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[two tumblr soldiers bleeding out on the internet frontlines]

“heh… remember strawbebby…. And ranibow spramkle… always made me laugh”

“Don’t talk like that man. We’re gonna get out of here i prommy.” [mortar fire sails overhead and land nearby] “christ its like a childrens hospital out there”

[through shallow breaths] “I always loved…… the color of the sky…………”

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most of the time everything sucks but when the sky is blanketed in dark blue-grey clouds after heavy raining and the sun starts to peek through the clouds so that the tops of trees glint pale green and every white structure is starkly, blindingly silhouetted against the sky i’m ok.

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ok fuck it

list of ugly knitting patterns the knitting community keeps making:

- triangle lace shawl you won’t wear

- a million basic raglan sweaters made with the world’s most expensive and itchy mohair to achieve a look you can get at any tj max

- 2013-2015 era v-neck cardigans

- bralette made for size A-B tits

- 2012 era twisted winter hairband

- a million basic raglan sweaters but THIS time with whatever fruit/animal pattern is in trend. lemons. frogs. cherries. cats.

- 2009 era bolero. short sleeves. looks like someone a homophobic mom makes her dyke-coded middle schooler wear to church.

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The Pope, desperate to avoid ever interacting with JD Vance again, went to the one place the Vice President couldn't follow: heaven.

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Via @korvys​ (Twitter)

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i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

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Cindy Rizza, Matriarch, 2023, oil on linen.

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The high's starting to wear off. Someone shoot another billionaire CEO

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Bothersome beast, comforting friend

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It was Meta itself that first told me about the new book attacking Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and the allegedly bankrupt morals of their company. On March 7, a Meta PR person contacted me to ask if I’d heard about Careless People, a presumed takedown of the company that was due for release in a few days. I hadn’t. No one at Meta had read the book yet, but the comms department was already proactively debunking it, issuing a statement that the author was a former employee who had been “terminated” in 2017. 

 My first thought was Wow, I’ve got to read this book! And in fact I did, devouring it in a night as soon as it was published. With the benefit of attention from Meta’s complaints, I suspect Careless People might become a must-read. Meta—the company that promotes itself as an avatar of free speech—has successfully convinced an arbitrator to silence author Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was a director in charge of connecting Meta’s executives with global leaders. The ruling, relying on an NDA signed after Wynn-Williams was fired, demands she stop promoting the book, do everything in her power to stop its publication, and retract all comments “disparaging, critical or otherwise detrimental” about Meta. That’s pretty much the whole book. Wynn-Williams, who has registered as a whistleblower with the SEC, did not attend the hearing and doesn’t seem inclined to respect it. As I write this, Careless People is now the third-best-selling book on Amazon.

it looks like this:

It’s available on Amazon, Bookshop.org, Powell’s, Apple Books, and more

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A Memorial in Progess

On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The factory resided in the 8-10 floors of a building on Washington Square in New York.

Doors and stairwells were locked by bosses to keep workers at their stations and “reduce theft.”

There was no audible alarm, some workers were able to get some warning by telephone when a warning call came from a different floor.

There were no sprinklers in the building. Within minutes of the fire starting the few exit routes were jammed.

Workers tried to escape using the flimsy exterior fire escape. It collapsed.

The factory predominantly employed young recently arrived immigrants.

The fire caused the deaths of 146 workers. The youngest was 14, the oldest 43.

Dozens of stitchers came together to memorialize them by embroidering the name of one of those lost and their age. Different styles and levels of ability.

Today a group of us assembled to assemble the massive banner. When unfurled at the ceremony outside the Asch building (the building that housed the factory) it will stretch almost the length of the block.

The first tile on the banner is a series of 62 blue squares with red. It represents all the people that fell or jumped from the building. I am ending with this one a volunteer made for Rose Mankofsky reminding us that “every safety regulation is written in blood.”

Every year another group of volunteers fans out across the city to mark the address of one of those who lost their lives due to corporate greed.

The ceremony on March 25th will be livestreamed.

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[video description: a man playing saxophone in front of a large pipe. everything he plays echoes back through the pipe, resulting in a call-and-response type song. the person behind the camera claps along to the beat. end description.]