Lauren Schiller

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

America's Baristas Are Brewing Up a Labor Movement From union victories at local coffee institutions to the campaigns at giants like Starbucks, this grassroots movement is fundamentally reshaping the service industry.

Starbucks workers are on strike in 40 cities today. The coffee shop union movement they helped inspire is now everywhere: www.bonappetit.com/story/barist...

The Starbucks that was on my morning commute closed during the recent location purge and I immediately assumed that since I was pretty sure not all locations were unionized that Starbucks was prioritizing locations that were because everyone said that place was busy all the time.

Support workers.

Durbin might be retiring but the primary will hopefully have multiple options so voters can look at who is the best choice to replace him

To be clear, this deal still needs to go through a debate and amendment process and more 60-vote thresholds to pass the Senate, and then it must pass the House. There's still room for constituent pressure.

We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced...

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Clearly there is a market for cake in that location, where ever it is

WOW top 5 sunrise of 2025 and I don't even know what the other 4 are!

I saw this small pond yesterday and there were 500 or so white faced ibis' foraging, I knew I had to get back this morning.

Most of the ibis were gone but there was a glorious haze across the nearby fields. I N C R E D I B L E 🪶

I just got back from a walk. While I was walking through the park, a little white boy and his father flagged me down from the very other end of the park. Now to be fair, I have on my hat on, so I’m easy to spot lol. The little boy drew me this. A month ago. He has been waiting to see me again.

Looking up through the branches of a tree with reddish orange leaves in the center and yellow and green leaves around the edges

This is from last year but I still like the color gradient of the leaves

Garlic chickpeas! Rinse and drain can(s) of chickpeas, mix with olive oil and crushed/minced garlic (powder also fine), salt and pepper to taste. Eat cold, microwave, pan fry, or roast in oven, whatever. You can also add other spices like cumin or chilies if you want but just garlic is great

Because the huge Anthropic class action settlement limits eligibility to works registered w/ US Copyright Office, non-US writers are mostly locked out. But there's a similar proposed class action covering Canadian authors (click Documents link, then Amended Notice) www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

The Empire State Building lit in orange and green. Like a pumpkin.

Empire State Building wearing its pumpkin costume.

We’re conditioned to believe our smallest contributions wont make a difference. That our $5 wont help. That a couple cans of veggies wont help. That one coat & a pair of shoes aren’t worth donating. It all counts. This is a reminder to myself as well.

YouTube video by Tube Cody Defying Gravity | Synchronized Roller Coasters (Wicked)

This Rollercoaster Tycoon video is an actual work of emotionally-gripping mad genius

I've been saying for years that parties should save money by sharing political advertising by running the same information with scary or triumphant music depending on whether they're trying to pitch it as bad or good.

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

Yeah, a friend was saying that you know you've pissed of G-d if a giant frog shows up.

I like how the replies to this are full of Lego enthusiasts who are not impressed with the size of the looter's haul.

There could be solid ICE counter-recruitment campaigns launched to discourage people from working for them and to encourage those working for them to quit. There are lots of examples of such campaigns from anti-war organizing.

The giant frog with all of the people in frog suits is just ::chef's kiss::

From the same kind of people who brought you the idea of disposable handkerchiefs thousands of years after tissues: writing down your to-do-list on a non-electronic object.

Yeah, I am cranky that people need to do things on a schedule in order to get accommodations for their unable to do things on a schedule disability

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 14 they don't tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan. Tumblr user miseria-fortes-viros Jun 15 WASHING THE FUCKING PAN AGAIN!!!! replies: 30 reblogs: 30,246 likes: 41,477

We're thinking of printing this out to put up in the kitchen next to the sink. Or maybe getting a needlepoint.

I had prepared to do a dramatic presentation for a final with a friend, but he bailed an hour before the exam. I wrote a poem, memorized, and performed it. (Got an A.) Writing poetry homework on the bus to school or during homeroom when I forgot to do it the night before probably helped with speed.

This works for programming too. Take a walk, do something else, sleep on it, whatever. Your brain keeps working in the background, there have been lots of bits of code that I was stuck on that hours later my brain is like obviously here’s the solution and I am no longer stuck

OMG, PDF, it's been so long since I've read you, how have you been?!?!?!?

...whoever decided this was a useful feature does know that if you have a PDF with machine readable text (which you would need for chatting to "work") you've always been able to keyword search for information, right?