I see Pitch; I up-vote.

Oh oh, don’t forget about vocalization of anti-transgender viewpoints: https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/new-york-times-bias-reporting-transgender-people/

Regarding the state house candidate in question (Ashley Brundage):

The political newcomer grew up as a Republican but switched parties following Florida laws impacting the LGBTQ community.

Da fuk?

I know we’re supposed to ease up on our liberal purity tests and everything, but this is implying that this person was a Republican until the last few years? That seems…. noteworthy.

The phrase I’ve seen bandied about for this is “world-class bullshit.” Very fitting.

Classic “the sweetness” era Ze Frank.

Key pull quote from TFA:

Post chief executive Will Lewis, in an online explanation of the decision, wrote, “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election.”

“We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Lewis wrote.

“We recognize that this will be read in a range of ways, including as a tacit endorsement of one candidate, or as a condemnation of another, or as an abdication of responsibility,” he wrote. “That is inevitable. We don’t see it that way. We see it as consistent with the values The Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects.”

Reposting from elsewhere:

Seattle started the movement for a $15 minimum wage in 2014. It passed and was slowly phased in, finishing the rollout in 2021. It’s also aligned to inflation, so the current minimum wage (in 2024) is $20.76 per hour.

Seattle started the movement for a $15 minimum wage in 2014. It passed and was slowly phased in, finishing the rollout in 2021. It’s also aligned to inflation, so the current minimum wage (in 2024) is $20.76 per hour.

Any minimum wage legislation not tied to inflation is a half measure. Demand what you deserve.

It’s all about results. That said…

Top 50 anime openings

Obligatory:

I’m Comic Sans, Asshole by Mike Lacher from McSweeney’s Short Imagined Monologues June 15, 2010

Here’s the spotify link for the full album: https://open.spotify.com/album/4wtt08wXfDLUecMnqdZQsF

But one senior U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to detail Ms. Harris’s thinking, said that if she won the election and the war were still going on, her policy was not expected to change.

So she won’t because an anonymous tip says she won’t. No real information as to why that might be. Also, here are a bunch of grossly misleading talking points from the Trump campaign.

Ace reporting there, NYT. Keep fucking that chicken.

The new offer would not restore a traditional pension plan — a key demand of the 33,000 striking workers — but it would increase the amount of contributions to 401(k) retirement plans that Boeing would match.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-striking-boeing-workers-near-042024828.html

I believe they call it Louis Louis.

Still no return of their pension though? Keep striking.

Do the studios just hate the US exhibition industry now? There’s no way movie theaters can survive this kind of home viewing turn-around.

Or is it simply our inability to function like reasonable people in large groups, making it impossible to assume you’re going to be able to watch a movie in a theater all the way through without being disturbed by phones, talking, screaming children or whatever else people do in theaters?

As someone who studied Latin based on the Cambridge Latin book series, I wouldn’t mind seeing a disaster movie about Pompeii featuring Caecilius, the banker at the center of the training course (and a real person whose home and records were discovered by archeologists).

He popped up in the Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii, but that’s not quote the same as a legitimate Hollywood disaster movie treatment.

I also can’t tell what is in the bowls beside Roy and his sons - to the top left of Roy’s plate, right hand side of Toby and top right of Brad’s plate. Maybe Ronnie and Silvia have one of these bowls too but I can’t tell. You can see Brad eat out of his bowl at one point and it looks like something pale (I wondered coleslaw or macaroni).

It looks like everyone at the table has a bowl on one side or the other. This was a time when a common middle-class American family dinnerware place-setting might include a salad bowl with a simple salad: chopped iceberg or romaine lettuce with a store-bough salad dressing (ranch, blue cheese, 1000 island, etc). Probably not the most appetizing thing in the world, but totally legit given the era and setting (with Roy being a electrical line worker).

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