this is why US companies want healthcare to be tied to employment: you can use it for strikebreaking

Begging the Senator Dianne Feinstein staff to convince her to retire

🟩 break the streak, not the strike ❌

Made everybody laugh in a 10 person meeting yesterday and reminiscing about it today

This is one of the many ways that the deck is stacked against younger people, even if you are a member of Congress. You have to take 10s of 1000s in student loans, not paid enough, bad credit, rejected for housing, so go further in debt to pay larger fees & security deposits.

Schumer has a couple years of eating shit to get as many judges confirmed as possible, but the rest of us have no obligation to her.

Oh right I'd forgotten this one sticks in their craw so much because, to this day, Twitter is still basically the only entity to mete out punishment to Trump for STAGING A FUCKING COUP. It is the singular Consequence, and they still can't abide that there was even one.

it really makes it clear that the people writing these articles don't use public transit. i don't have any physical disabilities and my bus stop used to be one that had cars parked in the lane inside of the bus and it was difficult for me to get off there. x.com/chrisarvinsf/s…

I'm trying out Mastodon as [email protected]

Taylor Lorenz’s account was suspended tonight after she asked Elon Musk for comment on a story she’s working on. She tells me she hasn’t received any information about why she was suspended, but here’s her last tweet:

Talking like a faerie to communicate what other websites I’m on: If you think I am in other places you are correct and you would call me by the name you already know me, though you mustn’t speak it aloud nor warn me of your arrival

Today is my birthday and I'm doing my usual birthday request on other sites because this one is controlled by a not-very-good person who's running it into the ground. See mastodon.social/@jmhodges/1104… and bsky.app/profile/jmhodg…

I'm on Bluesky as jmhodges dot bsky dot social and mastodon at jmhodges@mastodon dot social.

damn that's crazy anyway on bluesky, users have named the blocking function "the nuclear block" because it's such a powerful tool to reduce harassment and dogpiling you should have control over your experience online bsky.app/download