@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.
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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
I've been reading through bills banning teaching of the 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory etc This from Missouri captures how the bills purport to be about something specific but are actually intended to chill any kind of interrogation of history that the right doesn't like
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I feel like Keanu Reeves and Nic Cage are opposite ends of a spectrum, both illustrating how narrow our definition of "acting" is.
I went to a screening of BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS and Nic Cage did a talk...he said it pissed him off that people called him "over the top" because there is no 'top' to human emotion and we all applauded.
I went to a screening of BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS and Nic Cage did a talk...he said it pissed him off that people called him "over the top" because there is no 'top' to human emotion and we all applauded.
Bill Gates defending IP when tens of thousands are dying globally while we sit on vaccine patents is exactly what will happen if we rely on tech to solve the climate crisis.
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Please decouple your sense of self-worth from your media consumption habits, everyone will like you more.https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1387827535543771136
If protestors use a tactic on an issue that’s significant to Black people, the state legislature will make that tactic a felony, resulting in the loss of voting rights.https://twitter.com/brotherjones_/status/1387817020175962112
imagine how many problems in our society would be solved if marginalized people were given material support like money, housing, and healthcare instead of empty sentiments of support.
sarah zedig! (@hmsnofun) on Twitter wrote:
cryptocurrency exists because capitalism has failed to provide for everyone's basic needs, making many people desperate and primed to get caught up in whatever grift promises to pay the next month's rent. crypto exists because everything that can be exploited must be.
Mx. Maxwell (@MxMaxwellmusic) on Twitter wrote:
It's a product whose production burns as much power as a small country each day but whose value is completely divorced from labor, instead entirely generated via speculation.It is the final and most destructive form of Capital.
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Part of me wants to use the Twitter connector to natively view my Twitter thread in Friendica, because that would make tweets a lot easier to share. Especially since the alternative, manually linking to tweets, is much less satisfying than seeing the actual tweet content in the feed.
Another part of me, however, is loathe to connect Friendica to Twitter, because I have so many negative, stressful associations with Twitter and I rather like how my Friendica feed can be a haven from that. 😕
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I want little more than to tear my house's walls open to the studs, completely rewire it and add Ethernet and coaxial cables, and replace all the plaster walls with drywall.
Alas, projects like that are "expensive".
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Mostly so I'd have more options about where to put my router.
I have not carefully thought through this plan.
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Good question. A good ethernet cable shoudl carry all that one needs.
We do have the house partially wired when we first moved in. But, to add more would be a challenge and cost a bit. Still can dream...
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When the weather was still grey and chilly, I pruned our shrubs. The roses, the blueberries, and the butterfly bushes; with blades in hand, their steel harder than my resolve, I severed limbs and hoped the plants would forgive me.
Today, the spring sun shines on new growth everywhere I look.
There are new #Netrunner cards coming at the end of the month, so I'm sorting my collection in preparation.
God, I love this game.
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Echoing what @Local Dad, Ben Hamill said here! I'm part of NISEI, the fan project providing ongoing support for the game, so please feel free to ask me questions as well—I love talking about Netrunner.
If you’ve ever been curious about the card game #Netrunner but never jumped in now is a great time to check it out. There’s a new-player-focused set coming out on the 28th and some other stuff. NISEI is releasing sneak peeks all month as that date approaches. The Green Level Clearance Discord is super friendly to new folks (like me). It’s never been less expensive to get into it, either, because proxies are tournament legal. AMA.
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Motley is back!
Motley (and, by extension, my account) was offline for an extended period of time this weekend due to a local ice and wind storm that knocked out power for about a quarter-million people, myself included. Without power, our sump pump failed, which caused water to back up in my basement, where the server lives.
I was without power for nearly 72 hours, and without internet for an extra half-day on top of that. I finally hooked the server back up in the mostly-dry basement.
So I'm back, and Motley is back! Hello again, Fediverse.
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[heads up: lewd joke in photo]
Whoever painted this door at my veterinarian's office did not think it through all the way.
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Under most circumstances, civilians are legally permitted to openly film on-duty police officers under the First Amendment. And while the interaction between Devermont and Fair is pretty benign, BHPD’s recent behavior suggests that at least some cops believe they can prevent themselves from being filmed or livestreamed by playing copyrighted music, which would have serious implications for more serious incidents of police misconduct.
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