Gordon P. Hemsley
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Gordon P. Hemsley
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I'm a healthcare data engineer & manager. My other interests include genealogy, linguistics, genetics, government, and web standards. (I like to know how things work.)

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I swear, @gphemsley.org will be me at some point. I just have to get around to it.
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Please don't cross picket lines. Boycott til the union is accepted.

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Happy holidays from the Starbucks picket line!

We're STILL on ULP strike, and just this week, 19 more stores filed for a union election.✊🔥

DON'T BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location until the company resolves their 100s of outstanding unfair labor practices. NO CONTRACT, NO COFFEE!
December 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.
December 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Day THIRTY-NINE of our national ULP strike - and baristas are fired up, united, and taking action.

Our demands are clear: Starbucks needs to stop union busting and finalize a contract with the pay, hours, and protections we need to succeed. #NoContractNoCoffee
December 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
These are definitely professions in the United States.
December 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Me about pretty much anything these days
Didn't watch it.
It's always lies.
Moving on.
December 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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By unanimous consent, the #Senate passed S.2503 - ROTOR Act, with the Cruz-Cantwell substitute amendment.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Panera got the bucks today.
We're back! Baristas on ULP strike have once again brought the picket line to Starbucks's biggest regional distribution center in York, PA.

We're making sure that Starbucks hears us: we need finalized contracts, an end to union-busting, and resolution to all outstanding unfair labor practices.
December 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How do you do fellow kids
Forget the far right. The kids want a
'United States of Europe.'

On social media, the upcoming generation is expressing more European solidarity than the continent has seen in decades.

#EU

www.politico.eu/article/unit...
Forget the far right. The kids want a ‘United States of Europe.’
Based on social media, the upcoming generation is expressing more European solidarity than the continent has seen in decades.
www.politico.eu
December 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Extreme Customer Service Voice
December 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Me last night: "Hmm, @eve6.bsky.social hasn't tweeted anything in a while..."
December 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%.

Maybe a political party could lead on this issue.
d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...
December 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I think the clincher is the last line.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing

BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?

GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now

THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Meanwhile, because it's in Georgia, we all know exactly where it's from.
Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.
December 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Semiquincentennial coin designs are super ugly (except maybe the dime?)
December 11, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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When Zohran Mamdani won, pundits tried to say it was a fluke.

Joke’s on them. In Jersey City, voters not only turned out in force to elect a new mayor, but for the first time ever, the Jersey City Council will have a Working Families Party majority.
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Another day, another Dunkin'
RT IF YOU LOVE UNIONS! ❤️‍🔥

It's day twenty-six of our national ULP strike. Our striking baristas in Hopewell, NJ have the best signs 🥰
December 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Welp.

Here’s my listening age, from my #SpotifyWrapped.

www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...
My Listening Age
Spotify
www.spotify.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Runnin' on Dunkin' in the meantime
Currently, Starbucks workers are on an unfair labor practice strike nationwide, as labor relations between the company and its workers has eroded.

Pledge to not cross a picket line & DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our ULP strike. www.nocontractnocoffee.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM