I know other countries have better parental leave than the US but are there any countries that have taxpayer-funded retreat centers and 6 months of paid leave after youβve been sexually assaulted
04.03.2025 02:23 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0I know other countries have better parental leave than the US but are there any countries that have taxpayer-funded retreat centers and 6 months of paid leave after youβve been sexually assaulted
04.03.2025 02:23 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs also called the Seattle Process because itβs been so baked into the neoliberal culture here
03.03.2025 17:59 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think a lot about how my taxes paid the cop who beat me for sleeping outside when I was a homeless teenager
03.03.2025 17:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0a lot of nonprofits act like the CIA guide to sabotage is the playbook theyβre legally required to follow
03.03.2025 17:35 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Anora director Sean Baker never credited Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor as writers for Tangerine angelfoodmag.com/romance-labor
03.03.2025 16:18 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor never got writing credits on Tangerine. I wonder who Sean Baker stole from this time for Anora
03.03.2025 15:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0my Roman Empire is that in two weeks weβll have a blood red moon eclipse on Ides of March Eve
26.02.2025 23:17 β π 29 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1I donβt want to see Anora because he didnβt credit Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor as writers for Tangerine. Without them, there is no movie.
03.03.2025 15:41 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0TimothΓ©e Chalamet dressed in a butter yellow suit with pants too long on the red carpet at the Oscars
Upright gold foiled stick of Kerrygold butter
TimothΓ©e Chalamet in his most challenging role yet β a melting stick of butter
03.03.2025 00:13 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Upright stick of gold foiled kerrygold butter
TimothΓ©e Chalamet in his most challenging role yet β an upright stick of melting butter
03.03.2025 00:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I read all of Randβs books while I was a homeless teenager, living in a cave, because I found the Ayn Rand Instituteβs college scholarship application. I wrote an essay in my cave about how altruism was my true calling. Needless to say, I didnβt get the scholarship
02.03.2025 09:52 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0my most evil landlord was a celebrity cupcake pastry chef
02.03.2025 09:09 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0my most evil landlord was a celebrity cupcake pastry chef
02.03.2025 09:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Is this what they mean when they say βtransparencyβ
27.02.2025 23:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm curious if you know what her username means β houseinhabit. Is it like a house shrouded in a nunβs habit? Because thatβs kind of terrifying imagery
27.02.2025 21:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wish I still had it. I have no idea if it was well written but I remember my teacher found it very amusing
27.02.2025 21:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It was mostly based on future speculation about groundbreaking GMO research in the mid 90s to make tomatoes more frost resistant with flounder or salmon genes. So for class I wrote about the ethics of not disclosing animal GMO plant products for kosher / halal / Jain / vegetarian etc shoppers
27.02.2025 21:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Love this one! I wrote an essay on the ethics of not disclosing this on food labels in middle school in the 90s!
27.02.2025 20:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Elon having college-age kids on DOGE is so much like how the cult I grew up in, the "Moonies" mostly recruited on college campuses.
Young & impressionable, they don't yet have a wealth of career experience to compare this job to. So they'll do their best to prove themselves without question.
Pretty Woman 2: Julia Roberts and Richard Gere buy Joann Fabrics to save it from private equity destruction, then sell it to the workers for $1
27.02.2025 19:34 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bezos is putting the psy-op in op-ed
27.02.2025 18:29 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pretty Woman 2: Julia Roberts and Richard Gere buy Joann Fabrics to save it from private equity destruction, then sell it to the workers for $1
27.02.2025 18:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Better Call Saul taught me that if you spin a shaken carbonated beverage to create a whirlpool effect, it wonβt explode when you open it
27.02.2025 10:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bezos is putting the psy-op in op-ed
27.02.2025 10:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@lovettejallow.bsky.social
27.02.2025 09:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country.
In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!
Me last summer: βI donβt feel well.β
Doctor: βAre you in pain?β
Me: βI donβt know. What is pain? Iβm in discomfort. A lot of discomfort.β
[Doctor orders labs]
Doctor: βAre you sure youβre not in pain because your kidneys are murdering you rnβ
my Roman Empire is that in two weeks weβll have a blood red moon eclipse on Ides of March Eve
26.02.2025 23:17 β π 29 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1I stupidly hoped that because Iβve been sexually assaulted so many times before that itβd be easy to bounce back this time or something
26.02.2025 21:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My migraines were under control until I was sexually assaulted a month ago. Now I start each day unable to see any light without vomiting so thatβs neat
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