Hey skiers and snowboarders.
Did you know that #VailResorts is refusing to good faith negotiate with its #union in Park City UT?
Yeah the ski patrollers have been on strike over Christmas because they won't give raises to match inflation.

If you think this is a problem, your can do something even if you don't ski in Utah! Vail Resorts owns the Epic pass. Consider letting them know you're looking into switching passes because of this

#UnionStrong #EpicPass #skiing #ski
https://coloradosun.com/2025/01/03/utah-ski-patroller-strike/

@markwyner I think the best strat is focusing on building strong communities.

Helping other people can make you feel empowered, and then the community is that much stronger and able to help you when you're in trouble.

My plan is to get together with a friend and dedicate one morning/afternoon a week to volunteering. I'll know I'm helping folks, I'm having friend time, and I'll be making friends who I can count on if I need it.

@mekkaokereke I can't ever find any polls that actually break down black men vs women or white men vs women. Could you link them?
Thanks!

Hey friends, Do you want to help with scientific research?
The University of Colorado Boulder needs people to help transcribe bee information from photographs of their collection. You look at a picture and type out any of the written information in the bee's label.

If you've got a few free minutes, give it a whirl! Even just doing 1 or 2 will help

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/md68135/notes-from-nature-big-bee-bonanza/classify

#CitizenScience #Research #AcademicChatter #Bees #Entomology #ClimateChange

@emilygorcenski yeah I was just there as an exchange student for a semester. While I never heard or felt anything disrespectful aimed at me (except for a handsy drunk guy at Oktoberfest) I sure did hear a lot about "guys who are just here to marry their way into citizenship". Ugh.

@freemo pretty sure there are some sea stacks that would win this. A foot across and meters high

@julesh my fav forks discussion, from the movie Becket:

Thomas a Becket: Tonight you can do me the honor of christening my forks.
King Henry II: Forks?
Thomas a Becket: Yes, from Florence. New little invention. It's for pronging meat and carrying it to the mouth. It saves you dirtying your fingers.
King Henry II: But then you dirty the fork.
Thomas a Becket: Yes, but it's washable.
King Henry II: So are your fingers. I don't see the point.

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@dgar ah. The sarcasm was not clear

@dgar this is actually often used as an example of bad design. The 180 degree turns are very difficult for wheelchair folks, and the edges without handrails make it a danger of tripping/rolling off the side and falling all the way down. Plus a lack of benches forces people to do it all in one go, which can be difficult for some. The lack of handrails also screws over low vision or blind people