Australia is proposing huge new wage theft laws that would throw bosses in jail for up to 10 years and fine companies up to $7.8 million ($5m U.S.) if they deliberately underpay workers.
The Employment Minister has submitted the bill to Parliament, and it's now being debated.
@JoeFernandez
Start in sales, do a couple years at a bigger place but be really curious about the business. Learn everything you can and then start looking to startup land.
But if you tell me you’ve invented a posting mechanic that unleashes the horniest, most chaotic try-hard energy that social networks have ever seen? Something so offensively stupid that we will initially overlook its genius?
That one will have a chance
Idea:
@vice
buys
@tumblr
Keep the porn, invest in fixing the spam and improving the tools. They could reinvigorate classic tumblr— forever cool/always weird/old timey /newly-relevant-again community sharing platform.
So full of good fix the internet ideas CALL ME
@shanesmith30
Hiring a librarian for tumblr is one of my top 10 all time best ideas. Still amazed we managed to find the very best one, and will never forget when the HR person told me we found her. She came straight from ComicCon for the interview. There should be lots more librarians in tech
Honestly considering the idea of occupying Savannah for December/January. Registration deadline December 7 voting day January 5th fuck it let’s get the senate.
I have just been alerted that
@nycmarathon
is using a photo of my 14th annual Mile 9 Marathon Party as the graphic on their "Where to Watch" page.
Major Life Achievement!!! What a great day.
Some important updates:
The new chairman of The Onion is
@jeffiel
. He will continue to run Global Tetrahedron, as he has since its founding in 1634.
@LeilaClaire
Brillson, former exec of the communist app TikTok and current Flaming Hydra writer, is our Chief Marketing Officer.
On the uptown 6 train just now the conductor comes on and says “hello beautiful people on this train” and closes some of his announcements with “please continue to have a safe and beautiful morning” and truly the vibe of the whole car was lifted
Love to see my old apartment in The NY Times. Shout out to
@Strle
for always keeping the party live and alive 🏃♀️ 🎉 🎈 (bummed to be missing for the first time since 2007)
@nickgray
The reveling in your rich person white privilege is kinda gross on a regular day, but this is off the charts. Patting yourself on the back for being able to ignore it when a bunch of white nationalist insurgents storm the capitol? Egged on by the president? What do you stand for?
Just need this on my blog. I f we are in person friends someday I will tell about the time I got to crash the secret MLB mascot convention/New mascot initiation rituals at the All Star Game.
Dave Raymond practically invented the modern sports mascot.
He portrayed the iconic Phillie Phanatic for years — then reverse-engineered its success to create a process to help develop more than 130 other characters. Here's how he did it.
If you have a cat and a couch, what you need is felting needles.
After an hour of methodically poking, my couch looks practically new again and I am amazed.
Victory is mine, Stefon!!!!
NFT people absolutely cannot comprehend where i'm coming from, fundamentally do not understand that the very phrase "digital asset" fills me with revulsion
There are probably several morals here I guess, but the main one for me was never to overlook the human in the loop. The magic in the system was the person yanking 24 beautiful treasuries a day out of the sea of shirtless dudes. 54/
@nickgray
For privileged white people especially it's important to see this shit because it makes plainly obvious that systemic racism in America is real, its festering is very dangerous, and that we are utterly fucked if we don't make big changes. But you have a Tesla and enjoy smoothies.
Still trying to wrap my head around how to be the best ally I can.
In the meantime, my partner and I will be joining protests in Brooklyn this afternoon and donating $1m across organizations working for justice in policing, starting with the NAACP LDF and The Policing Project.
My prayers for the planet and the people of this beautiful, quiet, and sparsely populated arctic landmass. The rush to colonize the resources under the rapidly melting glaciers of Greenland are a geopolitical flashpoint that everyone on earth should all dread and abhor.
China’s ambitions for a massive rare-earth mining project in Greenland have run into a maelstrom of local politics in a part of the world the U.S. considers vital to its national security
DOJ to propose a roll back of legal protections that online platforms have enjoyed for 20+ years. Department would curb Section 230 immunity if internet firms facilitate criminal conduct, and if their content moderation is unfair and inconsistent.
PSA for NYC ppl: Paul McCartney is doing the last concert of his tour on weds and I *promise* you will thank me for reminding you to get tickets if you go.
The man is 79.99 years old and just incredible.
A pro-Trump
#StopTheSteal
march is being held right now in Tokyo. Hours before the
#January6th
march takes place in America, these people are holding their own event supporting the claim that Trump actually won the 2020 election.
feels so good to complete my annual ritual of riding home in the taxi getting verklempt at the marathon picture slideshow wrap ups. Best day of the year NYC!!! thank you
@nycmarathon
!
NY 💗 YOU!
@caseyjohnston
yes and also "suck it you can read zero text about a show without subjecting yourself to a video trailer. Yes, we know that 50% of all title cards are just a lone person's face staring out from under bold title fonts"
I also have not even followed the gritty meme today but I love gritty he might be the best daimon a city has ever had. The mere thought of him makes me happy.
Honestly all grocery store workers should be paid double or more for the length of the state of emergency. It is stressful to be ringing people up exchanging money and goods with an endless line of harried people. You’re up close and personal. They deserve necessary hazard pay!
“You’ve got the richest man in the world asking people who are living paycheck to paycheck to donate to each other. That’s absolute bullshit. With the amount Jeff Bezos makes in one day, he could shut stores down and pay employees to stay safe.”
My favorite and least favorite part of new iOS is the thing where I choose between the avatars y’all are sending me vs the ones I already have in my phone for you. Feels a little bad to reject someone’s chosen avatar in a way but also in some cases I just already have THE ONE 4u
This young man is severely colorblind. They are studying colorblindness in class. The school principal brought in some glasses that allowed this youngster see color for the very first time.
This is the Twitter content I’m here for...💪😍😏😇🔥🔥
.
@NYCMayor
+
@CoreyinNYC
's budget proposal is a loss and LIE to the people of NYC.
These proposed "cuts" to NYPD's budget are an PURE FAKERY
@NYCCouncil
, your SCAM is NOT good enough. We are watching.
#DefundTheNYPD
Friends might be ready to acknowledge that I have a tie dye problem. But also like, too much tie dye is not really a problem, right???? I really have to stop myself.
Man fuck these terrorists, Fuck Donald Trump, Fuck the Republicans, and Fuck the Police.
Also fuck all the headlines saying “protestors” are you kidding me???
America is a scam.
Doing a double header at
@JoesPub
tonight with
@2Scoops4eva
+
@bridgeteverett
and could not be more pumped about it.
Special thanks to the partner desk
@publictheaterNY
for hooking up tickets to the sold out show at 9:30. Membership makes magic happen! ❤️Join a local theater❤️
Holy shit. I just got a huge ER bill knocked down by SEVENTY PERCENT because I listened to a Tumblr post that said to call and tell them you can't pay that. I know we all know this but truly, America is a SCAM.
Who are my friends who want to go to the Tokyo 2020 olympics?
Plan is to watch opening ceremonies on TV in America then hightail it to Japan. Extremely interested in Badminton but also other sports.
healthcare workers, janitors, grocery store people, delivery workers, postal workers, taxi drivers, warehouse workers, pharmacy workers, teachers, and more that I am forgetting all deserve our applause (and hazard pay!)
I will be applauding every day at noon from now on.
There is really nothing like a voice memo from
@nickgray
when you are like WHAT????????????????? We should all really be voice memoing each other more often.
re-watched the first episode of the *excellent* Dead Like Me in honor of the spaceship crashing down in a mysterious location this weekend. If you like dark and funny, this show is a great one, especially the first 5 episodes. Mandy Patinkin as the manager of a grim reaper crew!
Just landed in Dublin and gotta give a huge thanks to
@strle
for suggesting a glorious foot hammock in
@nickgraynews
's newsletter. Business class luxury. Economy price.