Archive for August, 2017

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After A Year, Seattle’s New Minimum Wage Hasn’t Raised Retail Prices

bastlynn:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

Shocking News Update: giving workers a living wage that actually allows them to afford basic necessities while being able to save to treat themself to something nice sometimes has not lead to the destruction of the economy and the downfall of civilisation as we know it

Republicans everywhere left baffled

*GASP*

It’s almost like this is… consistent with 70 years of documented impact of minimum wage increases…

http://www.businessinsider.com/minimum-wage-effect-on-jobs-2016-5

Full report: http://www.nelp.org/publication/raise-wages-kill-jobs-no-correlation-minimum-wage-increases-employment-levels/

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by on August 31, 2017 at 7:54 pm
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archipithecus: professorfangirl: bassfanimation: comedownstairsandsayhello: frecklesandink: momamiaaa: Jellyfish Lake in Palau. Apparently the jellies have lost their ability to sting because of lack of predators in the lake and you can swim with them! BUCKET LIST. WAIT BUT THAT’S NOT EVEN[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 31, 2017 at 6:40 pm
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krakenpocalypse: cycas: writer-robin: Christopher Tolkien explains why his father, JRR Tolkien, wrote down “The Hobbit” in the first place, when it was originally intended to be an oral bedtime story for his children. (found in the forward to The Hobbit[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 31, 2017 at 6:39 pm
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sobbing-jester: Different people, different ways of reenergizingTWITTER/*not a peer-reviewed psychological theory, just what people have told me and I  know from myself

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by on August 31, 2017 at 5:59 pm
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finnglas: I’ve been contemplating for several days something, and I’ve been trying to distill it into meaning, and put nice little bullet points on how this relates to things that have been bugging me about some common Discourses I’ve been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 31, 2017 at 5:40 pm
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ellactra: klubbhead: libertarirynn: Howard Foster and Myra Clark, high school sweethearts forced to break up in the 60s due to racist social pressure. They reunited 40 years later and got married. Beautiful then, beautiful now That’s amazing!

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by on August 31, 2017 at 5:38 pm
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positivedoodles: [Image description: Drawing of an orange and blue whale saying “Your writing doesn’t have to be popular to be good. Your writing doesn’t have to be popular to matter. Your writing doesn’t have to be popular to be worth writing,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 31, 2017 at 6:36 am
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neptunes-salty-butthole: m4ge: setakou: kiyye: redead-red: finejeeze: shinysquirtlesquad: sugimoto-reimi: asahisplushrumps: jehancourf: cursmudgeon: bawlgoblin: please tell me the wildest shit that happened in homestuck’s fanbase, its like listening to old tales that can’t be true but are. Well there was the girl[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 31, 2017 at 5:11 am
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thesylverlining: santorumsoakedpikachu: autistic-knight-errant: I honestly think that we would eliminate one of the major causes of ableism if we stopped basing people’s worth off how much revenue they generate. This measure is worthless. Actually, it is worth less than nothing.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 31, 2017 at 2:57 am
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gilotyna815: zelda64l: Hiveswap only got a release date because the McElroys said the word, “Homestuck” Hussie, listening to the podcast: SHIT I FORGOT

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by on August 31, 2017 at 2:40 am
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roachpatrol: kmclaude: bethgreenewarriorprincess: fandomisnotyoursafespace: yourshipisfine: Y’know, if I were an adult in fandom who was looking to get close to a bunch of kids and teenagers for grooming/manipulation/power game purposes, I’d totally do it by being a Protective Fandom Mom/Dad[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 31, 2017 at 12:26 am
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jumpingjacktrash: kiramartinauthor: WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY: 1. You’ll never write anything if you don’t faceroll that first draft, loves. just bang it the fuck out. let it suck. just make it HAPPEN

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by on August 31, 2017 at 12:23 am
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oneterabyteofkilobyteage: original url http://www.geocities.com/absolutezeldacube/ last modified 2001-07-26 05:20:56

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by on August 31, 2017 at 12:23 am
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kanaya: papercorvids: Raise your hand if you’re terrified of YouTubers playing Hiveswap, introducing it to preteens and undertale fans, therefore prompting them to read Homestuck, creating new fans and another few years of toxicity, grey face paint, 7yP1Ng QU1RK2, shipping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 31, 2017 at 12:09 am
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tatterdemalionamberite: words-writ-in-starlight: elodieunderglass: redcharade: I guess I had so completely absorbed the prevailing wisdom that I expected people in bankruptcy to look scruffy or shifty or generally disreputable. But what struck me was that they looked so normal. The people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 30, 2017 at 11:40 pm
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p5stuck: lovinovargas17: winchestersons: ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT WE WERE PLAGUED BY THAT FREAKING POST FOR WEEKS WHEN WE COULD’VE HAD THIS???? #it’s like the ios7 update for a post

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by on August 30, 2017 at 10:26 pm
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tedlyanderson: queerlyalex: raychus: hi i just love sharing my fav scene from sesame street ever big bird is canonically nonbinary Same for Gonzo

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by on August 30, 2017 at 9:22 pm
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dancingspirals: attackofthekillershwees: assignedtwinkatbirth: Tbh I never read Gifted Kid™ Angst as “I’m no longer special” but more like “I had unrealistically high academic expectations put upon me at a very young age and learned to measure my worth by academic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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by on August 30, 2017 at 3:19 pm
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starcre8tor: Is this meme still happening?? lolSend me some smooches y’all~ you know the drill 💖(character+number )

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by on August 30, 2017 at 3:11 pm
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wetwareproblem: I fucking love how Kira Nerys has never seen a group of scrappy underdogs getting fucked by the system that she wasn’t immediately ready to die for.

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by on August 30, 2017 at 4:43 am
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kasaron: syncretic11: dvas0ng: defilerwyrm: hasufin: seananmcguire: knitmeapony: seananmcguire: priscellie: Man. I feel so thirsty lately.  I can’t drink enough water. I feel like the senator guy in that X-Men movie after getting exposed to Magneto’s mutant machine, and he keeps[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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