Fun fact about sidewalks: we pay for them and they're not included in the area on a business's rental contract.
These folks are literally stealing space from the public.
I know everyone is very excited about the idea of retaining outside dining and I am too but not like this: Sidewalks cannot be privatised for business use.[video shows a wheelchair user struggling to navigate a series of crowded outdoor seating areas]
Remember, if you buy an album from bandcamp, it's around the financial equivalent to the artist of you streaming their music every day for 3 years.
Billionaire wealth, May 1st update
I've seen two separate tweets about how William Jackson Harper would be a great Clark Kent/Superman, and how Giancarlo Esposito would be a great Lex Luthor.Seeing them side-by-side, I absolutely agree. I'd love to watch a Superman movie with these two
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When we talk about why becoming a billionaire shouldn't be a thing, this is what we mean.A divorce should not determine the state of public health research or whether 1000s of small businesses get money or if funding for school initiatives will go through. Like y'all. HUH?!
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[share author='Anna Gifty' profile='https://twitter.com/itsafronomics' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1381110194076258305/QFV3_Y69.jpg' link='https://twitter.com/itsafronomics/status/1389387855215144963' posted='2021-05-04 01:14:12']Imagine being so rich that your divorce can literally impact the state of funding for thousands of initiatives worldwide. That is literally wild.
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@Popehat Really important to recognize that this was exactly the situation the racist channers who rebranded the OK sign were trying to create.
This is what is at the center of the shrubbery maze. Folks like Sohrab have never liked freedom. They actually hate it. Freedom, to them, means "everyone agrees with me and everything I like is legal and everything I don't is not."
Politicians who take money from the meat industry, disproportionately Republicans, are trying to ban plant-based meat companies from using that phrase; this is the real political battle around meat today, and it’s a bona fide attack on free speech.
It's okay to expound extensively on critical race theory even if you've never read an article or book about it but you definitely should not talk about guns unless you personally know the man who designed the AR-15
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“Absolutely...This is the only humane thing in the world to do.”https://twitter.com/GravelInstitute/status/1389380749254615044
i feel like liberals, who mostly avoid rw media, have no idea of the craziness they soak in daily that millions of our fellow americans truly believe. roving bands of antifa, cancelling disney cartoons on the behalf of powerful blm militias. *they believe all this shit*
when they vote republican they really and truly believe they are voting to stop antifa/blm thugs from ripping their cities apart and giving all of their jobs (and daughters) to "illegals." they. really. believe. this.
I’m pretty wiped so I’m going to have to take a break, but pls keep amplifying this thread of fundraisers for the covid crisis in India. It’s been over 10 days but there has been v little improvement. People are still dying bc of hospitals running out of beds, hospitals & meds.
I made one of those academic paper memes for a... certain type of columnist
Maybe we shouldn't have society where a divorce can "send shock waves through the worlds of philanthropy, public health and business."Where they were, I don't know, taxed and their money just went straight to public health and jobs? And basic needs didn't require philanthrophy?
This is what happens when "moral" and "political" become synonyms
I love shit like this, or like the recent research that showed that ancient cave-painters who dove deep into the earth using torches for light would be experiencing hypoxia.
This is magic. And I don't mean that derisively.
“Haunted” houses are actually just carbon monoxide poisoning 🤯
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Mentioned it on here before but for those curious it focused on a bunch of stuff going back to the Cold War. I argued the ‘War On Terror’ filled the void left by the USSR for a political bogeyman, and how this role is always served by former Western allies who fell from grace.
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racists complain about non-racist academic study of racial issues because it teaches people to spot their racism. gives away all the tricks
the problem is so many of y'all were taught a whitewashed version of the civil rights movement, and now that's no longer happening in some school, you're whinging about it and calling it CRT when it's literally just fucking history.
we have a lot of dumb culture war stuff around but getting mad at private businesses who choose not to sell meat, and who will have to sink or swim in the free market after that decision, is really up there
and pad kee mao, but yes.
we spend a lot of time talking about pad thai when we really should be talking about pad see ew
All the anti-vaxxers bleating about "freedom" have actually robbed many of the most vulnerable among us of their freedom. Those with preexisting conditions or certain other health issues depend upon herd immunity to be at least reasonably safe. And that's been stolen from them.
@LinfieldUniv’s current state on May 2,2021 is full blown authoritarian control. I have also heard from several faculty how campus security entered faculty offices and took down their signs expressing any support for @pollackpelzner and any critique of our administration.
Thinking about how bottles water didn't really take off as an idea until municipalities started removing and disconnecting public water fountains and that in ten years we're all going to be carrying some kind of asinine mini chair to sit in because of anti-homeless architecture
starting to think [Disney/copyright/capitalism] might be bad, actually
There's a reason for the anonymity: Disney's anticompetitive mergers (culminating with the destructive Fox merger) has created a monopoly with vast market-power to destroy creators' livelihoods by excluding them for speaking out.10/
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The first May Day in 1886. "A day of revolt - not of rest!" (Foner, May Day)
More than 300,000 workers strike across the United States. The movement is centered on Chicago, where 40,000 strike & even more march through the streets led by anarchists, Albert & Lucy Parsons (Avrich)
If you;'re watching the news about COVID's toll in India and are wondering if there are ways you can help, Rob's compiled a short list of places accepting donations.https://twitter.com/RobDenBleyker/status/1387774763758669827
America is not a racist country but if we teach our children about all the racist things this country has done they might think the country is racist is a helluva argument, I have to say.
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One of our political parties is openly fascist. Act accordingly.
No one is pushing laws mandating the teaching of the #1619Project, but Republicans across the U.S. are pushing laws to mandate "patriotic" education & to prohibit the teaching of the #1619Project and abt nation's racist past. If you're not reporting it that way, you're failing.
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There's no such thing as a "labor shortage"There are industries and companies that refuse to pay people enough to work there
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The decline in unionization has led pay for all workers to drop $3,250/year compared to 40 years ago.Collective bargaining used to set market rates for non-union workers. Now that unions represent just 11% of workers, it's everyone for themselves
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It's not a day "off" if you're forced to do twice as much work when you come back to make up for it.It's a company's responsibility to staff up enough so you can have real time off.
where's my damn guillotine emoji
The parent company of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut saw earnings drop 25%. As a result, the CEO was in line for no bonusBut the company said that would be "unfair" so they gave him a $9.5 million bonus anyway.
Their workers dealing with a pandemic got $0
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Cat: WAT R U DOING
Me: writing. wanna hang out with me?
Cat: YES BUT FIRST MUST DO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS
Me: like what?
Cat: WALK ON KEYBOARD
Cat: WALK ON KEYBOARD GOING OTHER WAY
Cat: BONK LAPTOP WITH FACE
Cat: BITE LAPTOP
Me: are you done?
Cat:
Me:
Cat: WALK ON KEYBOARD AGAIN
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