Megan Brown
@megantbrown.bsky.social
Seamstress, shameless cat lady, and gardener who writes things on occasion.
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Megan Brown
@megantbrown.bsky.social
· Jul 6
Not gonna lie, sometimes AI has me feeling like the guy in Mad Men who lost his shit over the computer and cut his nipple off
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
IT: Welcome to Derry may have some truly atrocious CGI to contend with at times, but I am of the opinion that wardrobe more than makes up for it with the cast’s impeccable cardigan/sweater game
a young girl wearing glasses and a yellow sweater is smiling .
ALT: a young girl wearing glasses and a yellow sweater is smiling .
media.tenor.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 AM
IT: Welcome to Derry may have some truly atrocious CGI to contend with at times, but I am of the opinion that wardrobe more than makes up for it with the cast’s impeccable cardigan/sweater game
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Behn: My biggest pet peeve in politics is when people who don’t live in the South say, “You get what you voted for.” I didn’t vote for the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. I didn’t vote for the highest inflationary cost of groceries in the country.
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Behn: My biggest pet peeve in politics is when people who don’t live in the South say, “You get what you voted for.” I didn’t vote for the highest maternal mortality rate in the country. I didn’t vote for the highest inflationary cost of groceries in the country.
Some people drunk text their exes or accidentally butt dial their colleagues. My tipsy spouse bombards our friends with unhinged voicemails doing his (concerningly convincing) Bill Clinton impression.
He is on a different level from the rest of y’all and idk if that’s a good or bad thing
He is on a different level from the rest of y’all and idk if that’s a good or bad thing
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Some people drunk text their exes or accidentally butt dial their colleagues. My tipsy spouse bombards our friends with unhinged voicemails doing his (concerningly convincing) Bill Clinton impression.
He is on a different level from the rest of y’all and idk if that’s a good or bad thing
He is on a different level from the rest of y’all and idk if that’s a good or bad thing
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Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
Working on a very special project I can’t wait to share (assuming the combination of metallic thread and illusion tulle does not kill me first)
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Working on a very special project I can’t wait to share (assuming the combination of metallic thread and illusion tulle does not kill me first)
Working from home with two rambunctious little monsters is so fun. Especially if you’re my attorney husband, and they choose your scheduling phone call with a judge as the ideal time to to sink both sets of their surprisingly sharp kitten teeth into your ankles 💕 #CatsOfBluesky
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Working from home with two rambunctious little monsters is so fun. Especially if you’re my attorney husband, and they choose your scheduling phone call with a judge as the ideal time to to sink both sets of their surprisingly sharp kitten teeth into your ankles 💕 #CatsOfBluesky
Me to myself while taking a delightfully nippy little 30 degree walk to cool off after eating a bowl of soup: “oh I just KNOW that girl Elsa had an overactive thyroid, too”
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Me to myself while taking a delightfully nippy little 30 degree walk to cool off after eating a bowl of soup: “oh I just KNOW that girl Elsa had an overactive thyroid, too”
Look I’m not trying to be controversial and I don’t wanna place blame on anyone in particular but I think things really started to go south once we stopped that one trend of editing our cats being bastards to the intro to “Year Zero”
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Look I’m not trying to be controversial and I don’t wanna place blame on anyone in particular but I think things really started to go south once we stopped that one trend of editing our cats being bastards to the intro to “Year Zero”
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If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you have a regional accent, please never try to get rid of it. Accents tell stories.
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Wish I could be an aloof wife but unfortunately I never shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Wish I could be an aloof wife but unfortunately I never shut the fuck up
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Great reporting from @wendicthomas.bsky.social and Katherine Burgess with @mlk50.com & @propublica.org.
Members of the Memphis Safe Task Force asked 72-year-old Phillip Lewis for identification only after taking him outside in his underwear. '"How I got ID and I’m in my drawers?'"Lewis snapped.
Members of the Memphis Safe Task Force asked 72-year-old Phillip Lewis for identification only after taking him outside in his underwear. '"How I got ID and I’m in my drawers?'"Lewis snapped.
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force • Tennessee Lookout
The Memphis Safe Task Force has innocent residents of majority-Black Memphis, including a 72-year-old taken from his home in his underwear.
tennesseelookout.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Great reporting from @wendicthomas.bsky.social and Katherine Burgess with @mlk50.com & @propublica.org.
Members of the Memphis Safe Task Force asked 72-year-old Phillip Lewis for identification only after taking him outside in his underwear. '"How I got ID and I’m in my drawers?'"Lewis snapped.
Members of the Memphis Safe Task Force asked 72-year-old Phillip Lewis for identification only after taking him outside in his underwear. '"How I got ID and I’m in my drawers?'"Lewis snapped.
Jim, on the other hand…Poor boy inherited his mother’s attention span and is constantly frazzled, flying out the door with his face half done.
To be fair, he’s functioning better than I am with the one eye lined and black lipstick on the bottom only. I’m lucky if I remember SPF #CatsOfBluesky
To be fair, he’s functioning better than I am with the one eye lined and black lipstick on the bottom only. I’m lucky if I remember SPF #CatsOfBluesky
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Jim, on the other hand…Poor boy inherited his mother’s attention span and is constantly frazzled, flying out the door with his face half done.
To be fair, he’s functioning better than I am with the one eye lined and black lipstick on the bottom only. I’m lucky if I remember SPF #CatsOfBluesky
To be fair, he’s functioning better than I am with the one eye lined and black lipstick on the bottom only. I’m lucky if I remember SPF #CatsOfBluesky
Moment of appreciation for Jarvis and his flawless eyeliner #CatsOfBluesky
November 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Moment of appreciation for Jarvis and his flawless eyeliner #CatsOfBluesky
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Just a reminder: millions of people who live in “red” states didn’t vote for any of this shit.
November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Just a reminder: millions of people who live in “red” states didn’t vote for any of this shit.
Happy Halloween to everybody but my former coworker who would hype/beg everybody to come into the office dressed up but would then would pull something like turning up in normal clothing + a Wayne’s World hat, explaining “lol I’m Wayne [peppering of halfhearted movie quotes]” to costumed officemates
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Happy Halloween to everybody but my former coworker who would hype/beg everybody to come into the office dressed up but would then would pull something like turning up in normal clothing + a Wayne’s World hat, explaining “lol I’m Wayne [peppering of halfhearted movie quotes]” to costumed officemates
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FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
FACTS about SNAP:
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)
Spouse has been giving me shit for using “regular-degular” in conversation, and my description of something as “funky-wunky” just now was met with ridicule as well.
I said, “Well really when you think about it, regular-degular is just the opposite of funky-wunky,” and now he’s not talking to me
I said, “Well really when you think about it, regular-degular is just the opposite of funky-wunky,” and now he’s not talking to me
October 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Spouse has been giving me shit for using “regular-degular” in conversation, and my description of something as “funky-wunky” just now was met with ridicule as well.
I said, “Well really when you think about it, regular-degular is just the opposite of funky-wunky,” and now he’s not talking to me
I said, “Well really when you think about it, regular-degular is just the opposite of funky-wunky,” and now he’s not talking to me
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"How did people survive before______"
friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps
friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"How did people survive before______"
friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps
friend ... people used to starve to death... i hope that helps
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I am here to say this is not a coma specific condition
October 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I am here to say this is not a coma specific condition
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As you enjoy picking and carving your #Halloween pumpkin, remember the farm workers who labored to grow and harvest them. Let's give a big thanks to the Salinas CA farm workers who harvested these pumpkins that have ended up at local pumpkin patches and area stores. #WeFeedYou
October 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As you enjoy picking and carving your #Halloween pumpkin, remember the farm workers who labored to grow and harvest them. Let's give a big thanks to the Salinas CA farm workers who harvested these pumpkins that have ended up at local pumpkin patches and area stores. #WeFeedYou
Jim and Jarvis are hell on wheels this #Caturday! They met two dogs (the ladies walking them were very tickled at my stroller of kittens) AND saw a fire truck. Three times, as its driver seemed unsure of its destination and circled the block. #CatsOfBluesky
To the brave fireman who waved at us…
To the brave fireman who waved at us…
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Jim and Jarvis are hell on wheels this #Caturday! They met two dogs (the ladies walking them were very tickled at my stroller of kittens) AND saw a fire truck. Three times, as its driver seemed unsure of its destination and circled the block. #CatsOfBluesky
To the brave fireman who waved at us…
To the brave fireman who waved at us…
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the needs of the anxious comfortable white male doing midcentury working class drag are at the very bottom of my list right now
October 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
the needs of the anxious comfortable white male doing midcentury working class drag are at the very bottom of my list right now
Happy Gotcha Day to this nonchalant hellbeast who watched as his father, sick with Covid and probably dehydrated, lost his balance and fell while trying to refill the cat food bowls, scattering kibble hither and yon. #CatsOfBluesky
He is okay, but I arrived at the scene to discover the tuxedo-clad…
He is okay, but I arrived at the scene to discover the tuxedo-clad…
October 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Happy Gotcha Day to this nonchalant hellbeast who watched as his father, sick with Covid and probably dehydrated, lost his balance and fell while trying to refill the cat food bowls, scattering kibble hither and yon. #CatsOfBluesky
He is okay, but I arrived at the scene to discover the tuxedo-clad…
He is okay, but I arrived at the scene to discover the tuxedo-clad…