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Geography postdoc. Feminist geopolitics, arts, youth. Cambridge, UK (he/him)
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I was just watching the Rishi episode of Industry and thinking maybe, just maybe, gambling addiction is pretty bad and tacking a phone number read at 2x speed at the end of a sports betting ad isn’t a meaningful way of dealing with it.

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Today may be the first time time that Ryanair did not “automatically” allocate me a middle seat and then put me (6’3”, 35,000 kg) next to the two biggest, burliest men heading to our common destination. Respect, I guess.

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"Ranked choice voting also disenfranchises voters" by giving them more power to choose who wins. Uh huh. Lol.

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"This puts our entire election system in the hands of ONE person", other than the governor and 90 members of the state legislature I just mentioned

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The Arizona ballot measure to decrease the tipped minimum wage is called the "Tipped Worker Protection Act." You can't make it up.

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I love reading the voter pamphlet because you always find gems like this, and it's easy to know what to skip because it always says "Sponsored by the Arizona Free Enterprise Club."

Response to Proposition 133 from a voter:
"PROPOSITION 133 / HCR 2033
Long & complicated ballot got you down?
I have the solution: Just "swipe left" by VOTING NO ON EVERY MEASURE REFERRED BY THE LEGISLATURE.
That is EVERY one of the 11 items that passed with an HCR or SCR.
That includes 133, 134, 135, 311, 312, 313, 314 and others not numbered at the time of this writing.
The Republican majority in each chamber has become living proof that running for the legislature is now the last resort of the unemployable.
They are simply incapable of acting in the public interest.
They had NO TIME to seriously address Water, Education, Transportation, Housing, Technology, Consumer Protection, Health Care, Environmental and all the other REAL issues much less pass a serious Budget.
They were TOO BUSY "in recess" while collecting per diem, posing, manipulating, and filing useless lawsuits for which YOU are paying.
It's not that they have the institutional memory of Minute Rice, it's just that they d
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DEBATE WATCHING TIP: don’t

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@dinok.bsky.social
Geography postdoc. Feminist geopolitics, arts, youth. Cambridge, UK (he/him)
72 followers110 following77 posts