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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 1d

A British Classic

Wyatt Sinclair @wyattswickedgoods.com · 1d

Hey, I saw your dad yesterday.

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 22h

But if we start caring about service workers the way we care about Men Who Need Big Truck To Make Money, who becomes our socially acceptable punching bags?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 1d

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 22h

*cues Barry White*

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 22h

The fishiest of fishies

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I sincerely know less than nothing about this nba gambling ring dealio. I do know that in a moment when powerful mostly white men are stealing from everybody at scale and with breathtaking gall, it’s odd that these are the faces I’m seeing.

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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · May 26

the deal i struck with burger king

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · Jun 10

“hope isn’t a mood. it’s a decision.” (via confettitactics on threads: www.threads.com/@confettitac...)

I've lived under martial law before.
Not in the U.S.-in Thailand, after a coup.
And I've walked Tiananmen Square, too.
So what I'm watching in LA right now?
It hits different.
Because I've seen how authoritarianism takes hold-and how America's resistance isn't following the script.
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In Thailand, I taught at a private school after the military coup.
One of my coworkers had lived through the actual lockdown in Bangkok.
He remembered hearing gunfire and realizing: they're killing people in the street.
That fear settled into daily life.
You complied. You stayed quiet. You survived.
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The man who led the coup?
He became a monk-because in Thailand, becoming a monk makes you untouchable.
I was literally teaching his grandkids.
People worried if the military would come for them, too.
That's the weight of real martial law. It changes how you move through the world. 3/7

In China, I visited Tiananmen Square.
My Chinese teacher's mother was pregnant with her when she stood in that square.
That history was personal.
But it was also erased.
Because in authoritarian regimes, memory itself becomes dangerous.
What we're not allowed to remember gets rewritten. 4/7

So watching protests erupt in LA right now-protesters shutting down freeways, standing off against SWAT, refusing to move-I'm struck by what's different.
Yes, there's fear.
But there's also volume.
America isn't going quiet.
And that matters.
Because martial law requires submission.
It relies on people staying home.
It needs us to believe we're outnumbered.
But in every major U.S. city right now, people are standing up.
Not just resisting.
Refusing to disappear. 5/7

They want us to believe there's no choice.
But that's a lie authoritarianism always tells.
And America-messy, loud, imperfect America-still hasn't bought into that lie.
So yes, l'm scared.
But I also have something I didn't have in Thailand or China.
Thave hope.
Not because everything will work out on its own.
But because people are choosing to show up.
Because we're not done yet. 6/7

Hope isn't a mood.
It's a decision.
And if you're struggling to find it-borrow mine.
I've lived through a coup.
I've lived under martial law.
And I'm telling you right now:
This moment isn't over.
We're still writing the ending. 7/7

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.

Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder how much food theft spikes with desperate people just trying to feed their families. I'm sure there will be a media panic about it.

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget to add a lil thumb drive to your order! Every CD you rip, add to the tumb drive. Pull up your old mp3s and make a playlist to add as well. Plug that puppy into your car's USB drive.

LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 2d

Buy a CD burner from anywhere you like. They're not expensive. Software needed is free.

www.microcenter.com/product/6990...

Lenovo DB65 Ultra-Compact High-Performance External CD/DVD Writer - Micro Center

Get it now! Designed to match the aesthetic of most Lenovo/IdeaPad notebooks, the Ultra-Slim USB DVD Burner from Lenovo is an ultra-compact and stable burning solution for use at home or on the go. It...

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 2d

Go to your local library's website. Look up a CD of an artist/band you like. See what else pops up as "recommended" or whatever. Pick something or 5 or 10. Place holds to pick up at a branch you live near or pass every day. Pick them up.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

Cancel Spotify

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Spotify says ICE ads about "dangerous illegals" don't violate advertising policy

Spotify have said that recruitments ads for ICE that refer to “dangerous illegals” do not violate their advertising policy.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 3d

I keep seeing Dems blamed for this guy's candidacy and I just want to point out that less than a week ago the complaint was that Dems weren't backing him. This is a case study in how easy it is to manipulate recent history.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 3d

“Betcha not a single downvoter is a real combat vet. Feel free to back it up with facts, fags,” Graham Platner wrote on a 2018 Reddit thread. There are half a dozen more antigay comments attributable to him.

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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts

"Today I find that stuff abhorrent," Platner told The Advocate. "And I am sorry that I ever used it.”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in NYC and you want to organize re: our public libraries, connect with @nycplan.org.

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 2d

Thinking of all the song and dance - resume and interview language, networking, etc. - people have to master to be allowed to work... Like this

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Congrats workers on your new hell zone

Congratulations
@jpmorgan
on the opening of your new headquarters! 🎉🇺🇸🙏

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lou-ellen @louceph.com · 4d

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 3d

It's so stupid. I am happy to let pros take care of what pros do. Less work for me! Anyone who thinks this is some sort of character flaw or HAHA I DIY LOSER can grind on this

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 3d

Oh WOW Brett that is SO COOL and not QUITE TYPICAL FOR KNIFE OWNERS

LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 3d

My Ace sells bread from a local bakery, they also sharpen knives!

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 3d

Recently I had some leftover onion, so rather than let it rot in the fridge, I sliced the rest, caramelized it, and put that in the fridge. I did not regret it.

LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 3d

Michael Rappaport is not one of those "secretly brilliant" guys.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Michael Rapaport tweets: "How’s a so-called “working class” mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani eating at OMEN SUSHI tonight — one of the priciest joints in NYC? 🍣💰
This clown lives in a rent-stabilized apartment in Queens but dines like a diplomat on a Qatar-funded per diem.
Who’s paying for that toro, “Zoron the Moron”?"

There are two photos of Zohran Mamdani and his wife eating at a restaurant.

Michael Rapaport eating outside of a restaurant. There are some white canopy umbrellas around him and a tree in the background. Also the ocean and some fence.

Two photos. The first shows the outside of Nobu in Malibu. The second shows the area where Michael sat. There is the same tree, ocean, white canopy umbrellas, and fence.

The menu for Nobu in Malibu shows prices around $60. The menu for Omen Sushi in NYC shows prices around $35.

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 3d

And tip more than anyone. Because we know how fucking hard those jobs are.

The bartender that made bank last night will then "splurge" on a great sourdough from a local bakery, and have their own great night out, sharing the love, ripples, etc.

And the upper classes tip like shit.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3d

This in turn revitalizes local economy: local restaurants flourish. People go to stores and browse and buy things.

Working class people with extra money are way more likely to spend their money on things that help develop strong communities.

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LooShagBrolly @looshagbrolley.bsky.social · 3d

JoBeth Williams rocks TF out of this film. She deserves to be more of a legend.
Love the shot of Mom smoking a joint in the trailer. The 80s, man.

Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 4d

Speaking of characters who think they can tame the supernatural, I love the scene of JoBeth in the kitchen "playing" with ghosts in

6. #Poltergeist by Tobe Hooper DP Matthew F. Leonetti.

I've not watched this in years, so is it really a comfort horror? Sure. Why not.

youtu.be/9eZgEKjYJqA