“The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.”

New video on Union TV 📺 What to do if your employer pressures you to resign?
Watch our legal experts explain how to defend your rights and protect yourself from forced resignation 👉 youtu.be/xbCsOE7_Ti4

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

🎥 New on Union TV: Since May 2025, state authorities monitors job ads for discrimination. Employers can now be fined up to 80,000 UAH for illegal requirements. Watch more here: youtu.be/bOa5-RXUnbM

Circling and circling—два шахеди знову на Гостомель, Бучу, Ірпінь.

Spent the morning in a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, listening to explosions.

I guess I should be grateful to be safely away from my hometown of Portland.

And for today we have:

🎥 New video on Union TV
President Zelensky has signed draft law No.13388 changing how collective agreements can be suspended under martial law. 🚫 No more unilateral suspensions – only with consent of all parties. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/tIIeN3szEU0

In the first 7 months of 2025, Russian attacks on industrial sites in Ukraine injured 676 workers and killed 146. Missile strikes, artillery, airstrikes, and drones keep targeting workplaces and transport. #StandWithUkraine #StopRussianAggression

www.industriall-union.org/russian-stri...

We passed the 50% mark in literacy, globally, at some point in the 1950s.

It beggars belief that humanity may spend less than a century over this line—but there it is.

The phrase free market was always mostly double speak to obscure who controlled a thing—but if the oligarchs own the state, they care less if things are state owned, it isn’t ideology, it’s advertising.

I suppose it makes sense that if the Industrial Age devalued work under output that the Information Age would bury knowledge under drivel—save us from the Imagination Age.

A short thread about Spain at the moment. Leaving aside that I feel like Spain in the 1930s has a lot to teach us about where the US is right now, Spain at present is in a very tenuous state.

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In #Odesa, a 4-story residential building was completely destroyed by fire after a night attack by #russian_aggressors.
1 person was killed, 14 injured — including 3 rescuers.

#russian_aggressors attacked #Kharkiv with strike drones, targeting the Barabashovo market — one of the largest in Ukraine and Europe.

90 stalls were damaged, 20 completely destroyed.