Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This has a similar vibe to how the UFW runs their social media. A day by day stream of photos and explanations of who their members are, the work they do, and how they feed all of us. Just humanizing the work and the workers. 110
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In IT we call this dogfooding. You have to use the same systems and products that you foist upon the end users, or you'll never experience the frustrations or identify the issues. 001
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Not disputing your overall point, but that feels really high for the non-salary costs. At the UW the fringe benefit load rate for instructional and research faculty is 26.9%. 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 31/08/2026More believable when Michael Douglas read it in The American President. "You want a character debate, Bob? You better stick with me, 'cause Sydney Ellen Wade is way out of your league." 040
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Words Americans can't pronounce are something something barriers to trade. Saskatchewan. Toque. About... 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Soon enough we can stop trying to pronounce Nanaimo, and call them by their proper name, America Bars. 150
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 29/07/202627% is the floor. "They put party identification, personal prejudice, whatever ahead of rational judgement. ... That's crazy behaviour. I think you have to assume a 27% Crazification Factor in any population." kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunc... 000
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Somehow my brain served up the Jeff Parke and "Pain Machine" ad. 000
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Scuffing the rims on my Camry (America's standard unit of car) still feels bad. You just don't feel like you have to fix it. 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Wait perhaps two years after the burials for the citizens to forget. Six months if waiting for Americans to forget. 000
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I'd phone banked for her in the general last time vs Kent, and they evidently were calling past volunteers. 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The trolley car problem, but your answer is to steal the switching mechanism and sell it to buy meth. 050
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I was supposed to phone bank for her this evening, but after checking in on her last few statements (and votes), that's gonna be a hard pass from me. 120
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 13/07/2026My friends and I didn't skip class and end up listening to Martin Sheen reading pro-environmental poetry to a huge Portland crowd in support of Jerry Brown because Clinton was the leftmost candidate. 020
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 12/07/2026It feels like the argument that you can't weigh in on the impact of firearms on society if you haven't mastered the vocabulary preferences of gun owners. 040
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Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 12/07/2026He fought like hell against the rights of the LGBT+ community, against healthcare for working people, and in favor of ill conceived and unnecessary wars. He may have loved our country, but he was an enemy to our people. 1263
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Evidently, "Nancy Drew is an independent young woman who takes on detective work, which might be encouraging for some parents but may conflict with stricter household views on gender roles.". Who knew The Secret of the Old Clock was so problematic. 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 30/06/2026As a child I would have loved that. As an adult, I absolutely could not have been trusted with the "will it incinerate?" home game. 1111
Reposted by Pas PretDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism. 595441748
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Lock in on the glyphs for baguette, cigarette, haughtiness, and strike. 110
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Something like the Florence Oregon whale detonation? www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...youtube.comThe Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved iconYouTube video by KATU News 000
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 30/05/2026They're literally a one minute walk from the light rail station. 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The conspiracy shelf at Left Bank in Seattle at least used to be labeled LBJFKKK. 0110
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 27/04/2026They opened one at my last job as a return-to-office "perk". I started bringing in horrors like the "who was Ronald Reagan" children's book and early microwave cookbooks. Many middle managers contributed their copies of "who moved my cheese." 1130
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 26/04/2026youtube.com/shorts/iP8Lw...youtube.comAlmost Live! presents Vanishing SeattleYouTube video by KING 5 Seattle 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Scotchguard on your flannel and you're an Astoria native. 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 14/04/2026It shut down his Medicare and Medicaid fraud back in the day too. 070
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 14/04/2026After surplussing our drives, we labeled the last backup tape we had on hand "Bitcoinz" and left it out for younger employees to find. 000
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Two cats, their whole beings focused, waiting for a toy to move. One toy on a string, completely entangled in the paws and claws of the first of these cats. One human, who has never seen frozen, singing "let it go, let it go, something something, let it go" wildly off key. 020
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Maybe like the war, the negotiations have also been with us for 74 years... 000
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Trading his Turkish Airlines miles for a poorly maintained bunker in someone's front garden. 010
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I've arranged an SFO layover just to run up to El Farolito for a Super Burrito. 131
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 24/03/2026That second photo is all four horsemen: Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Sassy. 020
Pas Pret @paspret.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Could someone describe the pattern in the Montreal map? My color vision obscures any difference between francophone and highly bilingual. 010
Reposted by Pas Pret🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 23/03/2026This is like me starting a fight and redefining victory as “getting my shoes back.” 18769141
