[–] 10 points 1 day ago (1 child)

How much less do you think this would have cost, and how much more successful do you think the project would have been, if we just nationalized and built a factory, rather than requiring that the glove production and the hospitals that buy them turn a profit?

  • source
  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 days ago

    Seems like this will make access to mental health resources significantly easier. Hopefully we extend this to the rest of the country

    “Many clients prefer to do teletherapy from the comfort of their own homes, so it’s been very difficult having to tell clients I cannot help them out because of these regulations,” said Elizabeth. “This victory will make it easier for D.C. residents to get the mental health care they need in a way that fits their wants and needs.”

  • source
  •  

    On Wednesday, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia struck down a D.C. law that barred therapists from other jurisdictions from doing online teletherapy visits with clients in D.C. The decision comes nearly six years after Virginia-based counselor Elizabeth Brokamp teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a lawsuit arguing the law violated the First Amendment.

    [–] [S] 2 points 2 days ago

    Dolla dolla bill y'all

    The purse is divided across Friday’s 3-Point Contest ($40,000, $30,000, and $15,000) and Shooting Stars ($85,000, split TBD). Second- and third-place 3-Point Contest finishers are cashing in for the first time in WNBA All-Star history.

  • source
  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 days ago

    I'm grateful she's bringing attention to the challenges actually facing women athletes

    “To date there’s been one out trans player in the league. They caused zero problems,” said the outspoken trans athlete advocate.

    “An issue that has caused problems though? Last year on my WNBA team a male staff member was fired for sexual harassment, but we were encouraged to keep quiet about it. That is an issue.”

  • source
  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Nah, inter-instance drama about who defederated from whom and who blocked what and which instance is hosting which problematic account is pretty common. If you can be sanguine about it, it’s pretty fun. This one is particularly egregious, which is why it's getting such wide play.

  • source
  • parent
  • context
  • submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
     

    I finally got around to testing the “follow accounts” feature that was in the latest piefed and it’s awesome The pixelfed integration is very fun — following photographers feels very natural, and gets a lot of image content into my feed instead of just endless links. It does look like loops works too, but I could only see a privacy guides account so I didn’t follow it. I did manage to follow a couple of Bluesky accounts via bsky.brid.gy, but I can’t see any of the Twitter mirrors (like sportsbots.xyz), though I suspect that’s because a lot of those early Twitter shovels ended up on blocklists because they’re technically bots. My favorite follows are definitely publications — there’s a Graphic Policy account on sfba.social and a BBC news account from flipboard.com that fit in great in my feed. Definitely the biggest shortcoming is that there is no way to fetch an account that isn’t already known to your instance (I was hoping to get the Shiba every hour or the capybara every hour accounts, but alas), or a good way to search for accounts on larger instances, like mastodon.social, so I’m curious: what accounts have you found that are a good follow from piefed?

    Edit: I couldn’t find a working rss shovel or an available ghost instance either, though both seem like they would be good follows.

     

    Three Seattle City Councilmembers announced a proposal today to fund universal free school meals for all Seattle Public School students starting this fall, while maintaining new investments aimed at ensuring low-income students have food on their tables at home. The proposal is sponsored by Councilmember and Budget Chair Dan Strauss (District 6), Council President Joy Hollingsworth (District 3), and Councilmember Dionne Foster (Position 9). It would amend the city’s Midyear Supplemental Budget to include funding for universal free school meals starting in the 2026-2027 school year.

     

    Though it's traditionally meant 'last in a progression or series,' as Merriam-Webster puts it, the word ultimate has been more often used in recent decades to mean 'the best or most extreme of its kind.' The name of a recently launched digital archive performs a rare inversion, labeling as last a creation marked not by finality but extremity. Open Culture, openculture.com

    view more: next ›