zach lennon-simon
@lennonhyphensimon.bsky.social
union organizer, writer/video editor, & one of the last born & raised Brooklynites to still live in Brooklyn.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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The Israeli military’s genocide isn’t over, it’s expanding.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Israeli military’s genocide isn’t over, it’s expanding.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.
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wrote about the "hemp ban" that Congress snuck into the government-reopening bill, the impact it's already having on angry farmers and brewers and small-biz owners across the country, the misconceptions around the plant, and the lobbies that agitated for this crackdown: slate.com/business/202...
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
wrote about the "hemp ban" that Congress snuck into the government-reopening bill, the impact it's already having on angry farmers and brewers and small-biz owners across the country, the misconceptions around the plant, and the lobbies that agitated for this crackdown: slate.com/business/202...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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1,132 days. It’s over.
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
1,132 days. It’s over.
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Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we want to express our thanks to all of you who have donated to help our Fired Four, illegally terminated by Conde Nast. If you haven't already, you still can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
Donate to Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper, organized by Louryn Strampe
On November 5, 2025, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union l… Louryn Strampe needs your support for Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper
www.gofundme.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we want to express our thanks to all of you who have donated to help our Fired Four, illegally terminated by Conde Nast. If you haven't already, you still can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
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I didn’t know about this! 👇🏾
a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation.
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I didn’t know about this! 👇🏾
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sucks to suck. they’ve killed hundreds of thousands of children.
i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
Current and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers are growing increasingly concerned that the work they did slashing government programs and eliminating jobs will come back to hau...
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
sucks to suck. they’ve killed hundreds of thousands of children.
i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book
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Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
November 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Israel cannot break ceasefires, they can only “test“ them by killing dozens of people
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Canal St raid happening now - Canal & Lafayette
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Canal St raid happening now - Canal & Lafayette
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The miniature spaceship FX in Close Encounters aged well because they built a "smoke room" to photograph the models in, to increase the density of the atmosphere around them. I.e., a 1/25 scale model would have smoke room atmosphere 25 times denser than it would be in the real world.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The miniature spaceship FX in Close Encounters aged well because they built a "smoke room" to photograph the models in, to increase the density of the atmosphere around them. I.e., a 1/25 scale model would have smoke room atmosphere 25 times denser than it would be in the real world.
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oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
oh, alas, i've been informed that there was another velvet underground of paducah, kentucky, and this was almost certainly them.
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There are many mid-20th century short documentaries about the arts including THE ART OF LOTTE REINIGER from 1970. Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJ...
There’s also a great edited volume on the subject: ART IN THE CINEMA: THE MID-CENTURY ART DOCUMENTARY
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-in-th...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJ...
There’s also a great edited volume on the subject: ART IN THE CINEMA: THE MID-CENTURY ART DOCUMENTARY
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-in-th...
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
There are many mid-20th century short documentaries about the arts including THE ART OF LOTTE REINIGER from 1970. Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJ...
There’s also a great edited volume on the subject: ART IN THE CINEMA: THE MID-CENTURY ART DOCUMENTARY
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-in-th...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJ...
There’s also a great edited volume on the subject: ART IN THE CINEMA: THE MID-CENTURY ART DOCUMENTARY
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-in-th...
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Amen.
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Amen.
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Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit???
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ummm, were you all aware of this bullshit???
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."
www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-...
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In today's Laurels/Darts, I interview Jessica Schulberg, the Huffpost reporter who has extensively covered an unjust Oklahoma death-penalty case.
She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In today's Laurels/Darts, I interview Jessica Schulberg, the Huffpost reporter who has extensively covered an unjust Oklahoma death-penalty case.
She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
She was at the penitentiary when the the convict was spared -- exactly 2 minutes before he was scheduled to die.
www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
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Okay, so you're in your gmail, and you have a bazillion emails in your main inbox due to turning off smart features. What's the easiest way to go through them? Well you could go page by page.
Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.
Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.
For my laptop, while I do have a good amount of free space to partition/separate to try out Linux, I should also make sure I don't have unnecessary files and games taking up space.
And for email. (stares at tab showing the number 58,287) I uh. Don't think I need to import EVERYTHING.
And for email. (stares at tab showing the number 58,287) I uh. Don't think I need to import EVERYTHING.
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Okay, so you're in your gmail, and you have a bazillion emails in your main inbox due to turning off smart features. What's the easiest way to go through them? Well you could go page by page.
Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.
Or...If you know specific companies send a lot of emails, there's a quick trick.
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Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success
November 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success
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I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
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speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
Kempsville High School assistant principal charged for threats against police, ICE
Virginia Beach assistant principal John Bennett and Mark Bennett charged for conspiring threats against police and ICE agents. Both are held without bond.
www.13newsnow.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency
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Illustration by Patrick Morgan (Gallatin, TN) commemorating Debbie’s turn as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live in 1981.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Illustration by Patrick Morgan (Gallatin, TN) commemorating Debbie’s turn as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live in 1981.
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I remember in high school being in the back seat of a car going 100mph on a suburban freeway driven by a guy I didn’t really know who may have been stoned and I was thinking, “Well, this was a series of bad decisions.”
Don’t know why I thought of that.
Don’t know why I thought of that.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I remember in high school being in the back seat of a car going 100mph on a suburban freeway driven by a guy I didn’t really know who may have been stoned and I was thinking, “Well, this was a series of bad decisions.”
Don’t know why I thought of that.
Don’t know why I thought of that.
just blasted in the car and willing to bet that strings were meant for Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes tidal.com/browse/album...
Moor Mother, Wooden Elephant, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dirk Kaftan & Ian Anderson - Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
Listen to Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
just blasted in the car and willing to bet that strings were meant for Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes tidal.com/browse/album...
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An awesome Here Comes Sunshine and WRS are the standouts of a stacked 1st set. But the 2nd is something else entirely. With Playin' woven throughout, the boys take Dark Star into an unsuspecting Wharf Rat, a steamy Truckin', and mournful, yet so heady Morning Dew. gratefuldeadoftheday.com/11-21-1973
Dead of the Day: November 21, 1973
Denver Coliseum in Denver, Colorado
gratefuldeadoftheday.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
An awesome Here Comes Sunshine and WRS are the standouts of a stacked 1st set. But the 2nd is something else entirely. With Playin' woven throughout, the boys take Dark Star into an unsuspecting Wharf Rat, a steamy Truckin', and mournful, yet so heady Morning Dew. gratefuldeadoftheday.com/11-21-1973