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

If you've got a view of the northern lights where you live and esp if you live alone, it is an excellent idea to turn off all the lights in the house other than a small one in the room where you're reading, sit by a window when the sky lights up, and read this. It won't be remotely creepy. At all.

it's not even a sacrifice, it's like a Free Gift with Purchase

Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not.

This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

A tumblr post reads: Me: *gets story idea* Me: This is so obvious and clever it practically writes itself! *later* Narrator: It did not write itself.

TOO real. ;)

I know it's not news that FB is a cesspool of right wing bullshit and AI slop, but this intensification of FB's algorithmic promotion of Nazi propaganda is quite disturbing in terms of the permission structure it's creating for users who consume "conservative" content.

Michelle Carter was sent to prison for less than what ChatGPT has done repeatedly.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Oh this thread, this mini story, is SO GOOD.

if nothing else, the internet has allowed me to adopt vocabulary and mannerisms from other cat owners all over the world with which to irritate my own cat with, and isn't that lovely

Theatre makers, I would like a production of Hamlet please where all the main cast are played by men, except the players and Rozencrantz and Guildenstern, who should be women.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

The Onion: DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

I'm gonna need folks to understand that just because the worst people in America are obsessed with GLP-1s exclusively because of weight loss does not mean they are not LIFE SAVING for a lot of people.

There's a reason they're studying their impact on Long Covid right now.

Important.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Goose chase meme with the 'Im in the 'Hitler sucks' wing of the Republican party" screenshot added to the top left corner. on the right the goose says " what's the other wing?" in the first panel. then in the second, it says again to a fleeing (silent) character: " what's the other wing, Lindsey?"

Pan’s Labyrinth Returning to Theaters for Its 20th Anniversary - Reactor The return is part of a larger anniversary celebration.

Guillermo del Toro fans can't stop winning:

if you start from the view that there's a policy compromise you can make that will calm people down, you can end up supporting some very authoritarian stuff very quickly

uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban

i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy

you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm

This is an excellent point and these videos are built to fool you! We all have to be vigilant, check each other, and take corrections with grace. Shit happens and you're gonna get fooled once. The only shame is in not changing course

100% agree w this.

Have lived in Calif (20+ yrs), Texas (4+ yrs), Wash state (2+ yrs), DC (long time) MA and MS and GA and outside US (long time). Not NYC.

No one outside NYC spends ten seconds caring who the city elects as its mayor.

But you can recognize political talent, which ZM surely has.

Making the active choice to withhold emergency funding and starve large swaths of the country is “political violence” and it should be reported and viewed as such

You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time.

All are considered acceptable so go off.

Bryant Lake Bowl Theater A live reading series featuring original science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction...

Hey, my friend Lyda is performing tonight at Cole Sarar's Sci Fi reading hour at the Bryant Lake Bowl! I'm going, and I hope to see some of you there!

www.bryantlakebowl.com/theater/cole...

What I love about SF/F is that you can both take a metaphor and make it real, and take something real and make it a metaphor, in the same story at the same time.

Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.