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“I DESIRE YOUR WIFE” at the new york city dyke march, june 1993

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employers are like “we have hired exactly enough people for our business to function as long as everyone works perfectly and nobody takes a day off. if our employees are having trouble that’s a them problem.”

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*sees slugs on the sidewalk after it rained*

me:

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“Imagine you’re just finishing your shift as a picker at an Amazon warehouse. All day long you’ve been carting items for other people, under giant letters on the wall that spell “work hard. have fun. make history.” The pandemic has been hard on you. You can tell from what people are buying that it’s been hard on just about everybody. But as you come off shift, you get life-changing news. Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, has decided to give you a bonus. In fact, he has decided to give every single employee of Amazon — some 876,000 people — a one-time pandemic bonus. A $105,000 bonus. Serious money. The kind of money that, if invested over a couple of decades, would give you a real retirement nest egg. The crazy thing? The money he is giving you — it’s merely the extra wealth he gained during the pandemic, wealth that you built. After he has paid out those $92 billion in bonuses, he will still be comfortably off. In fact, as rich as he was before coronatime. Of course, Bezos isn’t going to do this. But the fact that he could is one of the striking findings of a new report from Oxfam on plutocratic profiteering from the pandemic. The report, of which The.Ink got an exclusive preview, makes clear that the billionaire class hasn’t just fiddled while Rome burns. It has made a fortune from the flames.”

— Billionaires won corona - The.Ink

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me trying to be nice about group projects

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shut UP reductress, shut up!!!!!!!

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the nervous system of a generic bilaterian animal, from Wikipedia

You are merely a specific instance of this guy.

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why are you obsessed with lifting weights. there's literally no point to it.

I’ll let you in on a little secret: when you get better at lifting weights you also get better at lifting everything else. The muscles can’t tell the difference! They’re fucking idiots!!!

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9.8.20. Los Angeles

Protests for Dijon Kizzee continue for a week now. Police continue to make protests hostile and violent, showing up to peaceful marches in military gear with weapons out, shooting at demonstrators, and shooting journalists this past weekend. Multiple protesters have been arrested, but not the officers involved, despite video footage showing Dijon on the ground when officers opened fire.

Dijon was murdered by LAPD, who shot him 15 times in the back after he fell to the ground. He was allegedly stopped for riding his bike incorrectly (x).

graphic of Dijon is by Zevvy Smith

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Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary

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