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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 9h

Cum and balls, my fave type of skeet

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 9h

Omg a different era! (Joking aside, v cute)

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 10h

I remember memorizing cell phone numbers too early on bc having saved phone numbers on cell phones were non existent or cumbersome

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 10h

Quote this with a selfie if you're Gay Dead (single and over 30)!

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 11h

What if he asks again at 9:45 AM?!!?

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 17h

Like their technical point that you can have long term sustainable communities in an arid area is true but quite a leap from there and really defend the sprawl and growth of Phoenix...

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 17h

Furthermore yes the Hohokam built great irrigation canals in the Salt River Valley but do they ever wonder why at some point they...disappeared? Left?

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao. I mean yes there were native settlements in the desert southwest for millennia & the Puebloan cultures were not nomadic like Bedouins but also they were very much only in river valleys or mesas right next to them. And they were still relatively small compared to contemporaries in the Midwest

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 17h

That's more like it

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 17h

As someone who lived 7 years around MacArthur BART that is so stupid. That analysis would just be based on vibes bc there's new buildings and maybe a few more upper middle class serving businesses in the area. Thanks to TOD (which inc affordable housing) Temescal rents relatively flat after 2020

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 22h

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 22h

A person's path is not always linear! Def have had a few friends take a decade or so to get their degree(s)

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 22h

I love seeing presents for a holiday

Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 22h

Though generally I refer to both days when talking to others to make it clear which day I'm talking about when they have plans on X weekend

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 22h

I saw a local coffee shop in DC post saying it is Indigenous People's Day

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao what? I was on AIM when I was 13 and I was born in 1987. Used AIM well into college (though less and less in college)

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo Starlux!?

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

Ooo looks pretty. Like a taro pineapple bun

Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

I'd like to have that swell inside me

Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds perfect

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, would love some cuddles

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't really get "normal" after the initial surge as you never know...but as someone in DC there are signs of rebound at least (lots of street vendors have come back to Columbia Heights). Hang tight in there & if you have time/privilege to escape for at least a few days (like I did), do take it

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it's why if you've esp lived in an affected city you know. Solidarity from DC / LA / PDX / CHI bc who knows who's next in the list

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Jon Wong (黃智義) 🏳️‍🌈🧧 @thewongmann.bsky.social · 1d

Same. Though at least I'm from SoCal so when I go back for the holidays there's some reprieve from this over dress

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