when u die they take all thr microplastics in ur brain & place them upon a glittering scale. only if their weight is greater than a game boy pocket may u ascend to the realm of the gods otherwise ur soul must return to earth & try to get more microplastics

Trash companies. Flag down a yellow cab if you can, NYC.

BMbcmerchant.bsky.socialOct 10, 2024 9:51pm

To get around minimum wage laws in New York, where drivers must be paid for time on the clock in between rides, Uber and Lyft are simply locking them out of the app so there's no record that they're on the roads. Incredible, infuriating story by @leonyin.org www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay

Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of their apps to game a NYC wage law, denying drivers millions in pay

Occurs to me that part of the reason why NYT/Politico/et al are mad about their lack of access to Harris is because without access the political desk is totally adrift. There’s shockingly little capacity to, say, read campaign policy papers and find the story in there.

I made a tool to search the “find-your-friends.json” file from your #cohostfriends-of-eggbug.vercel.appgithub.com/eramdam/frie...#heycohost

wishing all [grammar-check designers who think it's necessary to flag "all of the" for replacement with "all the"] a very [run face-first into a seguaro]. In my accent that replacement is *not* valid, get your mouth off of Hemmingway's mediocre dick and accept that wordiness can be clear

A school district in Pennsylvania approved nearly $9,000 ‘to cut windows into the ‘gender-identity’ student bathrooms so passerby can look inside’

Bathrooms with a view: Cutting windows into student restrooms is a new level of weird

These adults want to make it easier for other people to watch your children while they’re in the bathroom. It’s absolutely mind-boggling.

These moral panics serve no one, alienate young people and make parents more afraid www.techdirt.com/2024/10/02/n...@mmasnick.bsky.social

New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise

These days, there’s a formula for articles pushing the unproven claims of harm from social media. Start with examples of kids harming themselves, insist (without evidence) that but for social media…

this is why the "fascism is already happening/both parties are the same" stuff frustrates me it is genuinely bad in a lot of ways now, but obscuring the stakes and the extent to which it can get worse does not do anyone any favors, and it is important to understand what's coming

Instead of shaming people for not using alt-text we should be emphasizing that using alt-text benefits you, the poster, by: 1. helping your posts reach a wider audience 2. giving context to your posts 3. making your posts more searchable 4. giving you an extra opportunity to sneak in jokes