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BECAUSE IT SUCKS.
PLEASE HELP US!!!!!! REBLOG THIS!!!!
FINALLY SOMETHING ABOUT BRAZIL’S SITUATION ON MY DASHBOARD
WE’RE LIVING A REVOLUTION! WE’VE BEEN IN AN ALMOST CIVIL WAR STATE FOR TWO WEEKS! WHAT THE HELL, FOREIGNERS? TALK ABOUT US!
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We’ve heard this story before: restaurant employee X is riding home from his shift on his bike when he gets side swiped by a car. Because X works at a restaurant, which usually does not supply benefits, X does not have insurance and is faced with a mountain of medical bills. Since the restaurant industry is one big happy family, there is usually some sort of fundraiser involving music and booze, and X lives happily ever after. A new local non-profit is helping streamline this process by providing monetary relief and insurance solutions for restaurant professionals.
Un86’d was founded by Nicole Ess and Jessy Maguire Bolt, both currently work at Chicago restaurants. Through their network of colleagues and friend they continuously raise money via donations, running silent auctions and benefits. Long-term, they want to set up a member-based community that will be eligible for low-rate heath insurance or specialized individual plans. The name comes from the term “86’d,” used in restaurants and bars to mean that an item is cut or not longer available. Un86’d strives to make sure no employee needs to be cut out of a job.
Currently, the organization is working with Carriage House and La Sirena Cladenstina to offer two Un86’d cocktails. Each cocktail is made with Bacardi and Todd Appel’s pineapple cordial, and comes with a button with the logo of a pineapple; a symbol of hospitality that dates back to the colonial days. After purchasing a $12 cocktail, ”Wear the Word” by showing off the button and heading over to Bar Deville for a free shot of Fernet Branca. The drink specials are available until Thursday. Find out more about Un86’d on its Facebook page.- Sarah Freeman for Zagat.com
Not an industry person, but signal boosting this awesomeness…
This is awesome.
Let’s get something like this rolling for musicians, as well. So many bands, so much merch!
cambridge university students were asked on campus why they needed feminism. here are 60 answers. click the link for over 600 more.
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Casey Malone Is The Brute Squad: This Is Not Fucking Harmless
This is fucking disgusting, and this sleazebag should not be allowed to make this happen. This is teaching people with middling-to-low social skills how to sexually assault women, and not a goddamn thing about that is okay.
I love Kickstarter. I think that’s clear to people who know me by now? I love it. There’s a dude named Brad Muir and he works at Double Fine and I love the games they make, so much. But before Kickstarter, every time a Double Fine game came out I was a little worried it would be their last,…
You can’t really see the important part here, so please click through to get angry.
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What if one of the most important street photographers of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone?
Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house.
John began developing his new collection of photographs, some 100,000 negatives in total, that had been abandoned in a storage locker in Chicago before they ended up at the auction house. It became clear these were no ordinary street snaps of 1950s & 60s Chicago and New York and so John embarked on a journey to find out who was behind the photographs and soon discovered her name: Vivien Maier.
Substantial, interesting. PAY ATTENTION.
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