Melissa
@capnleela.bsky.social
Trying to make things a little more aesthetic and a little more functional. Into art, gardening, web design, community, Solar Punk, UX, and accessibility.
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
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Trump’s attacks on Vineyard Wind are attacks on union jobs and American wallets. This will make our nation weaker, our energy costs higher, and our families less certain about how they’re going to make ends meet.
December 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trump’s attacks on Vineyard Wind are attacks on union jobs and American wallets. This will make our nation weaker, our energy costs higher, and our families less certain about how they’re going to make ends meet.
If you've ever been a fan of Gilmore Girls, this is definitely worth a watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7u...
A comfort watch gone too far
YouTube video by Indoor Kat
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December 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
If you've ever been a fan of Gilmore Girls, this is definitely worth a watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7u...
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“The employers control the entire system. These programs are supposed to have these safeguards in place for workers, but we’re seeing a pretty significant erosion.”
@mauriziogro.bsky.social spoke with advocates for low-wage migrant workers, as the Trump admin legislates indentured servitude.
@mauriziogro.bsky.social spoke with advocates for low-wage migrant workers, as the Trump admin legislates indentured servitude.
Trump's H-2 visa overhaul legislates indentured servitude, critics say
Low-wage migrant workers in agriculture and other dangerous industries are more vulnerable than ever as lawmakers push to further erode workers' rights
prismreports.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“The employers control the entire system. These programs are supposed to have these safeguards in place for workers, but we’re seeing a pretty significant erosion.”
@mauriziogro.bsky.social spoke with advocates for low-wage migrant workers, as the Trump admin legislates indentured servitude.
@mauriziogro.bsky.social spoke with advocates for low-wage migrant workers, as the Trump admin legislates indentured servitude.
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Terrorizing trans kids and their families isn’t going to bring grocery prices down. It won’t make housing affordable or give you decent healthcare or get you into “heaven.” It will just terrorize a minority and cause undue death. Every representative who voted for it is a despicable person.
“Three Democrats—Henry Cuellar (TX), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), and Don Davis (NC)—crossed party lines to vote in favor of the felony ban, siding with Republicans to criminalize providers and potentially parents involved in transgender youth care.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/breaking-m...
MTG's Felony National Youth Trans Ban Passes House; 3 Dems Vote For It, 4 GOP Vote Against It
The bill is not expected to pass the Senate, but marks the first time a national trans youth care ban has passed a chamber of Congress.
www.erininthemorning.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Terrorizing trans kids and their families isn’t going to bring grocery prices down. It won’t make housing affordable or give you decent healthcare or get you into “heaven.” It will just terrorize a minority and cause undue death. Every representative who voted for it is a despicable person.
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“Disturbing… they had put in a ton of work and gone through every step of the process… they were pulled out of line steps away from swearing an oath to 🇺🇸…”
BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES
It was never just about illegal immigration
BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES
It was never just about illegal immigration
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“Disturbing… they had put in a ton of work and gone through every step of the process… they were pulled out of line steps away from swearing an oath to 🇺🇸…”
BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES
It was never just about illegal immigration
BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES
It was never just about illegal immigration
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Please note that this is a set up for denaturalizing citizens and setting up deportation camps for anyone who disagrees with Stephen Miller.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
NEW: 6th Cir upholds the fed law barring undocumented immigrants from having guns.
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
What's shocking, though, is Judge Thapar's separate opinion arguing that noncitizens lack not only 2nd Am rights, but likely 1st, 4th & other const'l rights! 🧵
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
December 16, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Please note that this is a set up for denaturalizing citizens and setting up deportation camps for anyone who disagrees with Stephen Miller.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
Also please note that these fascists are bound to lose.
Find your organizing home, join your neighbors, and stand up to these clowns wherever you see them.
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Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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Just saying, I'll do a book cover illustration for $200.
www.shaenon.com
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December 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Just saying, I'll do a book cover illustration for $200.
www.shaenon.com
www.shaenon.com
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I suggest you all follow this guy. He covers how to spot AI videos & photos and while some are more obviously fake, some of them like the fake B&W security footage are shockingly difficult to notice & you have to rely on body language & consider natural behavior
www.youtube.com/@showtoolsai...
www.youtube.com/@showtoolsai...
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I suggest you all follow this guy. He covers how to spot AI videos & photos and while some are more obviously fake, some of them like the fake B&W security footage are shockingly difficult to notice & you have to rely on body language & consider natural behavior
www.youtube.com/@showtoolsai...
www.youtube.com/@showtoolsai...
Normally, when something I've ordered arrives unexpectedly a day early, I'm excited. But, that's not the case when it's more than 6,000 pounds of tile.
December 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Normally, when something I've ordered arrives unexpectedly a day early, I'm excited. But, that's not the case when it's more than 6,000 pounds of tile.
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JUST IN: New reporting that the Dept. of Defense tried to send vessel strike survivors to El Salvador terror prison, CECOT.
I've got all of the damning details, including analysis on why Hegseth is so desperate to silence any survivors or keep them away from US soil.
youtu.be/rbrpjxHLFlY?...
I've got all of the damning details, including analysis on why Hegseth is so desperate to silence any survivors or keep them away from US soil.
youtu.be/rbrpjxHLFlY?...
Hegseth PANICS After SHOCKING SECRET Plan is LEAKED
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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December 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
JUST IN: New reporting that the Dept. of Defense tried to send vessel strike survivors to El Salvador terror prison, CECOT.
I've got all of the damning details, including analysis on why Hegseth is so desperate to silence any survivors or keep them away from US soil.
youtu.be/rbrpjxHLFlY?...
I've got all of the damning details, including analysis on why Hegseth is so desperate to silence any survivors or keep them away from US soil.
youtu.be/rbrpjxHLFlY?...
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On October 10th, 2025, Dayanne was assaulted and kidnapped by masked ICE agents. They gave no reason why.
She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
On October 10th, 2025, Dayanne was assaulted and kidnapped by masked ICE agents. They gave no reason why.
She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
She is beyond brave for sharing her story and reliving her trauma, in hopes that someone will listen—that there will be change. Do not turn a blind eye to her pain.
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the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination
worth noting here that the position of the conservative legal movement is that trying to remedy environmental racism is itself illegal race discrimination
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
December 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
the only thing that doesn’t appear to be illegal race discrimination to the conservative legal movement is actual racist discrimination
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I was gonna do that thing where I repost this and just say "Oh". As in here is some important info that is fucked up but ultimately unsurprising.
Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔
Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔
"Big Tech and data center developers appear to be siting data centers in vulnerable communities...These locations show a troubling trend - they primarily impact working class and Black and Latine communities."
The Unequal Burden of Data Centers - Kapor Foundation
An examination of the Environmental and Public Health Impacts on Communities in California
kaporfoundation.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I was gonna do that thing where I repost this and just say "Oh". As in here is some important info that is fucked up but ultimately unsurprising.
Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔
Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔
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was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil.
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Please, don't automate science!
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...
togelius.blogspot.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil.
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
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Trump is a 34X convicted felon, claiming he's sending ICE after "violent criminals"—even as his own DOJ say 97% have no criminal record
MAGAs condemn immigration & dual citizenship—even as Trump & Vance are both married to immigrants, one with dual citizenship
Every MAGA Accusation Is A Confession
MAGAs condemn immigration & dual citizenship—even as Trump & Vance are both married to immigrants, one with dual citizenship
Every MAGA Accusation Is A Confession
December 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Trump is a 34X convicted felon, claiming he's sending ICE after "violent criminals"—even as his own DOJ say 97% have no criminal record
MAGAs condemn immigration & dual citizenship—even as Trump & Vance are both married to immigrants, one with dual citizenship
Every MAGA Accusation Is A Confession
MAGAs condemn immigration & dual citizenship—even as Trump & Vance are both married to immigrants, one with dual citizenship
Every MAGA Accusation Is A Confession
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The outcome of this is so obvious that you have to assume the decision-makers *intend* to kill people
(h/t @nrlines.bsky.social for boosting into my skyline)
(h/t @nrlines.bsky.social for boosting into my skyline)
"AI companies will be paid a portion of the savings from claims they deny or, as the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction plan puts it, “compensated based on a share of averted expenditures.”"
Thousands of Washington state Medicare users could soon have claims denied by AI
Starting Jan. 1, traditional Medicare recipients in Washington state will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered — private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny.
www.kuow.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The outcome of this is so obvious that you have to assume the decision-makers *intend* to kill people
(h/t @nrlines.bsky.social for boosting into my skyline)
(h/t @nrlines.bsky.social for boosting into my skyline)
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A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions"
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed
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“During the longest government shutdown and delays with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more than 42 million SNAP participants were uncertain about how to feed themselves. Black-owned farms filled the void.”
“If I had funding or grants, I would be willing to plant as much as I can plant just to be able to give back to food banks and the Black community to just help people, period.” https://capitalbnews.org/collard-greens-thanksgiving-holiday/
Why Fresh Collard Greens Are Becoming a Holiday Lifeline in These Communities
From farmers to churches, residents across the country are working together to provide free food for those in need this holiday season.
capitalbnews.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“During the longest government shutdown and delays with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, more than 42 million SNAP participants were uncertain about how to feed themselves. Black-owned farms filled the void.”
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don’t miss out on our only sale of the year! this weekend only get free shipping with code “RUDESHIP”
November 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
don’t miss out on our only sale of the year! this weekend only get free shipping with code “RUDESHIP”
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Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quick note to anyone thinking of buying my books: please purchase the new Swift Press versions, NOT the relatively small number of Unbound versions still knocking about, & being sold by OOINYA. Unbound stopped paying me for my work early in 2024 and I will never see a penny for these books.
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“Co-authored by an MIT economist, the study finds that, per capita, immigrants are about 80 percent more likely to found a firm, compared to US-born citizens,” MIT News reported in 2022. Altogether, immigrants make up one in five business owners, the New American Economy said in 2019 👇🏽
Did you know immigrant-led businesses contribute $1.3 trillion in sales?
@yunao08.bsky.social and @tusk81.bsky.social remind us that on Small Business Saturday, immigrant-led businesses are at the heart of our economy: creating jobs, generating billions, all while keeping communities vibrant.
@yunao08.bsky.social and @tusk81.bsky.social remind us that on Small Business Saturday, immigrant-led businesses are at the heart of our economy: creating jobs, generating billions, all while keeping communities vibrant.
Immigrants Keep On Innovating To Keep The Country Going
Bottom line: We need immigrants.
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“Co-authored by an MIT economist, the study finds that, per capita, immigrants are about 80 percent more likely to found a firm, compared to US-born citizens,” MIT News reported in 2022. Altogether, immigrants make up one in five business owners, the New American Economy said in 2019 👇🏽