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Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Every once in a while someone days something like “I hesitate to block, because they might actually not be trolls”. Yup. But you aren’t sending them to jail, and there are 10,000,000 other people to talk to. You won’t miss them, I promise.
Remember, if someone's first social media interaction with you is rude, it will never improve from there. The nuclear block here is great, the blockee will disappear from your replies, your sight, everything. Use it liberally.
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Every once in a while someone days something like “I hesitate to block, because they might actually not be trolls”. Yup. But you aren’t sending them to jail, and there are 10,000,000 other people to talk to. You won’t miss them, I promise.
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If you’re gonna cave, cave strong. www.offmessage.net/p/are-we-hea...
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you’re gonna cave, cave strong. www.offmessage.net/p/are-we-hea...
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Rest now sister. We have the kente. I'll see you in Wakanda.
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Rest now sister. We have the kente. I'll see you in Wakanda.
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i also think they just didn’t have any cards to play earlier in the year, and schumer gambled — correctly — that republicans wouldn’t be able to get it together on SNAP and ACA premiums once he accepted that both johnson and thune have surrendered themselves entirely to the white house
i love to bag on schumer as much as anyone, and still think this leadership is overdue for a change of the guard, but i think it's hard to argue he didn't learn anything from the last funding capitulation
it is truly astounding how perfectly the Democratic plan to make the shutdown about Obamacare has worked
we've now gotten to a point where Republicans cannot stop reminding voters about their equally horrible and unpopular ideas about healthcare
we've now gotten to a point where Republicans cannot stop reminding voters about their equally horrible and unpopular ideas about healthcare
October 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
i also think they just didn’t have any cards to play earlier in the year, and schumer gambled — correctly — that republicans wouldn’t be able to get it together on SNAP and ACA premiums once he accepted that both johnson and thune have surrendered themselves entirely to the white house
My two cents is everyone gets grace from me.
Doesn’t mean that everyone who gets grace is the best person to be a senator. Maybe we can find someone who is a decent person that DOESNT HAVE A NAZI TATTOO. Seems like there should be one or two!
Doesn’t mean that everyone who gets grace is the best person to be a senator. Maybe we can find someone who is a decent person that DOESNT HAVE A NAZI TATTOO. Seems like there should be one or two!
You all know what a huge proponent of giving grace I am.
It’s a core to my being. Finding ways to empathize and give grace to people who have made mistakes.
BUT NOT EVERYONE GETS GRACE
It is not just handed out to everyone.
Grace is NOT always justified and it is extremely not justified here
It’s a core to my being. Finding ways to empathize and give grace to people who have made mistakes.
BUT NOT EVERYONE GETS GRACE
It is not just handed out to everyone.
Grace is NOT always justified and it is extremely not justified here
October 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
My two cents is everyone gets grace from me.
Doesn’t mean that everyone who gets grace is the best person to be a senator. Maybe we can find someone who is a decent person that DOESNT HAVE A NAZI TATTOO. Seems like there should be one or two!
Doesn’t mean that everyone who gets grace is the best person to be a senator. Maybe we can find someone who is a decent person that DOESNT HAVE A NAZI TATTOO. Seems like there should be one or two!
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nothing like Republicans reacting to Bad Bunny, an American who was born in the United States and has lived his whole life here, by creating an "All-American" alternative Super Bowl halftime show
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
nothing like Republicans reacting to Bad Bunny, an American who was born in the United States and has lived his whole life here, by creating an "All-American" alternative Super Bowl halftime show
Such a good example of one piece of white privilege.
I suspect many female lawyers have similar stories about being mistaken for a paralegal or court reporter.
I also suspect black female lawyers have an entirely third set of stories about who they were mistaken for being.
I suspect many female lawyers have similar stories about being mistaken for a paralegal or court reporter.
I also suspect black female lawyers have an entirely third set of stories about who they were mistaken for being.
September 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Such a good example of one piece of white privilege.
I suspect many female lawyers have similar stories about being mistaken for a paralegal or court reporter.
I also suspect black female lawyers have an entirely third set of stories about who they were mistaken for being.
I suspect many female lawyers have similar stories about being mistaken for a paralegal or court reporter.
I also suspect black female lawyers have an entirely third set of stories about who they were mistaken for being.
I did not know that A Column For Sally Hemmings was part of a series!
September 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I did not know that A Column For Sally Hemmings was part of a series!
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In addition to the presumptuousness, these summations read like notes aliens are taking about the inhabitants of a human zoo
Hahahahaha Apple really showing off the heteronormative assumptions of its AI summary when my wife texts me that she wants to hang out and eat dinner
September 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
In addition to the presumptuousness, these summations read like notes aliens are taking about the inhabitants of a human zoo
I don’t understand this at all. Churches WERE open, so wtf are they talking about?
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters.
The latter understand what's going on.
The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
The latter understand what's going on.
The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD
It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this.
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September 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I don’t understand this at all. Churches WERE open, so wtf are they talking about?
Ken knows!
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
July 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Ken knows!
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🚨 A very long thread 🚨
I need you all to actually come to terms with what happened last year. No, Harris did not run a bad campaign. You're just stupid. He ran on dictator shit, she ran on “He’s going to kill us all but I’m won't and here are the policies that will benefit you if you elect me”.
I need you all to actually come to terms with what happened last year. No, Harris did not run a bad campaign. You're just stupid. He ran on dictator shit, she ran on “He’s going to kill us all but I’m won't and here are the policies that will benefit you if you elect me”.
July 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨 A very long thread 🚨
I need you all to actually come to terms with what happened last year. No, Harris did not run a bad campaign. You're just stupid. He ran on dictator shit, she ran on “He’s going to kill us all but I’m won't and here are the policies that will benefit you if you elect me”.
I need you all to actually come to terms with what happened last year. No, Harris did not run a bad campaign. You're just stupid. He ran on dictator shit, she ran on “He’s going to kill us all but I’m won't and here are the policies that will benefit you if you elect me”.
Is Bingo Hogan an actor from the Wire?
July 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Is Bingo Hogan an actor from the Wire?
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I think that a useful form of popularism would rest on this insight. You still have to sell your ideas to the public and find broadly popular values or desires to frame your policies. The poll chasers are wrong, but that doesn't mean you can ignore popular opinion.
One of the clearest examples I've seen of the need for politicians to lead the polls rather than follow them. People's opinions on policy are *highly* malleable in response to different messaging frames.
When Republican voters learn that the "Big Beautiful Bill" takes from the poor to give to the rich, they oppose it.
June 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I think that a useful form of popularism would rest on this insight. You still have to sell your ideas to the public and find broadly popular values or desires to frame your policies. The poll chasers are wrong, but that doesn't mean you can ignore popular opinion.
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To everyone comparing the run-up to the Iran War with the run-up to the Iraq War, let me present the definitive statement made by @tedrall.bsky.social in 2003.
June 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
To everyone comparing the run-up to the Iran War with the run-up to the Iraq War, let me present the definitive statement made by @tedrall.bsky.social in 2003.
@arikelman.bsky.social it doesn’t look like you check in here much, but just in case!
Just finished your chapter in Myth America about the “Vanishing Indians” and it was great. A real viewpoint shifter for me!
Just finished your chapter in Myth America about the “Vanishing Indians” and it was great. A real viewpoint shifter for me!
June 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
@arikelman.bsky.social it doesn’t look like you check in here much, but just in case!
Just finished your chapter in Myth America about the “Vanishing Indians” and it was great. A real viewpoint shifter for me!
Just finished your chapter in Myth America about the “Vanishing Indians” and it was great. A real viewpoint shifter for me!
@stacibaird.bsky.social thank you for all your work with the Community News. It’s important work!
I would love to see a periodic article from a local farmer about what is happening in the fields. Not being in Ag, I drive past the fields and am like “why is there a big ditch?”
I would love to see a periodic article from a local farmer about what is happening in the fields. Not being in Ag, I drive past the fields and am like “why is there a big ditch?”
June 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
@stacibaird.bsky.social thank you for all your work with the Community News. It’s important work!
I would love to see a periodic article from a local farmer about what is happening in the fields. Not being in Ag, I drive past the fields and am like “why is there a big ditch?”
I would love to see a periodic article from a local farmer about what is happening in the fields. Not being in Ag, I drive past the fields and am like “why is there a big ditch?”
Completely unrelated. This is where the Washington Supreme Court sits. It’s called the temple of justice and it 100% feels like it should.
June 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Completely unrelated. This is where the Washington Supreme Court sits. It’s called the temple of justice and it 100% feels like it should.
My hot take is that is is a bad thing to have a ghoul lose hate monger like Miller anywhere near power and if more journalists told the truth about this shit it would be better!
my hot take is that this is an inappropriate thing for a journalist covering the white house to post.
Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
June 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My hot take is that is is a bad thing to have a ghoul lose hate monger like Miller anywhere near power and if more journalists told the truth about this shit it would be better!
One of the weirder things about me is that I am admitted to practice before the Court of International Trade even though my practice hasn’t involved trade work for a decade.
Fess up: most of you never heard of the US Court of International Trade before just now. (Are we sure someone didn't just make it up?)
May 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
One of the weirder things about me is that I am admitted to practice before the Court of International Trade even though my practice hasn’t involved trade work for a decade.
Whose problem? Not mine. I don’t ever need to see Schumer being a do nothing or scold me because he pretends like he has no agency.
I mean it’s a problem for the country that dem politicians don’t do their jobs, but not for me
I mean it’s a problem for the country that dem politicians don’t do their jobs, but not for me
The problem is that Bluesky is still a niche platform at 1.3 Mil active users per day globally. Getting your boss to say yes to making an account and dedicating the time and effort to maintaining it means they need to see positives for that investment. A middle finger isn’t a good return.
May 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Whose problem? Not mine. I don’t ever need to see Schumer being a do nothing or scold me because he pretends like he has no agency.
I mean it’s a problem for the country that dem politicians don’t do their jobs, but not for me
I mean it’s a problem for the country that dem politicians don’t do their jobs, but not for me
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I agree with this guy!
May 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I agree with this guy!
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Unfortunately for us, the one period of time recently when there was a rapid drop in wealth inequality due primarily to a tight labor market is also the time when people, notably including the online political left, were obsessed with their sense of how horrible everything is going.
May 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Unfortunately for us, the one period of time recently when there was a rapid drop in wealth inequality due primarily to a tight labor market is also the time when people, notably including the online political left, were obsessed with their sense of how horrible everything is going.