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jakers.bsky.social
The other one. "Nobody of consequence" ~ my family Illinois, USA
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Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

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This Day in Labor History: April 5, 2010. The Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in Raleigh County, West Virginia exploded, killing 29 of the 31 workers laboring in the mine. Let's talk about the murderous owner of this mine, the vile Don Blankenship, and why he killed his workers.

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street fighter II, magazine screenshot, snes (1992) archive.org/details/vide...

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I learned the word "anocracy" from @bfwalter.bsky.social's excellent book last year and don't know how this isn't on Google Trends by now. #booksky

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There’s a version of events where car safety features like seat belts and crumple zones were accepted decades earlier and there was no reason for Last Kiss to have been written and later covered by Pearl Jam.

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