just a reminder - do NOT boycott streaming services or not watch new things. the unions have not called for one for a reason. for one, it affects residual payments, which as minimal as those currently are, actors are still getting them during this time, and for two, studios will use lack of viewership as an excuse to cancel shows because you are showing them there is no demand. it deeply affects the industry the writers and actors stand to come back to once the strike is over
Also: going to these places puts pressure and demand on the company. Demand they can’t meet without actors and writers. That puts stress on them, and stress is good.
^^^^ive been looking for a rb with this addition because YES. if a customer wants a burger and there is no cook to make it, that puts pressure on the owner to pay the cook what they want so the customer will still give them money. if there is no customer, the owner has no reason for the cook to make burgers
Stop watching IF AND ONLY IF the unions call for a boycott. For the time being since they haven’t, streaming the shows actually helps. You’re not crossing a picket line to watch because that picket line does not exist unless a boycott is called for.
Since no one seems to be teaching the kids this anymore:
Don’t post anything with specific registration numbers on it, kids! This includes driver’s licenses (we’re so proud you can drive now, but don’t show us your name, face, address, and driver number!), passports (travel is fun, but just post pictures of what you saw after the trip is over!), train/plane/concert/show tickets (see above!), or credit cards oh my god people are posting their entire credit card online that will put you in massive debt and screw your credit score for life please do not!!!
This has been a PSA from your concerned friend online. Please protect yourself. Some secrets are not only okay, but necessary.
AND!! And! This also includes posting pictures of barcodes, especially on boxes from things you’ve ordered from Amazon, UPS, etc etc etc.
Barcodes are scannable. I occasionally have to do this for clients at work, and no, I do not work for Amazon, FedEx or UPS or anything like that. At the very least, barcodes contain your home (shipping) address. Do not post images that show a straight on picture of a barcode - the picture of the barcode may or may not be scannable, by people who may or may not work for the company you ordered from.
And absolutely positively do not post pictures containing a tracking number! You don’t even need a barcode reader to decode that information.
And license plates. DO NOT POST photos of your car where your license or registration sticker are visible! This goes for friends’ vehicles that might show up in your photos too.
Don’t post photos where your street number or house/apartment building number are visible and turn off geotagging/ location tagging for photos on your phone.
The Internet Elders warn you about these things for really good reasons.
[ID: A tweet from @\777jorgeivan reading “This girl on instagram posted her plane ticket and I called and cancelled her flight.” /end ID]
oh my god there are so many books to read and instruments to learn and languages to speak and poems to write and oranges to eat and ideologies to study and songs to sing and films to watch and people to kiss and
