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Apparently someone needs to learn the definition of "Manifest Destiny" Fucking idiot.

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So sad that all the local Joann's are closing. Fuckers literally ran all the small stores out of the entirety of So Cal only to fail themselves. Grr

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Why TF is Amazon trying to CHARGE me to return an item that is damaged? It's not my fault it's damaged, & I shouldn't have to go out of my way to go to a Whole Foods cause they prefer that, when it's broken. I will go to a UPS Store because I often go there anyway, but shouldn't have to PAY FOR IT

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Give me something to sing about PLEASE.

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Ok, so I think many agree that the best part of #FireAid was the total surprise appearance of the surviving members of Nirvana fronted by some seriously awesome ladies - St. Vincent, Kim Gordon, Joan Jett, and Violet Grohl. So like... Give us that tour. Please.

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They literally went from Nirvana + some badass women to... Some idiot who has to have his voice auto tuned. Ffs.

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100 bucks says maybe five people in that audience knew who Kim Gordon is. (Matt didn't know. I knew before she even turned around)

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Watching FireAid. I didn't realize until I hadn't cried. Now it's hard to stop.

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I can't stop giggling. This was literally me earlier.

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Tried to watch 30 Rock. Got 5 min in and remembered I don't like traditional American comedies.

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"Bow down before the one you serve, You're going to get what you deserve." - Head Like A Hole, NIN

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Had a post rejected by a group on FB cause I used "dude" & that's not inclusive enough I'm from LA. EVERYTHING, living or not is a dude. Gender plays no part in this I get it really. Even if part of me is like... really? That's the hill you wanna die on? Though I also use guys, so what do I know

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Glad to see the press finally focusing on the impact the fire is having on service workers — gardeners, housekeepers, and restaurant workers, to name a few. www.latimes.com/california/n...

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Just finished Skeleton Crew. Phenomenal. It works because it builds on Star Wars lore without telling the same story again. Tell new and original stories with new and interesting characters and expand on the galaxy instead of beating the dead horse that is the Skywalker saga.

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At Costco in Alhambra, as I'm exiting, there's someone with their Heating & Air Conditioning unit trying to entice buyers The man in front of me, greying temples, late 50s-early 60s says "Nah man, I don't have a house no more." 1/?

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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

submitted 46 days ago • 667 comments

If California stopped letting Washington DC take $86,000,000,000 a year that we don’t get back, we could fund a lot of projects to improve the lives of our people.

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The £45bn cost of Labour bailing out RBS is held to be a once-in-a-generation economic calamity that the nation barely survived. Brexit cost us just as much every five-and-a-half months.

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If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

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The Altadena seed library needs all of the help it can get- if you have native plant seeds to share, please make sure they find their way to this group. Monetary donations are also hugely welcome via gofund.me/6643efc6

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These 1,000 men and women are heroes.

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Definitely a sign of a healthy & functioning society that we're all constantly feeling tremendous guilt & pressure over not being able to singlehandedly fix all the ails of the world as individuals because the people in charge who are supposed to be fixing them are deliberately making them worse.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Price gouging after the fires is illegal, and that includes rent gouging, which we've already seen. Despicable.

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This is as good a time as any to say that the Los Angeles Animal Shelter, which I volunteer with, can really use financial support right now to feed and care for the evacuated animals they're housing. Here's a link if you're so inclined: lacountyanimals.org/services/noa...

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Gofundme should not be our national safety net

submitted 49 days ago • 67 comments

Paraphrasing @hcrichardson.bsky.social at a conference this fall, I heard her say there are two ways to look at the world: 1. Everyone has equal value or 2. Some people are better than others In my view, some people believe in and work toward equality, and others reject equality and do not.

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You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually increased by $50 million.

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