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paging Will Stancil
"Economists tend to equate affordability with “real income” — people’s income divided by a measure of the cost of living. Real income is definitely an important and useful concept, and it’s important to get our facts straight about the changes in Americans’ real income over time. But basing the question of affordability solely on real income is clearly inadequate, both politically and intellectually."
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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noting that in NYC, there's really no way to improve upon that image. The rails and tunnels are a hundred+ years old. they are the size that they are, things are organized as they are. but also where? Like who has better transit than Japan? and yet
a subway car in Tokyo showing people squeezed in barely able to not fall out of the door
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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people do not like having to do this every morning
a typical day in the NYC subway with a dozen people tightly standing around a pole looking fairly bleak
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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thank you new york times for actually reporting WTF that is actually happening, none of this "thousands show up for no kings" bullshit I mean WTF
NYT headlines at the top: "Democrat Wins Virginia Governor’s Race With Forceful Anti-Trump Campaign" with subhead "First Big Result on Election Night Set to Shed Light on Nation’s Mood" , then below some maps and things "New York Mayor’s Race Draws Highest Turnout in Decades"
November 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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the website headline is blaming it on AI. which is ridiculous. show me the AI workers at target. target is laying off because they came out in favor of Trump and their customer base walked. amazon is laying off due to tariffs.
Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Vanishing as AI Starts to Bite Layoffs at companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending young and experienced workers alike into an unwelcoming market.
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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just the opening paragraph! a prosecutor...is texting a journalist about a huge high profile case they have ? I'm of course an idiot rube who knows nothing but ...wow!
Lindsey Halligan—the top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia—was texting me. As it turned out, she was texting me about a criminal case she is pursuing against one of the president’s perceived political enemies: New York Attorney General Letitia James.
October 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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I want to be able to express slightly negative opinions but i never want to see anyone blocking me in my notifications for any reason
three-paneled cartoon of a dog: "pls throw?" (as the dog holds some kind of a ball or frisbee) "no take!!" (as a hand arrives to retrieve the throwing thing) "ONLY THROW!" (with angry face)
October 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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look what came in the mail today from hyundai!! cant wait to try it
CCS1 to NACS adapter actually existing in reality
October 12, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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it's in the dictionary

unusually there's no definition that refers to the Marx version here. Merriam Webster has an even more terse definition

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...
working-class adjective [ before noun ] uk /ˌwɜː.kɪŋˈklɑːs/ us /ˌwɝː.kɪŋˈklæs/ belonging to a social group that consists of people who earn less than other groups, often being paid only for the hours or days that they work, and who usually do physical work rather than work for which you need an advanced education:
September 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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I think the Wikipedia page on this term is really helpful and everyone in this thread should read it

not surprisingly, the term means entirely different things in different contexts and we see here examples of each context being used as "the sole definition"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working...
Definitions As with many terms describing social class, working class is defined and used in different ways. One definition used by many socialists is that the working class includes all those who have nothing to sell but their labour, a group otherwise referred to as the proletariat.[3] In this sense, the working class includes white and blue-collar workers, manual and menial workers of all types, excluding individuals who derive their livelihood from business ownership or the labour of others.[4][verification needed] The term, which is primarily used to evoke images of laborers suffering "class disadvantage in spite of their individual effort", can also have racial connotations, applying diverse themes of poverty and implications about whether one is deserving of aid.[5] In other contexts the term working class refers to a section of society dependent on physical labour, especially when compensated with an hourly wage (for certain types of science, as well as journalistic or political analysis). Working-class occupations can be categorized into four groups: unskilled labourers, artisans, outworkers, and factory workers.[6][page needed] Common alternative definitions of working class include definition by income level,[7] whereby the working class is contrasted with a middle class on the basis of access to economic resources, education, cultural interests, and other goods and services, and the "white working class" has been "loosely defined" by the New York Times as comprising white people without college degrees.[8]
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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hi if you're a famous person and a little 300 follower nobody like me that has never spoken to you or has anything to do with you in any way is somehow a problem for you, just close your bsky account rather than blocking me, I really can't handle famous writers silently deciding I suck
profile for Rolling Stone Senior Writer Brian Hiatt with 7.1K followers. I have never seen this person before or addressed them in any way
September 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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can we nail him for copyright violation from "Frazier" on that third one?
logo for the TV show Frasier showing a line-drawing of a city skyline
July 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Is the NYT on drugs ? Trump *is literally* the "attack Iran" side, he is an accomplice to Netanyahu in a full blown regime change operation, just like Bush did in Iraq. His various followers are, as always , losers and suckers
Nyt headline and lede: Republicans Are Divided Over Iran. Will Trump Pick a Side? President Trump is trapped between the “America First” isolationists and others in his party who are cheering on Israel’s strikes against Iran.
June 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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i have conquered many such spaces
a 2006 subaru outback parallel parked in Brooklyn sometime in the 2010's with about half an inch to the bumpers of the cars behind and in front
May 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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blurry black dog taking a bite from the camera
March 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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geez, forget it, look at this, WTF are they like this for? WHY should they be "making progress" ?? Is Elon out of the government yet? then WHY??
Across the Capitol, the Senate’s top appropriators met privately Monday night. “We’re making good progress,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the chamber’s top Democratic appropriator, said as she left Appropriations Chair Susan Collins’ office. The Maine Republican delivered a similar readout.
February 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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This is OT, but from another part of the article, here we have it - why Schumer et al only talking about egg prices. "We did democracy and justice for the 2024 election, and we failed. they wanted us to do inflation. so now, we're doing inflation. Democracy / justice, nobody cares"
The problem is we have to separate what we’re hearing from the D.C. crowd from what we’re hearing in the streets. I go back to Arizona — they’re actually not talking about USAID. And they’re not talking about the courts. They’re still talking about egg prices. They’re still talking about the cost of everything. So one of the things we have to be very mindful of is that we may engage in a fight, but the rest of the American public may not be with us because they don’t understand this fight. And we need to make sure that we’re matching our politics to what actually is happening in the real world, because sometimes when we have that disconnect, we miss really, really badly. And unfortunately, now we know, we can’t miss. The stuff that’s happening right now is because we entirely missed where the American public was during the 2024 election.
February 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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really @marcelias.bsky.social ? "the courts are going to use private militias" seems like it needs more than a line in a paragraph here..... I think just the courts calling upon federal marshals alone would be an outrageous escalation, and then when they refuse (!), holy crap?
This will not end well for the Trump administration. Federal courts have the power of criminal contempt. If necessary, they can appoint their own prosecutors from the private bar. If the U.S. Marshals Service refused to enforce court orders, judges may all of a sudden find that they have the power to contract privately for that as well. There is old case law that found this power was inherent at least for Congress.
February 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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ooh ooh who blocked me? let's go see, hooray #blockstyle
a "1" in my bluesky chat means listifications giving me "the bad news" again
February 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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which is a lie

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Despite reporting that suggests that Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force has access to these Treasury systems on a “read-only” level, sources say Elez, who has visited a Kansas City office housing BFS systems, has many administrator-level privileges. Typically, those admin privileges could give someone the power to log into servers through secure shell access, navigate the entire file system, change user permissions, and delete or modify critical files. That could allow someone to bypass the security measures of, and potentially cause irreversible changes to, the very systems they have access to.
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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ALWAYS, always, give the NYT and whoever else some dumb "assurances" like "Twitter remains committed to free speech!" to just lull everyone into not taking this seriously enough
NYT: "Mr. Musk’s initiative is intended to be part of a broader review of the payments system to allow improper payments to be scrutinized and is not an effort to arbitrarily block individual payments, the people familiar with the matter said. Career Treasury Department attorneys signed off on granting the access, they added, and any changes to the system would go through a review process and testing."
February 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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FINALLY the word "Musk" on the front page you stupid fuckers
NYT front page Elon Musk’s Team Granted Access to Treasury Dept. Payment System Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is said to have given representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access late on Friday.
February 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Ok third time hopefully the charm. Car RED and car ORANGE from years past looked pretty good but were both solid 5th in every 6 car race. Car YELLOW has the center of gravity exactly right, right at the weight limit. Maybe I can get a 3rd place ?
Three pinewood Derby cars in red, orange and yellow
January 31, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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this quote from www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politica...
quote from Samantha Hancox-Li: "The funny thing about patriarchal societies is that they are not characterized by peace and order, but by constant conflict and disturbance. This is because of the nature of human reproduction: there are always more sons than there are slots for being a patriarch. The Ideal Family, by its very nature, produces too many people to fill all the Ideal Roles. And this is on top of the fact that there are always those who do not “fulfill their telos,” as Aristotle might have put it: the fags, the dykes, the whores, the trannies, the failsons—and other worse slurs I won’t put to print here. The bad women and the failed men: every social position in the system is partly defined by how you can fail at that role, how you can be a “defective ____.” And, as described above, these terms are very frequently racialized, or capable of being racialized—because that subaltern class is an inherent part of the system."
January 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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pups had a good day out today and did a good offleash sit for the camera
two black dogs, one a portuguese and the other a pit/husky mix that looks like a shepherd doing a nice leashless sit on a beach with a lot of rocks and gentle water behind them
January 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM