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Zoe Samuel

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#Climate investor @ starshotcapital.com VC of board @ workonclimate.org Built #Google's biggest internal climate group Brit in Silicon Valley #Film & #theater producer Maker of world class roast potatoes Opinions expressed here are my own. Slava Ukraini

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · Nov 20

My goal working in #climate is that on Jan 1st, 2050, my dear friend who - despite many other fine qualities - doesn't believe in #climatechange will turn to me and say, "I told you so. Nothing much happened."

I shall perfect my delivery of, "Yes, dear" as the date approaches.

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 4h

Cyranope

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 5h

With my cold hearted capitalist hat on, the reason minimum wage should support a decent life? If workers on it need food stamps or other gov subsidy, then THEIR EMPLOYER is being functionally subsidized to make up the subpar wages. That's an unfair competitive advantage that distorts the market.

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 5h

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 5h

Bottom line is minimum wage should be enough to live in a 2-bed (ie. fits a family with 2 kids) in a safe area, <1hr (ideally <45min) from your job, with quality healthcare & transit, some fun money & savings, *and zero government subsidies*.

If you need food stamps while on it, it's too low.

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 5h

Even if minimum wage was in fact "entry level wage" (which as you say, it ain't), it'd still have to be enough for that hypothetical new worker to live on *unsubsidized*. You can't live on $7.25 without unacceptable compromises in quality of housing, healthcare, food, commute length, etc.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 9h

Some thoughts on SB 79 and how YIMBYs finally did it: publiccomment.blog/p/happy-hour...

Happy Hour Power

Why YIMBYs just won big in California

publiccomment.blog

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 6h

Well that looks like a lot of un-outsourceable jobs right there.

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 6h

Wait, when this person finally does hear the words, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into the everlasting fire that was made for the devil and his angels!" what are they gonna do, ask to see the manager?

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 1d

You could also hide from the fash by just standing in someone's yard among the animatronic animals and occasionally saying "ho ho ho" in your best electronic voice

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thinking of going as sexy representative democracy

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 1d

Look, it's not his fault - none of these guys have a reflection

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 1d

Black bloc but, well... gayer? (Entirely a compliment.)

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 1d

Not paying people for their work is unethical.

Not paying people who are a) heavily armed and b) may be asked to risk life and limb in the course of that work is unethical and very, very stupid.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

I think we should start giving Jared Leto roles solely as a form of franchise euthanasia

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes you write your own name in the sand and sometimes you need a little help

#dogsofbluesky #dogpics #puppy #doglife #dogs #dog

A golden Labrador sits on a beach of dark sand. Slanted "magic hour" light limns his fur with gold. He licks his nose with his adorable little pup tongue. A stick lies at his feet. His name, MERLIN, is drawn in the sand using the stick; clearly, he did it himself... or did he?

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

Who ISN'T?

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! The historian Josephus was an eyewitness to some relevant events, and wrote detailed accounts. There are things like court records and accounts by Roman military sources, traders, etc that corroborate.

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Brian Hiatt @hiattb.bsky.social · 2d

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

And yes obviously and tragically, there have been wars in Sierra Leone, often on ethnic lines. But, that does not obviate the history of its peoples, just because the British Empire forced some of that history to occur elsewhere. Same goes for peoples displaced by the Roman Empire in Judea.

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

You can't name any countries where there is more than one indigenous group? The answer is all of them.

Or one where there was a conflict between 2 indigenous groups? Again, all of them.

Or one where indigenous people were forced out, then got to come back and be free? Sierra Leone, founded 1961.

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

Also fun is when they learn that Jews and Palestinians were there long before Arabs.

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

And of course, Polish refugees to Israel were not just Jewish, they were ALSO refugees, and it is morally incumbent to take in refugees, especially when other nations have refused to do their own duty in that regard.

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, Polish Jews are descended from ancestors who were either forced out of Judea or stolen as slaves from there by the Romans and brought to what's now Italy. They kept pretty good records, it's not like it's hard to verify.

This person is an ignorant fucking racist.

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

So THAT'S why they use federated servers

Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 2d

Frogdom isn't free