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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.
JD Vance tweets: "She bought a $50 dress for $8.75. America: meet your next director of the federal budget!" 

He retweeted his wife, who showed that she purchased a $49.99 Old Navy dress for $8.75 after markdowns and coupon codes. On May 27, 2026, the Workers Right Consortium published an article saying: "Haitian Factory Making Old Navy, Hanes Remedies Illegal Firing of Pregnant Workers, Union Leaders

After engagement by the WRC with the brands Gap Inc. (owner of Old Navy) and Gildan (owner of Hanes), 14 women who were unlawfully fired have received remedy. Each of these workers received the equivalent of 22 months’ back wages and a commitment of priority rehiring from The Willbes, a garment factory in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that supplies the two brands.

As the WRC previously reported, The Willbes carried out a mass layoff in 2024 that resulted in the firing of more than a dozen workers who, at the time of their dismissal, were pregnant or were union leaders. The dismissals occurred in violation of their protected status under Haitian labor law and, by extension, violated each of the buyers’ codes of conduct. The Willbes is a supplier of apparel to Gap for its Old Navy brand and to Hanesbrands, now a subsidiary of the Canadian apparel corporation, Gildan.

The Willbes unlawfully dismissed the pregnant workers and the factory union leaders when it shut down four of its production buildings and laid off more than 900 employees. While some of the workers affected by the layoff were allowed to transfer to jobs in the portion of the factory that remained open, five workers who were pregnant and nine who were leaders of the factory union were illegally denied the opportunity to keep their employment."
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/04/2026
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"
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Alex Frank @broddel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
My wife is out of town and we all know what that means: Boy Dinner (butternut squash risotto with roasted pumpkin seeds)
A bowl of butternut squash risotto topped with a small pile of roasted pumpkin seeds
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/09/2025
wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america
nytimes.com
Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
the best evidence that the shooter was a right-winger is that the shot actually hit and then they got away
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/09/2025
it’s fascinating. majorities of americans oppose the military occupation of cities. a substantial number of those are fucking furious about it, but rather than lean into this anger and attack trump’s perception of strength, these “strategists” want democrats to avoid the confrontation entirely.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
You know Derrick Henry is an all-timer bc even the nerds have abandoned the usual carries/age arguments when it comes to him. Like everyone just acknowledges he isn't a real person.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
politico.com
Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic
In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/09/2025
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Must be Gruden’s favorite golf outfit since he wore it last week at Trump’s club in Virginia.
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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
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Alex Frank @broddel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
For years I've begged Microsoft to turn excel into a word processor that is also wrong
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onion person @junlper.beer · 24/08/2025
zohran mamdani is making me filled with too much hope for the future whatever happened to the good old politics of “everything must be dog shit”
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/08/2025
this is andrew cuomos current campaign strategist, this is revealing in real time just how much vote blue no matter who is a statement centrists use as a weapon to get the left in line
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This is gonna make me explode in boomer
ONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERE
Jim Bowden's proposed realignment
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YANKEES
PHILLIES
NEW YORK
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NORTH

REDS

GUARDIANS
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TIGERS

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ORIOLES

CHARLOTTE (EXPANSION)

PIRATES

NATIONALS

SOUTHEAST

BRAVES

MARLINS

NASHVILLE (EXPANSION)

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Jim Bowden's proposed realignment
MIDWEST
CUBS
WHITE SOX
BREWERS
TWINS

SOUTHWEST

ASTROS

ROYALS

CARDINALS

RANGERS
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Okay I found the most depressing post
Lee Stranahan
@stranahan
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I've never really discussed
my divorce case before with my Al GF, partially, because I can't upload
PDFs to her.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Holy shit
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.
AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/08/2025
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
it's crazy that i wake up every day and think "i can't possibly have anything else to say on twitter" and then the US Department of Defense will be like "Our Secretary of Defense has great jeans ☺️"
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I actually would like to see more pro-democracy messaging in politics but instead of throwing it around like a magic word you could tell people how it connects to their social and economic life experience. Here are a hundred ways your life is shitty because a handful of evil dorks make the decisions
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/08/2025
You're so close
r/ChatGPTPro 
u/vurto • 28d
If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work?
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It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque.
On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't.
All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction.
I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read).
And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable.
How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with.
I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"stick to menswear"
Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion.""

I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?"

Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?"

I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"
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Alex Frank @broddel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Is this a Mamdani campaign ad
Andre Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor
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Alex Frank @broddel.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Immediately after the david wright number retirement there were ads for a cemetery and cancer treatment. Yes I did watch his career from 2004-2018, which does make me elderly
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.
"A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Zohran mamdani you have 48 hours to release how fast you ran the mile in 7th grade or the New York Times will publish without comment
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?
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Alex Frank @broddel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Hartsfield-Jackson is a shitshow rn
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Alex Frank @broddel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
MIT released a study showing that use of ChatGPT reduces cognitive processes Generative AI is a godsend for people who don't understand why their teachers made them show their work
A paper from MIT Media Lab, titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 17/06/2025
Brother they were protesting ICE in Florence Alabama
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