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is there any better feeling than finding out about people saying nice things about you behind your back

we had carrot cake decorated in the shape of the union logo and drank sparkling wine out of mason jars

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one of the union organizers held a get-together at the co-op where she and 13 other people live. there's two buildings; one for personal rooms and one for a communal kitchen. the dishwasher, fridge, and oven were all industrial-grade, and the spice rack was huge. there's also a big garden with many fruit trees and birds, a bicycle rack, and a cat. i want to live in a place exactly like this

wow android devices literally have no way to automatically save screenshots to the sd card instead of internal storage. what the hell

gonna start calling everything i don't like "counterrevolutionary." the weather this week has been really counterrevolutionary. this soup has a counterrevolutionary taste

boosting this because i'd like some help forming an opinion

like on the one hand more housing sounds good, right? but the arguments the page outlines against more market-rate housing doing anything to solve the problem SOUND legitimate and i can't easily tell if they're just a smokescreen

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the berkeley city council is considering extending the maximum development height around the rapid transit station to 12-18 stories (from 7). a bunch of infosheets explaining how this is bad and capitalist have been dropped around the neighborhood, and someone knocked on my door to give me one. i'm trying to figure out which side are the NIMBYs here neighborsnottowers.com/

one of these guys has a loudspeaker and is singing the worst, most monotone and off-key interpretation of Amazing Grace that I've ever heard

Someone carved the alphabet into a tree and let it deform for five years and made a font out of it: bjoernkarmann.dk/occlusion-gro

boosting this because i'd like some help forming an opinion

like on the one hand more housing sounds good, right? but the arguments the page outlines against more market-rate housing doing anything to solve the problem SOUND legitimate and i can't easily tell if they're just a smokescreen

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when nothing is done about the filibuster, Democrats simply need to keep the house of reps, retain the white house, and have wholly unprecedented gains in states where they've never been competitive through the next 6-8 years of senate elections to *maybe* have the numbers to "codify Roe."

and that's assuming nothing else goes wrong in the meantime.

people want you to pretend electoral politics has a functional answer for securing human rights in this country when they can't even explain how.

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