spoiler: Spot on. See history of tipping in USA. Also, worldwide, smiling + greeting expectation = relic of colonization. However, within colonizer nations, e.g., FR, UK, etc, service workers aren't expected to smile or ingratiate themselves. They just need to be invisible when not needed.

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🍵😶 ... there is no valid excuse or justification for ignoring this,, bsky.app/profile/jerr...

🍵😶 ... “It’s really interesting to see how the U.S. is different, but where we want to explore next is what other countries are doing that the U.S. can do to bring down avoidable deaths,”

☕😏 ... yes, though i'd say the people most ignorant of the way the u.s. moves are its wage slaves; the citizens know damned well how it works,, #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

☕😏 at least their self-benefiting outcomes suggest they've got a pretty good mastery of how things actually move here in the u.s.,, 🤌🏼👀 bsky.app/profile/jerr...

☕😏 ... & once again "the good guys 💙😄" are also aligned with this anti-communist (& anti-socialist) attitude as well they're showing us explicitly they're just as invested & committed to feeding their wealth & power on our continued subjugation & harm, fam,, 🤌🏼👀 #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

"is the question hideously loaded, & then one’s response to that question.. has to depend on effect and, in effect, where you find yourself in the world, what your sense of reality is.. it depends on assumptions which we hold so deeply so as to be scarcely aware of them" ~ james baldwin

🧋😏 ... i don't want to rob anyone of their joy i just want these people to stop harming us thru abandonment & neglect while they personally profit off our harm & then expect our support as if we don't see what's going on is it really so unreasonable for me or anyone to want this? #CovidIsNotOver

☕😏 ... yes, though i'd say the people most ignorant of the way the u.s. moves are its wage slaves; the citizens know damned well how it works,, #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

Ms Rachel continues to be more brave than every single person working for the US government combined

What will it take to shatter the irrational denial of Covid-19 that currently prevails among the masses? How many times must they all be infected? How many bouts of illness must they all suffer? How many diseased corpses must pile up, higher and higher? #COVID19

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☕😏 ... & once again "the good guys 💙😄" are also aligned with this anti-communist (& anti-socialist) attitude as well they're showing us explicitly they're just as invested & committed to feeding their wealth & power on our continued subjugation & harm, fam,, 🤌🏼👀 #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

I'm in favour of remembering the ALL the victims of war, but a remembrance ritual filled with generals, politicians, military uniforms and Union flags is not paying tribute to the victims who were sacrificed needlessly by the ruling class, its a call for more war and more victims. #socialistsunday

Rob seems to be in a much better chapter of his story at present, but his story of struggle is quite emblematic of the kind of acute difficulties a growing number of people are facing. You should go listen to this excellent 2-part discussion between Rob and Clara Mattei.

Masking works. My respirator has kept me free from Covid and flu for six years. 😷 Vaccines are great, but not inhaling viruses into your body is super cool when vaccines do not provide 100% protection. Vaccines & masking in combination FTW.

My automatic assumption is that an ad on Facebook is a scam. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

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Ppl don't want to admit it but they kept propping up classists punching down on safety nets, and that's why they went after snap. Ppl on benefits became the enemy outgroup of economically stable groups of ppl who have never navigated safety nets.

Ppl keep wanting to point at Trump and extremist and say "it's them" but newsflash, when u do stuff like maintain classism social scripts, you're sharing the same co-victimization (and yet classist, ableist, etc) scripts as the in-groups of extremist Nazis, which makes them part of the in group

Ppl aren't addressing their internalized classism and that's why these in-groups keep expanding and getting increasingly violent.

As someone who fully understands the reality of financial precariousness, I began sharing how to stretch grocery dollars while still maintaining a vegan diet with "A Capsule Kitchen." With SNAP in limbo & food prices rising daily, knowing how to make health, simple, inexpensive meals is priceless. 🫶

🍵😶 ... one reason our critical understanding of historical events is so important is that the sense we make out of these events often reveals things about us, esp about our social material assumptions, which critically inform how we make sense of & justify our responses to our present moment,, 🤌🏼👀

but my in group would never do that because we are the rational ones biases are irrational so they must belong to those Other people over there 😭🫠😭

🍵😶 ... the sheer amount of degradation, abandonment, & harm we collectively tolerate from our establishment/government in what's supposedly our society here in the u.s. really is both astonishing & pitiable,, #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

🧋😏 yes & it seems one tricky bit of crossing this terrain is the potential pitfall people will replace the ideological cold war propaganda with an understanding which misplaces the power of socialism as existing in people like mamdani & the ballot box to reinforce their dependence on both rather

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Links das Wärmekissen von Yuki, rechts meins..🙄 MEINS!!!🤨😸

“Mulher com Gato (Woman with Cat)” by Paulo Rossi Osir (Brazilian) - Oil on canvas / c. 1940s - Palácio dos Bandeirantes (São Paulo, Brazil) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #arte #Osir #PauloRossiOsir #CatArt #BrazilianModernism #BlackWomenInArt #BlueskyArt #PaláciodosBandeirantes #BrazilianArt

They KNOW the government will bail them out. There are literally no consequences to be paid for these ghouls. The system isn't broken. It's working as planned. The obscenely wealthy are only getting more obscenely wealthy day by day. At our expense. What you allow will continue to happen.

Minnesota restores full SNAP benefits to families in need www.startribune.com/minnesota-re...

Goodnight. 🖼️ Hannah Willow

‘The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.

Goodnight from Wiverstone, where the village green firework display has provoked the ire of rudely wakened Moss Maidens. Goodnight from the Egyptian Bingo Hall, where the clinking of lucky charms grows louder as the evening’s grand prize is about to be called. Goodnight from Hookland.

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There is a term, "deaths of despair"...

Passivity is a chosen way of life in America. No matter how bad things get, most Americans appear not to care. They might sometimes complain, but they are not moved to take any direct action to bring about a change. Unfortunately, that collective passivity serves as a foundation for tyranny.

🧋😏 ... mood,,

🍵😶 ... the sheer amount of degradation, abandonment, & harm we collectively tolerate from our establishment/government in what's supposedly our society here in the u.s. really is both astonishing & pitiable,, #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver

🧋😏 ... mood,,

🍵😏 just to be clear, bob is one of our wealthy neoliberal establishment he isn't endorsing much less agitating for socialism here bob's doing his part to preserve the 'back to normal' status quo for himself, his peers, & their billionaire patrons we understand this right? #TheCivilityOfNormal

🍵😶 * the plutocrats (& the people hanging off them) want inequality to continue ... #TheCivilityOfNormal #CovidIsNotOver