The Patriarchy Telling Me To Downplay My Accomplishments, Such As Getting Away With The Murder Of Natalee Holloway
• Feminist Icon? Terrible Mom Ensures Daughter’s Future Therapy Sessions Will All Pass the Bechdel Test
  
• Aww! Woman’s Parents Fled Hardships Of Communism Just So She Could Experience Hardships Of Capitalism
  
• Couple’s Venmo Transaction History Paints Pretty Vivid Picture of Whose Idea It Was To Open Their Relationship
  
• Bitch Who Had TWO American Girl Dolls Wants To Lecture You About Class Consciousness Now
• Report: Gaslighting And Lying Just Kind Of The Same Thing, According To Lauren
• 5 Guys To Date In Your 20s Even Though They’re Not Gerri From Succession
  
• Quiz: Is This Emotional Labor Or Just Listening To Your Friend Talk About Her Problems For Once?
• Wow! Friend’s Entire Poly Relationship Drama Could Be Solved With Chore Chart
• I Hope This Email Finds You Before The Owner Of This Remote Island Does, Because He’s Hunting You For Sport
• 5 Fights To Have With Your Boyfriend That Are Just The ‘Whitecaps’ Episode Of The Sopranos 
• I Online Stalked My Ex’s New Girlfriend And Get This: She Used To Be Mormon???
• Weird Quirks You Didn’t Know Were ADHD Symptoms That Are Just Having Enormous Bazonkers And A Dump Truck Ass
• Goals! Woman’s Entire Understanding Of Stock Market Comes From Neopets
• Haley Posting A Whole Lot About God’s Grace For Someone Who Gave You A ‘Backup Invitation’ To Her Pool Party In Sixth Grade
• 6 Movies To Watch Even Though Kathryn Hahn Isn’t Even In Any Of Them, So What The Fuck
• Quiz: Is This A Serious Feminist Issue Or A Personal Problem You’ve Projected On Your Parasocial Relationship With An A-List Celebrity?
• How To Settle Down With Jeff Even Though You Lack The Sizzling Chemistry Of Robert De Niro And Al Pacino In ‘Heat’
• 4 Theories About Kim On ‘Better Call Saul’ That Will Make Your Coworkers Say “Yeah, I’ve Been Meaning To Check That Show Out”
• Report: Emily Identifying As Empath Now, Which, Not To Be Rude, But Emily?!
• Quiz: Is That Movie A Feminist Masterpiece, Or Does It Just Have A Woman In It?
• Inspiring! Jenna’s Handshake So Fucking Firm, No One Can Tell She Grew Up Without A Father
• How To Pretend You Never Hated Anne Hathaway Now That Everyone Likes Her Again
• Activism Win! Kevin’s Intersectional Feminism Definitely Not Just An Excuse To Call This One White Women A Cunt
  
• All 5 Women On Bumble BFF Still Looking For The Abbi To Their Ilana, So Good Luck
• 4 Things Your History Teacher Definitely Told You That You Didn’t Retain Because You Were Writing Horny Draco/Harry Fanfic In Your Notebook 
• ‘There’s No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism’ Says Woman About To Blow $77 On Polyester Tops From Fashion Nova
• Fuck! Tamogatchi Definitely Dead By Now
• Quotes From Gone Girl’s ‘Cool Girl’ Monologue To Take Out Of Context When Some Bitch Rubs You The Wrong Way
  
• 4 Inspiring Female Politicians To Call ‘Neoliberal Shills’ As Soon As You’re Totally Clear On What That Means
• Huh! 100% of Lindsey’s Sexual Fantasies Attributable To The Alan Cumming Character In ‘Spy Kids’
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wait, fuck, forgot this one, so let’s call it an even 38:

• Quiz: Is He Afraid Of Intimacy Or Is He Burt Lancaster In ‘Sweet Smell Of Success’?

powerburial:

gorps:

plank-boi:

newturkdad:

crabwalker:

newturkdad:

momowatcher:

paxamericana:

Best sticker

Freakin’ awesome. We live in anaheim so our boys got to enjoy the all-access Disneyland Daily pass. Our youngest (Tanner) wanted to be an officer. Unfortunately he was too small for the restraints on splash mountain so when the coaster sped up it flung him out and he skidded about 200 feet on the asphalt. Here’s what we’re keeping him in right now:

Disney won’t let us bury on park grounds because of a potential copyright issue with the superman thing.

We miss him a lot, but there’s a cancellation fee on the Daily pass, so we’ve been making the most of it. His brother still enjoys the park and since we chose not to press charges, we’re entitled to one free mickey pancake a day

??? Reading that looked like you tried to copy abd paste 3 differint stories together to make us not realise you just copied and pasted??

First of all: splash mountain is a water log ride. There are no places where it just…speeds…up? Its a fucking water log ride???

BECAUSE its a water log ride it DOESNT HAVE RESTRAINTS….it DOES however have a minimum height requirment of 46 inches to ride the ride, so EVEN IF this kid was too small, they WOULD NOT let them ride.

There is no asphault anywhere near the track itself. The CLOSEST you could come is the big drop at rhe end but again, minimum height requirement of 46 inches tall to ride, the angle of the drop and the speed at which you go it is physically impossible to get ‘launched’.

I feel like this is obvious but theres so much obviously wrong about the second addition i suppose i need to state this.

SUPERMAN. ISNT. DISNEY. Superman is DC. The only theme parks that have licenced DC character based rides is six flags.

Six flags, another park that HAS MINIMUM HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS for rides.

That has restraints on rides in which are necesary. Which again, YOU CANNOT RIDE IF YOU DO NOT MEET THE SAFETY GUILDLINES.

Go try to shitpost and ruin the reputation of a differint park, will you? At least make sure your story is even plausable before you open your mis-informed mouth.

@crabwalker​ Are you seriously explaining to me how Splash Mountain works? Do you think I don’t remember how my son died? Oh, and it’s “physically impossible to get launched?” Guess what, asshole? My SON got launched. This is the last photo we have of him.

You’ve said some cruel things to me, but I’m going to be the bigger person.
I’ll be praying, for your sake, that nobody in your family ever gets launched.

That photo is based off of a meme of this lady looking pissed. That and I can’t find an incident based off of what you posted. Shut the fuck up.

Why did you photoshop tanner out of that picture?

sad that there are still ignorant tanner denialists out there

Tagged in a meem by @60th!

Last song I listened to: I think the last song I chose to listen to in full was “Sam’s Town” by The Killers bc I was listening to Hot Fuss in my iTunes library and it spilled over into the next album before I switched to podcasts! If we count head music, “How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box version)” by Michael Guy Bowman is still plaguing me from my guest episode on Unsound Theories, “Overbite” by Sincere Engineer, and “Two Coffins” by Against Me!

Last book I read: I recently caught up on Mixed Feelings, a Worm longfic by Kithri on AO3. My current reads are Love-in-a-Mist by Victoria Goddard in print, The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere by Lurina on Royal Road, and When the Angels Left the Old Country by @kuttithevangu as read over the phone to me by @toopunkrockforshul (the Victoria Goddard fanserver chose it for bookclub in August :^D but I lost my signed copy in the divorce D^: but I have a cool partner who is Super Fucking Hype :^D)

Last thing I watched: B*rd B*x Barc*lona, which was mid but I did enjoy it. Ooh and I still have a couple Wheel of Time episodes I can watch!

Current obsession: I don’t have any right now and it is dealing low but noticeable psychic dps :^(

No obligation to do it and DEFINITELY no obligation to do it in as much detail as I did and EXTREMELY no obligation to tag 8 people to subsequently do it who don’t overlap w ppl tagged in the same post as you nor the three people they are most likely to tag if they do it, but I’m interested in the answers of: @cwtchpup @kumbric @sangfielle @bitd @racheldawnamber @roaringup @orevet and uhhhh Kuzu if u read this far

b0nkcreat:

b0nkcreat:

why do all my internet friends have to live so far away im literally going to be sick. when will they invent a computer you can climb through

is this really too much to ask……………………. :(

zoe248:

It me

bunjywunjy:

historyandqueershenanigans:

historyandqueershenanigans:

So I made a moon landing cake…

Happy lunar landing day! I decided to spend some time baking and make a cake to celebrate! :)

It’s half vanilla and half chocolate cake with homemade buttercream and homemade wineberry jam in the middle- all the components I tasted along the way were delicious, so I’m looking forward to eating it tonight. (I’ll reblog this with more pictures later)

Phrase taken from this post by @bunjywunjy tis a wonderful image and Ive laughed every time I saw it today, so I put it on a cake :))

holy fuck this is REALLY good

luimnigh:

msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat:

whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend clearly has never met ibuprofen

Actually literally accurate. The song originates in the 1949 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, while ibuprofen was invented in 1961.

Newer printings of the duology of Anita Loos’s novels which the musical is based on have actually updated the titles to reflect modern pharmacological sensibilities — to wit:

Gentlemen Prefer Ibuprofen: The Intimate Diary of an Achey Lady (1925), and

But Gentlemen Marry Ondansetron: The Illuminating Diary of a Nauseous Lady (1927)