barefoothippyinatree:

officialloislane:

Are y’all SEEING this!

Just to clarify! Because most news articles wernt specific!

It was the record for the 10 and under 100 yard butterfly!

And HE BEAT THE RECORD BY MORE THAN A SECOND!

HE ALSO GOT FIRST IN ALL OF HIS RACES AT THAT MEET!

AND HE IS DREAMING OF BEING IN THE 2024 OR 2028 OLYMPICS!

I’M SO EXCITED TO WATCH THIS KID DESTROY EVERY SWIM RECORD ANYONE HAS EVER SET!

platinumcracker:

harryll0yds:

captjackfrost:

notadangirl:

luckyspike:

futurama is one of those shows that lures you in by being funny and then rips your fucking heart out

If you didn’t know the hand was her father, the squid thing her mother, her parents left her at an orphanage when she was a baby but in reality were looking out for her all her life

what makes it even sadder is the reason they left her in an orphanage. they didn’t want her to know she was a mutant. they wanted her to live a normal human life so they gave her up while they live in the sewers as mutants.

she is a cyclops

how did she NOT know she was a mutant

BITCH if u watched the show or did any research at all you’d know that she thought she was an ALIEN, which in that society was completely acceptable. Try again!!!!

Chicago is facing its first citywide hotel strike since 1903

workfornow:

agingwunderkind:

mostlysignssomeportents:

Chicago’s tourism sector is booming, with a record 55,000,000 visitors
to the city last year, and revenue up this year by 10.4% to $1.45B: but
workers aren’t seeing those gains.

Housekeepers continue to suffer a 40% higher injury rate than any other
service sector workers, and hotel staff face seasonal layoffs in which
they lose their health coverage for the winter – as one worker said,
“Hotels may slow down in the wintertime, but I still need my diabetes
medication when I’m laid off. They work us like dogs when it’s busy and
then kick us to the curb in the winter.”

UNITE HERE Local 1 has led a walkout of over 6,000 housekeepers, cooks,
doormen, bartenders, servers and dishwashers from 26 hotels, with
round-the-clock picket lines in a vote that was authorized by 97% of the
membership. They’ve been out for a week.

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/14/that-toddlin-town.html

You traveling to Chicago?

Have the funds to pick & choose where you stay, rather than sleeping on your cousins’ ex-’s couch?

Here’s the list of hotels where workers are on strike

https://www.chicagohotelstrike.org/

If possible, don’t stay there. Don’t eat there. LET THE HOTEL KNOW YOU ARE CHOOSING NOT TO DO BUSINESS THERE BECAUSE YOU RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF STRIKING WORKERS. 

Me, I’d call up and start the process of making a reservation and then ask if the strike’s been settled. And regretfully back out if they admit it’s not.

Or make one and call back to cancel, saying you just heard about the strike.

(I am not petty enough to do it if I weren’t actually planning to go to Chicago, mind. Plus if enough people did, it’d lose impact because the fact it was all just drama would be obvious, given the numbers. Businesses know, on average, how many reservations get made in a given month or week and via what channel: on line, phone, resellers like Expedia, etc. But I’d enjoy the hell out of it if I were legit going there.)

Also, there’s no obvious place to donate to a strike fund, so funds are sufficient for strike benefits. But if this drags on I’d keep an eye on it, for those of you who can afford to donate and are moved to do so.

dragon-in-a-fez:

have you ever thought about how in the versions of the spider-man canon where Peter’s web shooting is accomplished by technology rather than being an actual superpower that means he really just….could have…very easily not done that. like he could have had any weapon. he could have had weapons he didn’t have to invent himself and build from scratch. but they wouldn’t have been spider-themed so he just. he did that. for the Aesthetic.