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Artist for fun & I was working office jobs before 2021, now a part time retail tool. 90's kid. Married to @professorherb.bsky.social Banner art is drawn by me, the pfp is a picrew. ko-fi.com/lightanddarklove lightanddarklove.tumblr.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is unsustainable, especially now that billionaires are taking over our government.
A tweet from Americans For Tax Fairness announces that the combined wealth of four wealthy Americans has reached $1 trillion. It names Musk, Bezos, Ellison, and Zuckerberg, noting their wealth was $74 billion twelve years ago.
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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional
One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. “We’d have times when you’d deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out,” said the former executive.

Another industry executive said: “What’s most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity.”
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
FACT! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Scott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yes. By their very existence, they are deeply immoral entities. They should not exist, and the necessary efforts, actions, nd mindset to become one are morally reprehensible. There. Are. No. Ethical. Billionaires
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/12/2024
This smells a lot like what UnitedHealthCare has been doing. Use an AI to deny a shit ton of people in need. It's being described as a "hurt first, fix later" approach. Stop being worried about welfare fraud by just doing universal basic income and taxing those with high incomes more than the UBI!
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 06/12/2024
In the Namibia universal basic income experiment that lasted two years, crime dropped by 42%. Animal poaching dropped by 95%. In Canada's Dauphin pilot of a basic income guarantee where poverty in an entire town was eradicated for four years, crime dropped by 15% and violent crime dropped by 37%.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This has happened at least three times that I know of: A gender-clinic insider comes forward with lurid, non-specific stories of rushed transitions and botched assessments. As soon as anyone engages with actual patients and statistics, however, the allegations fall apart.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
murder is an awful answer for being a teenager buying Skittles, or for being a man rumored to have passed a fake $20, or for being a lady asleep in her bed, and yet here we all are
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
There’s one clear answer to “how we got here” and it’s this.
Billionaires' wealth has more than doubled to $14 trillion in just one decade, according to UBS
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 06/12/2024
Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support
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Amnesty: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with U.S. Support
Amnesty International has released a landmark report that concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, making it the first major human rights group to do so. The nearly 300-page...
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Jenny @jennyserenty.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My cat is battling infectious peritonitis and has been hospitalized for over two months. We really need help Any retweet or donation, no matter how small, would mean the world to us. Thank you for your kindness her fundraiser: fundtails.com/f/support-ja... Twitter: x.com/jennyserenty...
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Support Jasmine's Recovery
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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This could be a game-changer for a lot of folks.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Sound of Fear on Air
It is an ominous sign that Morning Joe felt it had to apologize for something I said.
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Maebe Pale Moonlight 🌙 @kindasortamaebe.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
i promise you have have far more in common with every trans person than you do with the corporate or government elite
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Another ⬇️ crucial piece of the puzzle, highlighting the urgent need to heavily tax the ultra-rich and dismantle oligarchy to restore the power to the people. #Democracy #Limitarianism #WealthTax
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To beat Trump, we need to know why Americans keep voting for him. Psychologists may have the answer | George Monbiot
US culture is an incubator of ‘extrinsic values’. Nobody embodies them like the Republican front runner, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Income Movement @income-movement.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Jason @jasyo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This a good explainer about the differences between negative income taxes and universal basic income.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If you see this post, can you please help spread this information? #ASafeChoice is a referral network of physicians who provide medication abortion services ACROSS THE US. People everywhere need to know about this option. These doctors have capacity to help more women! Let’s spread word! ❤️✊
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Click to Visit #ASafeChoice Network
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Too tired (she/her) @lightanddarklove.dftba.social · 05/12/2024
I'm not here for everyone's wrapped unless it's Nintendo or Steam games. #BoycottSpotify Might have to start muting people or blacklist "Spotify" and "wrapped" for the next few days...
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Too tired (she/her) @lightanddarklove.dftba.social · 05/12/2024
Pick a movie, keep one actor, rest are Muppets. Everything Everywhere all at Once, keep Ke Huy Quan (Waymond).
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The 300 Whole Foods workers forming a historic union in Philly know what they're up against. They called out "the company’s thirst for profits" and said management talks about the store bringing in $1.6 million in a matter of days while workers struggle. substack.perfectunion.us/p/meet-the-w...
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Meet the Workers Who Could Organize the Only Whole Foods Union
We spoke to the Philadelphia workers who could reverse Amazon’s union-busting playbook.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to Oxfam. There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality. It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
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World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity, as “the shadow of global oligarchy hangs over UN General Assembly,” says Oxfam | Oxfam International
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It really can't be stated enough how the AI craze is rooted deeply in utter vitriolic disrespect for the working class. Like I've seen multiple cases of this tech being marketed directly on sticking it to us filthy poors who want things like "benefits" and "fair pay for our labor"
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
pretty grim when health insurance company executives have to try to hide their identities online like they're public school history teachers, government employees or doctors who care for transgender people
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“Both Tesla and SpaceX quite likely would not exist as successful businesses if it were not for the use of public funding, either through subsidies, through the electric car industry, or through actual government contracting in the case of SpaceX,” Ramaswamy said in 2022 on a Fox News podcast.
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Before DOGE, Ramaswamy spent years attacking Musk for ties to China | CNN Politics
Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chair of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency alongside billionaire Elon Musk, has a lengthy history of attacking his partner’s ties to China, frequently referring ...
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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
2024 currently has more known games industry layoffs than 2023+2022 combined. 2024 is roughly 600 layoffs away from doubling 2023. There is still plenty of business days left in the month. I can't emphasize enough how extreme these last few years have been. So far.
known games industry layoffs by yearknown games industry layoffs by month
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Zoey @smolzoey.moe · 18/05/2023
repost if you love girls 🥺💕
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🎃 Camp Chrystal Lauke Manson 阿劉 @chrislaumanson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
........ Why am I only just now realising that UBI is actually literal wealth redistribution It makes *sense* Considering a system where wealth is concentrated, taxing everyone on a progressive scale then ensuring everyone gets a stipend forces some of that wealth to move back through the system.
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Angry Maxine Role Model @jocrew.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I’m just getting fed up with the government (and SCOTUS) telling people what they can and can’t do with their own damn bodies. It has to stop.
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Michael Haller, M.D. @mike-haller.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Pediatric Endocrinologist here. I have repeatedly seen the life saving effects of trans care. I promise that our team will continue to advocate for the rights of trans people of all ages. As a Jew, I know what it looks like when “first they came for….” and no one spoke up. I won’t be silent
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David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The best ornament
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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
daily reminder that your government could tax polluters and roll out a universal basic income tomorrow, solving poverty and sustainability, but instead they choose to allow a small class of people to hoard more and more wealth whilst the planet crumbles
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🦇🏳️‍⚧️ Erispookability 🏳️‍🌈🦇🩸🩸🩸🩸😋 @erisponsibility.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We need more dumb devices, like a smart home that's actually just a single control panel for your devices that's not connected to the internet or your phone and doesn't extract your data for limitless capitalisation of personal info. just make a good remote.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries. It the procedure goes over a certain time, anesthesia will not be covered for the duration. www.asahq.org/about-asa/ne...
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Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures
In an unprecedented move, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield plans representing Connecticut, New York and Missouri have unilaterally declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia care if the surgery or pro...
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A new study from the #LSE reveals the brutal truth: 50 yrs of #US tax cuts, which promised to 'trickle down' and boost jobs and income for everyone, have only served one purpose—to enrich the wealthy. It's time to demand justice and build an economy that works for everyone! #Limitarianism #WealthTax
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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post
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A Chinese national, charged with fraud by the SEC, just sent Donald Trump $18 million
Chinese Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun paid $6.2 million for a banana — sold by Sotheby's as conceptual art — and then ate it last Friday.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
And where reputable journalists and thinkers go, so do elected officials. I’ve been getting asked lately about a more serious + systemic migration to Bluesky among electeds. Idk the answer but it highlights how much of a breaking point misinfo & throttling has become for Twitter(& other platforms)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
going to keep saying: it's important for basic functioning for a society to discourage baldfaced lying
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Alison Smaalders @vividwings.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Working conditions are a huge one! There are a lot of jobs people would happily do for UBI+relatively low pay *if* they had stable schedules, safe working conditions, good processes/guidelines, and were supported by management.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
BREAKING: The Biden administration is proposing the abolition of the sub-minimum wage for workers with disabilities. Currently employers can pay workers with disabilities less than $7.25/hr, and bosses report paying as little as 5 cents an hour. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Seeks to End Subminimum Wage for Workers With Disabilities
President Joe Biden’s Department of Labor is proposing to abolish below-minimum-wage pay for people with disabilities, targeting a long-controversial program whose fate will now rest with the incoming...
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 02/12/2024
With alt-text, because yes
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"Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else.
The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn't be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves."
— Everyone Into The Grinder
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ToughPigs @toughpigs.com · 02/12/2024
There is never an excuse for harassment of any kind.  The Muppets have taught us:

To treat all people, monsters, pigs and frogs with respect.

To believe people who are hurting and asking for help.

To admit mistakes and learn from them.

And the Muppet fandom has taught us that we are a vast tapestry of wonderful individuals, bigger than any one person.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/12/2024
The presidential candidate that lost by less than 1% in South Korea in 2022 ran on universal basic income. The conservative guy who barely won recently declared martial law. Coulda, woulda, shoulda had UBI instead. www.ft.com/content/6fef...
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South Korean parliament votes to block martial law
[FREE TO READ] Move is dramatic escalation of power struggle between lawmakers and the head of state
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/12/2024
"Israelis don’t get the news that everyone else in the world is getting" about atrocities committed in Gaza, says @haggaim.bsky.social. "That is not being shown on Israeli television, in Israeli newspapers." www.democracynow.org/2024/12/3/hagg…
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Rachel 💜✨ @rachelicate.swifties.social · 02/12/2024
It’s been a while since I posted Carl, so have a pic of him resting on my bed!
A gray and white cat laying on a comforter on Rachel’s bed. The cat is curled up and the front paws are on front of his face.
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Too tired (she/her) @lightanddarklove.dftba.social · 03/12/2024
The Breakfast Club was the first one, my mom showed to me before high school 🚬 It came out before the PG13 label was invented and she felt it was one that would have been rated lower if that was an option. The first R rated movie I saw in theatres was Clerks 2, with my mom, stepmom and dad 😬😳
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Castel @castel023.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
💙 #arcaneseason2    #caitvi
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