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kara

@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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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life
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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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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thrilled to coexist with inescapable, built-in migraine trigger.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s the ceaseless fucking repetition that gets me. Get better, get worse, repeat ad nauseam.
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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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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Uuuuuuugh.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Every. Time.
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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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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Is it Anthem? My out-of-network claims have been taking 4-6 months to process, absurd. Had several fail for superbill formatting reasons as well.
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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 · 27/05/2026
LET'S GO
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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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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Alien. Always Alien.
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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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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Why good healthcare tied to miserable job.
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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
How much longer must I drown in John Forester's ego?
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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 · 22/04/2026
Hell yeah, hope to be able to buy paperback soon!
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
And funded! 🤘
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
3 more days!
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
+1 for Quod Libet, works on Linux / macOS / Windows, links up with the NAS where my music library lives without any fuss, and lets me manage an unhinged set of sub-genre tags.
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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...
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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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the babahuck @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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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Never had a bad time at Helen’s.
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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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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
l m a o
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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 is confused by display name changes @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 · 20/01/2026
TCB forever.
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kara @ainulindale.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Throwback to our rotation of folks that asked about Mapbox’s contract with Palantir during every single all hands, for years on end. Hope someone is still shouting about it.
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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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