“Rivera said the action will continue with a boycott of national businesses through Valentine’s Day where people should only make purchases through local merchants.”

None of us are free until all of us are free. If trans people aren’t safe, neither am I. I know who these people are because they are who they have always been.

I don't know how to say this beyond standing up to authority is a muscle and some of you have never exercised it

like, trump is an evil piece of shit but he is actually following through on the evil shit his voters want! not incredibly shocking he has the hitler vote locked down!

beyond the clear refusal to lay any criticism on the dems here, theres this pervasive idea among liberals that trump voters are like a force of nature instead of people with dogshit motivations actively being engaged with by their leader

People don't actually miss the old days, they just miss being young

Over the next however many days/weeks, as various elected officials scramble to "save" TikTok so they don't alienate 170 million people, please remember that almost every single one of them were involved in creating this situation in the first place.

Arsonist firefighters are not heroes.

Just want to note the use of large language model bots here to deliberately manufacture Discourse™️ and misuse vaguely understood progressive/leftist/“woke” language to pick meaningless fights. This should not be surprising to anyone, this behavior has been known as a troll tactic for a while.

L.A. restaurants offering shelter, discounts and food to fire evacuees and first responders These L.A. restaurants and coffee shops are staying open to shelter evacuees, offering discounts and, in some cases, free food to evacuees and first responders to the numerous ongoing fires in Souther...

The LA Times has a good list of places offering discounted or free food and coffee to displaced families and/or first responders. Check it out and double check to be sure what deals are where. (added this to my running resources list) www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...

Oh also for anyone broke and looking for affordable healthy food, I find tons of stuff on the Too Good to Go app! When I was broke out of college I used to get bags of day old bagels and "expired" produce from local spots for hella cheap. To good to go makes it all avail through an app! It's great!

Been thinking a lot about the TNR piece I wrote abt the relationship btw debt and suicide. How many lives would be saved by universal healthcare BEYOND health outcomes? Lives saved by ending student debt and UBI? We need better mental health interventions but it’s also EASIER than that.

working from home is nice because it allows you to create the environment that is perfect for your own unique and individual working style.

the only real way to achieve this in a corporate environment is to get rid of open floor plans and bring back individual offices.

oh now you don't like people using other people's stuff huh?

I'll probably see it again, in Dolby or iMAX or something because I couldn't get enough tickets in a row last-minute this weekend for the group I was going with lol and I'm Like That with movies

On the pros side, that definitely made all the VFX look ok, I wasn't really taken out of the movie by it at any point.

I still have quibbles with the color grading, it was absolutely too grayed out and especially disappointing for a movie that is in the same family as The Wizard of Oz,very famously the first Technicolor movie.

Update! I saw it and it was super good and fun, all the performances were superb and I am fully still in love with Jonathan Bailey. Ariana and Cynthia are absolutely Broadway emo and it comes off weird in their interviews but made for incredible vibes onscreen.

I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware:

- the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania

- his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir

- he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post

BREAKING: Senate Rejects Sanders-led Effort to Block Arms Sales to Israel The vote forced senators to go on the record with where they stand on the Biden administration's unconditional support for Israel.

Today:
— US senate overwhelmingly rejects effort to block just $1 billion of a $20 billion weapons sale to Israel
— US vetoes United Nations ceasefire & hostage release resolution
— Israeli military commits massacre at a hospital
— Joe Biden celebrates 82nd birthday

This site really does feel like 2019 Twitter in a good way

When businesses talk about ending government “overreach” they’re usually talking about screwing their customers over

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

hey bro wanna hold space together bro haha lmk

going to see Wicked this afternoon ...

literally everything I've seen about it is saying it's super good, but if I actually love it I'll still be at least a little surprised lol

just fyi, it could be that you have the same name as a somewhat famous American who has 200k followers on twitter! I ran across your profile while seeing if they were on here