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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 1d

At least I’ll always have spite for the Supreme Court to keep me going.

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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · 20d

We are officially one month away from Circuit Breakers Conf! Repost please!

🗽 New York City, Oct. 18-19th 2025

✊ Conference will feature workers from the wider tech labor movement

🎟️ Grab your limited tickets now: techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers

One month until Circuit Breakers! Oct 18-19, New York City

learn more and register: https://bit.lycircuitbreakers2025

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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 23d

Oh hell yeah.

Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 23d

Award winning cartoonists Caroline Cash (Pee Pee Poo Poo) will take over the Nancy comics strip in 2026, as Olivia Jaimes leaves

Caroline Cash to take over the Nancy comic strip from Olivia Jaimes

Award winning cartoonists Caroline Cash (Pee Pee Poo Poo) will take over the Nancy comics strip in 2026

www.comicsbeat.com

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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · Sep 4

NEWS ALERT: Early bird tickets now available for Circuit Breakers, our annual US tech labor conference! Repost please!

🗽 New York City, Oct. 18-19th

✊ Conference will feature workers from the wider tech labor movement

🎟️ Snag your early bird tickets here: techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers

Circuit Breakers
Early Bird Registration

A national conference for all workers, organizers, and activists in the tech industry to come together and learn, build communitx, strategize, and recognize our collective power. bit.ly/circuitbreakers2025

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Rev. Dr. Derek M Ballard PhD @derekmballard.bsky.social · Aug 28

the problem.

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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · Aug 26

Screenshots are from globe.adsbexchange.com

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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · Aug 26

Snapshots from my deep and abiding intolerance for helicopter surveillance in DC.

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · Aug 19

It’s time for a fair contract. Our union is fighting to protect what makes @kickstarter.com special, and we need your support. Sign onto our petition to show your solidarity: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ks...

An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek

Dear Kickstarter Creators & Allies, We’re writing to you as Kickstarter United—the union of designers, support specialists, product managers, engineers, and more who power this platform and are h...

actionnetwork.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 12

"We are witnessing authoritarian consolidation—not the rise or threat of fascism, but its enactment. Many people are understandably voicing alarm. In fact, it’s clear that alarm is all some people have to offer, including Democratic leaders." organizingmythoughts.org/you-must-pro...

“We must remember that, no matter what happens, the fascists are the enemy, and that only fascists are responsible for their violence. Whether crime is up, or a protester threw something, or someone entered the U.S. illegally—our enemies don’t care if any of these things are true when they pursue their violence, and we must be equally uncompromising about whether any human being should have their fate decided by a fascist, authoritarian government.” - Kelly Hayes

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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · Jul 10

Another day of testing my capacity for cognitive dissonance in exchange for money and health insurance.

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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · Jul 6

Brutal.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jul 2

When people see folks drowning and feel powerless and ill-equipped to save them, they sometimes fight over how to describe the water. It's worth resisting this impulse.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · Jun 3

Sorry boss I’m crying and throwing up because of the endless crimes against the masses. I will finish my project right away

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no. @joles.bsky.social · May 5

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · May 1

No. It is not the job of ordinary citizens to show perfect message discipline.

It is the responsibility of actors with agenda-setting power — like, say, national newspapers — not to treat random-ass people exaggerating as a threat equivalent to the madman president.

Given the threat that Mr. Trump presents, we understand the urge to speak out in maximalist ways about almost everything he does. It can feel emotionally satisfying, and simply like the right thing to do, during dark times. But the stakes are too high to prioritize emotion over effectiveness. The best way to support American democracy is to build the largest possible coalition to defend it. It is to call out all Mr. Trump’s constitutional violations while diligently avoiding exaggeration about what qualifies as a violation. Liberals who conflate conservative policies with unconstitutional policies risk sending conservatives back into Mr. Trump’s camp.

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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · Apr 18

Solidarity with public sector IT and security workers, cause this continues to be absolutely fucked.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

www.npr.org

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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · Apr 12

For posterity: web.archive.org/web/20230927...

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The Washington Post Tech Guild @wapotechguild.bsky.social · Apr 7

Join us in urging Washington Post management to voluntarily recognize the Washington Post Tech Guild and begin bargaining with us immediately! Sign our petition below.

bit.ly/wapo-action

Voluntarily recognize The Washington Post Tech Guild

The Washington Post is broken. We’re standing together as workers and forming the Washington Post Tech Guild to fix it. On April 7, a majority of over 300 technology workers at The Washington Post an...

bit.ly

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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · Mar 27

Data Centers, Climate and Labor:
co-hosted with @datasociety.bsky.social #SFClimateWeek

Webinar
Chip Workers for Responsible Mining
Enabled Emissions Campaign
@mediajustice.bsky.social
@nycdsatech.bsky.social
@cleanvirginia.org

📆 April 18, 2025
⏰ 3pm PDT / 6pm PDT
Register: bit.ly/datacenters101