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Short, title-less, often half-baked. Published anyway.

Cyndi Munson @cyndimunsonok.bsky.social is running for governor of Oklahoma. If elected, she would be the only Asian American governor in the US.

Follow her and other Asian Americans at 👉🏼 go.bsky.app/Dc2ob4U

The US has been put on the ITUC labor-rights Watchlist for the first time, indicating systemic violations of worker rights and a significant decline in the safety and freedom of working people.

We’re now in the same bracket as Zimbabwe and Guinea-Bissau… I didn’t know Zimbabwe had it this bad.

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I mean, they’re late to the party. Shit’s been destroying since Reagan neutered the government. Over a million federal workers stripped of collective bargaining, a hobbled NLRB, ICE used to silence dissenting workers. Land of the free, right?

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I wrote about the good book “Shift Happens” by J. Albert Mann. If you’re read it you’d know the US is actually the undisputed champion of worker abuse! #booksky

bsky.app/profile/nicw…

Yet last week Verizon CEO laid off 3000 workers to be replaced by AI. Fuck these CEOs, so I made this 👉🏼 attackonceo.com ✌🏼

MASSIVE LAYOFFS! 👊🏼💀 youtu.be/uaSjoBJ62CY?… #Xbox

NYT is having their face eaten by leopards moment, but they still stick their face out.

You’ve seen the Deja vu memes but did you know it’s from the anime Initial D? And did you know the main character got his skillz from (being forced) to deliver tofu? Ads for a new collaboration between a Mabo tofu restaurant and Initial D. They better be playing Euro beat at their restaurants!

As a Seattleite techie, this was a bloodbath! I’m so tired of CEOs mass fucking layoff while raking in millions!! AI can do their jobs? Well AI can do your fucking job! Yeah! Im gonna use AI to make a CEO to take your job! See how you like that!

Happy 250 🇺🇸

The Frankfurter Allgemeine asks: “What’s there to celebrate?”

I miss mundane Twitter.

That should be our goal - to make the world alright so everyone can go back to posting mundane life things. ☕️

The optimist in me keeps thinking it can’t get worse than this… but it just keeps getting worse! I think we have to realize this won’t get better until we overthrow them.

Speaking of wasians, here’s something old school - a photo of wasian families back in 1940’s.

My grandpa is third from the right in the back row. He used to tell me stories about being bullied by the white kids at international schools, and I wondered why did he go to international school 😂

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He would also tell me stories about servicing fighter jets on aircraft carriers during WWII. He was living in Taiwan but couldn’t read Chinese so he had English newspaper delivered everyday. When I was a kid, I didn’t think any of this was weird or out of the ordinary.

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When he visited us in Seattle, my white neighbors would praise how well he spoke English.

Looking back, my grandpa definitely spoke more of being excluded than of being included. I remember his loneliness.

I guess this is why I’ve always default to being inclusive.

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One more #oldschoolcool pic - my great grandparents’ marriage certificate.

My great grandpa George Daniel Tye, born 1896, and great grandma Minnie Kragh, born 1900.

November 29th, 1919.

Cyndi Munson @cyndimunsonok.bsky.social is running for governor of Oklahoma. If elected, she would be the only Asian American governor in the US.

Follow her and other Asian Americans at 👉🏼 go.bsky.app/Dc2ob4U

The US has been put on the ITUC labor-rights Watchlist for the first time, indicating systemic violations of worker rights and a significant decline in the safety and freedom of working people.

We’re now in the same bracket as Zimbabwe and Guinea-Bissau… I didn’t know Zimbabwe had it this bad.

In reply to Bluesky post

I mean, they’re late to the party. Shit’s been destroying since Reagan neutered the government. Over a million federal workers stripped of collective bargaining, a hobbled NLRB, ICE used to silence dissenting workers. Land of the free, right?

In reply to Bluesky post

I wrote about the good book “Shift Happens” by J. Albert Mann. If you’re read it you’d know the US is actually the undisputed champion of worker abuse! #booksky

bsky.app/profile/nicw…

Yet last week Verizon CEO laid off 3000 workers to be replaced by AI. Fuck these CEOs, so I made this 👉🏼 attackonceo.com ✌🏼

NYT is having their face eaten by leopards moment, but they still stick their face out.

You’ve seen the Deja vu memes but did you know it’s from the anime Initial D? And did you know the main character got his skillz from (being forced) to deliver tofu? Ads for a new collaboration between a Mabo tofu restaurant and Initial D. They better be playing Euro beat at their restaurants!

As a Seattleite techie, this was a bloodbath! I’m so tired of CEOs mass fucking layoff while raking in millions!! AI can do their jobs? Well AI can do your fucking job! Yeah! Im gonna use AI to make a CEO to take your job! See how you like that!

Happy 250 🇺🇸

The Frankfurter Allgemeine asks: “What’s there to celebrate?”

I miss mundane Twitter.

That should be our goal - to make the world alright so everyone can go back to posting mundane life things. ☕️

The optimist in me keeps thinking it can’t get worse than this… but it just keeps getting worse! I think we have to realize this won’t get better until we overthrow them.

Speaking of wasians, here’s something old school - a photo of wasian families back in 1940’s.

My grandpa is third from the right in the back row. He used to tell me stories about being bullied by the white kids at international schools, and I wondered why did he go to international school 😂

In reply to Bluesky post

He would also tell me stories about servicing fighter jets on aircraft carriers during WWII. He was living in Taiwan but couldn’t read Chinese so he had English newspaper delivered everyday. When I was a kid, I didn’t think any of this was weird or out of the ordinary.

In reply to Bluesky post

When he visited us in Seattle, my white neighbors would praise how well he spoke English.

Looking back, my grandpa definitely spoke more of being excluded than of being included. I remember his loneliness.

I guess this is why I’ve always default to being inclusive.

In reply to Bluesky post

One more #oldschoolcool pic - my great grandparents’ marriage certificate.

My great grandpa George Daniel Tye, born 1896, and great grandma Minnie Kragh, born 1900.

November 29th, 1919.