Vilura Howland
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Midwestern public service announcement: in very cold weather a slice of cheap-ass bologna will freeze to a car and damage the finish in a way that can't be buffed out. Especially a car that's allegedly stainless steel that gets discolored by ordinary rain!
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all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood
February 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Midwestern public service announcement: in very cold weather a slice of cheap-ass bologna will freeze to a car and damage the finish in a way that can't be buffed out. Especially a car that's allegedly stainless steel that gets discolored by ordinary rain!
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It's weird how whenever guys say they're bringing back traditional masculinity they don't mean owning your mistakes or pulling a neighbor's car out of the snow or keeping it secret from the party that you got bit by a zombie it's just the part where you don't help with chores
February 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It's weird how whenever guys say they're bringing back traditional masculinity they don't mean owning your mistakes or pulling a neighbor's car out of the snow or keeping it secret from the party that you got bit by a zombie it's just the part where you don't help with chores
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The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.
apnews.com/article/blac...
apnews.com/article/blac...
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
apnews.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.
apnews.com/article/blac...
apnews.com/article/blac...
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"Don't be evil. Kidding!"
--Google
February 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"Don't be evil. Kidding!"
--Google
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Your annual reminder that Intuit/TurboTax have spent 20 years using their lobbying power to prevent the federal government from offering you free and functional electronic tax filing. DirectFile finally delivers that, but they haven't stopped trying to kill it. www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02...
TurboTax maker Intuit spent millions in record lobbying blitz amid threats to tax prep industry - OpenSecrets News
TurboTax parent company Intuit spent millions in a record lobbying blitz amid government scrutiny and threats to the tax prep industry.
www.opensecrets.org
February 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Your annual reminder that Intuit/TurboTax have spent 20 years using their lobbying power to prevent the federal government from offering you free and functional electronic tax filing. DirectFile finally delivers that, but they haven't stopped trying to kill it. www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02...
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Posting on the internet is similar to fishing in that you kind of just sit there.
January 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Posting on the internet is similar to fishing in that you kind of just sit there.
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hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY Ecology Macroecology https://go.bsky.app/GBn9pNZ Global ecology https://go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv Trait based ecology and evolution https://go.bsky.app/PThMXeX Invasion biology https://go.b...
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November 11, 2024 at 5:41 PM
hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! 🌍🧪 #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...