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@ainulindale.bsky.social
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Bike commuter, orogenesis enthusiast, cartographer turned security engineer, former Mapbox Workers Union organizer. they/them 🇵🇸

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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · 23/09/2026
We are 25 days away from Circuit Breakers 2026 🌠 and we can’t wait to see everyone. Grab your tickets now! Join us Oct 17-18 in NYC. Learn more at twcl.ink/circuit-brea... 🎟️ Incredible artwork by @mkupperman.bsky.social
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So grateful for JS and Clarissa, go get Against Tech Oligarchy! againsttecholigarchy.com
A photo of a book on a desk, the cover reads “Against Tech Oligarchy, Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry” written by JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine.
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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · 19/08/2026
BIG NEWS — Registration is now open for Circuit Breakers, the national tech labor conference! This year will be in NYC from Oct. 17-18th. twcl.ink/circuit-brea... Tickets go fast, so get the word out, get your tickets early, check the website for a preview of some of the talks and sessions.
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Cody @codyfromacme.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 12/07/2026
please show respect for the dead body of someone who didn’t respect your alive body
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ceej @ceej.online · 01/08/2024
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
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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · 18/06/2026
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
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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · 27/05/2026
🚨 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...
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A photo of a fluorescent green flyer in a light pole in DC that reads "FUCK SCOTUS WE'RE DOING IT ANYWAY."
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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · 02/05/2026
Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨
A three panel comic done in mostly a blue-purple ink. Frame 1: The artist, a tired person with their hair in a bun and a bag on their shoulder standing in the awning of a bus shelter. There's an ad on it that says "STOP HIRING HUMANS", above a woman whose face has been replace with the word "AI".
Frame 2: The bus comes, it's wrapped in an ad that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS." The artist has a blank look. 
Frame 3: A plane has now arrived above the bus and the human. It's carrying an ad banner that also says "STOP HIRING HUMANS".
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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.
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21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Guess that's on me for assuming a bike lane would be protected in the state of California.
A screenshot from the sample California driver's test. Question is "What should you do to make a right turn at an upcoming intersection?" My answer was "Make the turn from your current lane and do not enter the bicycle lane." However, the correct answer according to California law is to "Merge into the bicycle lane before making the turn."
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
3 more days!
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
One more week!
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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...
kickstarter.com
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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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country
SECRETARY RUBIO: Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Irans had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have had a much different country.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ah, the indignity of being asked to perform enthusiasm for deskilling my own labor.
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josh @cyberb.space · 24/02/2026
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...
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A Request for Impetus
Good friends are looking for podcast funding
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman
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Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC) @organizeworkers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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. 🧵
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‘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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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The interests of a tech platform’s users and profit-driven corporate owners will always diverge.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
At least I’ll always have spite for the Supreme Court to keep me going.
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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · 18/09/2025
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 · 15/09/2025
Oh hell yeah.
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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · 04/09/2025
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 · 28/08/2025
the problem.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Snapshots from my deep and abiding intolerance for helicopter surveillance in DC.
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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 19/08/2025
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...
actionnetwork.org
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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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Another day of testing my capacity for cognitive dissonance in exchange for money and health insurance.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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 · 03/06/2025
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 · 05/05/2025
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 · 01/05/2025
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 · 18/04/2025
Solidarity with public sector IT and security workers, cause this continues to be absolutely fucked.
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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.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
For posterity: web.archive.org/web/20230927...
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The Washington Post Tech Guild @wapotechguild.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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
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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...
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Tech Workers Coalition @techworkerscoalition.org · 27/03/2025
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
Introducing Data Centers, Climate and Labor: A webinar on intersecting perspectives with the panelists mentioned in the post on April 18, 3pm PT / 6pm ET. Register at https://bit.ly/datacenters101
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IaconCityRockGirl @iaconrockgirl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Post reading "computer boys are really like "imagine a boot so big that logically we must start licking it now incase it might possibly exists someday""
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It’s a rough time to be alive, but @techworkerscoalition.org makes it a lil’ better.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
ACT UP, 1990
A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A screen capture from Twin Peaks featuring David Lynch as Gordon Cole saying “And when you became Denise, I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die.”
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josh @cyberb.space · 02/12/2024
In 2020 my coworkers and I started talking to each other about how to fix what wasn’t working with our jobs and protect what we loved about them. Almost a year later, we lost a hard fought union campaign. I learned a lot in between. My piece in Reboot this week: joinreboot.org/p/nearest-ne...
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Nearest Neighbors
Solidarity, startups, and convenience
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