@kmakice.bsky.social
Community experience designer / geek dad / whiteboard artist / author / accomplice-in-training / he/him / Kmakice@fosstodon.org https://zestdelights.substack.com/
Look at this graph.
The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.
This is why we must build back union power.
BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
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Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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Drawing of a strong flexed arm with text: This is your brain on therapy. Tearaway tags below each say: Text ‘therapy’ to 812-669-2227
Guerrilla art from my kid for my wife’s group practice.
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Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
Kurt Vonnegut man
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a small dog wearing a black and orange bandana, collar, and leash sits on a leafy dirt path and looks up at us with large brown eyes. she's white with brown spots on her ears and eyes. she has brown speckles on her left paw, and her right paw is actually a bright orange webbed duck foot. she likes to have fun with her prosthetics.
This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10
10.04.2025 17:41 — 👍 36146 🔁 2829 💬 931 📌 252Remember Cory Booker's marathon speech? If you want to read the whole thing, or extract golden nuggets, it's available through the Congressional Record. It starts on page 52 of pt 1 for March 31 www.congress.gov/119/crec/202... and goes through page 124 of pt 2 www.congress.gov/119/crec/202...
07.04.2025 01:16 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote.
U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.
Remember that "I'd like to teach the world to sing" Coke commercial? I think that's what alot of people think a protest looks/feels like. I have some footage from 2014 I'd like to show them.
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Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
The Bloomington Center for Connection is doing a free CARE workshop (2 sessions) that is worth your time.
www.bloomingtoncenterforconnection.org/2025/03/care...
Five years ago, I was waking up to my first day of remote work, which was meant to be a beta test with just some of the organization but ended up being a thing that lasted a long, long time.
Still valuing my hybrid schedule today.
Always speak up.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Five years.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3...
1. Major news in transgender care.
Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.
They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.
Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Anyway, I strongly believe in the power of play to revitalize our high-cultural spaces, re-engage with the rest of humanity, and rehearse different possible forms of being.
My 2-minute scholarly manifesto:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Trusted toys kept me safe at night. Cowboy is probably still on duty somewhere.
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Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!
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Wild rock garden in the Beartooth Range Flowers in the foreground, rocks behind them with some pine trees behind that and a just the right amount of clouds to defuse the light for a nice shot.
Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers today
Trip #3 through "For All Mankind", an alternate history TV show on Apple.
open.substack.com/pub/zestdeli...
Brilliant front page
22.02.2025 00:39 — 👍 4842 🔁 1140 💬 52 📌 34I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.
22.02.2025 08:53 — 👍 779 🔁 259 💬 21 📌 23Democratic leadership does not lead the *citizens*, they lead the party. We elect people to be our voices and represent us in the shaping of laws and legislation. We tell THEM when we're angry. They don't give us instruction. Fighting regimes has never worked that way anywhere, ever
22.02.2025 13:34 — 👍 123 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 3Apropos of nothing but I'm reading Black AF History by @michaelharriot.bsky.social and it is phenomenal so far! Fierce, funny, unflinching. His narration of the audiobook is fantastic.
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Remembering John Lewis on his birthday (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) #GoodTrouble 💙🕊
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Whitman Walker sold out the trans community for the false idea that it will protect care for everyone by continuing to receive federal funds. It won't. They'll come back for more. You can't appease fascists.
www.erininthemorning.com/p/no-more-co...
