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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

in 2008 I saw a couple in a late model SUV packed with their belongings pull up to a gas station AND START GOING THROUGH THE TRASH TO LOOK FOR RECYCLABLES.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

at the record store I used to go to, the owner said he got over 100 applications one month *TO BE AN INTERN.* FOR FREE. AT THE RECORD STORE.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

and btw, this isn;t about "keeping everyone happy". this is about people's humanity. Niemoller forgot about that part too.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

not only is that apt in the beach side community unaffordable, I am working a 2nd job to afford my current apt. Again, I now have a master's degree and am in management. Many in my age cohort, me included, simply never recovered financially from 2008.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

so yeah i think that "fetishization" is a nostalgia for affordability. in 1994, I lived in a beach side community, went to community college, and paid for it all myself waiting tables and bartending. This is impossible now.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

"I feel like I know him. And right now, l'm watching my government facilitate the destruction of his life," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on his favorite fitness influencer Mohammed Hatem. youtube.com/shorts/oWgLI...

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Hayes: Gaza is starving. These are real people.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

i'm have a master's degree and i'm a manager at my firm, and I could not today afford to rent the apartment I rented in the late 1990s when I was a community college student paying rent with $ I earned waiting tables.

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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

trying and failing to understand the Overton window shift on coverage and statements on Gaza in the span of literally one week best i can tell it was from the right wing British newspaper of all places putting a starving baby on its cover — something that has long been undeniable front and center

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The number one cause of hating socialism is not having any idea what socialism is.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"why don't we use this environment-torching technology that steals from artists, can't render a human hand reliably or consistently, lies constantly, guzzles water, occasionally suggests users kill themselves, turns into Hitler and exists primarily at this point to separate labor from capital?"

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

she's doing the lord's work campaigning for mamdani and doesn't even know it

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Are we sure it's not parody? Is she maybe like a performance artist doing a Yes Men kind of thing?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

yes but then feel really guilty about wanting it even tho we know about the zillions of advertising $ and psychological manipulation in marketing techniques that are getting us to want it.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

when you are on "the left", however defined, you're aware of the cruelties and injustices that are a feature, not a bug, of the system we live in. The need to make sure we're doing the best we can cld be a way of managing the cognitive dissonance of participating in and benefitting from it.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It's no coincidence that I cook almost every night now that I work from home and only have one job and a very reasonable side hustle as opposed to working one job plus an 8 hour week side hustle in addition to 12+ hours a week commuting. I just have more time, energy, and mental space to do it.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

**commuting 1 1/5 each way to work. The other thing to think about here is that often, though of course not always, women tend to be tasked with keeping track of groceries and meal planning for everyone in the house. Doing that plus working two jobs plus commuting? Fuck that.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

When I was committing an hour and a half each way to work on the weekdays, plus working at eight hour day on Saturdays a second job the last thing I wanted to do was figure out groceries or cook. Or clean my kitchen after I had cooked. Or hunt through my fridge for Tupperware of leftovers.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I absolutely relate to this. One thing to also maybe think about as a degree to which many of us are working two jobs, commuting. The cognitive load it takes to plan a meal, prep it, keep track of the leftovers + you have so little spare time that u don't want to spend it chopping veggies.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I assume that at least a few were antisemites. Not sure if were Jewish, but it's certainly possible. Point being: there are so many more points of difference than there seem to be similarities. I hope that the DNC is paying attention.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

There was a fascist. There was someone who maybe was kind of a libertarian? There was that very thoughtful latino who seem to realize that maybe he was in the wrong room on the wrong side. There were two Persians surrounded by white supremacist, who thought they should get out of the country.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I mean... we had two people whose primary concerns seem to be depressed worker wages. We had people who were unwilling to come out and say that they were white supremacists or maybe had not to come to terms with the extent to their racism was animating their views.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

One of the most illuminating things about this format that there are so many opportunities to drive wedges within this coalition. I sure hope somebody at the DNC takes note.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

It's infuriating and horrible. Btw, have these self-appointed champions of the Jewish people thought about the consequences of using antisemitism as a political cudgel against "leftists" and in service of Bibi's agenda?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

why is he not blinking? how does he do that?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

What are.u saying then? that some restaurants in addition to pizza and places sometimes delivered food to some localities in some towns? But now they don't?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

right. individual restaurants delivered, sure. but were they called "taxi burritos" or "burrito taxis"? was this standard and expected? Was this a wide practice, common to mexican restaurants that disappeared with the apps?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

when i'm in my 60s and my arms are starting to get crepey can i get tattoos to hide this visible sign of aging or will it look like shit?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

We did not have that in LA either. Was there maybe a mexican restaurant that delivered? Sure. But could one assume that you could call a Mexican restaurant and get delivery? Absolutely not.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

They did not "taxi" anything. This is a delightful fantasy tho! I wish it were real :)

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Chinese food? Possibly. Pizza? definitely. Wahoos? Absolutely not. Source: in high school I dated a guy who worked at Wahoo's.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

one of the frustrating things about being 40+ yo is that people under 25 have no memory of what normal life was like 20 years ago and will believe anything. Like the claim that one could assume that Sabores Oaxaqueños had a delivery staff in the 1990s.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Also, the idea that you could just assume that Taco Loco #3 or Guisado's or La Puerta Oaxaquena offered delivery as a matter of standard practice...this never happened.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I'm not saying that there has never been Mexican food delivery in LA. Rather, I'm saying that as a lifelong angeleno I have never heard of a burrito taxi. I wish such a thing had existed in L.A., but it did not. Where did such a thing exist?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

there weren't? when was epstein arrested? when did he commit suicide? i believe it was *before* the vote on the BBB, no?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

where? where did burrito places have a dedicated delivery staff? Not in LA, where I have lived for 30+ years. Where were they called burrito taxis? Also not in LA. I'm so curious as to where I could have lived to be able to get a burrito taxi delivery. Is this maybe not in the US?

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We don't see it but...pretty sure it's there. it's strongly implied that Riker uses the holodeck for porno.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

vote blue no matter who for thee but not for me, as always.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

we can house our fellow Angelenos, or we can have housing that is used to store, accumulate, generate, and launder capital. But we can;t have both.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

And this: residential housing turned into venues. No one lives here. Most of the block is like this; I know because I've been to a couple houses on this street for events. www.wheel-houseproperties.com/portfolio-1-...

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Wheelhouse Los Angeles — Wheelhouse Properties

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I have also visited dozens creative offices over the years that are in houses. The houses are used for no other purpose than to be the office for a creative agency. No one sleeps there. No one lives there.

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elaineparks.bsky.social @elaineparks.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I bet this is an undercount btw. I live in a motor court with two 4-plexes facing each other. One has had a vacant apt since the neighbor moved out in Oct 2024; the other since the neighbor moved out in Feb 2025. Neither are being offered for rent yet.

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