Stephonee

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That low-income money nerd. Also other things nerd. she/her

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LEGIT QUESTION FROM ME!

legit question from Curbed:

Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds?www.curbed.com The city’s newest park at Pier 42 is leaving kids scorching in the sun.

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For the new-to-BlueSky folks: This is Blockenheimer. blockenheimer.click With this, you can input a random shithead's account name, fetch all their followers, and block every single one with one click. Now go, and enjoy peace.

Block lists?

Blockenheimer for Blueskyblockenheimer.click

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Ah. The Olympics. I love the events.

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I hate to go UHHH THIS IS JUST LIKE [FICTIONAL THING I LIKE] with real world horrors--because it is exhausting and often misses the actual problems at hand--but truly one of the absolute best ways I've ever seen anyone explain the truth of this is in Pratchett's Going Postal.

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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A crude little comic for #makeaterriblecomicday2024

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This is the future liberals want.

It’s June.

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These “we did a trial run of UBI and all the statistics show that it really helped in every way, now the trial is over and we’ll do nothing with that info” tests are really starting to feel like those Flat Earthers proving the earth is a globe with science and then ignoring their own findings videos

Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.businessinsider.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

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Wow, what a great analogy for UBI as a safety net! Reality is basic income creates labor flexibility, the ability for labor to move around in the economy. It makes labor more secure knowing there is a net when we’re walking the tightrope.

Believing the myth that Universal Basic Income will lead many of us to quit our jobs is like believing a safety net encourages high-wire performers to fall purposely. UBI doesn't take away the incentive to work; it's about providing a foundation from which we can all aim higher.

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Mom put her kid in the car after a day at the zoo. Then the doors wouldn’t open because the battery died. Sealing the 20-month-old inside in the middle of a national Heat Dome in the Arizona desert. Because Teslas are fucking dumb death traps.

Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183439/tesla-model-y-arizona-toddler-trapped-rescued

Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead batterywww.theverge.com Firefighters had to use an axe to smash through the window.

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This is not a place of honour

I had forgotten that this was the age stated in this conversation and I could have been using this gif all year! Going to make the most of it these next 3 months.

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Denver Basic Income project $589,214 was saved in public service costs. I’m tired of “how do we afford UBI” We need more education about universal basic income’s net “final” cost after we subtract saving public service costs.

😁📢 Call to action, make a post about and include the words “universal basic income” 🙌🏻 Share how a #UBI would help you or others. ✊🏻

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"The savings manifested in [basic income] program participants staying in homeless shelters less frequently, requiring fewer ambulance rides, emergency room visits and hospital stays, and spending fewer nights in jail or drug and alcohol treatment centers, a report released Tuesday morning shows."

Denver Basic Income Project gave homeless people cash and saved taxpayers almost $600,000 in the process, report sayswww.denverpost.com The savings manifested in program participants staying in homeless shelters less frequently, requiring fewer ambulance rides, emergency room visits and hospital stays and spending fewer nights in j…

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THE ONION IS HIRING FOR ITS SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM. DO WHAT YOU WILL WITH THIS INFORMATION! jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

Social Media Lead at The Onion jobs.gusto.com

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This.

Watching the ads, I keep wondering why hotels haven't responded to the airbnb thing by building more multi-bedroom suites. There's clearly a market for them! There are a lot of people who want to stay together but not sleep together when they travel!

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UPDATE: WE GOT HIM So last night, while sleeping thousands of miles away, I accidentally helped bring down a massive organized crime ring. And it all started with the master criminal genius who stole my Social Security Number from the movie theater I swept the floor of in high school... (thread)

Thanks to the movie theater I worked at in high school leaking all employee social security numbers (two decades after it was bulldozed and turned into a parking lot) someone in Atlanta just tried to buy a swimming pool on my dime.

Ryan Estradawww.facebook.com WE GOT HIM. Within an hour of me posting that someone had stolen my identity and tried to buy a swimming pool, I got a call from my mom that the cops were looking for me. They told me that the man...

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This motherfucking legend wrote "The Trouble With Tribbles." #StarTrek

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ALL HAIL THE NEW HOLE

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My field is more than 60% women. Shark Week, marine biology's biggest stage, doesn't just feature more men than women... it features more guys named Mike than women. And that's ignoring the pseudoscientific nonsense, wildlife harassment, and near complete lack of any real conservation content 🧪🦑

Beware of ‘Shark Week’: Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male ‘experts’ named Miketheconversation.com A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.

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My most Elder Millenial™️ belief is that algorithms & feeds suck & chronological is the only way.

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When cops shot Linda Tirado in the George Floyd protests, they destroyed one of her eyes with a rubber bullet. The subsequent brain damage is proving fatal. Linda needs funds for hospice Venmo: Linda-Tirado-3 PayPal: Bootstrapindustries@gmail Zelle: 806.433.6075

Police Blinded Her With a Foam Bullet. Suing Them Was When the Pain Beganrubberbullets.longlead.com When less-lethal weapons are misused, journalist Linda Tirado learned, there are no consequences — except for the people at the wrong end of the launcher.

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"Expand public transit and make it free? And who's gonna pay for that?" Me you fucking goofy bastard. I pay taxes. give me healthcare instead of buying another 700,000 tear gas canisters for the police to spray on my friends.

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"Here's money to do what you want. I trust you. Don't worry about making any money right now. Just do what you want. I support it and believe you'll make lots of money eventually." Am I talking about unconditional basic income or pre-seed venture capital funding?

Trying to figure out what the endpoint domino would be but for me it's definitely Browsing for new webcomics on a Top Webcomics ranking site in like 2002? 2003? ➡️ Literally all the major life events that happened thereafter

Not a complicated series of dominoes I guess, but weird to think that the idea for Night Vale, and thus making a living as a writer for over a decade, started with being invited to a Something Awful staff trip in Vegas, and not having enough money to fly there so I drove

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If you recently got an IRS balance-due notice, but you filed and paid your 2023 taxes on time, don’t freak out. The IRS says you are right. These CP14 balance due notices are wrong, and it's working on correcting the affected taxpayer accounts. www.dontmesswithtaxes.com/2024/06/irs-...

IRS issues erroneous balance due notices to some taxpayerswww.dontmesswithtaxes.com The only thing worse than getting a notice from the Internal Revenue Service, is getting a wrong one. And the absolutely worst IRS communication scenario is getting a mailing that says you owe Uncle S...

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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I am a homestuck denialist. There is no such fictional work and all evidence to the contrary is a deliberate campaign of dis information.

Me getting the email that there are gifs here now (Yes, I'm here because my phone said there would be gifs. I am a sad millennial. But everything has been Everything Sucks Here for a looooong time for me, so let me have this.)

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there are real and significant human costs to filling the government with people completely uninterested in governing

hopping and spitting mad. JPL is being forced to lay off 8% of the workforce *today* bc they have not secured funding for FY24 to support Mars Sample Return. FY24 started in October of 2023. Congress is too busy failing to impeach cabinet members instead. Clown show

JPL plans to lay off hundreds of employees due to lack of fundingwww.nbclosangeles.com NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is poised to lay off 530 employees along with 40 contractors as the federally funded research and development center has yet to secure funding for the 2024 fiscal ye...

Very disturbing that at the bottom of a bag of Teddy Grahams, there is just a pile of hands and feet. I mean, I still ate them. But very disturbing.