tungsten
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tungsten
@tungstenwastrel.bsky.social
28, he/him
paranthropus was so cool im so glad i learned about our tool using, hippo eating cousins
June 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
it's so interesting that so many of the left leaning people i know still view unionization as a punishment for a bad workplace rather than like... just a positive move for the workers generally. it makes me worry
August 11, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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August 10, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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cheap, and also the greatest thing ever
August 10, 2024 at 8:42 PM
well i was agonizing over whether i was willing to engage with apple's face id, but it looks like the camera is going to be training on my face regardless of whether i set that up so. 🤷‍♂️
August 10, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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April 22, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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I am not a violent person, but if I saw this I would be very tempted to destroy it with a baseball bat.
Good user experience is when you make people download an app and create an account before they can get the thing that they actually want. That way you can delight users with the smooth animations and refined typography of the app.
April 22, 2024 at 4:09 PM
do you ever think that maybe the way you were raised was a lot worse for your development than you ever gave it credit for
April 22, 2024 at 4:35 PM
it's so easy to tell people true stuff like "your friends care about you. they are not your adversaries. they don't see you as a robot to serve their needs. your needs are important to them too." but damn it feels fucked up and surreal when you actually communicate your needs and have them respected
April 22, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Happy Margaret Thatcher Deathaversary to all who celebrate! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUlj...
A Scottish Woman Reacts to the death of Margaret Thatcher
Too bad,
www.youtube.com
April 8, 2024 at 2:41 PM
techbros will swear up and down that an ai is a person because it can produce a string that looks like an essay, but then look at thinking feeling creatures like dogs and say this complex being isn't a person because it can't talk to us
April 8, 2024 at 3:13 PM
"call your doctor for help if symptoms persist" you mean the doctor who only schedules appointments for me 8 months out? i don't think i'll still have strep in 8 months
March 24, 2024 at 4:32 PM
the zena and poppy stuff reminds me of my own childhood so much it made me feel physically ill. and i thought /my/ upbringing was controlling; at least only one of my parents did that to me, and at least she actually wanted to get out of her parental role as soon as i was an adult...
March 23, 2024 at 6:08 PM
ok but in nixon's defense shredding paper is a lot of fun
March 23, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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Charities would be obsolete in a civil society with a functioning tax system
March 20, 2024 at 10:57 AM
yo the majority report's interview with sam friedman yesterday was fire
February 7, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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The Teamsters organized a Costco store in Norfolk, VA, writes Luis Feliz Leon. The Teamsters actually have 18,000 legacy unionized Costco workers, and that's partly responsible for their good pay & benefits. But Norfolk is a new victory that could lead to more at the chain's 500+ nonunion stores:
Why Virginia Costco Workers Organized With the Teamsters
The company has a reputation as a good employer, some of that due to a legacy union membership. Workers had to stand up to prevent backsliding.
prospect.org
January 25, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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"Americans were lured into paid tax preparation products even though they were eligible to file for free through a government-sponsored program. ... In a single year, tax prep companies led by Intuit generated $1 billion in revenue from customers who should have been able to file for free."
FTC Orders Maker of TurboTax to Cease “Deceptive” Advertising

The federal agency, after an investigation prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, blasted Intuit for misleading customers about its “free” tax-filing program and directed the company to take specific steps to fix its ads.
FTC Orders Maker of TurboTax to Cease “Deceptive” Advertising
The federal agency, after an investigation prompted by ProPublica’s reporting, blasted Intuit for misleading customers about its “free” tax-filing program and directed the company to take specif...
www.propublica.org
January 24, 2024 at 9:19 PM
i think furries should read more about zoology i think it would make them more creative
January 25, 2024 at 3:06 PM
it's crazy how much men and women look the same irl but people act like there's such a big difference
January 23, 2024 at 5:19 PM
what do you do when your bartender is a clocky transmasc and you want to reach out to another trans person without outing them
January 21, 2024 at 12:24 AM
i promised my piercing artist i wouldn't stim with my tongue piercing but i can't stim with my hands and the metal rod in my mouth is so fiddly
January 21, 2024 at 12:20 AM
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Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! archive.org/details/Stea...
January 1, 2024 at 6:43 AM
update: listened to "i already like you" by dessa so many times that bandcamp cut me off and made me buy the album
December 22, 2023 at 4:47 PM
god i wish riverboat jack had uploaded the vacancy tax segment as a video i want to show it to my friends so bad (i can just show it through the stream vod it's fine)
December 22, 2023 at 3:25 PM