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autodeluxe · 10 months
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1957 OLDSMOBILE SUPER 88
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bo0zey · 2 years
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we as a society moved past motor oil gerard waaayy too damn fast for my liking
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reasonsforhope · 6 months
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Seven thousand more UAW members just walked off the job, expanding the strike to two more plants. Twenty-five thousand autoworkers are now on strike, and the walkout could continue to escalate if the Big Three don’t budge in negotiations.
[UAW president Shawn] Fain announced that Stellantis would be spared this time. The union had been expected to strike all three companies, but, said Region 1 director LaShawn English, three minutes before Fain was scheduled to go on Facebook Live, the UAW received frantic emails from company representatives.
[Note: Love that for the UAW. Also laughing so hard. Three minutes before the next round of strikes were annouced!!]
According to Fain, Stellantis made “significant progress” on cost-of-living allowances, the right not to cross a picket line, and the right to strike over product commitments and plant closures. “We are excited about this momentum at Stellantis and hope it continues,” Fain said...
“See You Next Week — Maybe?”
“These guys wanted to go out a long time ago,” said Cody Zaremba, a Local 602 member at the Lansing GM plant after the news broke that his plant would be joining the strike. “We’re ready. Everybody, truly, I believe, in the entire membership. They’re one with what’s going on.”
Five thousand workers at thirty-eight parts distribution centers across twenty-one states have been on strike since last Friday [September 22, 2023], along with thirteen thousand at three assembly plants in Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri who walked out on September 15. (See a map of all struck facilities here.) ...
The UAW is now calling on community supporters to organize small teams to canvass dealerships that sell and repair Big Three cars and trucks. On Tuesday, the union issued a canvassing tool kit with instructions, flyers, press releases, and talking points.
In negotiations with Ford and GM, autoworkers have clinched some important gains. Among them is an agreement by both companies to end at least one of the many tiers in current contracts, putting workers at certain parts plants back on the same wage scale as assembly workers. The top rate for Big Three assembly workers is currently around $32...
Ford was spared in last week’s escalation, because bargainers there had made further progress on gains for workers.
But today, the UAW once again called out workers at Ford and GM, putting some muscle behind its bold demands — a big wage boost, a shorter workweek, elimination of tiers, cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation, protection from plant closures, conversion of temps to permanent employees, and the restoration of retiree health care and benefit-defined pensions to all workers.
-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023. Article continues below.
Keep Them Guessing
This year, for the first time in recent history, the union has played the three auto companies against each other with its strike strategy, departing from the union’s tradition of choosing one target company and patterning an agreement at the other two.
The stand-up strike strategy draws inspiration from an approach known as CHAOS (Create Havoc Around Our System), first deployed in 1993 by Alaska Airlines flight attendants, who announced they would be striking random flights. Although they struck only seven flights in a two-month period, Alaska had to send scabs on every plane, just in case. The unpredictability drew enormous media attention and drove management up the wall. Meanwhile the union was able to conserve its strength and minimize risk.
The companies miscalculated where the UAW was going to strike first, stockpiling engines and shipping them cross-country to the wrong facilities. Autoworkers relished the self-inflicted supply chain chaos on UAW Facebook groups and other social media platforms.
Nonstrikers’ morale on the factory floor has gotten a boost from rank and filers organizing to refuse voluntary overtime. With support both from Fain and the reform caucus Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), workers have been encouraging each other to “Eight and Skate,” meaning to turn down extra work and decline to do management any favors.
Majority Public Support
A majority of Americans support the UAW strikers, and the Big Three have taken a PR hit since the strike began, according to a new survey conducted by the business intelligence firm Caliber.
“Eighty-seven percent of respondents told us they were aware of the strike,” Caliber CEO Shahar Silbershatz told the Intercept. “It’s clear the strike is not just causing commercial repercussions, but reputational repercussions as well.”
These reputational repercussions will only worsen...
"We Can Unmake It"
Fain didn't pull any punches in his speech... “That’s what’s different about working-class people. Whether we’re building cars or trucks or running parts distribution centers; whether we’re writing movies or performing TV shows... we do the heavy lifting. We do the real work. Not the CEOs, not the executives.
"And though we don’t know it, that’s what power is. We have the power. The world is of our making. The economy is of our making. This industry is of our making.
“And as we’ve shown, when we withhold our labor, we can unmake it.”
-via Jacobin, September 29, 2023
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cametotheshowinsd · 7 months
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𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫: リボーン (reborn) | Taylor Swift
// reputation as a comic book
in the death of her reputation, she felt truly alive.
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gallup24 · 4 months
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Jesus 2.0 rides a Motorcycle Scooter
@createserenity posted about these two weird motorcycles seen through S2.
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They appear in first street scene in E1, are visible as the Bentley roars up after Aziraphale's phone call. License plates can clearly be read in Awning of New Age scene and are behind the Bentley before Crowley leaves in E6.
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The bike on the left is a "contemporary and dynamic" 2008 Piaggio Zip scooter and has three seat height settings for comfort. License plate SP 08 BYS.
Bike on the right is the "Ultimate Show Stopper." The 2008 Yamaha YBR125 is great for learners. License Plate DE 58 ANR. Seat is not adjustable.
In order to get a motorcycle license in United Kingdom you need to be 16, but can apply for license at 15. You'll also need an L or Learner plate, which these bikes have, though one is broke off. Rough ride?
I did not know the number on a license plate in UK corresponds to the year it was made. In this case, the 8 means 2008. @createserenity pointed this out and that 2008 is the year Warlock, Adam and Greasy Johnson were born.
I think one of those motorcycles belongs to Greasy Johnson and the Second Coming is already underway.
Do not tag Neil in fan theory!
This is an excellent post by @queerfables and reblog analysis on how the Second Coming is already in motion.
Greasy Johnson is the third baby in the baby swap. Repeat, Greasy Johnson is the third baby.
Edit: Alternative theory Jesus is a Red Herring
Greasy Johnson rides a scooter
There's two Greasy Johnson/motorcycle connections to Terry and Neil's original work. The first one was an oh. The second was an OH!!!!
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"Possibly you would like to imagine some children, and a hobby - restoring vintage motorcycles..." and
"Jesus Christ!" he moaned. "I think He may be along in a minute," said Pigbog urgently. "He's probably looking for somewhere to park his bike..." Good old Pigbog.
Motorcycle on the left, the Piaggio, has "height-adjustable seat to ensure comfort," which is important if you are a sad oversized child.
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"Greasy Johnson was a sad oversized child."
I think the license plates in Season 2 each tell a story. The numbers are a Bible code and the letters have a double meaning, a disambiguation.
The license plate is SP 08 BYS. If you apply Strong's Concordance, you get wretched in Hebrew and Abiathar in Greek.
The "sad oversized child" explains the wretched.
Abiathar was a high priest always getting confused with his father. Jesus and God are not the same. Jesus and Greasy Johnson won't be the same either.
BYS disambiguation is Bless your soul. SP is special.
The scooter/motorcycle on left is ridden by Greasy Johnson.
His mom does too?
Motorcycle license plate is DE 58 ANR. Strong's Concordance gives us a feminine coded word in Greek and Hebrew. Maybe a mother or girlfriend?
In Greek 58 means assembly place, which Whickber Street definitely is.
In Hebrew 58 means meadow or to grow green. Jesus' mom was Mary. There's a painting, Madonna del Prado (Madonna of the Meadow) made by Raphael when he was 23 years old. The ultimate show stopper painting got Raphael his gig at the Vatican.
ANR disambiguation is another. The DE is not or opposite. Not the mother, other mother? Other Mother!
Greasy Johnson is in town along with his Other Mother. But without the buttons.
An Over the Ocean Call to the Dowlings
I'm not sure why the Johnsons might be in town. Maybe he knows he's adopted?
Adam seems content in Tadfield. What about Warlock? Aziraphale and Crowley invested allot of time and love in that boy, they are his accidental occult godfathers.
Last we saw Warlock in the book he was headed to America with his mother. What role might he play in S3?
If Greasy Johnson learns he's adopted, does he look for his birth parents?
Maybe he contacts them and they come over the ocean to meet up?
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Photo credit @aduckwithears
@aduckwithears points out the Thy Kingdom (Come) Airways and that the Second Coming is allot closer than we think.
The credits show this plane arriving crossing L to R, west to east, unnoticed over Aziraphale and Crowley's heads.
Maybe Warlock is already back in town, but not on a motorcycle.
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First street scenes of E1, these 2 step off the corner crossing the street. The male is in a hurry, female runs to catch up and they disappear into the crowd.
Is this Warlock and Harriet Dowling off to meet up with Greasy Johnson and his mum?
Or maybe that is Greasy Johnson and his Other Mother?
He's wearing a leather jacket, appropriate for motorbiking. Tall, but not really oversized. Young. Auburn hair.
The opening credits have a oversized red headed Jesus marching along. Coincidence?
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Either way, I think Jesus 2.0 / Greasy Johnson has entered the game in S1 E1 and the Second Coming is already afoot in Soho.
I had to make a chart because I kept confusing myself. Info based from Good Omens Wiki:
Warlock
Deirdre and Arthur Young (biological parents)
Harriet and Thaddeus Dowling (adoptive parents)
Greasy Johnson
Harriet and Thaddeus Dowling (biological parents)
TBD (adoptive parents)
Adam
Satan (original biological parent)
Deirdre and Arthur Young (adoptive parents and by will of Adam also biological parents)
*Tumblr ate my first draft. If I flubbed something, let me know.
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clickityweasel · 1 year
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kim kitsuragi cringe compilation
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lumashoes · 7 months
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Reblog if you can't tie your own shoes <33
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shoecrabs · 4 months
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continuing with my Leo with prosthetics propaganda (by giving him an arm gun his little bro :))
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zoomed in pics of my faves as well
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notwhelmedyet · 2 years
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need to mow a lawn? why don't you
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thistledown-moved · 1 year
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So funny when people make posts like "if you REALLY had [disability here] you wouldn't be ABLE to have a social media account" like god forbid disabled people do anything that isn't lament in total isolation until they are Fixed or until they die.
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shegoesbyjoy · 1 year
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there's an unusually prevalent belief that Disco Elysium doesn't refer to a motor carriage as a "car" in-game, or that "Dolores Dei" is favored over the word "god"
but if you look at the game's dialogue, both of those words are very much a part of everyday vernacular within Revachol
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a car drove / car keys / car crashes / a sunken car
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swear to god / god knows / thank god / in the name of god
and just for fun, here's the use of both within the same chunk of dialogue:
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autodeluxe · 6 months
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1969 BUICK LE SABRE
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justletmescrolll · 1 year
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Kim's glasses:
+1 composure: cosplaying a professional
-2 perception: can't see shit
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scyape · 7 months
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au where he didn’t go catatonic
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mossroomq · 4 months
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Nimona’s Cooking Show!
Nimona : Hello everybody, i’m your chef Nimona and i’ll be teaching you how to make breakfast tacos!
*uhh taco recipe*
*kitchen is absolutely wrecked and burnt*
Nimona : And thats how you make-
Ballister : Hey Nimona, we’re back with the materials for your- GOOD GLORETH WHAT DID YOU DO-
*sad but delighted crunching because the tacos came out perfect*
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beastwhimsy · 1 year
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happenstance
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