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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 13h

This week’s Work Advice: Dealing with a loud-talking, laughing, coughing co-worker.

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Column | Work Advice: Noisy colleague makes it impossible to concentrate at work

Before everyone turns on her, try making polite, direct appeals to tone it down.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

Just learned about ACACIA, which provides attorneys for KIDS detained by I CE. I felt helpless, this is one way to help.

This is the tiktok where I learned about it. I've been following this lawyer Reb for the Rebrand for a while, funny, good advice.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMxBVcHY/

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Acacia Center for Justice

Acacia Center for Justice seeks to deliver and advocate for meaningful and effective access to freedom for immigrants at risk of detention or deportation.

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 2d

Threatening us all with a good time

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 3d

Last night at music school, a mom came in and asked if she could put her kid’s tuition on a different credit card because her husband’s work was shut down. 💔

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking of my many, many neighbors not getting their pay today

NPR @npr.org · 3d

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay. n.pr/4ngKyx3

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 6d

Know who else had a ballroom built on to his leader's residence?

Adolf Hitler.

He had a large ballroom/reception hall built at the Old Reich Chancellery as part of a major renovation when he became Chancellor.

It was designed by Albert Speer and completed in 1939.

No parallels there.

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 6d

Time to dust off my old “Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine” signs.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

‘It’s PR, not the ER’: Gen Z is resisting the workplace emergency

In an evolving workforce, Gen Z is rejecting a frenetic, stress-inducing approach to work that crosses work-life balance boundaries and leads to burnout.

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 7d

PSA: This good news is the result of actions by state lawmakers and elected officials. State elections matter at every level, every year. Something to remember with Election Day around the corner.

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 7d

This week’s Work Advice: California bans stay-or-pay contracts that use training debt or other financial penalties to keep workers trapped in underpaid, abusive jobs. Thanks to Chris Hicks at Protect Borrowers for insights!
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Column | Work Advice: California workers get good news on ‘stay or pay’ contracts

Despite setbacks at the federal level, a coalition of interest groups is successfully combating extortionary employment contracts state by state

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 7d

Silicon Valley labor farms are back in vogue — now with pickleball courts!

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week

Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 8d

The ACA gives people freedom to walk away from abusive partners and exploitative jobs.

Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 8d

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish).

He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 8d

My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance

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Katie Herrmann @katieherrmann.bsky.social · 8d

The ACA allowed me to leave an abusive ex. I had a large, complex ovarian cyst (which I knew about bc I pretended to go to work and went to the ER instead - I was forbidden from going and told it was selfish).

He held the promise of the surgery I needed over my head. Until he couldn't anymore.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 8d

My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance

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𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 8d

did you know they do this so they don't have to hire disabled people

Steve Fartlow @stevefartlow.bsky.social · 8d

It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 9d

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 8d

Srsly. Signal-boost, like/comment. And a big part of that support?

If they made something you like, buy it.

Independent artists aren't Wal-Mart; you can't just come back next week and expect what you were looking at to still be available for sale.

🔥💀LA MANTIA!💀🔥 @lamantia.bsky.social · Sep 18

Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d

Be safe out there today, friends. If you see anything particularly notable or experience any major issues, contact me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 9d

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

sign says "I said no kings" in eighteenth-century typeface

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 10d

…ew?

Jack Turban MD @turban.bsky.social · 11d

Well that NYT Amy Coney Barrett interview starts off… weird.

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 11d

GIB TREET

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent design!

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12d

Americans have gotten more than $21 billion back in their bank accounts after being cheated and scammed by big corporations, thanks to the CFPB.

But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers.

So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 12d

ICYMI I’m moving my whole giant newsletter from Substack to Patreon I’m doing it for a ton of reasons, one of which is that Substack is not a place I want to be anymore. No consumption is truly really ethical in this America but I’m doing my best. www.patreon.com/posts/why-i-...

Why I am leaving Substack | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz

www.patreon.com

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 12d

Fat chance. I generate all my own slop, thank you very much.

Screenshot of comment that reads:

Wouldn’t it be great if Karla confessed next week that AI wrote her article about AI? It would prove a point, but I’m not sure for which side of the argument.

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 13d

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Karla L Miller @karlalmiller.bsky.social · 14d

Right? Like all those psychopaths out there using public transportation or biking to work, or issuing PDFs instead of printing paper reports. Who even *does* that?

Screenshot of reader comment that reads: “How mentally ill do you have to be to use water or electricity use as a reason to avoid using a tool at work?”

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