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Lilyana 🥀
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Union zealot | Game theory, labor, math, taekwondo, skating, all sorts of other goodies | Brooklyn based | Join @socialists.nyc
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bubly brand blackberry seltzer (say that five times fast)
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Americans voting Trump a second time
mint gum and cold water with the caption "just to feel something"
October 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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This is a really funny group of researchers to find this particular effect
A study by Polman, Pollmann, and Poehlman found that sharing initials with members in a group can increase the quality of group work. In a study of undergraduate students they found that groups sharing initials performed better than groups that did not. Groups that had a higher proportion of shared initials exceeded groups with a lower proportion of shared initials.
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Timmy Turner meme "Please God let this happen because it would be so fucking funny"
August 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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That's not what the article says though! Sectoral bargaining is effective because the union is the exclusive bargaining agent. This article says multiple unions should compete under one employer, which means no union has negotiating power, strike power, etc. It's the inverse of sectoral bargaining.
union that organized the election. If they want to join a different union, they would have to engage in a new election at a designated point in the future to decertify the existing one and elect a new one. One policy option to fix this issue is Minority Unionism, which would be permitting workers in a workplace to belong to different unions more in line with their interests. This could be done by having the union election be less about joining a specific union and more the right to join and be represented by the union of one's choosing. Coupling the ability to do both minority unionism and sectoral bargaining gets you both scale and competition. If unions underperform in their duties to their members, an outside union can step in and take their members. Likewise, unions that prove unusually competent and successful can grow beyond their current bounds, picking up members across multiple companies in a sector to negotiate in a more coordinated way.
August 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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There is not a single country that has Minority Unionism, which would completely devastate unions by removing their right to exclusively bargain.

Like maybe you or the author could have spoken to people who actually know labor instead of writing garbage like this:
What do unions do Think of a union as a talent agent for the workers it represents. For a particular
August 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Spent my first day out as an openly trans woman and idk I gotta say it was great and normal. Living in NYC helps for sure bc literally nobody cared. Outfit:
Mirror selfie showing off tight crop top shirt with opening in the chest. Pants are baggy and worn low. My face is cut off above the lips. Side profile of the same as above Closer mirror selfie with my face visible Final mirror selfie with the whole outfit + face visible
August 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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stooped
some tall bookcase/storage organizer, probably $25-$30 retail
July 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Shirt that says: LEHMAN BROTHERS Risk Management Employee of the Month August 2008
April 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Over the weekend I made homemade falafel gyros, ft homemade fries, homemade falafel, homemade pita, and homemade tzatziki. Girlfriend called it top 3 dishes I've ever made.
Full platter displayed with homemade french fries, homemade tzatziki, feta cheese, homemade falafel, homemade pita, and chopped assorted add-ons (cabbage, red onion, tomato) My falafel gyro Folded in half Girlfriend's falafel gyro, notably doused in hot sauce
April 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Fit today + Eid Mubarak my friends
Me in a pink indian kashmiri jacket
March 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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STATEMENT FROM NYU UNIONS: Reinstate Grant Miner!

Contract Faculty United, CFU-UAW
Student Workers at NYU, SWAN-UAW
Graduate Student Organizing Committee, GSOC-UAW
NYU Adjuncts Union, ACT-UAW
Union of Clerical, Administrative, & Technical Staff at NYU, UCATS-AFT
NYU YDSA @nyuydsa.bsky.social
NYU LABOR ORGANIZATIONS TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: REINSTATE GRANT MINER, PRESIDENT OF SWC-UAW We write as labor organizations representing workers at New York University (NYU) to denounce Columbia University's decision to fire our comrade Grant Miner, the President of Student Workers of Columbia-UAW Local 2710, for exercising his rights to free speech, organized advocacy, and peaceful protest. We stand with the UAW International, which stated in response: "Trade unionists everywhere, defenders of the Constitution, of freedom of speech, of academic freedom, and of the right of free association, should be appalled and disgusted by the behavior of Columbia University, and should take it for the clear signal it is. If they can come for graduate workers, if they can arrest, deport, expel, or imprison union leaders and activists for their protected political speech, then they can come for you. For your contract. For your paycheck. For your family. And for your rights." To the Columbia administration, we say: we stand with the thousands of our comrades in SWC and with all workers at Columbia and demand the reinstatement of ministratio appaling cowardice in the Columbia political pressure, its willingness to betray every value underlying its academic mission, and its violent reprisals against its own teachers, students, and staff for exercising their rights is a disgrace from which the university will struggle to recover. We remind our own administration at NYU: we have seen your own cowardice, your own failures to understand (much less defend) the role of a university, and your own repression of our protected speech and action. As unionists-as the students, faculty, and staff who make this university run—we never forget that all our power as organized labor comes from dissent, from concerted activity, from strikes, from disruption, from protest. No matter who sits in authority in Washington or on the NYU Board of Trustees, we will never cede our power to speak and act in defense of workers and all marginalized and exploited people. In solidarity! Contract Faculty United, CFU-UAW Student Workers at NYU, SWAN-UAW Graduate Student Organizing Committee, GSOC-UAW NYU Adjuncts Union, ACT-UAW Union of Clerical, Administrative & Technical Staff at NYU, UCATS-AFT NYU Young Democratic Socialists of America, NYU YDSA
March 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Ok but if she cedes to "campus antisemitism allegations" all those other things will happen, too
WSJ 'No Way' to Please Everyone: Columbia's President Confronts Trump's Ultimatum With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Katrina Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education If she cedes to White House demands over campus antisemitism allegations, she risks revolt from faculty fearing a loss of academic freedom. Refuse, and lose $400 million in federal grants and contracts, threaten the work of scores of Columbia scientists, and invite further sanctions that could imperil the entire university.
March 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Chud gamers can't help but remain perpetual losers (review for Hades 2)
dscook83 14.6 hrs EARLY ACCESS REVIEW POSTED: MARCH 2 DIRECT FROM STEAM I have not completed the game. Unfortunately the new fad for developers is to take anything good and add DEI, or feminist spin on it. Like do you know your market at all? Then your using mythologies, where the stories were warnings against letting women lead or have power. Over and over you see woman's spite, and death and despair caused by their jealous decisions. The whole war of Tory and fall of the Greek, caused by powerful women. Yet you take this and put a feminist spin. SOOO disappointing since Hades was such a masterpiece, what a letdown. The only reason the game is good is because it is essentially a clone of the original, with the Womanist spin. So good/decent game play but the story is utterly backwards and destroyed. I am upset that I purchased
March 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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I have laid a Curse upon myself and millions of others
10 day nyc forecast showing freezing weather every single day
February 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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I still love them but they choose to behave like that (ft. Esha Batakh)
Two cats laying on my sleepy partner. Big tuxedo cat named Bonk, small black cat named Tumble.
February 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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BedStuy what's going on here
bottom half of a plastic skeleton laying on the sidewalk
February 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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In light of Trump's tariffs over American trade deficits
Post from Quantian, May 12 2020: "Look, the global economy is quite simple. The World produces worthless Stuff that they cannot consume. They bring it to America, which happily gives them valuable Dollars for their worthless Stuff. The World then smirks to itself, imagining it has hoodwinked those American rubes. "However, on their way out the door, the World has an epiphany: their Dollars are so valuable they cannot risk bringing them back home, because everyone will realize how much cooler they are than their local currency and demand Dollars instead, collapsing their economy instantly. "At that exactly moment, Chad Laxbro from Wall Street shows up and tells them about his new fentanyl-backed subprime securities that will keep their Dollars safe and sound in America. Enthralled by this intellectual titan, they all hand over their Dollars and leave empty-handed. "This process repeats for several years, until Chad's bonus vests and he sends the World a NAV pack showing that SOMEHOW they lost ALL their dollars, wow what a shame. America now gets to keep both its Dollars as well as the Stuff, and nobody else in this story matters. The end!"
February 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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My first book of the year is Shoshana Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" and it is incredible. We live in a time when behavioral data is particularly valuable for training AI and reinvigorating ad sales, and Zuboff's theory of technological prying and encroachment is keenly resonant.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism --- The fight for a human future at the new frontier of power --- Shoshana Zuboff
January 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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You too can be cool as hell
$50 donation to Zohran's mayoral campaign
December 31, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Thursday morning well spent 👍
A new assembled couch, with a small black cat laying on it
December 5, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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I'm da real joker
Balatro screenshot showing Ante 8 boss blind defeated with the Anaglyph deck. Four of a kind 9's is the winning hand. 13 jokers are at the top, most negative, with notably two Chicots.
November 27, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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"So Much (For) Stardust" album cover by Fall Out Boy
November 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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The day after the election, I wrote an essay for my union members that just barely missed the window for being in our magazine. I shared it on the other app, but forgot to share it here. It's about how union solidarity is a key check against Trump. Give it a read if you would like:
Earlier this week, we all watched - some with horror, some with shock, some with glee — Donald Trump win the presidential election and ascend to the White House for the second time. Trump's brand of politics, one which eschews liberal economics for corporatist nationalism, is as exploitative and pernicious as it is volatile. For us in the labor movement and in this Union, his victory threatens to unwind the protections we rely on to ensure our basic dignity, quality of life, and job security. Trump's hostility toward labor is veiled only by surface-level praise for the working men and women that handed him his victory. Driving around in a garbage truck does not undo the praise Trump gave to Elon Musk for firing striking workers. Staging a photo op behind a McDonald's fryer cannot conceal the fact that nearly one million union jobs were eliminated under Trump's first term, leading to the lowest union density in American history. And by supporting "right-to-work" — a scheme to force unions to protect workers who opt out of paying dues — Trump aims to dismantle unions at the roots, salting the earth where labor solidarity once flourished. This specter of the second Trump presidency now looms above all of us. But for those paying attention, this danger did not come out of a vacuum. The failures of Democratic presidents before him to permanently guarantee worker's rights through the Employee Free Choice Act or, more recently, the Protect the Right to Organize Act caused similar declines in union membership and density across the country. Indeed, whereas the neoliberal era that began with Ronald Reagan slowly choked out labor's power, Trump's paradigm shift toward one of pure unregulated corporatism, where welfare of the bosses is the be-all-end-all of a thriving economy, is uniquely threatening. But I am not writing to share despair and grievance; this is a message of hope and action. The anti-union dogma which seeks to undercut the tangible progress we as a Union have made since our inception relies on our disjointedness and ineffectiveness. An incoming Trump-appointed National Relations Labor Board that actively seeks to invalidate existing unions can only succeed by the complacency of its targets. We have the option, instead, to disarm these critics by building our Union stronger than it has ever been before — vibrant with the multiracial, gender-diverse, cross-generational workers that already comprise its rank and file. This work will require representation from all sectors and all jobs of the Union. Unfortunately, of our 36 steward positions, just 12 are filled. This current capacity falls short of what will be needed to take on an NYU managerial class giddy for changes in federal employment regulations. But you have the chance to even those odds: with the upcoming Union elections, now is the time to get more involved. Now is the time to run for Shop Steward and be a leader among your peers, representing their voices in everything from our day-to-day operations to our strategic long-term vision. Last year, UCATS went to the bargaining table with NYU to achieve major wins in wages, healthcare, paid leave, and disability insurance. These benefits, compounded atop the victories achieved in previous contract bargaining, are available to you right now. There is no need to wait for Congress to get its act together and institute change; members just like you sat down, demanded improvements to our working conditions, and won them. You have power beyond the ballot box. Our Union is one irrefutable way to express it. Over the next four years, we will be faced with new and daunting challenges that can only be overcome by the solidarity we share with one another. As many of us reel from the results of this election, it's important not to give up hope. Instead, we must unite around the characteristics we all share: the need for a good job, a living wage, proper healthcare, and human dignity. Through our Union, we can achieve that, together.
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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For context this is our current logo:
Old union logo. It is a black rectangle with bold orange font spelling "UCATS" across it. A white stripe cuts from the top right corner and tapers toward the bottom left corner.
November 18, 2024 at 7:01 PM