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“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”

@melindiscott @iWalkOutdoors Melinda, have you ever heard of a slippery slope argument? Because this is a textbook example

@iWalkOutdoors Why don't they just go the whole hog and say everyone must earn £100k

Green Party say they plan to ensure everyone has a minimum wage of £31,000pa. I run a business. I don’t earn that. I employ 2 people. They don’t earn that. The business I run doesn’t take in enough to pay that. I’d need to charge customers way more to afford that 🤷‍♂️. Or go bust.

growing up in cold spring was funny bc i encountered him as this guy that would busk at restaurants when i was a little kid and it wasnt until after he died i realized he was the GOAT. he used to run this roadside anti-iraq war protest in wappingers every week. an incredible man.

Charlie Kirk going 8 months now without saying anything racist or homophobic has been quite the accomplishment

@visualsofearth1 Ok woody

A rainy day in New York City

Was this before or after he met the pope?

this is so important to me

@AndreDreamlover IM SO GLAD SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED THIS

@clairo is #TrentonPosting #TrentonMakesTheWorldTakes

Socialist Pete Seeger, widely acknowledged to be one of America’s greatest folk singers, was born on this day in 1919.

@speaklaur What are the pages?? I’m in London!

born to live in london and claim free theatre tickets from random people on reddit and facebook forced to live up north

This is very clearly not protocol for restraining someone who has just been tasered and no once can offer an explanation defending this on the lines of police policy.

@Caementici @moultano Where the fuck did you minor in postmodernism, Hampshire?!

@moultano Was a minor study in Post-Modernism. I don't recall all the finer details, but a painted cube comes to mind

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

@moultano It already exists. It’s called postmodernism. It sucks.

@TurnerNovak Still in Boston!

One of the most insane things I’ve ever come across: Up until World War II, the majority of renters in NYC all moved at the same time on May 1st at 9am. This is because (almost) every housing lease in NYC expired on the same day. This goes back to an old Dutch tradition where every contract had an end date of May 1st. This was carried over when Dutch settlers immigrated to the US. And in 1820, the state of New York actually passed a law mandating that any housing contract without a specified term ended on May 1st. Many housing leases were just oral / handshake agreements and not actually written down, so they all had this same end date. At the height of Moving Day in the early 1900’s, it was estimated that over a million people in NYC all changed their residences at the same time. For context, NYC’s population was 1.5m in 1890 and 7.4m in 1940. Every year on May 1st, tens of thousands of farmers, etc came into NYC with wagons to make money moving people and their things around all day. There’s a few quotes about this on the Wikipedia page. A good one from 1832: “On the 1st of May the city of New York has the appearance of sending off a population flying from the plague, or of a town which had surrendered on condition of carrying away all their goods and chattels. Rich furniture and ragged furniture, carts, wagons, and drays, ropes, canvas, and straw, packers, porters, and draymen, white, yellow, and black, occupy the streets from east to west, from north to south, on this day. Every one I spoke to on the subject complained of this custom as most annoying, but all assured me it was unavoidable, if you inhabit a rented house. More than one of my New York friends have built or bought houses solely to avoid this annual inconvenience” Moving Day finally ended during WW2 because they couldn’t get enough able-bodied men in town to help move people. They were all away at war. These labor shortages + a general housing shortage + rent control finally put an end to NYC’s Moving Day.

@skyberpunk @Hezbolsonaro @men_teeth No one did! People talked about it for a day then it was over. The president didn’t show up to Burlington!!

@Hezbolsonaro @men_teeth Cool so no one has to care about the Palestinians who were shot in a hate crime in Vermont then, since it was only “attempted” murder?

Wait the dude in england didn't even kill the guys he stabbed? It's been wall to wall coverage for two people INJURED? Oh my god

more culturally significant than the renaissance btw

Someone PLEASE do Boston🙏🙏

I love Stevie, but this is why I’ve always preferred Joni

April!🌷