At the time the $7.25 national minimum wage was set, a pound of ground beef cost about $2.20 per pound, meaning one hour of work could purchase more than three pounds of beef — enough to make a dinner or two for a family of four. Now, it can barely cover one.

I'm never gonna tell someone not to make being a stay at home wife and mother their goal but having talked to my mom and my aunt about their struggles to leave abusive marriages I will say: make sure you have a way to have your own money. You know, just in case.

It's important not to lose sight of Blackness in birthright citizenship discourse. The 14th Amendment is the foundation on which all Black US citizenship rests. Without it we're back to Dred Scott and a Congress with little power to enforce citizenship and civil rights law.

I'm not trying to be pedantic here; the language matters. Children of immigrants are not some special, weird category of citizens; they owe their citizenship to the same thing that the vast majority of the rest of us do. That's the point!

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

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This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now

Um, yeah. Thanks to our friends at the @lwvsf.bsky.social for this post!! #SaveAct #StandUpFightBack #NeverGiveUp

This goes so hard, esp. for a US politician. We can all aspire to use our knowledge of the humanities & social sciences this way!!

The professor-student relationship is one of the only non-extractive relationships we get as adults. Students dont need to charm me to get me on their team; it's my job. Im not their friend bc I am something else worth preserving in their life: here solely to help them think smart shit

Things are not okay.

Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.

Word that's overdue a popular return, having plenty of applicability: Jeremiad: A long literary work in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, containing a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.

I need us as a culture to stop conflating “is good at math/programming/finance” with “is smart.”

"What if every npc was a fully functional chatbot" is the game equivalent to asking in a movie "what if you could move the camera wherever you wanted"; it sounds so cool until you realize there is a crucial intent to the limits, and you will quickly lose the plot if you toss that by the wayside.

This quote has been with me every day since I first heard it and I love her so much for saying it.

This is so embarrassingly written. It reads like a child getting mad that someone beat them at a game. “You could tell which was AI?? Well you must be a really lucky guesser. AI is actually really sick and getting better every day!! Please use it more!!!!”

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

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This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online. Full stop. "Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name We have to stop this. theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

I let out an audible gasp. What in the absolute fuck. There's a dark, dark, history of this. Of forced sterilization. I am so, so sick.

There's so much dark and horrifying in the world, but today my theater criticism students delivered manifestos on what kind of theater and criticism they want to see in the world and they were so inspiring. Community-focused, anticapitalist, railing against the dark. I love teaching so much!

And those needs are boring, unprofitable, and tremendously complicated. They are, in short, a lot of *work*. It's work that billionaires are especially unwilling to do, but are tremendously willing to exploit once it's been done.

At around 370 different systems, not counting guest appearances on other shows, I've played more unique tabletop RPG systems on-mic than anyone in history.

Hard same, I know it's a marketing gimmick (I hope like most marketing gimmicks all this booktok shit evaporates in the cleansing light of day) but the "tropes checklist" is one of the worst things to happen to the public's relationship to books, every time I see it I feel the call of violence

Yo! I am once again organizing an all Black GM & Player Juneteenth event. The theme is gonna be Black Joy: We Came to Party Put your dancing shoes on, light up the grill, and move your car from the street we're having a Block Party. GM Sign Ups open March 30th and player sign ups to follow.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

RPGs have got to stop writing flavor text like, “You’re the apex of this discipline, all bow before you in awe,” and then the ability associated with it is, “You can do a thing you could do at level 1 an extra time before you need to take a nap.”

This is wild (screencapping because for some reason the thread breaks in standalone view).

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

everything theyre saying now they said during iraq

bringing back this banger for no reason at all

there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top. just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat.

Imperialism is a death machine that seeks to assert white supremacist and fascist control over the world. It cannot be reformed. We must uproot the very structure of the U.S. military and its accomplices in our collective struggle for liberation. No war in Iran. No western imperialism.

Remembering that time they toppled Saddam Hussein and then everything in Iraq was suddenly chill and peace reigned supreme with blessedly little political fallout (The destabilisation of Iraq led to refugee migration in the millions, millions dead, spawned new even more evil terrorist groups)

Very funny to me, also, that "The Arsenal of Freedom" is the name of an episode in Star Trek TNG where autonomous AI weapons killed an entire civilization and there's a sales hologram still on the planet trying to sell them. it was originally a commentary in the sale of F-14 Tomcats to Iran(!)

Once again.