ALJ Dredd-Pizzaballa
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ALJ Dredd-Pizzaballa
@unionsaltbae.bsky.social
Be the stuck container ship you wish to see in the world
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For those who haven't followed me on the Bad Place, I'm a bi/queer disabled cis woman who is an attorney for people with disabilities. I have previously worked as a union side lawyer and voting rights attorney, too.
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Thanks for reading, Mr. President
November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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So grateful to everyone in NYC who mobilized to stop the ICE raid of Canal St. The violence being committed against immigrants is heart-wrenching, but the shows of solidarity we have seen around the country give me so much hope.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Saw the flag in it and thought "this has to be Harold's." I was right!

Another important Harold's fact is that they have an all you can eat pickle bar
My fiancée’s family has the most wonderful post-Thanksgiving tradition I lovingly refer to as the pastrami pile
November 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is so amazing
ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel
November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Average folks kettled ICE
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.

NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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A bunch of comics went to Bonesaw Nation and performed for murderous billionaires. But with their new comedy shows and books, have they met the bar
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
OscAaaaaarrrrrr I pledge allegiance to you and your imaginary country
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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not now babe it's infishtructure week
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Okay, whose CVS receipt got stuck on the floor of the Williams garage??
November 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Pay off my debt and then drop to a 4 day work week
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?

Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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every time I do not respond to you it is a personal insult and you should reexamine your life choices
thread muting etiquette:

better to say that you’re doing it when something gets past the point of usefulness so that people don’t expect a response or better to just Bluesky Goodbye out of your own thread?
November 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
(To the tune of the opening notes of Man, I Feel Like a Woman) 🎶 Oscarrrr Pi-a-stri, Os-car🎶
November 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mass General should be embarrassed as hell by this
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so
April 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I am in tears laughing, this is the most joy I've felt in weeks, I have started crying because of how hard I'm laughing, I am so blessed
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore

I feel like we need this
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Stop interviewing Lewis Hamilton. Now we're all depressed.
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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The escape vehicle had a giant “S” on each door, the hood, and the trunk. It fled the scene with overwhelming haste. Eye witnesses said of the scene “wow, look at that S car go”
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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SNAIL HEIST
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
There is so much joy in loving objectively bad things and knowing that they're shitty while you love them fiercely. Do not deprive yourself of this joy
begging people to learn to separate “i like it” with “it’s good.”

i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Anyway, there are legitimately people who think this type of rhetoric is more acceptable than advocating for student loan forgiveness, or immunocompromised people wearing masks during a pandemic.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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generative chatbots are a waste of human time and resources cause, unlike a furry artist, it will never be capable of conclude that if a kangaroo wore a bra the bra would go inside the pouch
they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild

- white tailed deer (literally fucking everywhere in NJ)
- Black Bear (parents house, NC)
- Great Blue Heron (NJ )
- Road runner (NM)
- the worlds fattest squirrel (jumping out of a trash can after I threw something away, RI)
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

Black bear - Virginia
Red fox - Virginia
Raccoon - in a knothole, riverside park, manhattan
Turkey vulture - my dad’s house in PA
A jolly fat red squirrel who took cookie crumbs from my fingers with his wee lil hands - LA
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild

1) White tailed deer (our backyard)
2) Turkey (our backyard)
3) Groundhog (our backyard)
4) Gray Squirrel (our backyard)
5) Red Bat (our backyard)

The most exotic things I've seen in our yard are a Luna Moth and a Black Widow Spider.
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM