If there's a bustle in your hedgehog, Don't be alarmed, dog.

The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to […]

1,280 #Wikimedia volunteers have pledged willingness to go on strike in solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity, making us less than 100 signatures from being the most supported proposal or […] [Original post on wikis.world]

The easiest ways to fuck up something really minor in a way that winds up killing you all involve cars, and after that the easiest ways are probably things involving slipping and falling, but forgetting to turn off flash on your phone's camera has gotta be a close third, right?

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Wikimedia Foundation hired union-busting law firm for union election case. The NLRB docket shows that the Wikimedia Foundation has retained Littler Mendelson to represent it in the Wiki Workers United union election. Littler Mendelson is one of the most prominent U.S. management-side labor law […]

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Your #Wikipedia donations at work. The #WikimediaFoundation asks for your money to keep the lights on, & then spends it on notorious union-busting law firm Jones Day so its board members can recite generic anti-union rhetoric to justify ignoring supermajority […] [Original post on wikis.world]

watching different polycule members' strategies for balancing temperature regulation with convenience, in terms of which clothes to keep on, got curious about something...

As people start talking more seriously about reversing Brexit, now is the perfect time for us diaeresis-maximalists to strike and popularize the word "Brr̈eëntry".

Happy full moon to those whose mood disorders observe.

In the past 2 months, over 1,000 #Wikimedians (and counting!) have expressed our solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited, the #WikimediaFoundation staff union, up to and including openness to an editorial strike. Today at #Wikimania, dozens of us gathered to send a […] [Original post on wikis.world]

ah yes my favorite comedy

It's alarming the number of times I've looked into whether two Wikipedia users were sockpuppets because they had very similar behavior, only to determine that it wasn't possible because one wasn't born yet when the other created their account.

Media literacy on American gun control: Always look for what *isn't* getting covered. Consider NJ's assault weapons ban. Conservatives say it doesn't prevent crimes. Liberals say it doesn't hinder self-defense. The media focuses on these 2 narratives, which amusingly are both mostly correct […]

Characterizations of Sherlock Holmes are so often neurodivergent-coded without committing it, and just once I want to see a Sherlock who spends 5 minutes flexing to Watson about the elaborate logic through which he deduced that the reason a person stormed off upset was because he commented on […]

It's remarkable to me how normalized it is to complain about non-white characters in movies for overtly racist reasons. Most racist hobby-horses have some veneer of being about something other than race; movie casting is one of the only things where someone can make an overtly white-supremacist […]

2016: Getting annoyed at constant spambot posts on my website. 2026: Getting excited by constant spambot posts on my website because they prove it's not currently swamped by AI scrapers.

As long as there's been a #Wikipedia, people have talked about what might end Wikipedia. War? AI? Increasingly I think the greatest threat is simply "People stop having the free time". The world is getting scarier, hotter, and poorer. As that continues, will […] [Original post on wikis.world]

As long as there's been a #Wikipedia, people have talked about what might end Wikipedia. War? AI? Increasingly I think the greatest threat is simply "People stop having the free time". The world is getting scarier, hotter, and poorer. As that continues, will […] [Original post on wikis.world]

RE: https://wikis.world/@tamzin/116919704451882812 Poll has concluded! While acknowledging that the scope of this question isn't 100% coterminous with the concept of being in the Greater Seattle Polycule, more or less our findings here are that, for 157 Fedizens who are either in my broad […]

[toki pona, mildly lewd] One beautiful thing about #tokipona is that it forces you to assume the best about people's meaning—to take an inclusionary interpretation over an exclusionary one, a friendly interpretation over a possessive one, a chaste interpretation over a sexual one—but I'll admit […]

I love how, in #tokipona, "telo suwi 'telo kon lon nena ma' pi esun Pesiko [PepsiCo]" is still ambiguous. (For everyone else, that's "PepsiCo's sweet liquid called 'air-water on an earthy protuberance' ".)

Occasionally people complain about the name #Wikimania but no one ever likes my solution of having a corresponding conference in February called Wikidepression where there isn't any programming and nobody shows up.

"It was the latest tragedy at an entertainment venue in Bangkok, the Thai capital and a popular international destination that has a reputation for danger because of generally low safety standards." Can you imagine writing this with a straight face for a newspaper that's based in a city that […]

I have clicked on an ad for only the second time this year so that I could marvel at the worst luxury-travel pitch I have ever seen, https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/thai-airways/from-the-land-of-smiles-to-the-venice-of-the-north.html, an itinerary to visit both Bangkok and Amsterdam in the span […]

Chaotic neutral play: Buy one of those darkweb dumps of hacked Discord credentials, but only use it to make every compromised account post "oh fuck wrong chat did anyone see that?" to the most active channel they're in.

@snarfed.org I'm trying to set my Bsky handle to tamz.in, my personal domain, but keep getting the error message that says "You'll need to connect that domain to your bridged Bluesky account". However, according to the tool linked in that message <https://bsky-debug.app/handle?handle=tamz.in>, I […]

This is the only time I've ever done this, but I actually had to stop and take a picture of the board, and then of @V looking very happy, and say "Sorry, I needed to get a before photo". (with apologies to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QuD7UO-ZY0) #gingham #boardgames

You ever think about how the point of "True Blood" was basically "Progressives are idiots for trusting minorities, who will inevitably stab them in the back"? Like obviously this wasn't the point it was trying to make, as made very clear by the villains being conservative politicians, but like […]