I know I'm not the only person to choose this. I've also debated, & asked daughter opinion. I have no overall favourite but this one, & why.
It was early on in my 2021 BTS watching. I now realise 2019 - 21 is less time to 21 - now, making it quite recent when I actually watched and went: Horses? What is going on? What is all this?
Then went & learnt about the God Dionysus. I've learnt so much from BTS.
Another day I'll pass on - so many great people doing great things that pop up here and there - how great to have a creative community that doesn't appear to be at war with itself #united#equal#army
( I say this in relation to my local community where there are people who assume they are better than others, and cannot co-exist happily)
As a #BBC trade union rep I have been involved in dozens of #EqualPay cases since the amazing China editor, #Carrie Gracie, stood up publicly against unequal pay practices in the corporation. If you think you might not be paid equally according to the #Equality act 2010, her book ' #Equal ' (highly recommend) is a practical guide on what to do and a chronicle of this modern day struggle in any workplace https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/carrie-gracie/equal/9781405542494/
Did you know that #algorithm based platforms like #insta have "tools" for creators to know when their audience is usually active so they can plan when to post for more "engagement?"
Guess who can't access those kind of "helpful tools" because it's inaccessible - cognitively broken me
More in this hoot train
Love a #Mastodon rant from my janky insta posts...
“Everything would have been 180° different if Beau had lived — there’s no question,” said one close associate of the family who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private family matters. “I don’t think Hunter’s life goes off the rails. If Beau wasn’t president of the United States now, he’d be on his way to it. And Joe Biden would never have been president. He would be happily retired.”
…One of the most lucrative temptations was…the paid speech circuit, but #Biden’s circle knew it would risk a hit to his reputation, given the controversy that erupted over speeches HillaryClinton gave to GoldmanSachs & other WallSt groups.
Once, workers had "#DefinedBenefitsPensions," where employers promised to pay a certain amount every year from retirement to death. #JimmyCarter swapped that out for #401Ks, "market" pensions where you have to guess which stocks will be valuable or starve in your old age:
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More recently, #Intuit and other scammy #TaxPrep services have argued against the #IRS's plan to offer free tax preparation as bad for Black and brown people, because it will deny them the chance to be deceived and ripped off with #TurboTax:
I know, I know, it's weird when the worst people you know are right, even when they're right for the wrong reasons: like, the "Intelligence Community" is genuinely terrible, pharma companies are murderous crooks, and Big Tech really does have a dangerous grip on public debate. The swivel-eyed loons have a point, is what I'm saying:
Woke capitalism is just another kind of "#PredatoryInclusion," like #Intuit's campaign defending its "#FreeFile" tax-prep scam, where they're claiming that ending this ripoff is racist because it denies #Black families the right to be tricked into paying for something they are entitled to get for free:
Today's key concept is #PredatoryInclusion: "a process wherein lenders and financial actors offer needed services to Black households but on exploitative terms that limit or eliminate their long-term benefits":
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