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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I'm cynical but I don't trust the general public to do stuff like that. There are reasons you're not even technically supposed to fill up reusable water bottles at soda fountains in restaurants.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

I still don't like it, there's no way to tell if someone just rinsed something or actually washed it with soap and hot water, and even then washed the whole container, not just the inside.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

The customer pays a deposit fee that is refunded to them or credited towards the next container when they return it to that or any other business, or to designated drop points where the city can collect and redistribute them to restaurants. Same system as reusable milk bottles but on a larger scale.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's a better way, I think the city should take input and have a few standardized designs (no more than three).

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

imo having worked in kitchens, requiring businesses to accept reusable takeout containers from customers is a practical and hygienic nightmare.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

One of these days I'm going to drag him on the road trip to go visit a few of these sites because our brains work the same.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually so cool, he's got spreadsheets of old canals and researches them and cross references them with old aerial imagery and maps and meticulously adds them to open street map.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 1d

writes and edits Wikipedia articles about lighthouses and adds canals to open street map.

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 2d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 4d

psst. hey, hey kid. I got the good stuff, ethylene oxide.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 4d

Railroad thieves are far too unimaginative these days. Each of those DOT tank cars easily has over $100k of intermediate process chemicals inside. Get up there with your jerrycan and siphon and quit being a little bitch about it.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 4d

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 5d

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 5d

I know this because we were in a Toronto hotel room with a few others in March sampling coffee at like midnight, and I mused about having pH test strips to compare the acidity of our coffees, and she said "OH!" and nonchalantly pulled that out of a bag.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone reading this post was wondering whether or not she carries these pH test strips with her everywhere, the answer is yes. Yes she does.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 5d

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 7d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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saiguu ₊˚⊹ᰔ @saiguu.bsky.social · Aug 8

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 8d

It just happens that a lot of the people in those categories are Gen Z. The way to cut through the "Gen Z" stare is to be kind and sincere, and not performatively so. And the way to eliminate it is to pay people more.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 8d

I've been thinking about the "Gen Z stare" and I don't think it's just generational.

I think the "Gen Z stare" is more of a class issue; one of socially exhausted and financially anxious minimum wage workers fed up with the performative societal skit of toxic positivity.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 11d

these are absolutely stunning wtf

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 11d

I did Cincy last summer, it and the $5 Long Island Iced Teas in the north side neighborhood deserve their own trip imo 😌

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 11d

We took a meandering path through South City and into Soulard between U-City and Downtown.

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bombardier bisexual @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 11d

I did that with another friend last year and we made a whole day of it, it was honestly pretty incredible. We walked about 40K steps iirc 💀

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