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Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract

*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***

Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

solving the male lonliness crisis by inviting random people over to help me use the postholer

thats nuts

My mouth is a broken jpeg

An array of freshly cut hair, some wired clippers and a hand mirror all lying on a checkered brown and white towel on the floor

It’s fine, it’s fine, don’t panic

A handwritten note reads: “I think it’s important that people don’t feel alone.” The words "I think" are crossed out. The quote is signed “- lou reed.” Faint numbers “86 895” are written at the top.

headline reading November's Beaver Moon, the next full moon, will be the largest brightest supermoon of 2025

Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a beaver when the
dam is tall and the Beaver Moon is bright.

I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa I’m sorry but you still don’t know enough about Curtis Sliwa

Was honored to help @chana.bsky.social edit this deep dive compilation of Curtis Sliwa lore gathered over weeks. There is so much jaw-dropping material, we simply could not bear to make it shorter than 76 slides.

Feel like, as a society, we might consider moving Halloween to the last Friday in October (observed.) Vibes truly immaculate tonight.

Absolutely this. I remember reading once somewhere that the "marshmallow test" didn't actually show what people said it showed, but rather it correlated with a) poverty and b) kids whose adult authority figures lied to them. They took it now because they had no reason to believe they'd get a second.

A preserved carved turnip jack o'lantern from the 19th century

A preserved carved turnip jack o'lantern from the 19th century

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

a post showing a bowl of candy with a single potato in the center with the text: Tonight kids chose potato more than 25 times, each time triumphantly proclaiming to friends and family, "I GOT A POTATO!" One kid shouted, "A potato, just like last year!" and another group said, "Oh, youre the potato house? You're legends!" This has become an unexpected and joyful tradition. Kids are given the free choice and over and over again they choose Potato. My friends, every day you are given a choice. I encourage you: choose potato

thinking about potato house this halloween

i've been the monkey anxiety bitch for TEN YEARS

Folks who knit/crochet: Boston Food Not Bombs is seeking donations of hats, gloves, and scarves, as well as yarn that they can use to make hats:

www.instagram.com/p/DQSEViuj1s7

Watercolor doodle of a butterfly standing up on two legs like a human and smoking a cigarette. It says, make shitty art if you want to, who's going to stop you?

#MakeAThing

The White House Building Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...

Scroll down to the Major Events Timeline, and nothing will prepare you for what you'll see. I cannot believe it is real. www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...

Proof of life in an hour

Do you ever wish you were a snake so you could peel off your entire skin

The picture is a close up of a table with several HRT zines that read "All we have is each other - All we have is now". There's a paper bag full of band aids on the table, and a person wearing blue medical gloves is putting a zine into a plastic cover.

The picture shows a close up of a table top with band-aids and paper bags. A person is standing by the table and the shot shows their hands covered by medical gloves sorting through band aids.

🏳️‍⚧️ Our friends in LA just carried out a kit building day for HRT harm reduction supplies 🏳️‍⚧️

As some of you may know, we did not initially have California in mind as one of the recipient states of the HRT Harm Reduction Toolkits. However...

if disney does a theatrical release of the original star wars films for the 50th anniversary and offers them on physical media i will forgive them for every terrible decision they've made with star wars

Met someone at the weekend who’s decided to take a vow of celibacy for a year. I could not stop myself from saying “I need a vow of non-celibacy” ☹️

Only a year is rookie numbers btw.

mfs be like "how do you expect to get men onto the left if you are constantly demonizing things which are universally loved by all men" and the thing in question is hitler

a man in a suit says i don t know if you re allowed to do that ALT: a man in a suit says i don t know if you re allowed to do that

ok I’ll admit i have some baggage here. I got my little secular speaking career destroyed for asking men to stop groping me so I guess that does make me prejudiced against men with nazi tattoos who don’t cover them up or laser them off for several decades before running for office as democrats

the unbelievable sunk cost of listening to 66% of an audiobook that has fairies and vampires and shit in it because you thought it was gonna be a lot hornier than this

Shhhhh there’s mince pies though

Pronouncing Samhain in Scots Gaelic

That mh is a "v" sound, why "Mhairi" gets pronounced as "Varrey"

So "Sah-venn" would be closer

Irish Gaelige has its own rules, and there is regional variation

Language, folks

Dear Normies: Time to Stand Up - Truthdig For people who’ve never been to a protest in their lives, Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ rally is a good place to start.

Like a lot of us here, the Lock 'Em Up-est comments I see on social media are coming from, well, extremely normal people. So I wanted to explain how extremely helpful it would be this weekend if they scared the shit out of everyone driving them nuts.

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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