Big Worker

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Labor and employment lawyer, NYC-DSA, Sci-fi Socialist, Comrades with Kids, left YIMBY, history nerd, watching all the good tv twitter: @Big_Worker mastodon: @Big_Worker@ioc.exchange

Robert's Rebellion Lucerys Velaryon served as master of ships for King Aerys II Targaryen, being one of the king's bigger supporters against his son Rhaegar, the Prince of Dragonstone.[32] After Robert's Rebellion, the new king, Robert I Baratheon, granted the castle Dragonstone to his brother Stannis. The Velaryons have been sworn to House Baratheon of Dragonstone ever since.[33] Recent Events A Clash of Kings Lord Monford Velaryon answers Stannis Baratheon's summons when he crowns himself king and calls his banners. Stannis expects Monford will threaten to take his levies home unless they attack at once.[33] Monford's contribution to Stannis's royal fleet includes the large ships Pride of Driftmark, Bold Laughter, Harridan, and Seahorse.[34] When Stannis makes public the accusations of Joffrey Baratheon being born from incest, Monford states that only steel will decide the matter.[35]
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"Are you mad at something I said?" note from Widow's Bay
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Pig with a "wish a motherfucker would" expression on his face saying "make my day you literal son of a bitch"
Picture of my block notifications with a bunch of silly blocklists
Comic about how the jets at air shows are the same ones that kill people
63 + 33 + 3 + 1 = 100
Danny Devito dressed up like Andy Warhol gesturing at art
Illuminati real?
The angel of history
Snail says: I might not know what I'm saying, but I AM saying it loudly! Bird thinks: This fucking idiot has a point Bird says: OK I'M IN CHARGE NOW! Mouse says: Bird is in charge now? Snail says: Would he be that loud if he wasn't? https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/loudly/
Mazdak was an ancient Iranian Philosopher, who believed the scriptures (Zoroastrianism scriptures, this was pre-Islam) dictated radical social equality. He thought all property should belong to everyone, and wealth shared equally. He was so convincing that he even convinced the king to go along with it, and was able to successfully implement many of his social reforms. He also believed in getting rid of clerics, because they held religious authority over the population, which he thought was illegitimate. Since they were the judges, he of course "lost", and was executed, along with thousands of his followers. As with most ages and societies, those with huge amounts of power and property have never been too keen on philosophers that want to take it away. Eventually other rich and powerful Zoroastrian and Christian kings got wind of it, and challenged Mazdak to "debate" their clerics. These other kings were the judges, so naturally their guys won, and they brutally executed Mazdak and thousands of his followers. If Mazdak was a prototype for socialism, or even communism, I suppose you could say their reaction to it was a prototype for how to defeated socialism in the good old "marketplace of ideas".
Mad Men’s place in shows about history is also unique. There are many excellent TV series that depict history in dramatized fashion: Band of Brothers, Say Nothing, Miss Americana, and Death by Lightning are but a few. The main critical question for these programs, from a historian’s perspective, is how faithfully they reproduce history while remaining engaging as entertainment.
This trend is not confined to the UK – everywhere the killer clowns are taking over. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, Scott Morrison, Rodrigo Duterte, Matteo Salvini, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán and a host of other ludicrous strongmen – or weakmen, as they so often turn out to be – dominate nations that would once have laughed them off stage. The question is why? Why are the technocrats who held sway almost everywhere a few years ago giving way to extravagant buffoons? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/26/trump-johnson-nationalists-billionaire-oligarchs
A Campaign Event Unlike Any Other for Graham Platner The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate breaks matzah with Maine Jews for Passover. By Drew Himmelstein 4 hrs ago Graham Platner Seder U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner speaks at a Passover Seder April 2, 2026.
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Ramirez is the first United Methodist Latina in Congress. She has said: "In this church, my parents have shown me and my siblings that being a Christian is much more than words and certainly much more than participating on Sundays. Being a Christian is a way of living, a way of treating people, and the way we show the light of God through our actions." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Ramirez
So I live like a ghost while he's living like me It's not my house anymore And I sneak out the door while he's watching TV Head down to the cyborg store I get some new arms installed at the store Buy the biggest ones I can Head back to my house, Todd answers the door He sees more than just a man My right arm is a smasher like the trunk of a tree and the left one's a saw I cut the couch in half and then I smash the TV with my big smashy claw He's standing still and silent, I can't tell what he's thinking He blinks a single glowing red eye So I give him a shove and then Todd starts to cry Todd the T1000 scares me But I think he knows I've got right to exist And he sits in my favorite chair and dares me But when he looks over I am making a fist One finger at a time https://genius.com/Jonathan-coulton-todd-the-t1000-lyrics
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Many of our members are committed to defeating Trump and will vote tactically to that end. Others are committed to rejecting the human horrors and hollow principles Harris represents, so they will vote for a third-party candidate or leave their ballot blank. What’s most important is the organizing we do after Election Day and our ability to fight the capitalist class by strengthening our unions, mobilizing millions of people to fight injustice, and electing socialists to all levels of government.
Ines Schwerdtner Even the most Atlanticist conservatives in the Merz camp today think they can no longer depend on NATO and the US. We on the Left always said that we need a security system that is not dependent on NATO. But this also meant a security system that involved Russia. What we’re discussing now, in our party’s programmatic process, is how you can have a security system that isn’t about becoming an imperial force, akin to what maybe Emmanuel Macron would suggest.
Carrie arrives and tells Charles that she and Hamish have separated following a difficult marriage. Charles has an emotional crisis inside the church's back room. After David and Matthew counsel him, Charles decides to proceed with the ceremony. When the vicar asks whether anyone has a reason why the couple should not marry, David uses British Sign Language to say the groom has doubts and loves someone else. After Charles confirms this, a furious Henrietta punches him at the altar, knocking him out and ending the ceremony. Later at his flat, Charles and the group are discussing the fiasco when Carrie arrives to apologise for causing trouble. Charles again says he loves her and proposes a lifelong commitment without marriage, which Carrie accepts. As they kiss, a thunderbolt flashes across the sky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Weddings_and_a_Funeral
She claimed she was with Epstein and several other people who left her alone in the room with Trump. “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” she recalled Trump saying, according to the FBI report. She said he unzipped his pants and forced her head to his penis. She said she immediately bit him and Trump struck her, the report said. She told the FBI agents that she bit him because he “disgusted” her. In her third interview, she told agents she wanted to clarify how Trump reacted to her biting him, explaining that Trump “pulled her hair and punched her on the side of the head.”
Platner platform (Platnerform?) Equality for ALL I am tired of seeing politicians using small groups of people as a punching bag – be it race, or gender identity, or sexual orientation. Sadly, we have even Democrats trying to pander to what they think Trump voters want by peddling soft bigotry. (Doesn’t work, never has.) I will support passing, at last, federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination legislation https://www.grahamforsenate.com/platform
Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?
Speaking to Channel 4, Mr Polanksi said: What I am arguing for is an alternative alliance with countries based in Europe - it's almost like you need to create a union of European countries - plus Brazil and Mexico and Global South countries that recognise we cannot rely on Donald Trump. 'He is not a reliable ally, he is unpredictable.' He added that he wanted to reform Nato from within, but when it was pointed out this contradicted his previous calls for the UK to leave the alliance he replied: 'Let's talk about if it is possible to reform Nato from within. I don't think it is possible.' He went on to say that the UK should 'look at how we stop American imperialism, and also conversations about China and indeed Russia too'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15519637/Green-Zack-Polanski-Britain-ditch-Nato-military-alliance-EU-MEXICO.html
Voters are also clear on their status preference: 44% of registered voters favor statehood, 25% choose sovereignty in free association with the United States, and 19% prefer independence.
Lee Pace as Fernando Wood from Lincoln
Platner responded to a 2013 post on Reddit entitled “What is one question you have always wanted to ask someone of another race,” writing, “Why don’t black people tip?” He worked as a bartender at Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, where he was a guest bartender last month. “I work as a bartender and it always amazes me how solid this stereotype is,” he wrote. “Every now and again a black patron will leave a 15-20% tip, but usually it [is] between 0-5%. There’s got to be a reason behind it, what is it?”
There's a new woman with a disease on [blacked out] Rd and that woman is our daughter. Here's everything you need to know: What is the disease? Wendley-Chundt Syndrome How did she get it? She ordered a vial of the disease from the internet and injected herself (against our wish) What unique abilities does the disease give the user? Her stomach cann ow disgest certain metals, such as silver and some tin alloys. Are there any negative effects of the disease? No, it's a positive disease. Can me or my child contract the disease? No, not unless she spits in your open wound. What next? If you have our daughter over, please hide any SILVER JEWELRY or TIN-BASED ITEMS so she won't eat them, because she can now, due to the disease she instilled in herself. THAT'S ALL. HAVE A BLESSED DAY.