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But let’s spend more time talking about how lonely men are!!!!
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
But let’s spend more time talking about how lonely men are!!!!
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
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Look, my father was a loud sneezer. And his father before him. I come from a long line of loud sneezers. It’s not much, but it’s honest work. (We get paid for how loud our sneezes are.)
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Look, my father was a loud sneezer. And his father before him. I come from a long line of loud sneezers. It’s not much, but it’s honest work. (We get paid for how loud our sneezes are.)
Anytime clothes are incredibly cheap, someone is getting screwed on the other end. In this case, making $15 cents on a $10 top you’ll throw out within a year.
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Anytime clothes are incredibly cheap, someone is getting screwed on the other end. In this case, making $15 cents on a $10 top you’ll throw out within a year.
Americans are terrified of death, and therefore end up sticking their entire foot in their mouth when someone dies. Talking about cultural traditions surrounding death - or the lack of them - on substack today.
open.substack.com/pub/megmonk/...
open.substack.com/pub/megmonk/...
Do You Guys Ever Think About Dying?
The lack of American traditions around death and dying make the entire experience all the more frightening when the end comes quickly.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Americans are terrified of death, and therefore end up sticking their entire foot in their mouth when someone dies. Talking about cultural traditions surrounding death - or the lack of them - on substack today.
open.substack.com/pub/megmonk/...
open.substack.com/pub/megmonk/...
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
I’ve never publicly discussed the year I was widowed and left the LDS church because it’s all very personal, but I’m finally ready to begin telling my story.
open.substack.com/pub/megmonk/...
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10 Years a Wife, 8 Years a Widow
In the span of 6 months I became a widow, left a cult, and moved to a foreign country. Sort of a boring story, I know.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I’ve never publicly discussed the year I was widowed and left the LDS church because it’s all very personal, but I’m finally ready to begin telling my story.
open.substack.com/pub/megmonk/...
open.substack.com/pub/megmonk/...
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A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.
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The most corrupt administration in American history.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The most corrupt administration in American history.
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getting dave portnoy out of new york is one of the most compelling arguments in favor of zohran
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
getting dave portnoy out of new york is one of the most compelling arguments in favor of zohran
Do you guys think my dentist knows that Dick Cheney is dead or should I tell him while he has his hands in my mouth
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Do you guys think my dentist knows that Dick Cheney is dead or should I tell him while he has his hands in my mouth
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He just like me fr fr
November 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
He just like me fr fr
Call me a stupid socialist but I actually don’t care if “none of them are paying for it.” Food is a human right. You will never catch me telling someone they deserve to starve.
one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death
October 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Call me a stupid socialist but I actually don’t care if “none of them are paying for it.” Food is a human right. You will never catch me telling someone they deserve to starve.
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From now on, when anyone asks how we’re going to pay for it, the answer should be we’ll take it out of the teargas budget.
October 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
From now on, when anyone asks how we’re going to pay for it, the answer should be we’ll take it out of the teargas budget.
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If you can, give to your local food bank or one in an area that will be particularly hard hit.
October 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If you can, give to your local food bank or one in an area that will be particularly hard hit.
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It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.
October 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.
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For this coming Halloween season please remember that if you find any drugs in your children's candy to bring them to me immediately for proper disposal. Also, same thing if you find any money in there
October 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For this coming Halloween season please remember that if you find any drugs in your children's candy to bring them to me immediately for proper disposal. Also, same thing if you find any money in there
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I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.
Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.
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No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.
October 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.
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White grievance has and will always hold this country back.
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM
White grievance has and will always hold this country back.
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so what you are gonna do is head down to your local library and get you a library card (if you don’t already have one). then you are gonna download these three apps and enjoy yourself a huge range of free movies, ebooks, graphic novels, tv shows, and documentaries. for free.
October 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
so what you are gonna do is head down to your local library and get you a library card (if you don’t already have one). then you are gonna download these three apps and enjoy yourself a huge range of free movies, ebooks, graphic novels, tv shows, and documentaries. for free.
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Why don't we ban white men from buying guns until this epidemic of terrorism has ended?
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Why don't we ban white men from buying guns until this epidemic of terrorism has ended?
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Still my favorite Alex Jones story
September 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Still my favorite Alex Jones story