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Ethan Marcotte

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designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union

hi friend

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“Shortly after things fell apart, I called Jane McAlevey, sobbing. She picked me up off the proverbial floor, and after we hung up, she sent me a text message that I still have saved on my phone: ‘Class struggle is not easy. It is, however, urgent and ongoing.’” — www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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I will never have the words to say how much I learned from Jane McAlevey, and how grateful I am to her. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/b...

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💜💜💜💜

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nice enough to open some windows today 💕

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LET’S GO labornotes.org/2024/06/illi...

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Guy Salieri. Frosted tips, bowling shirt, hates Mozart. Sorry.

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My contribution to Kernel volume 4 is available online to read (but if you can, grab the mag here: shop.kernelmag.io/products/ker...)

www.kernelmag.io/4/labor-luck is a recap of some of the more stressful but rewarding parts of organizing, nominally at Code for America last year.

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”In [management’s] view, the mere act of attending the meeting was enough to demonstrate their good faith. Instead, they inadvertently made the union’s case clear: that if we do not push, we will not receive; that if we choose not to speak, we will never be heard.” — www.kernelmag.io/4/labor-luck

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From the DuckDuckGo home page, click on the three lines in the upper right. Go to "Settings". Choose the "AI Features" button near the top right. Turn all that shit off.

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Congratulations, Helen. And thank you for all you do 💜

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*fixes ties and brushes pants*

*clears throat*

You want a software engineer. I know it (lol). But fr, if you know of a place looking for a fullstack dev, swing them www.linkedin.com/in/jacky-alc... (or e-mail me at jackyalcine@fastmail.com)

#LookingForWork

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In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards.

They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments

vimeo.com/293437684

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I’ve heard so much about this project throughout the years and I guarantee you it’ll be great. Sign up now 👇🏼

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In July, I'll be publishing a project that I've spent 10 years thinking about, and 5+ years pitching. It's a documentary podcast about sports, bodies, and what is fair. And now you can sign up for the newsletter to get updates, behind the scenes stuff, additional essays, etc. buttondown.email/tested

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hm fair, the socks did have little sunglasses on them (ok not really) (ok now i wish they had little sunglasses on them)

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please calm down, Website I Ordered Some Socks From

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michael! thank you so much, i really appreciate it <3

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they were certainly crater than the sum of their parts, rip

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live, laugh, lonni jeannette's avatar live, laugh, lonni jeannette @lawnsea.bsky.social
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ugh it really makes u appreciate the web that used to be. honestly it feels like we took good search results for granite

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sometimes Fortune 10 websites tell you it’s fine to eat just one rock, and that’s okay

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look who among us *hasn’t* splatted a pre-alpha feature at the top of a trillion dollar company’s most valuable web page

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I think this is the first actual in-person talk I will have done in uhhhh maybe a decade? I am so psyched to share a stage with these exemplary humans. (Having a moment of Fleabag-camera-face terror but that will pass sometime between now and three days after the festival.)

2024.xoxofest.com

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The May date is sold out, but there are still openings for my FIX YOUR SITEMAP workshop on June 13! It's great for web workers of all stripes who are trying to make their content more findable (on websites, intranets, apps, etc.). Sign up now! www.eventbrite.ca/e/fix-your-s...

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I spoke to Sara Nelson about her decision to try to get her own union to adopt "one member, one vote" direct elections, which they'll consider at the convention next week. Super rare for a sitting union president to push this type of reform
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-intervi...

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see YOU get it After all, we have STANDARDS, Kenny.

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it’s like none of you have ever considered how you’d pose for YOUR blood portrait

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Using an image, show a movie you are sure you’ve watched more than 10 times

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Sharing because I’ve seen some screenshots of a disturbing pro-nazi X post floating around: you can use the @xblock.aendra.dev labeler to completely hide screenshots from X/Twitter (and other social media) from your feed.

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After acquiring Thrillist and the Dodo, Vox has been denying our desire to operate under one union contract. There is no reason to do this aside from wanting to pay some colleagues less for the same work. Please tell them to recognize us under one contract actionnetwork.org/letters/one-...

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back in my day you would handle the met gala photos with some <img> tags in a table, or a float situation if you were feeling fancy. it’s so great that now a webpage can’t do the simple job of *displaying some pictures* without repeatedly crashing my phone’s browser app

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took me entirely too long to realize tim berners-lee’s THIS IS FOR EVERYONE could be read as a curse

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tech ceos: we must compete in the marketplace of ideas tech workers: union election time tech ceos: not like that

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experiencing a weird little bug on my laptop, where something — an image? a slack post? some random browser tab? who knows — occasionally generates a tooltip that pops up to say: > fuck, dude i have no idea why or how it’s happening, but i do know i’ve never empathized more with my computer

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Man, yeah. I miss this too 💜 Things just feel so fragmented now.

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