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Look at what happens to male teacher salaries (blue line) v.s. female teacher salaries (red line) after collective bargaining laws expire.

The gopher that made this hole has at this point been extremely drowned by the water flowing through it at rates ranging from 2 to 5 gallons per minute.

Incidentally dampness helps spray foam cure which is great for when you're using it up plug up gopher holes that were recently filled with water.

I have now filled the hole causing the small creek with an entire can of expanding foam, and then I blocked the exit with a rock and a bunch of compacted dirt to force it to expand back up the gopher tunnel as it cures. In another hour I will turn the water back on.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement A moral reckoning.

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.

"receive this laconic reply" is a specific reference to Leonidas at Thermopylae. The Classical name for Sparta was Lacedaemon and Spartans were known for a pithy, to the point way of speaking. Laconic is a reference to ancient Sparta and in this context it's clear McIntosh is quoting μολὼν λαβέ.

Come and take it - Wikipedia

Yes I know it was used at the battle of Gonzales, its use there was a reference to the defenders of Fort Morris in the Revolutionary War, whose General McIntosh was specifically referencing Thermopylae ("laconic" = Spartan)
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...really? Has the winning side ever resorted to μολὼν λαβέ?? Also this phrase has been thoroughly coopted by the right. Although I guess the most generous interpretation is that this is just some very Texas bullshit. They should have responded with pics of them poolside with fruity cocktails.

I find Bein ha-Metzarim a profound time to contemplate the meaning of home and grieving for a home that is lost, and also not shaving for 3 weeks gets my facial hair to "disrespectable sensory nightmare" level and I hate it.

I love you

Right like I feel certain our goat herding forebears did not do nearly as much algebra

Goddamned Army Corps of Engineers ass bullshit trying to keep this fucking leak from flooding my shed

Why I changed my mind on the genocide charge against Israel For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I’ve been wrestling with the contentious…

A tipping point is happening.

From the Chair of Israel Studies at UCLA:

The 90s was a dichotomy. On one hand…the mainstreaming of bisexuality and feminism.

But every woman was expected to look like Kate Moss, drink whiskey neat, ride a motorcycle & then pop out three babies while holding down a six-figure career.

It was just misogyny masquerading as cool girl syndrome

Right?? I mean traditionally one runs a pipe from the exhaust of a truck or tractor into the hole but this is so much more portable!!

Yeah see most of the area under suspicion is occupied by paved patio

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Bsky can I have $800 for the Gopher Killer 5000
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"Some pathetic people say that tulip values can't go up forever. They just cant accept the new way of the world. But history will demonstrate just how embarassingly they clung to their old ways and were left behind by the investment of the future" -Substack writers, Holland 1637

Tangent: Larry Summers thought we'd had enough DEI by 2005 -- I just looked it up -- that we could safely say some part of women being under-represented in math and science was due to innate difference in ability, and the guy is still being listened to with respect on all manner of subjects.

It emerged in the exact same place because we were unable to compact enough dirt on top of it to stop it. I am torn between doing more digging and going and buying some quickcrete to use in place of compacted dirt.

Quickcrete is more fun...

“AI is coming to take our jobs” no it isn’t. It’s a CEO named Gary taking some shitty advice from a VC who has never had a real job in their life, trying to maximise their quarterly earnings by firing as many people as they can get away with to make number go up, and it isn’t sustainable

This margin is a good reminder that you can transform politics without throwing out all the shitty politicians first.

Elected officials respond to incentives. When incentives change, their behavior changes—for good and for bad.

Stop starvation in Gaza

Standing togetherDemo at King's cross

But you don't have to take my word for it! Here is a paper from one of the world's leading experts in internet law and policy about why age "verification" is both dangerous to all adults and completely ineffective at achieving its goals: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

(For instance, Asian people are, on average, estimated as being nine years younger than they actually are across all age estimation algorithms studied and the outliers of that study were up to 20 years younger; Black teenagers are consistently estimated significantly older)

- people with congenital facial malformations, injuries, or other physical issues that mean their face isn't recognized by face-scanning technology
- people of color, whose age is consistently mis-identified by age estimation algorithms, either much higher or much lower

- people whose devices don't have cameras or webcams (poor people who access the internet at the library, people who have recycled old tech, etc)
- blind people who can't tell if their face is in frame for the selfie/video verification because they can't see it

Age "verification" does not just burden kids. You can't identify who's a kid without deanonymizing every visitor to a site, including adults. This affects:
- people who don't have valid IDs that qualify for the age "verification" system a particular site has implemented

For the millionth time, the OSA does not only require age "verification" (it isn't) for "pornography". It requires age verification for a wide range of content that is all so incredibly vaguely defined it could apply to a million things. bsky.app/profile/raha...