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Washtenaw County Democratic Party endorsements on Ann Arbor City proposals:

FOR Proposal A: Sustainable Energy Utility
FOR Proposal B: Parks millage renewal

AGAINST Proposal C: Nonpartisan elections
AGAINST Proposal D: Public campaign funding

#A2Council

Tucking guide for trans women.

Step 1: Place blankets on top of your partner, making sure to cover vulnerable areas such as the feet.

Step 2: Place all necessary plushies next to your partner.

Step 3: Place a kiss on your partner's forehead.

#Trans #Tucking

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

Companies Can’t Ask You to Shut up to Receive Severance, NLRB Rules

The board reverses two previous decisions that held that such severance agreements were lawful. Limits on free speech have become increasingly common aspect of many severance agreements.

Please don't clog up the Transgender Concerns Form with so many spurious reports that it becomes unusable, and the Missouri government gets Big Mad. Because that would be wrong. Here's a link to the form so you'll know exactly where not to do that: https://ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/transgender-center-concerns
Transgender Center Concerns

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Tell Congress not to undermine the rights of millions while leaving a gaping hole in our privacy. Stop the #RestrictAct https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-restrict-act-and-pass-real-privacy-legislation @eff
Stop the Restrict Act and Pass Real Privacy Legislation

Under the guise of curbing data collection by foreign governments, the RESTRICT Act (Senate Bill 686) would set the stage for a restriction on the use of TikTok, but not do nearly enough to truly protect our private information. Due to undefined mitigation measures coupled with a vague enforcement provision, the bill could also criminalize common practices like using a VPN or side-loading to install a prohibited app.

weirdness levels are 11% and falling

(11%) ■□□□□□□□□□

Really, it's called "quiet quitting" because "declining to be exploited" makes it clear what the real power relationship there is and the media is apparently not allowed to do that.
At this point my main hope is that nobody gets killed and the government doesn’t get violently overthrown and replaced with something based on truck nutz

Via friend of the podcast Henry Grabar:

-Car trips starting and ending in Paris are down 60 percent since 2000

-Car trips between city and suburbs down 35 percent in that time

-168+ schools with car-free blocks created since 2020

-one (1) cyclist killed in 2022

#TheWarOnCars #Paris

https://slate.com/business/2023/03/paris-car-ban-bikes-cycling-history-france.html

How Paris Pulled Off What New York and London Can Only Dream About

One parking structure pivoted to growing mushrooms and endives.

Slate
Ethernet: wires but no fires
Smoke signals: fires but no wires
IEEE-1394: fire and wires
WiFi: neither wires nor fires