Erin Bishop
@erbish.bsky.social
I'm much more left than that. ⬅️◀️🔙
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Elon Musk has fired thousands of USDA workers, which could cause grocery prices to rise and invasive species to spread.
DOGE fired food experts, inspectors, entomologists, and more.
Now food could rot in ports or be riddled with invasive pests.
www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
DOGE fired food experts, inspectors, entomologists, and more.
Now food could rot in ports or be riddled with invasive pests.
www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
www.wired.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Elon Musk has fired thousands of USDA workers, which could cause grocery prices to rise and invasive species to spread.
DOGE fired food experts, inspectors, entomologists, and more.
Now food could rot in ports or be riddled with invasive pests.
www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
DOGE fired food experts, inspectors, entomologists, and more.
Now food could rot in ports or be riddled with invasive pests.
www.wired.com/story/usda-f...
Reposted by Erin Bishop
Today and in the coming days, remember
January 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today and in the coming days, remember
Red Note is amazing. (Chinese app that's like to tiktok). "666"= awesome. On a video of a Chinese child welcoming "tiktok refugees" and showing clips of his home and city, everyone is commenting 666 on it. I'm dying 💀" I love the cultural window.
January 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Red Note is amazing. (Chinese app that's like to tiktok). "666"= awesome. On a video of a Chinese child welcoming "tiktok refugees" and showing clips of his home and city, everyone is commenting 666 on it. I'm dying 💀" I love the cultural window.
So dystopian.
A gig-economy company called YoungOnes, which supplies “freelance” retail assistants to stores, is charging gig workers 4.8% of their earnings to get paid in one minute, or 2.9% to get paid in three days. If they decline, they typically have to wait 30 days.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘So immoral’: gig economy workers charged fee to get paid quicker
Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform told to wait up to 30 days for earnings or be charged for quick payment
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So dystopian.