please show respect for the dead body of someone who didn’t respect your alive body
kara
@ainulindale.bsky.social
Bike commuter, orogenesis enthusiast, cartographer turned security engineer, former Mapbox Workers Union organizer. they/them 🇵🇸
Every single week for the past ten years I’ve had to call my senators to beg them not to vote for something called POOKA that gives local sheriffs the legal right to summarily execute anyone making fun of cops online only for it to pass 98-2 before dying on a procedural hurdle in the House
BIG NEWS ❤️🔥!! Circuit Breakers, our annual tech labor conference, is looking for session and workshop proposals. This event centers rank and file organizing. Workers are the experts who bring management to the table and win big. twcl.ink/cb26-cfp
🚨 Tech Workers Coalition and Collective Action in Tech are excited to announce the date for Circuit Breakers, our national tech labor conference! This year will be in NYC from Oct. 17-18th. Early bird tickets will be available soon, register for updates! techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-brea...
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.
Guess that's on me for assuming a bike lane would be protected in the state of California.
I consider the oral history of @kickstarterunited.org a foundational resource for organizing in the tech industry and I hope our stories from unionizing at Mapbox can be too: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...
The Mapbox Workers Union Oral History
A podcast about worker organizing, at a venture capital darling, in the world's most powerful industry.
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It's so punishingly obvious that many left-liberal types feel completely unrestrained in petty displays of sadism and hierarchal reaffirmation against trans people at this point. Grueling to watch your nominal allies hold their fingers to the wind and decide they can hurt you.
objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country
Yo, @davidruigu.bsky.social how much did you spend on curated address data to mail physical prints of a LinkedIn post? It'd be dope if I never received mail from you ever again.
Ah, the indignity of being asked to perform enthusiasm for deskilling my own labor.
A project I've been involved with the past few years is almost done, but it needs funding to get over the hump. I'm physically incapable of fundraising, so instead I wrote up a brief post about what it is and why it would great if you threw the project a few dollars. cyberb.space/notes/2026/a...
A Request for Impetus
Good friends are looking for podcast funding
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Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo agoCountries that do not embrace AI could be ‘left behind’, says OpenAI’s George Osborne
Mass call for laid-off workers, students, and allies on Sunday, Feb 22nd at 11am PT/2pm ET ‼️ We hope you can join the call, register @ wwwrise.org 🎟️
Does your employer have contracts with ICE? Is your workplace unprepared if ICE shows up on site? If the answer is yes to any of those questions, we can help you organize your co-workers to fight back. 🧵
‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE
“I’ve hit my limit of what I’m willing to tolerate”
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NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again
The interests of a tech platform’s users and profit-driven corporate owners will always diverge.
At least I’ll always have spite for the Supreme Court to keep me going.
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
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
Snapshots from my deep and abiding intolerance for helicopter surveillance in DC.
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 11mo agoLAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all. It's time to ground them.
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...
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