Thanks for joining Starbucks baristas striking in California, @rokhanna.bsky.social ! #NoContractNoCoffee

At the bottom of several emails I've been receiving, near the painful absence of an unsubscribe link: "This message was sent to you because you signed up to use Gemini." With absolute fucking certainty: No. I absolutely did not. #fuckAI #fuckGoogle #fuckGemini #iDoNotConsent

See you at noon, Seattle! Enjoy this rainbow we saw as we woke up at Camp Contract this morning ⛺️🌈

This short piece hits on so many levels @cjmp4.bsky.social

1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:

Upset that Oakland is extending the contract with ICE-collaborator Flock for surveillance cameras but I appreciate that they made some significant amendments to the contract to prohibit data sharing with Federal agencies or for particular uses. Read the whole article. oaklandside.org/2025/12/17/o...

I touched on the difficulty of finding activities to do instead of scrolling on our phones in "How to Delete Facebook and Instagram Without Regret". Hazel Thayer does a deep dive on why it's so hard to break tech habits. #hazelThayer #doThisNotThat #quitSocialMedia #doomscrolling #addiction

Over 100 people, including faith leaders, gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to protest immigration enforcement, with a dozen demonstrators chaining themselves together to block access to the ICE office. More than three dozen protesters were arrested.

You can put me in a gulag before I vote for a guy who stans Reagan. And if you're a blue maga chud cracking your knuckles to type "Enjoy your gulag then." I know you get off on that, so please leave me out of your fascist kinks.

So... I'll say the judgemental thing. If someone only wants to adopt in such a way that it's convenient for them & the only option they can come up with is to BUY A CHILD from another country... then they're not doing it for the child, they just think that they should be able to own another person.

"Starbucks, the company, is behaving irrationally. As more and more stores go union the companies shortsightedness will become glaring and indefensible. It will become clear that Starbucks management is creating structural fragility." @sagaftra.org President #SeanAstin in LA right now

My Grandma was the last person on earth I hadn’t come out to, so I wrote her a letter for her 100th birthday. corry.us/dear-grandma #comingOut #trans #queer #grandparents #yolo #corrysBlog

Of course there will be tragedies w any rapidly-adopted new tech. Society has found ways to adapt in the past, but it is made much harder when the main developer is ACTIVELY CONCEALING EVIDENCE. How can we prevent these awful scenarios if everything is proprietary? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

LOS ANGELES #SagAftraMembers! Show your support for striking Starbucks workers on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 9 AM at 5757 Wilshire Blvd. Join President #SeanAstin on the picket line to demand a fair contract for Starbucks baristas. #NoContractNoCoffee More info: https://ow.ly/mR9n50XIJjj

Timeline cleanse!

#devonPrice #adulthood

These are all quite real and I’m proud of myself for working on (not finished yet) each of these 5 things in recent decades.

Thanks to everyone responding to our new video on Borders, and helping to spread the word about Ophelia and Zahra. Yes, American Asylum seekers are amongst us, and they need our awareness and help. Here's the KoFi fundraiser we set up. ko-fi.com/zahraandophe...

Yet another incredibly poignant, relevant, well researched video from #leftistCooks

Shop local. Shop small. #surveillanceCapitalism #personalizedPricing

"Imagine that your relative was really killed during the holocaust and one day you came across a fake story about their death on Facebook with thousands of likes and a fake AI generated photo of your dying relative." #worldwarwisdom #deleteFacebook #deleteMeta #ai #misinformation

"This is unjust for a billion-dollar company like Starbucks to nickel and dime its employees like me who are already scraping by and living paycheck to paycheck." news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Automatic license plate readers may seem like a good idea until you hear about the ways they enable cops to abuse women, all while not actually making you any safer skepchick.org/2025/11/the-...

This is my last skeet as a member of the itty bitty titty committee 😆 It’s been an honor to be part of this prestigious organization. I will always cherish the work we did together.

#Kaiser stopped paying my therapist without telling either of us. When she told me, I called them. They said it was #denied. Why were neither of us were notified? They said we were. I showed proof that no, we weren't. 5 days later, received denials for 3 months of appointments (~$2,200)

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

Hidden cameras. Surveillance networks. Paranoid delusions. My new video is about the feeling that you're being watched. youtu.be/gStjfje6Mq4

Every morning I look up whether the strike is still going and get disappointed that #Starbucks still hasn’t come to the table to treat their workers fairly, and thus cannot have my business for another day.

Doing whatever I have to to eat, have healthcare, and live in a sanctuary city. 😅 Seriously, I just adapt.

Adoption is human trafficking. The family policing system takes kids from struggling families and gives them to rich folx who feel like they have a right to buy other people's children, and makes billions of dollars for the adoption industry traffickers along the way. #AbolishAdoption 🥚

👣🤔AUTUMN ALONG THE PHILOSOPHER'S PATH🍁🍂 Fall vibing. #永観堂 #Eikando #autumn #紅葉 #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #ThePhilosophersPath #哲学の道 #Tetsugakunomichi

This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now. They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.

"Once limited to policing the nation’s boundaries, the Border Patrol has built a surveillance system stretching into the country’s interior that can monitor ordinary Americans’ daily actions and connections for anomalies instead of simply targeting wanted suspects" @apnews.com #surveillance #fascism

Doctor arrived 49 minutes late to Zoom call because they failed to send proper information to one of the many billing middlemen who can deny #healthcare on a whim. Spent most of the call arguing who’s fault it is my partner can’t get treatment for continuous debilitating high back pain. #america

Say GOOD MORNING to our baristas in Aurora, IL who joined our national ULP strike this morning! And remember: don't buy Starbucks while baristas are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee

Went 3(4) color Allies at the enchantress prerelease last night. Went 3-0! ☺️ #MTG #prerelease #MTGxATLA #Toph

Donna Personna validates so many of my views and made me feel more solid that I have the right mindset for survival. (Thanks for handing the mic to #transElders KQED) #trans #latina #community #resilience podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Don’t dismiss ALL Trump voters SOME are KKK BUT the idea that the average conservative is more racist than the average lib is a bed time story Dems tell themselves so they can sleep at night Working people of all backgrounds must be welcome in the movement to free democracy from corporate tyranny

I am interested in suggestions for activities to do in Tokyo, Sendai, and possibly other nearby cities in #Japan during January 11-19. ☺️

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

i think it would be funny if your GP acted like a shady guy introducing you to his mafia friends when he refers you to a specialist. he'd be like got a problem with the ear nose and throat i see. could be i know a guy could help you out with that

Any discussion on how well the Steam Deck handles modern AAA games is irrelevant if you’re someone like me, who still thinks of the PS3 and Xbox 360 as the next gen consoles and experienced how bad a lot of those games ran at the time and is impressed when they don’t run like ass anymore

“After many years of trying, it seems to me that ‘manhood’ amounts to mostly this: harnessing the power that one holds over other people, particularly women, and repressing one’s weakness so that societal power does not go away.” #devonPrice #trans #testosterone

“This definition of open source prohibits discriminating against megacorps and nazis. That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically.” 👏👏👏 #antifaWare #fascism #software #openSource

Holy shit. They're really doing it. They're doing "actually pedophilia is good now." The debasement of the American Right is complete.

From her account on FB (text in alt tag).

Incredible piece of data journalism here from @wsj.com. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX