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Lotus Bloom @lotusbloomnyc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Rally together and play some cube in support of worker power! You can RSVP here: forms.gle/6gtnNtTAHbsG...

Collective actions get the goods! TCGUnion-CWA has secured a closing agreement with eBay for a significantly improved severance package for TCGPlayer workers affected by the recent firings. As such, we’re shifting the focus of our fundraising to NY Starbucks Workers United, a union of Starbucks employees in NYC fighting for a safer and more equitable workplace. Rally together and play some cube in support of worker power!

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

June 21st and 22nd, from 10am to 6pm, join Tabletop Workers United and friends in Chelsea to celebrate our contract settlement with the TTWU Zine and Culture Fair! Share and buy anything from poetry to zines to games to art! Everyone is welcome! #zine #artwork #shoplocal #union #indieartists

TTWU Zine & Culture Fair: June 21st through 22nd, 10am to 6pm at 121 West 27th Street, Suite 201 in Manhattan

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Lotus Bloom @lotusbloomnyc.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Our menu for next Tuesday's Queer Magic Night at Brooklyn Game Knight! Hope to see you there at 7pm. If you have any questions or want to RSVP, join our Discord (link in bio) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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robin 🥀 @tarmogal.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

This cause is incredibly important to me - not only am I so proud to have helped build worker power at the Brooklyn Strategist, seeing all of my friends and peers continue to do so and be so close to a fairer workplace is so amazing. it's an honor to support them and I can't wait for this event!

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C4AC - a cube charity event @cubeforacause.upkeepnewyork.com · 01/05/2025

Up next we have a desert thats as bright as the designer. @ahnkili.bsky.social shares their Etherium Landscape with us. This is an evocative Esper desert cube that focuses on Alara and Mirrodin flavor with a high density of artifacts. List here: cubecobra.com/cube/overvie...

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Cube Cobra Overview: Etherium Landscape

*The ground is so reflective it hurts your eyes. It glimmers so bright. As you adjust to the light you find that this land is not just bright but also barren; very little grows here. Spires erupt from...

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gabor @ahnkili.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

get off your phone (telling themself)!!! www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...

To put it a different way, part of our collective feeling of futurelessness, I believe, is caused by design. In phoneworld, it’s not just that we’re getting the news. It’s that we’re getting the news, and the knee-jerk reactions of hundreds of people to that news, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, locking us into an eternal present where the time passes in huge slices and nothing changes beyond the movement of the thumb along the glass screen. In phoneworld, politics closes in on us with the sheer repetitive brunt of this hopelessness.

Because of this subjugation, we are unable to give space to our own thoughts and feelings, unable to act because we just want to see what’s next in the feed. Maybe it’ll be good news, maybe it’ll be funny, maybe it’ll be smart (less a possibility these days), but in order to get that glimpse of hope or at least of levity, one has to suffer through the same iterations of terribleness, until, all of a sudden, an hour has passed, maybe two. And by this time, one’s palms are sweating, one’s heart is racing, and one finds that one’s sense of personhood or self-in-the-world, one’s grounding in physical or temporal reality have all been diminished — but that’s only if one can recognize the signs of the diminishment. At any rate, the result is the same: Nothing can be done because we have done and are doing nothing.

The smartphone has deskilled seemingly everything, even something as fundamental to human life as reading. But it’s especially deskilled political organizing. Perhaps a subconscious reason why the Left puts so much hope in the labor movement is because organizing one’s workplace is a largely offline endeavor. It takes place face to face in a spatially and temporally anchored place where everyone, despite all that may divide them, is subjected to the same material conditions, the same injustices. The most pro-social idea on earth is that only through collective power can we, the individual, make for ourselves a better life, and let me tell you, the tech billionaires do not want you to know that.

My haters will be quick to point out that I, however, rely on these platforms to make my living. I have no shop floor. It’s true. Part of my despair comes from realizing that, without social media, and long out of school, I know nothing about how to reach other people. I came of age in the 2010s and have not known a politics without the smartphone, without social media, without the specatacle of virality and the belief that, in this open space, one can utilize these tools to affect change. And now, I am alone, in my apartment, afraid. My friends are alone, in their apartments, afraid.

One of the imminent questions of our moment is: what would it take to relearn how to do political work offline, to recognize that there will perhaps be a time — in the very near future — where online work will be rendered impossible for those of us not in favor of the administration? The old ways are already crumbling now in this moment of highly siloed algorithms, where no two people’s internet is the same. Hence, we must quickly abandon the 2010s idea that our content, concepts, and actions will, through the internet, find the masses. That ship sailed after Black Lives Matter. And after so many of the activists involved in that movement died under mysterious circumstances, before we embark again, we need to reckon with the fact that we carry with us a device that tracks our location and listens to everything we say. It is naive to think this will not have consequences. Those black bloc anarchists people used to rib for being paranoid are looking pretty damn smart right now. More and more, I’ve started to think that, just as people rightly request the donning of masks in public settings to protect others and ourselves, maybe it’s time to treat our phones the same way.

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gabor @ahnkili.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I wrote a thing and it's in this zine. For those that want to read my piece it's also here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Go get organized :)

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Within 30 minutes of ownership finding out about our walkout, we negotiated a return to work! Our walkout forced a promise to us that we’d get the economic data we demanded within a week, a response to our tipping policy settlement, and attendance from ownership at bargaining ✊

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

⚠EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION!⚠ The Uncommons is WALKING OUT today after Greg May’s neglect in recent bargaining, from multiple absences at sessions to refusal to commit to a date by which he’ll provide sufficient economic data for The Uncommons (that the union already has from BSTRAT and Hex).

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We want to give a huge thank you to all who donated or supported our MTG stream on Jan. 30! We raised $5194 on the stream alone in support of the TWU strike hardship fund, and it's all thanks to YOU!

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

See yall tonight!!!! MTG stream to fundraise for our strike hardship fund! 7:00 don't be late! www.twitch.tv/nilejoanrivers

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Boston Cube Party @bostoncubeparty.com · 30/01/2025

Time to reveal a cube that needs no introduction: @andy.luckypaper.co's 100 Ornithopters! For a sneak peek of this cube, be sure to tune into the @tabletopwu.bsky.social stream tonight at 7pm on @nilejoan.com's Twitch channel. You'll be supporting workers and be able to donate to a fantastic cause!✊

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

THIS THURSDAY at 7PM we're hosting a MTG paper cube draft fundraiser stream for our strike hardship fund. ❤️🔥 🔗 Watch all the action here: www.twitch.tv/nilejoanrivers

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

P1P1 for 100 Ornithopters Unite: Paper Cube Stream Raising Funds for Striking NYC Tabletop Workers! The stream is a week away on Jan 30th! Cube list here: cubecobra.com/cube/list/10...

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The 100 Ornithopters Unite draft will be pre-recorded, but the streamed event will have live commentary! We’re thrilled to have @inspiringtimmy.bsky.social and @tiddypills.bsky.social in the booth to cover the draft and matches - with @jasoniltg.bsky.social as our featured drafter.

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Another P1P1 for 100 Ornithopters Unite: Paper Cube Stream Raising Funds for Striking NYC Tabletop Workers! Watch the stream on Jan 30th, cube list here! cubecobra.com/cube/list/10...

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

P1P1 for 100 Ornithopters Unite: Paper cube stream raising funds for NYC Tabletop Workers strike hardship fund! Watch the stream on Jan 30th, cube list here! cubecobra.com/cube/list/10...

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Fundraiser Stream for NYC Tabletop Workers strike hardship fund! Watch the stream on Jan 30th 7:00 PM EST! Info about our union (and the cube ofc) below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T_e...

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100 Ornithopters Unite

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Tabletop Workers United @tabletopwu.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Tabletop Workers United is thrilled to announce a paper cube draft fundraiser stream for our strike hardship fund! Tune in to @nilejoan.com stream on January 30th at 7PM EST for all the action. twitch.tv/nilejoanrivers We've got some really exciting guests lined up! Stay tuned for more info 👀

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