Somewhat of a non sequitur: but a reform around labor and healthcare we need is eliminating the contractor/part time avoidance of providing health insurance. If you work an hour for someone they are responsible for 1/120th of your premium for that month. None of this 30hr cliff nonsense.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · yesterday

Wake me when an ai “breaks containment”, gets into HR, finds 7500 employees illegally misclassified as contractors and files their paperwork with the local departments of labour and/or employment for years of backpay.

You want to see someone in a bad spot? Go find someone that hasn’t have dental hygiene done for a decade or two. Dental care is healthcare. Vision care is healthcare. The slicing and dicing by special interests is gross.

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE)@shengokai.blacksky.app · 2d ago

Her reason for being angry about this is that allowing hygienists to provide preventative care and covering dental care under medicare would encourage better dental health by removing accessibility barriers and lowering costs both of which would lead to early detection and better patient outcomes.

Every time a trans woman comes up as “obliterating” the competition I go see what the record for that event was and the trans woman is way below it. Events are thin. Sometimes the people better than you don’t show up. Sometimes they do. That’s sports. Trans women compete, not dominate.

👁️🍄🪸@bloomfilters.plus · last wk.

3) whenever trans women play with cis women they are often average, and even the trans women who are #1 in a thing are very close to the records of their cis women peers. if you believe that "sex differences" are why sports are sex segregated then this can either mean:

No.

David Dilbert@candyman718.bsky.social · 2w ago

Stop the War on Cars. Stop taking our parking spots away.

My parents retired out to bumfuck Arkansas to dodge taxes after they had no income. They would complain relentlessly about “how hard it was to get work done.” Yeah, you moved to where no one lives. Congrats. Pay more for the 1 guy in 100 miles that does what you want.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2w ago

New transplants to rural areas tend to not GAF about farm workers' livelihoods. They're more concerned about the view. Sorry, "nature." As we see w this lady. She's got a lot to say about the horrible sin of "solar panels be ugly," but nothing on farm wages. Is that the rural voter who counts?

A risk as a public figure is that a publisher takes a statement out of context to misrepresent their statement. A public figure has, presumably, some platform to push back against that. A normie has no power in that dynamic. If every word you say can destroy you, you can only say nothing or perish.

I was at a company for over 17 years. Within 2 years of transitioning I was shown the door.

The Loch Ness Monster@nessiopeia.space · 2w ago

An important missing piece of information on that transgender wage gap graph is that trans women quickly learn that they need to make themselves indispensable to their jobs to not get pushed out, so every cent of that 60¢ is earned with twice the labor of their cis colleagues

Banger? Banger.

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Our age of bronzer is collapsing"

Like, thematically, Nolan is using the Odyssey to almost speak *as* 'western civilization' and then what he says is, "you men (very much *men*), with your violent inhospitality, your greed and appetites are what has destroyed civilization by breaking the bonds between people."

Oh look, this is how we completely alienate a region that we have become insanely dependent on! Lets see how this goes for us.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Leavitt confirms that Trump is unilaterally changing the terms of the Saudi nuclear deal via Truth Social posts without even contacting any Saudi officials

I really am entranced by Nolan’s Odyssey. There are so many themes in it that talking and thinking about the movie is as engaging as actually watching it. Taking a thousands year story, giving it the respect that it deserves, while weaving in so much commentary on today is masterful.

Actually, Nolan IS kind of making a point about trans people

And I have the (ancient) receipts

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Do we really want to give everyone and every business in the City the ability to negotiate and have legal leverage and extract concessions? We know who is more like to use those legal tools. It is more likely going to be wealthy and more connected folks who already have more influence than most.

Great read, but now I’m angry for some reason.

@laperry2.bsky.social · 3w ago

www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...

I can go even further on a system design that maximizes privacy for speed enforcement. There are two cameras, A and B. S is a server both cameras are able to contact. A and B are situated a known surveyed distance apart.

OB Cycler@obcycler.bsky.social · 3w ago

45K+ bodies a year. In my city we have 3x as many fatalities from reckless driving than homicides. 1. There exists dumb traffic cameras which just take a picture of the plate & the offense and are not networked to other system. 2. Most PDs aren't even using flock cameras for traffic violations.

Fuck this. If the Dems need people that believe in human rights to support them to get wins THEY CAN NOT ABANDON HUMAN RIGHTS. I will withhold my vote from the dems if they will not support my right to exist in polite society. If that creates a strategic problem for them then figure it out.

Chairman Wow@chairmanwow.bsky.social · 3w ago

Roger. She did. However, because shit is stupid the only other option is a MAGA sycophant. I ask you this earnestly: who's going to be easier to hold to account? Also, what wins in Ohio does not translate to the rest of the country. Long time listener first time caller

This is quintessential, textbook Moral Panic stuff. When you get to the point of harassing everyone over a threat that quite literally doesn't even exist, you've reached flagrant absurdity. Right out of Red Scare and Satanic Panic, it hurts everyone and helps no one.

Amy L Crow 🐦‍⬛@itsamycrow.bsky.social · 3w ago

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis... Players to undergo sex test to bar the trans women who don’t play the game at a professional level anyway.

You know what I did last time I was next to a crying kid on a plane? I looked at them, smiled, and mimed how to pop your ears. They eventually tried it and the crises was averted. People should be helpers instead of complainers.

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 3w ago

I cannot overstate how much I hate when people are dicks about babies crying in public (especially airplanes). Do you think the parent is having a good time right now?? Do you think they are not aware of the situation??? Are you going to negotiate with a literal infant????

Holy hell Katie Wilson is on fire here.

Crystal Fincher@finchfrii.bsky.social · 3w ago

Seattle, the World Cup brought possibility. Let’s build on it

Half the reason I want to post this is the fantastic Lobster Communist Propaganda. The other half is it aligns with my priors.

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

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This is ultimately the same story as the Kansas driver's license thing. The word of the United States government is simply no good if you are a member of a minority Republicans do not like. Lucy will pull the football. You can't live a stable life like this.

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If you have an advocacy group that is specifically built around excluding a specific minority from your spaces, you are a hate group. This is not difficult to understand. The fact that Amnesty International backtracked is the real crime here.

Pretty cool that the most powerful man in the world claims that I’m the boogyman responsible for all ills.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

Trump on the CHIPS Act: "If you weren't transgender, you didn't qualify. So they'd get the money, they'd look all over for transgender people to run the company."

The problem with changing time twice a year is we don’t do it often enough to get good at it. We should change the clocks every day so that solar noon happens at 12:00 precisely. Also time zones are cool. We should have more. A time zone for every degree of longitude.

YES. For the love of god yes. The government should be the largest employer of Software Engineers. All they do is shuffle data around. That’s what’s software is good at.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4w ago

Easy for critics to say “well, Mamdani hates the private sector, and everyone knows govt tech is garbage.” Easy, but wrong. What people who know tech and govt have been screaming for years is that building good tech needs in-house capacity, but in a way thats different from standard IT shops.

Is it bad if I’m not sure which random guy this could be referring to?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE killed a random guy today.

When you spend on Harry Potter

Miffythegamer@miffythegamer.bsky.social · 4w ago

In my opinion, this is litigious thuggery. Amnesty spoke their truth and it hurt the feelings of the anti-trans brigade. TERFs destroy everything they touch. I mean, imagine suing Amnesty, of all organisations?

PULL QUOTE: "Moving people ... in a crowded city isn’t particularly complicated, unless it’s with vehicles weighing over 1,500 kg that usually carry a single 80 kg occupant. How much human ingenuity has been squandered on precisely this absurd car-centric goal?" www.torontotoday.ca/local/opinio...

OP-ED: Candidates should prove they want to create a city for people, not cars

Environmental lawyer Albert Koehl argues that candidates vying for city council in the upcoming elections should make clear they want to create a city that prioritizes walking, cycling or transit over...

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The party of law and order sure seems to have a problem with the law.

NPR@npr.org · 4w ago

The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.

Not sure why the FBI would be involved with a heart attack.