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I say this every year, so might as well bring it over to Bluesky: One game in the NBA Finals should be played in the afternoon, so that it's on at a sane time for Europe to watch. If you're serious about globalising your league's reach, don't make people stay up to 4am on a worknight to watch it.

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What a perfect skeet

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Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

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EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

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Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed fellow Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as her first choice for New York City mayor.

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🚨BREAKING: We just surpassed 600 UNION ELECTION VICTORIES! CONGRATULATIONS to Starbucks partners who won their unions in a NEAR UNANIMOUS LANDSLIDE!! ✊Albuquerque, NM - Coors Bypass & 7 Bar L - [15-0] ✊Moon Township, PA - Moon Township - [13-0] ✊Richmond, VA - North Robinson Rd - [10-1]

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Being an advocate for your own healthcare is absolutely insane. Kafkaesque? Sisyphean? Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror with Eldritch Abomination Phone Trees? Man, this is just broken. AND I AM ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES!!!

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Taking a drawing class that says upfront that “your drawings will be bad, you won’t have fun and that’s because this is a learnable skill, so grow up and deal with it” and that’s the kind of honesty we need in an AI art world.

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The most important lessons I’ve learned as a 30+ yr old is always have emergency toilet paper that no one else in your house knows about

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I hope for season 3 of the rehearsal, Nathan Fielder rehearses a communist revolution.

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Full Zohran Mamdani campaign internal poll (conducted by Workbench): Andrew Cuomo - 40% Zohran Mamdani - 27% Brad Lander - 8% Adrienne Adams - 7% Scott Stringer - 6% Zellnor Myrie - 5%

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I've always argued basketball teams should be allowed to decline a foul call FTs, like in football. It would get rid of the hacking of bad FT shooters and also lessen the Foul Up 3.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

making fun of a samurai I thought I beat in a sword fight 2 days ago when my torso starts sliding cleanly away from my legs

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Lol, “Wes Anderson’s best film since Grand Budapest Hotel.” What’s the single film they skipped??? 🤔

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Since we’re having a discussion about the culture here: - Quote-dunking is a posturing relic of the old place. If someone tries it here, just detach quote and/or block - Nuclear block is your friend. This site is free. Don’t waste your time arguing with trolls. Just block & move on.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I’m not peeing in public. I’m sidestepping typical urinary procedures

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My colleague Robert Carroll has been a principled, progressive legislator who fights for policy that lifts up each and every New Yorker, especially when it comes to literacy education. I am so proud to receive his support and look forward to working together on this critical issue.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Y’all!! I was today years old when I found out how awesome eurovision song contest is

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starting in 3 hours yall! get yourself some art!!!

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I’m laughing cuz Coco is the only Pixar film I’ve ever seen in theaters. I saw Sinners this weekend. So I guess it’s not the most popular domestic release of the last 10 years if I’m not there

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I’m in the minority when I say that AI should have rights. It’s not that I think these machines “deserve” these rights, but if AI has rights then it shouldn’t be controversial immigrants, women, trans people, and all humans have rights. Giving AI rights makes every other struggle more consistent

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So Laid is getting a second season…. right?

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If you’re laughing this off, I want you to know that every disabled person I lost to COVID or long COVID has “pneumonia.” “Heart disease.” “Stroke.” “Complications of diabetes.” “Malnourishment.” on their certificates, and their families are struggling deeply to get the truth told.

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Nurses from CenterLight Healthcare delivered a strike notice and are ready to go on an unfair labor practice strike for their healthcare coverage and fair contract starting April 14! Nurses don't want to strike, but CenterLight management has left them with no choice.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

anybody else see a crewmember in frame of Judy’s reaction shot in the new righteous gemstones?

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We know you would, that's the entire problem

submitted 62 days ago • 218 comments

Here's how you end a Hands Off! demonstration, Santa Barbara style. Thanks to the Society of Fearless Grandmothers, who organized the human alphabet and took the drone shots! #indivisible #handsoff

submitted 64 days ago • 42 comments

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

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