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gregferrell:

“When we first got an SNES in our house I was young (about 6) and Link to the Past was out, but we couldn’t get it in stores so we rented it instead. This was before walkthroughs and before the internet was as common as it is these days. My mother and I would play Link to the…

amodernmanifesto:

* Thirty million workers are making less today than workers made in 1968, adjusted for inflation. Had the minimum wage kept pace with inflation over these forty-five years, it would be $10.56 per hour instead of the current federal minimum wage of $7.25

* While the minimum wage has lost nearly 33 percent of its value since 1968,average CEO compensation has skyrocketed over 900 percent.[i]

* Raising the minimum wage would stimulate the economy. Raising the minimum wage to $10.50 per hour would add at least $30 billion in additional spending to the economy each year for a two-year period.

* For every dollar increase to the hourly pay of a minimum wage worker, the result is $2,800 in new consumer spending from that worker’s household over the year.

* The United States has one of the lowest minimum wages when compared with other western, industrialized countries. Australia’s minimum wage is more than double the minimum wage in the United States – about $16 per hour. Of ten countries with minimum wages higher than the United States’, eight of them have unemployment rates lower than ours.[ii]

kierongillen:

mattfractionblog:

there’s an ask i’m not going to repsond do directly, because the writer who sent it clearly didn’t mean harm and i don’t want to make them feel bad, or bully them, or set them up for mockery and or being bullied, but —

don’t send your ideas to writers…

fuckyeahindiecomics:

Hey everyone! I’m working with a few of my friends on a comic book-related project for iOS. Without going into too much detail, we’re hoping to build and launch an independent comic book publication later this year.

We were wondering if there are any authors or illustrators interesting in…