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I got fired from a job I was planning to quit due to a hostile work environment. The night before I was fired I reported the manager to corporate for failing to address months of harassment and bullying. I have filed a report with the state office of civil rights about it. I've been job searching for two months and have had three places initially say they wanted a second interview and then cancel on me.

I am really suspicious that my old manager is actively sabotaging my job search.

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Employee of the year

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How do I prevent everyone at Disneyland for the Pride event tomorrow from thinking my sister and I are a lesbian couple?

We have accidentally matched our toenail polish (lavender) and will likely be wearing matching rainbow plaid shirts.

We are both bi and obviously happy to be in the queer community, but would rather avoid the awkwardness of people thinking we're romantically involved.

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Excellent! Now go donate blood!

F.D.A. Ends Ban on Blood Donations From Gay and Bisexual Men

“Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized recommendations for assessing blood donor eligibility using a set of individual risk-based questions to reduce the risk of transfusion-transmitted HIV. These questions will be the same for every donor, regardless of sexual orientation, sex or gender.”

“This policy eliminates time-based deferrals and screening questions specific to men who have sex with men (MSM) and women who have sex with MSM. Under the final guidance issued today, all prospective blood donors will answer a series of individual, risk-based questions to determine eligibility. All prospective donors who report having a new sexual partner, or more than one sexual partner in the past three months, and anal sex in the past three months, would be deferred to reduce the likelihood of donations by individuals with new or recent HIV infection who may be in the window period for detection of HIV by nucleic acid testing.”

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"ILLINOIS is 1st STATE to BAN BOOK BANS! Per HB 2789, state funding ($62 millions) will not be awarded to public or school libraries that remove books from circulation and do not “adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights.”

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I don’t have to worry about "chemicals you can’t pronounce" in my food and my shampoo because I can pronounce every chemical flawlessly and without effort. Butylated hydroxytoluene. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. Fenugreek. I am saying these out loud and laughing at you. I’m immune to all known carcinogens. I can never die. Fight me.

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I grew up watching the entire Monkees series on VHS. Why do I not remember this?

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Gonna build a deck full of just this card and I can finally be a person

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Hey, um... how the fuck are you just casually revealing inhuman skills like this?

Here are some (not very good) photos of me wearing it! I'll have to get some better ones at my parents house later, because there is absolutely no good space to take photos in my apartment. I don't have any other 1830's things to go with it, and don't currently have plans to make any. I just wanted this dressing gown specifically.

Anyways! There are 6,957 triangles, all sewn together by machine, but most of the actual garment construction is by hand. The unevenness from all the patchwork seam allowances made it very fussy, and the tailoring took at least twice as long as it would have in a normal fabric. The velvet was also a challenge, being the soft drapey wobbly kind, but I managed. I accidentally made my triangles a bit smaller than the ones on the original (C. 1835, Powerhouse Museum collection.) which means there are more triangles than there had to be, but that's ok. I really enjoyed doing the patchwork, it's the most wonderfully soothing brainless task ever and I will definitely make more patchwork things.

I'm very happy with how it turned out! It's comfortable and fits pretty well, and is warm but not excessively so.

I kept timesheets for everything, and I haven't added them up yet, but once I do I'll know exactly how long all of this took.

I also filmed it, but the youtube video won't be out for quite a while, because I still have to write and record some more stuff and then edit a very very very very large amount of clips.

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AI generated too!?!? 🤣🤣

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It's because September is good for picnics and parades, and especially to distance America from socialism.

But because we're on the topic of labor organizing, let's talk Pullman Porters.

Pullman Porters were the sleeping car attendants for the Pullman Company that produced and operated the sleeper cars for many railroads. George Pullman specifically sought out and hired former slaves to work as the porters for his sleeper cars and exclusively employed Black cooks and waiters for dining cars and Black maids for parlor cars, likely also former slaves. Dining cars were, of course, managed by white stewards. He chose to hire former slaves because he "knew" they had been conditioned to be obsequious and to attend to the every whim of the white person for whom they worked.

The wage was unlivable, and tips were the only way to survive, which only forced the porters, waiters, and maids to act even more servile.

Pullman Porters were expected to accept being called "George" as if they were the property of George Pullman, a common practice during slavery. )This was only stopped when white men named George got offended enough to organize themselves.) They had to always smile and act agreeable. They often worked 20 hour shifts for a total of 400 hours or 11,000 miles per month. They were allotted 3-4 unpaid hours for sleep on overnight journeys.

They had to show up hours before each journey, without pay, to ensure the car they were responsible for was ready for customers. Any items stolen or broken by customers came out of the porters' pay.

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was the first all-Black labor union in the US. Founded in 1925 and finally officially recognized by the Pullman Company in 1937, the BSCP was a major player in the US Civil Rights Movement.

Both Malcom X and Justice Thurgood Marshall worked, for a time, as Pullman Porters.

Thank your local union!

WHERE is todayborday

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Or just put a thing at the front of all the books like "Roald Dahl was a truly miserable individual whose personal nastiness was appalling even for its time. This cloying nastiness is unfortunately also why why George's Marvelous Medicine, the book you're about to read, fucks so hard. We're donating a portion of profits to the ADL. Enjoy"

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watching movies is so much more fun once your ear is trained to recognize the Wilhelm scream and the Dies Irae

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XO Marshmallow makes theirs with Kosher beef gelatin.

Goyim thinking kosher food is inherently healthier is so funny to me like...... it's the same food as non-kosher food just with slightly different ingredients and Jewish supervision. These kosher marshmallows aren't healthier because they have fish gelatin instead of meat gelatin lmao.

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Somebody on FB really just tried to pull an “Ack-shu-ally, Anne Frank wasn’t murdered, she died of Typhus” with me assuming I DiDn’T kNoW tHe TrUTh and I am so fucking tired.