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Community supporters, We have news: We are much closer to a first contract, an end to the boycott, and substantially better working conditions. We have overwhelmingly voted to authorize an open-ended strike ahead of Christmas if our Employer chooses not to meet our demands. We've given the company until December 4th for an acceptable offer and have let them know we plan to strike starting December 17th if we do not have an agreement. To support our potential strike, build worker power, and help ensure that no worker has to return to work due to lack of funds, please donate at nslu.org/donate.

new seasons strike authorized for next month. can donate to the strike fund here: www.nslu.org/donate

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

I mean?

A screenshot with a photograph of a light brown cat whose smooshed face has the effect of making him look grumpy. In the blurry distance is a drawing of this same cat, with a sadder expression. Under the photo, text reads: "Meet Gary, the cat who ended a friendship and cost $25,000 in legal fees" A calligraphic "I" (the logo of the Philadelphia Inquirer) is in the bottom right corner of the image.

Amazing, no notes, I do not desire to learn anything else about this story, for it would only detract from the perfection on this headline.

PEACOCK SHOWS IT VALUES HUMAN RIGHTS Regarding the article by Sophie Peel on Oct. 29 ["Great Divide," WW: Dan Ryan recently asked his colleagues: "What is your north star?" It is a fair question. Decisions from electeds affect all of us in many ways, from affordable housing to social safety nets. Such decisions may not be felt immediately, yet still weigh on our conscience and pocketbook. It is fair to ask our councilors, "What is your north star?" The U.N., many Holocaust scholars, and numerous relief organizations have called the killing and starving of Palestinians in Gaza a genocide. This genocide is enabled by billions from American taxpayers, while some Americans can't pay rent or get health care. To Councilor Clark, why is it "inappropriate" to call attention to these atrocities? To our friends at the Jewish Federation, why is it "divisive" to condemn the murder of women and children? To Councilor Zimmerman, if it is "antisemitic" to denounce a bloodthirsty Israeli government, then is it "anti-white" to protest Trump? Far from being "performative" as the Metro Chamber suggested, this pledge from the Peacock councilors is a bright light from their north star. It shows their dedication to universal justice and human rights, not to slicing and dicing morality in the name of political expediency. It shows that they are guided by the needs of the least among us, not just those who can afford a condo at the Ritz-Carlton. Above all it gives me hope that Portland will not be a part of genocide. Au Nguyen Southeast Portland

“Far from being "performative" as the Metro Chamber suggested, this pledge from the Peacock councilors is a bright light from their north star. It shows their dedication to universal justice and human rights, not to slicing and dicing morality in the name of political expediency.“

I'm going to do this somewhere someday. I love this.

"How Are You?" Another week survived is another week won. I see the sacred in leaves turning from green to gold. November is a melancholy animal, glad of another season where it gets to hibernate. The world is still burning but we are trying harder to douse the flames these days, I recognise this as the shape of hope. I want to call everyone I love and tell them I love them. I am learning to act on that impulse instead of deferring it till a tomorrow that was never promised. I have finally understood that the poem doesn't always live in the wound. It lives in the love that heals us. - Nikita Gill

“Another week survived is another week won.”

YouTube video by How Money Works If We Tax Rich People... They Will Just Leave!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DXZ...

Also your opponents are not infallible, THEY MAKE MISTAKES. You have to be ready to exploit those but only people already in motion can do so...

Mmm it's been a minute since I had Ranch. Good stuff.

Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture.

The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD

A photo of Katie Wilson smiling into the camera at a Starbucks workers' unfair Labor practice strike rally.

A black and white photo from the crowd at the Starbucks workers strike rally of Katie Wilson speaking into a microphone among raised strike signs

A crowd photo from the Starbucks workers strike rally of Katie Wilson speaking among the crowd on a gray Seattle day

A photo of Katie Wilson standing on a small stage before a crowd speaking at the Starbucks workers rally

Across the country, Starbucks workers are on an Unfair Labor Practice strike for a fair first contract, and I know which side I’m on. Baristas make Starbucks an extraordinarily wealthy company. They are entitled to their fair share of that wealth and to benefits and fair treatment on the job.

amazing q&a with paul krugman

Reducing traffic with “carrots”: A review of the evidence Reducing traffic volumes is one way to reduce carbon emissions from the transport sector. Since increasing driving costs is often met with public resi…

Yet another evidence review argues very strongly that simply providing alternatives to driving doesn't reduce driving

This isn't surprising, if only thanks to habit. If I unthinkingly jump in my car for every trip (as many do), new buses won't change that
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Single comicbook panel showing the Hulk lying prone on some grass near a beach. He's saying (in two speech balloons): "Hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up ..." "... everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed!" (From Incredible Hulk #261, 1981)

C'est moi

FOR THE WIDOWS / FOR THE DOLLS / TIL I'VE ROBBED THE PALACE HALLS / TIL ALL THESE SHERIFFS FALL / AH SHOOT SHOOT MASTER ARCHER / AH SHOOT SHOOT GOOD MAN

We found him ... the Blues Father

transgenderism 🤝 transhumanism

standing athwart nature and saying "i would prefer not to" (based)

I actively fucking *love* land acknowledgments! They’re moving and kind, and teach you about history and model showing respect for others. They are literally only good in every way.

Thanks for your diligence and hard work on this. I love it when my reps try to do the right thing even if it won't pass: forces us to have this conversation in public and take stands.

I think many folks haven't realized how much worse the state and federal cuts are going to make everything yet. =\

The mayor-elect of Seattle fucking Washington standing in a picket line for Starbucks workers hours after her victory speech. This rules so hard

At least five Tang dynasty (618–907) emperors were incapacitated and killed by immortality elixirs. In historic recurrences, the newly enthroned emperor understandably executed the Daoist alchemists whose elixirs had killed his predecessor, and then subsequently came to believe in other charlatans enough to consume their poisonous elixirs. Emperor Xianzong (r. 805–820) indirectly lost his life due to elixir poisoning. The Xu Tongzhi (Supplement to the Historical Collections) says, "Deluded by the sayings of the alchemists, [Xianzong] ingested gold elixirs and his behaviour became very abnormal. He was easily offended by those officials whom he daily met, and thus the prisons were left with little vacant space." In response, an official wrote an 819 memorial to the throne that said: Of late years, however, (the capital) has been overrun by a host of pharmacists and alchemists ... recommending one another right and left with ever wilder and more extravagant claims. Now if there really were immortals, and scholars possessing the Tao, would they not conceal their names and hide themselves in mountain recesses far from the ken of man? ... The medicines of the sages of old were meant to cure bodily illnesses, and were not meant to be taken constantly like food. How much less so these metallic and mineral substances which are full of burning poison! ... Of old, as the Li Chi says, when the prince took physic, his minister tasted it first, and when a parent was sick, his son did likewise. Ministers and sons are in the same position. I humbly pray that all those persons who have elixirs made from transformed metals and minerals, and also those who recommend them, may be compelled to consume (their own elixirs) first for the space of one year. Such an investigation will distinguish truth from falsehood, and automatically clarify the matter by experiment. After the emperor rejected this appeal, the palace eunuchs Wang Shoucheng and Chen Hongzhi 陳弘志 assassinated him in 820.

When Xianzong's son and successor Emperor Muzong (r. 820–824) came to the throne, he executed the alchemists who had poisoned his father, but later began to take immortality elixirs himself. An official wrote Muzong an 823 memorial that warned: Medicines are for use against illnesses, and should not be taken as food. ... Even when one is ill medicines must be used with great circumspection; how much more so when one is not ill. If this is true for the common people how much more so will it be for the emperor! Your imperial predecessor believed the nonsense of the alchemists and thus became ill; this your majesty already knows only too well. How could your majesty still repeat the same mistake?[27] The emperor appreciated this reasoning but soon afterwards fell ill and died from poisoning. Palace eunuchs supposedly used poisonous elixirs to assassinate Muzong's young successor Emperor Jingzong (r. 824–827).

This is what it’s like to read about the American governing elite right now.

One of the themes of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS is that infrastructural systems physically manifest a relationship between people and with the place they live that extends into the future. In nations it’s often by fiat, but in cities it’s because of network effects and because water runs downhill.

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

Look, maybe you give a little dog a small pancake

I used to not like set-asides like that because it seems like they made planning hard, but now I do because at least they can't go to funding the pigs.

Does it go to general fund or somewhere more specific?

I'll continue reposting stories about the MA millionaire tax until every state has their own version

I haven't had enough coffee to fully decipher this infographic (and the rest of the thread is a lot less rosy) but I think it's really critical to remember that the climate crisis is NOT hopeless. Planning and agreements have made positive impact, and more can be made.

woke up thinking about land use jokes huh