Trina
@trinaba.bsky.social
Leftist, queer, intellectual, neurodivergent, healthcare, technology, current events, news, politics, reading, music, love, science, kindness, connection. Give me your knowledge, I only ask to digest it.
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you can actually just do The Aristocrats straight now
November 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
you can actually just do The Aristocrats straight now
Reading the economist. It truely boggles me that our society values financial, investment, and insurance workers over skilled labor, education, and health jobs.
Curiously, the later half will be more difficult for AI to infiltrate than the first half.
I hope you had the time of your lives.
Curiously, the later half will be more difficult for AI to infiltrate than the first half.
I hope you had the time of your lives.
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Reading the economist. It truely boggles me that our society values financial, investment, and insurance workers over skilled labor, education, and health jobs.
Curiously, the later half will be more difficult for AI to infiltrate than the first half.
I hope you had the time of your lives.
Curiously, the later half will be more difficult for AI to infiltrate than the first half.
I hope you had the time of your lives.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
the harris campaign said the “they/them” ad didn’t sway the election.
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
one of the trump campaign’s top strategists this week said trans rights isn’t in the top five issues for swing voters.
when will the press stop talking about us like we’re a liability and start looking itself in the mirror
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I think a number of press outlets badly want there to be a groundswell of anti-trans feeling, because the ownership/senior editorial of those papers have absolutely cooked their own brains on transphobia. It seems to be largely an elite psychosis!
democrats need to hold the line. $1200/month for health insurance is despicable. If they will not ensure subsidies then they need to pass a max limit that private companies can offer.
This specifically targets people who work for small businesses. They would perfer us all to labor for corporate.
This specifically targets people who work for small businesses. They would perfer us all to labor for corporate.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
democrats need to hold the line. $1200/month for health insurance is despicable. If they will not ensure subsidies then they need to pass a max limit that private companies can offer.
This specifically targets people who work for small businesses. They would perfer us all to labor for corporate.
This specifically targets people who work for small businesses. They would perfer us all to labor for corporate.
You have to know your rights because your employer is banking on you not understanding that this is an unlawful request.
The NLRB has ruled that employers cannot force workers to be cheerful, as being unhappy is a right.
The NLRB has ruled that employers cannot force workers to be cheerful, as being unhappy is a right.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You have to know your rights because your employer is banking on you not understanding that this is an unlawful request.
The NLRB has ruled that employers cannot force workers to be cheerful, as being unhappy is a right.
The NLRB has ruled that employers cannot force workers to be cheerful, as being unhappy is a right.
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I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us
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The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
October 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.
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"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost
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A lot of libertarians who have been screaming in my replies about "authoritarianism" and "tyranny" for the last four years are conspicuously quiet right now.
Curious.
Curious.
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A lot of libertarians who have been screaming in my replies about "authoritarianism" and "tyranny" for the last four years are conspicuously quiet right now.
Curious.
Curious.
I think it is time to reread Cory Doctorow's Little Brother
"I believe that Americans would agree that the government can’t just make people disappear without any process or explanation. Second, because I want to give the government a chance to admit that they were wrong.
So far the government has not done so."
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...
So far the government has not done so."
newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
October 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I think it is time to reread Cory Doctorow's Little Brother
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Become ungovernable
October 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Become ungovernable
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Only a Trump speech could reference the N-word and still have room to get worse
October 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Only a Trump speech could reference the N-word and still have room to get worse
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currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
September 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter
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In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.
September 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.
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Ppl keep saying he’s functionally a King now but listen my country has an actual literal monarchy and no constitutionally mandated freedom of speech and they still let a prince ruin himself live on the state run television channel
Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One:
*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Ppl keep saying he’s functionally a King now but listen my country has an actual literal monarchy and no constitutionally mandated freedom of speech and they still let a prince ruin himself live on the state run television channel
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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sup fellow history witness you hyped to show bravery
July 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
sup fellow history witness you hyped to show bravery
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I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
September 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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please tell me one good thing that is happening right now
September 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
please tell me one good thing that is happening right now