Kay 🌿🌻🫐🧺
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Writer of stories, brewer of tea, conjurer of cozy sweaters • hire me to edit your manuscript • Black Lives Matter • Trans Rights are Human Rights • Free 🇵🇸 • they/she
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
I need the men in my comments to stop arguing the definition of emotional labor as if I am the sociologist who coined the term. I made a very short post about it. If you are unsatisfied with my post you are welcome to read Hochschild’s academic papers and book that go more in depth on the topic
This is actually the original definition of emotional labor, as defined by Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who coined the term. It refers to the labor of performing emotions in order to do your job. It is not enough to just do your job, you have to put on a performance
There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I need the men in my comments to stop arguing the definition of emotional labor as if I am the sociologist who coined the term. I made a very short post about it. If you are unsatisfied with my post you are welcome to read Hochschild’s academic papers and book that go more in depth on the topic
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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What happens to disabled people WILL ALWAYS happen to you.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
What happens to disabled people WILL ALWAYS happen to you.
This is actually the original definition of emotional labor, as defined by Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who coined the term. It refers to the labor of performing emotions in order to do your job. It is not enough to just do your job, you have to put on a performance
There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is actually the original definition of emotional labor, as defined by Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who coined the term. It refers to the labor of performing emotions in order to do your job. It is not enough to just do your job, you have to put on a performance
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Okay Starbucks has started the huge ass strike so if you weren't already boycotting, now is the time! No Starbucks for the holiday season!
Yeeehaaawww I love collective action
Yeeehaaawww I love collective action
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Okay Starbucks has started the huge ass strike so if you weren't already boycotting, now is the time! No Starbucks for the holiday season!
Yeeehaaawww I love collective action
Yeeehaaawww I love collective action
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Hey! Former Starbucks worker here (still have scars from 2nd degree burns), please don't cross this picket line. Starbucks is a chronic union-buster. There are so many wonderful local coffee shops to support instead. Make your support for Union Starbucks stores known until *& then after* a strike! 🖤
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
www.cbsnews.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hey! Former Starbucks worker here (still have scars from 2nd degree burns), please don't cross this picket line. Starbucks is a chronic union-buster. There are so many wonderful local coffee shops to support instead. Make your support for Union Starbucks stores known until *& then after* a strike! 🖤
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
Was watching some old videos of myself from just 4 years ago and oh my god the 30s glow up is so real. No offense to past me but I am so much hotter at 30 than I was at 26
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Was watching some old videos of myself from just 4 years ago and oh my god the 30s glow up is so real. No offense to past me but I am so much hotter at 30 than I was at 26
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so like are we also not allowed to celebrate this guys death or does that only apply to up and coming fascists who are still actively ruining society lol.
November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
so like are we also not allowed to celebrate this guys death or does that only apply to up and coming fascists who are still actively ruining society lol.
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It's not just here but in some charged threat cases where DOJ is treating, "you're a Nazi" or "you're a fascist" as a threat rather than a reasonable observation.
From Bovino's deposition: (1) he calls protestors "violent" if they articulate views hostile to ICE, even if no violence is manifested; (2) he instructs his forces to attack and arrest protestors who express "hyperbolic comments," which is to say, criticism of ICE and Bovino.
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It's not just here but in some charged threat cases where DOJ is treating, "you're a Nazi" or "you're a fascist" as a threat rather than a reasonable observation.
Rest in piss buddy boy
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Rest in piss buddy boy
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we were told AI would cure cancer. that it would bring us quantum computing.
instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.
the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.
Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.
instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.
the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.
Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
we were told AI would cure cancer. that it would bring us quantum computing.
instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.
the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.
Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.
instead we get slop, and racist propaganda.
the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity.
Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.
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They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
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Everything tested on the Palestinians is coming home. These will eventually be weaponised. People are not reacting fast enough.
Almost every large American city has signed a contract with Skydio in the last 18 months
Skydio drones were recently used by city police departments to gather information at the ‘No Kings’ protests & also used by Yale to spy on the anti-genocide protest camp set up by students at the last year
Skydio drones were recently used by city police departments to gather information at the ‘No Kings’ protests & also used by Yale to spy on the anti-genocide protest camp set up by students at the last year
AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities
Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tested on Palestinian civilians, the UAVs are now b...
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Everything tested on the Palestinians is coming home. These will eventually be weaponised. People are not reacting fast enough.
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
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yeah wtf man i'm so serious that i think this is the Big Tobacco bullshit of our age
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
yeah wtf man i'm so serious that i think this is the Big Tobacco bullshit of our age
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Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
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I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.
October 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.
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I can't imagine having to be in Heba's position. Heba is in pain every day in her uterus and vagina because lack of menstrual products has led to infection. Lack of immune system due to malnutrition has also played a part, as has the killing of so many doctors in Gaza.
gofund.me/9bcdb219c
gofund.me/9bcdb219c
October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I can't imagine having to be in Heba's position. Heba is in pain every day in her uterus and vagina because lack of menstrual products has led to infection. Lack of immune system due to malnutrition has also played a part, as has the killing of so many doctors in Gaza.
gofund.me/9bcdb219c
gofund.me/9bcdb219c
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I haven’t eaten anything substantial in 3 days. I’ve only raised $10 so far
Please help me survive
Please help me survive
Hi I am queer and disabled and am trying to survive abuse and extreme poverty. I can barely walk these days because my left ankle is chronically injured and is just an ever worsening sprain
I also can't afford food
Please Help
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I also can't afford food
Please Help
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October 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I haven’t eaten anything substantial in 3 days. I’ve only raised $10 so far
Please help me survive
Please help me survive