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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 13h

"You deserve a union." (Industry modifiers optional and encouraged!)

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You Deserve a Tech Union — Ethan Marcotte

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 23/09/2026

i read this in john gaius’s voice

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 21/09/2026

i just became the ha ha sickos meme

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.

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Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own

Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 16/09/2026

LABOR SICKOS* OF NEW YORK: the authors of AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY are doing an event *tonight* in Brooklyn. RSVP link is below, stop by if you can! events.ticketleap.com/tickets/powe... * affectionate #nyc #1u #labor #TechLabor

Event poster for a live podcast episode of WORKING CLASS HISTORY, featuring JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine. September 16 at 7pm ET, taking place at Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 08/09/2026

that’s milton he’s my best friend

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 08/09/2026

somehow did not own a copy of this and I've now fixed this problem

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 08/09/2026

That means a lot, Cara. Thank you.

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 08/09/2026

That’s damned nice of you, Mike. Thanks so, so much for picking up a copy. Feedback’s real welcome, always. (LIUNA? *Hell* yeah.)

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 07/09/2026

I’m still so proud of this little book. If you read it, I hope it’s useful to you. And I’ve said it before, but if you’d like a copy but don’t feel you can swing the purchase right now—shipping costs, how your budget’s looking this month, whatever—just send me an email. We’ll figure it out. ❤️‍🔥

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labo(u)r Day is a good time to remind folks about YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION by @ethanmarcotte.com — collective organizing and worker power is maybe *especially* important for these industries that shape all of our lives, especially now. ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-de...

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 27/08/2026

@dame.is okay so how do i opt out of this, short of deleting my entire account

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Daisy Pitkin @daisy-pitkin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not one cent to Starbucks until workers get a contract! Pass it on!

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

therapist: have you ever considered that you might have perfectionist tendencies me: no therapist: why is that me: because if I were a perfectionist I'd be the best at it

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Shout out to @davistint (on instagram), who made these incredible hand-printed signs after seeing posts about our fight for AI protections last week! union journalists 🤝 local chicago artists NO AI USE

A light blue sign with lines alternating blue and red ink reading:

“Chicago deserves authentic journalism not artificial content”

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 26/08/2026

terry pratchett’s death would NEVER

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 26/08/2026

grim reaper’s fucking UP this week

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lfelizleon.bsky.social @lfelizleon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New from me with Jane Slaughter: United Auto Workers members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s 91 years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5. labornotes.org/2026/08/uaw-...

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UAW Members Voting for International Officers

United Auto Workers members are voting by mail ballot for their top officers, for the second time in the union’s 91 years. Ballots went out August 21 and are due back by October 5. The contest will de...

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 26/08/2026

check out their boycott site if you get a minute: they’ve got a support pledge you can sign, AND ALSO i dig the list of local, unionized coffeeshops you can support instead www.boycottstarbucks.net

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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS

Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 26/08/2026

I can fix her

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 26/08/2026

good morning ONLY to organized labor

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I want to add that Dolly wrote this song less than a decade after eugenicist Harry M. Caudill's Night Comes to the Cumberlands was published, pathologizing Appalachia during the country's "War on poverty." That "Despite your contempt, the things I love are worth loving" part runs DEEP.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 25/08/2026

all rise for the international anthem of workers of the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxU...

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Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 (Official Video)

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

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Scott Andrew @scottandrew.com · 24/08/2026

Folks, I’m rebuilding my music email list. To entice you, subscribers get a free copy of my new song “The Muse (The Work Is The Wage).” Recorded in Seattle in Pearl Jam’s studio by Shawn Simmons (The Head And The Heart, Hey Marseilles). I hope you’ll check it out! scottandrew.music

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Scott Andrew | Singer-songwriter

Scott Andrew | Singer-songwriter | Americana-flavored acoustic pop

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 24/08/2026

don’t worry i’m disappointed in me too 🐝🐝🐝

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 24/08/2026

🎶 I was carried to Ohio in a thwarm of beeth / I never married, but Ohio don’t remember meeeeee

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 24/08/2026

good morning ONLY to organized labor

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 24/08/2026

an omen of what? great question. my best guess is that something excellent will happen to you, OR something horrible will befall one of your enemies …or you’ll eat a french fry off the ground. getting mixed signals here tbh

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 24/08/2026

i was out of town this weekend, and immediately upon returning to boston i was greeted by what i can only describe as AN OMEN

A seagull defiantly stands atop a “Don’t Walk” traffic signal.

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Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

😂 this does seem to be the new agreement With alt text

The IBM “A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE” slide, but instead of the real second part of the line (“therefore a computer must never make a management decision”), it says: “THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST ALWAYS DO THE HACKING HAHA WHAT ARe they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha
"oops it's alive" Imao”

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

CHEKHOV'S GOT A GUN CHEKHOV'S GOT A GUN WHAT WILL THE CLIMAX BEEEEE WHEN WE HIT ACT THREEEEEEE

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 21/08/2026

ahhhh awesome, have a great time!

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 20/08/2026

Belatedly: thanks for this, it’s appreciated!

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mandy brown @aworkinglibrary.com · 19/08/2026

People are like, you can’t refuse LLMs forever, someday you’ll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode.

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