Notices by Christine Johnson (christinkallama@mastodon.social)

"The absurdity of deeming minicars unsafe while ignoring the danger of gigantic SUVs and trucks reflects a tragic blind spot of US car regulations, which have for decades conflated “car safety” with “car occupant safety.” The result has been an arms race of vehicle size, as well as a refusal to allow Americans to enjoy the myriad advantages that minicars bring to urban residents across Europe and Asia."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-04/why-americans-can-t-buy-the-tiny-cars-that-europeans-love?srnd=citylab

#CarsKillCities #Cars #CarSafety

@inthehands

Just as the Knights of the Fiddle Squiggle, a secret order devoted to stapler worship, had prophesied. This occult process is depicted in great detail in frescos recently discovered in their underground chapel next to the Ravenna Cathedral and thought to be by the great Finnish master Raphael, painted in his teens, shortly after an encounter with toxic stibnite had turned him into some kind of mutant turtle.

#TraderJoes United, the independent labor union for Trader Joe's employees, is currently *not* calling for a boycott in response to management's attack on the constitutionality of the #NLRB (National Labor Relations Board).

Right now they are "asking folks to support Trader Joe’s United by signing on in solidarity and letting us know you’ll stand with us if we call for a customer strike!"

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stand-with-trader-joes-united-sign-on-in-solidarity/

#labor #WorkersRights #solidarity #union

Solidarity alert! #Bandcamp has been sold to #Songtradr, and Songtradr's CEO has not recognized the the #BandcampUnited union and is not promising to offer jobs to all current employees.

A terrible look ahead of #BandcampFriday, new owners!

BandcampUnited is asking people to sign in support here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/songtradr-recognize-bandcamp-united?source=direct_link&

"For the wealthy, bankruptcy is the sport of kings, a way to skip out on consequences. For the poor, bankruptcy is an anchor – or a noose. This is by design: judges who preside over elite bankruptcies speak of their protagonists as heroic "risk takers" and tiptoe around any consequences, lest these titans be chained to a mortal's fate, costing us all the benefits of their entrepreneurial genius."

another must-read from @pluralistic

#PurduePharma #Bankruptcy

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/11/justice-delayed/#justice-redeemed

@atomicpoet @Reil

The blowback was largely because paid blue checks did not require verification that you were *that* person or company, and so opened the door (sometimes hilariously) to imitators and (more seriously) to misrepresentation.

I'm sure a few "verified" folks' noses were out of joint because their status was no longer selective, but the problem wasn't that "jane q. public" could get a blue check, but that someone *saying* they were "jqp" could get a blue check just by paying $8.

Ahead of #BandcampFriday, please take a moment to visit @bandcampunited to find out about their unionization effort, the boss's union-busting response, and how you can help.

Among the ways - send an email to Ethan Diamond, Bandcamp CEO at ethan@bandcamp.com to let him know that you support artists AND workers.

https://www.bandcampunited.org