The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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We planned a major D&D event for today - all Husband's brain child. Yesterday he tested positive for Covid. So the team did it with him as the Guy In The Chair, & y'all, we nailed it. Everybody had a goddam blast. I never want to do that without him again, & I am very tired, but what a coup.

Los Angeles! TODAY is the last day to buy tickets to our catered, immersive D&D event with live NPCs, multiple DMs & a free set of dice. All experience levels welcome. Will there be an animatronic dragon? I'm not telling. Tickets: events.humanitix.com/corruption-i... #DungeonsAndDragons

Tales from the Brass Dragon Presents: Corruption in Kryptgarden

Dungeons and Dragons at its most! Come play the Adventurer's League adventure Corruption in Kryptgarden at Spellbound, including a catered lunch and live NPCs.

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Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Man Smiling and Winking

Alt: Guy from Galaxy Quest winks at the camera

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Chris Harvey@chrisharvey.bsky.social · 6d ago

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Now that we're launching all kinds of projects into the world over the next year, I have to get good at marketing. So lookit! I made a video to promote our event Saturday. If there's one thing we know how to do, it's make #DnD into a LARP with a thousand props. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ySO...

Corruption in Kryptgarden - an immersive D&D event

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For a job interview this week, I had to give a presentation on how to do something. I chose to teach them how to play D&D. In 5 minutes. And I nailed it. Yes I got the job. Your girl will spend the next 4 months training election workers in advance of the midterms.

Fresh off our successful SDCC panel and the debut trailer for our Actual Play, dropping this fall, we're about to give 30 D&D players the game of their lives this Saturday in North Hollywood. Come play with us! Tickets: events.humanitix.com/corruption-i...

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If you're in Los Angeles this Saturday and you like D&D, join us at Spellbound LARP and Games for an epic, immersive Adventurer's League game like you've never played it. Here's a little glimpse of what we're planning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ySO...

The most recent episode of #ProjectRunway had them all base designs on football teams. Aaron got the Panthers & based his design on a culture from South Carolina because he said it was important to respect the place where the team is from, which is NORTH Carolina. Nobody pointed this out.

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

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Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

We played Dungeons & Dragons today in front of a live audience at #SDCC. Then we released the trailer for our new actual play, dropping in October. What a day. youtu.be/GhLfoV210i8?...

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Husband & I posted up at the Hasbro DnD booth at #SDCC & spent an hour encouraging people to roll a D20. If they got over 10, they got free dice. Everyone got a flyer for our panel tomorrow. We gave out 30 sets of dice and 90 flyers. This may have been the single greatest day of my life.

Sending my sympathies to every poor bastard who went online today to figure out how to get a Comic Con badge and parking and also a hotel.

I trust Taco Bell right now because they were the first to act over this lettuce thing. You know who I don't trust? ANYTHING that comes from Taylor Farms. I now ask where the lettuce comes from before I order food. I won't buy salads at Vons. Seems like bad business to keep lying to us.

I am from North Carolina, and this makes my heart hurt. There are a lot of rural areas & military bases full of conservatives, but the cities/big towns are full of universities and technology hubs and people who vote more liberal. They want to disenfranchise like 90% of the people I grew up with.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨BREAKING: The GOP-controlled North Carolina State Board of Elections approved new permanent rules Monday that will make it more difficult for voters to cast their ballots by mail and ensure that they are counted. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I just cashed a 30-year bond my sister bought me as a gift when I was very young. The bank manager was amazed I kept a single small piece of paper that long so I could get $63 that I will now spend at Comic Con.

People of #SDCC! You're going to be tired Sunday morning. Don't walk around on those exhausted feet. Come sit in the cool Omni ballroom & watch 5 hot people play D&D! I'm one of them!

Registration for an SDCC offsite event for Lanterns opened at 9am. At 9am it was completely sold out. Companies, I am begging you to put up defenses against bots. I don't think a single human being was able to get tickets.

As a script supervisor, I always preferred to use "Montana" when "M" came up on the slate, and I liked to pronounce it like Sam Neil did in Hunt for Red October when he says "I would like to have seen Montana."

The snarking is delightful, but remember: there is a democratic nominee to replace Lindsey Graham in the senate. Give her money.

Debby33 ❌ 👑@debby33.bsky.social · 4w ago

Forget about celebrity fantasy candidates Dr Annie Andrews was already nipping at Lindsey's heels Let's go! * Small dollar donations * Volunteers Needed now! Drannieandrews.com

You spend more time dead than you do alive, you dandy bitch. All that's left now is your reputation as a bootlicker.

This weekend, come out to Echo Park for our annual Lotus Festival, a celebration of Asian culture in America! I'll be out there most of the time both days, tabling for the Echo Park Neighborhood Council. Come say hi and let me convince you to get involved. www.lotusfestivalla.com

Los Angeles Lotus Festival

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*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead

We're running this game in NoHo Aug 1. The ticket pays for the use of Spellbound, the catered food, & the DMs. We're paying local businesses & talented people who've been struggling. In return, you get the raddest D&D of your life. All levels welcome. Tickets: events.humanitix.com/corruption-i...

If you miss Doctor Who, my friends and I did five seasons of The Game of Rassilon, an actual-play podcast where we ran the officially-licensed Doctor Who Roleplaying Game. Across the show we had two regular Doctors, five companions, and a handful of guest Doctors. Find us in your podcasting app!

Not only are they ugly and unoriginal, but AI flyers almost never meet standards for accessibility. Visually impaired people use readers to tell them what flyers say, but AI crams so much crap on a page that it makes it difficult for the readers to work.

404 Media@404media.co · 4w ago

Have you seen these ChatGPT ahh flyers? Well, we at 404 Media see them everywhere. “It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.”

Our neighbor to the right is about 30 seconds ahead of our neighbor to the left, which means we hear screaming on the right, then wait for the left side to scream. And that's how we find out someone scored a goal.

Husband & I discovered a cool historical story we want to write a script about, so I'm spending my Sunday reading historical facts to him while he beats up bad guys in Spiderman2. And this is how movies are made.

"KKK, but Best Buy, bitch"

Today I'm celebrating the true meaning of July 4, Daveed Diggs dancing backwards in a long frock coat

Daveed Diggs as Jefferson in Hamilton

Alt: Daveed Diggs as Jefferson in Hamilton

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Live in LA & know someone who wants to play D&D for the 1st time? Set the bar way too high by bringing them to the most over-the-top game you'll ever play. I'll be an NPC in full makeup and costume - a Drow with an iffy Norwegian accent. #DungeonsAndDragons events.humanitix.com/corruption-i...