Today in capitalism producing perverse incentives to be wasteful: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Chicken tax” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax https://mastodon.social/media/T0bIidWJW8YRvYkRypI https://mastodon.social/media/hY-siGTK5cW9NLoQ-oM https://mastodon.social/media/VYF_6__uUsK-Tar-eho
@Josie awoo!
drugs, health
@vahnj oh hey, I guess I'm not the only one at the respiration aggravation station today!
florida prisoners are beginning a strike to end prison slavery today https://medium.com/@DevynSpringer/florida-prisoners-to-launch-operation-push-strike-against-prison-slavery-5845b76521a0
Today, on Martin Luther King Day, there will be a prisoner’s strike in Florida. Please read this article on it, support it, and spread the word: https://t.co/9cDrRydbYn
@girlfiend a-awoo?
@shel dogs are good, I'm glad to know y'all
@bug *offers some soothing tea*
@vahnj I'm not an ebooks bot, but here's a kobold https://twitter.com/planetepics/status/950562800509865985
https://asonix.dog/media/7P--c8gIbOw-10Ye28Y She is coming to bring you kisses, please be patient c:
@bea My doc's handwriting was bad enough on my blood test requisition form one time that they checked my cortisol and not my estradiol
@girlfiend I feel like scritches are way more intimate? Like, a headpat is totally fine in public spaces, while scritches are more conditional on the kind of space
the short version. (mention of knives)
it's a thing some black women learned to do to get attention while they're talking, because they are so frequently talked over
"ratchet", unlike what many will tell you, comes from the Jamaican culture of carrying "ratchet knives" (Okapi brand folding knives) for self-defence and general purpose. "ratchet" as an adjective describes people in poor circumstances (with a high need for self-defense)
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