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Tamzin @tamz.in · 05/08/2026

If there's a bustle in your hedgehog, Don't be alarmed, dog.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 04/08/2026

1,280 #Wikimedia volunteers have pledged willingness to go on strike in solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik…, making us less than 100 signatures from being the most supported proposal or […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page "Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity", with shortcuts "WP:WWUS", "WP:WWUWHATSTHIS", and "WP:SOLIDARITY", showing the petition's pledge: "We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with Wiki Workers United and affirm our willingness to engage in collective action if called upon by WWU, up to and including staging an editorial strike. Editors participating in the collective action would be able to use normal Wikipedia consensus-building methods to establish the action's terms and, if desired, to establish further demands of our own in addition to WWU's demands."

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 04/08/2026

The easiest ways to fuck up something really minor in a way that winds up killing you all involve cars, and after that the easiest ways are probably things involving slipping and falling, but forgetting to turn off flash on your phone's camera has gotta be a close third, right?

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Wikimedia Foundation hired union-busting law firm for union election case. The NLRB docket shows that the Wikimedia Foundation has retained Littler Mendelson to represent it in the Wiki Workers United union election. Littler Mendelson is one of the most prominent U.S. management-side labor law […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 30/07/2026

Your #Wikipedia donations at work. The #WikimediaFoundation asks for your money to keep the lights on, & then spends it on notorious union-busting law firm Jones Day so its board members can recite generic anti-union rhetoric to justify ignoring supermajority […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Screenshot of a comment on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (link in reply). Text is as follows:

Response from the Board of Trustees
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has heard the calls from community members regarding voluntary union recognition at the Wikimedia Foundation. We want to acknowledge the care and commitment to movement values behind these calls.

The Board does not manage the Foundation's day-to-day work, including employment decisions. Our role is to provide oversight and long-term direction.

We support the Foundation's decision to ask for a secret-ballot vote. This is not a rejection of a union. It is a commitment to ensuring that every eligible staff member can make their own decision freely, privately, and democratically. Some staff have expressed concern about feeling pressured to support the union, and that makes a fair, private process especially important. Everyone deserves the right to express their views without pressure or intimidation from anyone. Foundation leadership has a responsibility to protect the rights of all staff, regardless of a staff member's views on unionization. A secret ballot is the fairest way to ensure every employee has a choice in this decision. Everyone having a voice reflects Wikimedia values, and we would hope that all the members of the Wikimedia communities share this view. - LLosa (WMF) (talk) 20:49, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 30/07/2026

watching different polycule members' strategies for balancing temperature regulation with convenience, in terms of which clothes to keep on, got curious about something...

chart of temperature rise since 1850 according to four authoritative sources

Google ngrams results for the phrase "varying states of undress" since 1850, showing a roughly similar trajectory

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 30/07/2026

As people start talking more seriously about reversing Brexit, now is the perfect time for us diaeresis-maximalists to strike and popularize the word "Brr̈eëntry".

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 29/07/2026

Happy full moon to those whose mood disorders observe.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 23/07/2026

In the past 2 months, over 1,000 #Wikimedians (and counting!) have expressed our solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited, the #WikimediaFoundation staff union, up to and including openness to an editorial strike. Today at #Wikimania, dozens of us gathered to send a […] [Original post on wikis.world]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 20/07/2026

ah yes my favorite comedy

Photo on an AirFrance seatback entertainment console, listing the movie "Les Choristes" as a comedy

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 19/07/2026

It's alarming the number of times I've looked into whether two Wikipedia users were sockpuppets because they had very similar behavior, only to determine that it wasn't possible because one wasn't born yet when the other created their account.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 18/07/2026

Media literacy on American gun control: Always look for what *isn't* getting covered. Consider NJ's assault weapons ban. Conservatives say it doesn't prevent crimes. Liberals say it doesn't hinder self-defense. The media focuses on these 2 narratives, which amusingly are both mostly correct […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 18/07/2026

Characterizations of Sherlock Holmes are so often neurodivergent-coded without committing it, and just once I want to see a Sherlock who spends 5 minutes flexing to Watson about the elaborate logic through which he deduced that the reason a person stormed off upset was because he commented on […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 18/07/2026

It's remarkable to me how normalized it is to complain about non-white characters in movies for overtly racist reasons. Most racist hobby-horses have some veneer of being about something other than race; movie casting is one of the only things where someone can make an overtly white-supremacist […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 17/07/2026

2016: Getting annoyed at constant spambot posts on my website. 2026: Getting excited by constant spambot posts on my website because they prove it's not currently swamped by AI scrapers.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 17/07/2026

As long as there's been a #Wikipedia, people have talked about what might end Wikipedia. War? AI? Increasingly I think the greatest threat is simply "People stop having the free time". The world is getting scarier, hotter, and poorer. As that continues, will […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Screenshot from Wikipedia article "Premiership of Keir Starmer": "... parliament, Starmer announced his resignation as Prime Minister and as leader of the Labour Party. Nominations are expected to open on 9 July, with a leader to be elected by mid-September if a contested election is held. Burnham is running in the election."

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 15/07/2026

RE: wikis.world/@tamzin/116919704451882… Poll has concluded! While acknowledging that the scope of this question isn't 100% coterminous with the concept of being in the Greater Seattle Polycule, more or less our findings here are that, for 157 Fedizens who are either in my broad […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 14/07/2026

[toki pona, mildly lewd] One beautiful thing about #tokipona is that it forces you to assume the best about people's meaning—to take an inclusionary interpretation over an exclusionary one, a friendly interpretation over a possessive one, a chaste interpretation over a sexual one—but I'll admit […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 14/07/2026

I love how, in #tokipona, "telo suwi 'telo kon lon nena ma' pi esun Pesiko [PepsiCo]" is still ambiguous. (For everyone else, that's "PepsiCo's sweet liquid called 'air-water on an earthy protuberance' ".)

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 14/07/2026

Occasionally people complain about the name #Wikimania but no one ever likes my solution of having a corresponding conference in February called Wikidepression where there isn't any programming and nobody shows up.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 14/07/2026

"It was the latest tragedy at an entertainment venue in Bangkok, the Thai capital and a popular international destination that has a reputation for danger because of generally low safety standards." Can you imagine writing this with a straight face for a newspaper that's based in a city that […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

I have clicked on an ad for only the second time this year so that I could marvel at the worst luxury-travel pitch I have ever seen, www.nytimes.com/paidpost/thai-airwa…, an itinerary to visit both Bangkok and Amsterdam in the span […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 11/07/2026

Chaotic neutral play: Buy one of those darkweb dumps of hacked Discord credentials, but only use it to make every compromised account post "oh fuck wrong chat did anyone see that?" to the most active channel they're in.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 09/07/2026

@snarfed.org I'm trying to set my Bsky handle to tamz.in, my personal domain, but keep getting the error message that says "You'll need to connect that domain to your bridged Bluesky account". However, according to the tool linked in that message <https://bsky-debug.app/handle?handle=tamz.in>, I […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 09/07/2026

This is the only time I've ever done this, but I actually had to stop and take a picture of the board, and then of @V looking very happy, and say "Sorry, I needed to get a before photo". (with apologies to www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QuD7UO-ZY0) #gingham #boardgames

Photo of a game of Gingham. I've annotated it with the number "41" and an arrow pointing to V; my score tracker is visible at 32.

The "before" photo: V looking cute and pleased with herself about passing 40 (the score that makes this the final round).

Updated board state; my score tracker has increased to 66. I've placed an ant to move my cherry stockpile 6 spaces, and then a second ant (bumping one of V's) to move my cake stockpile 14 spaces and move V's cherry stockpile 14 spaces, bumping her topper.

The "after" photo: V looking cute, astonished, and bewildered.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 08/07/2026

You ever think about how the point of "True Blood" was basically "Progressives are idiots for trusting minorities, who will inevitably stab them in the back"? Like obviously this wasn't the point it was trying to make, as made very clear by the villains being conservative politicians, but like […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 05/07/2026

Some really specific advice I wish someone would've given me is, if someone you know is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, take the time *then* to start replaying past interactions. There's measurable declines in cognition 5, 10, 12, or even 18 years pre-diagnosis,[1-4] and that can be a very difficult […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 04/07/2026

Why do people act like food isn't a solved problem when pupusas exist.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 04/07/2026

I want to start an advice column where I just tell monoamorous people to try polyamory and polyamorous people to try monoamory.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 04/07/2026

Usually when I'm comparing our reality to fictional media it's stuff like "Neuromancer", but seeing news coverage of "Police commissioner, whose wealthy family the big arts school is named after, discusses security plans for star-studded wedding between billionaire singer and famous athlete at […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 04/07/2026

RE: wikis.world/@tamzin/116573736666448… Okay but you know what I don't get? Wine. Like, it taste worse than grape juice, but is no better at getting you drunk than any other alcohol. Maybe worse at it; burns more like liquor with a proof closer to beer or cider. How did *that* become […]

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"a short glass of dumb bitch" 🏳️‍🌈🐱🤖🏳️‍⚧️ 🔜 Pawsome @spamcan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So, in case it hasn't been obvious from me talking about updating my CV and Portfolio, I'm back looking for work! I potentially have something lined up for the immediate term, but if you need a senior programmer, level designer, or just general creative, I have a pretty varied skillset! caylee.dev

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 03/07/2026

I feel like there's a lesson in the Rome/SSPX schism for anyone on the political left. The Vatican in the '70s introduced progressive reforms, but enforced them in regressive ways. Usually one would associate banning a form of worship with conservative marginalization of progressives, but there […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 30/06/2026

@V in the extended-polycule group chat with a game-changing discovery

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 29/06/2026

[transphobia mentioned; light-hearted] As an agender transfem who is mostly perceived as a woman, I'd really like to believe that my refusal to self-label as a woman comes from my skepticism about the concept of gender identity and my complex feelings about gender abolitionism... But I probably […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 29/06/2026

[The Good Place spoilers ALL] You ever think about how, in "The Good Place", literally all of humanity is saved from eternal torment because a straight fuccboi from Florida respected his wife's nonbinary identity?

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 29/06/2026

This thought is like 6 months early/late, but: Can we ( #jewish Fedi users) pick a random minor Christian holiday to pretend we think is a really big deal, to make up for all the "Do you have big plans for Chanukah?" questions we get every year? Like what if we just all acted like we sincerely […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 28/06/2026

And you could have it all, My empire of yurts. I will let you down. I will make you a yurt.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 26/06/2026

First time playing #gingham. I had a great time with @V but my main takeaway is that if you're going to play this, you should suggest playing somewhere outdoors, & then grab a snack or drink just for yourself on the way out the door, to guarantee you win the […] [Original post on wikis.world]

A boardgame played on a checkered grid. Many squares have pink and green wooden ant figures on them. Some intersections have black discs or stacks of discs with icons of sweets on them, some surmounted with green or pink discs of the same nature; others have white cubes representing sugar. At the bottom, point trackers and accumulations of sugar: 79 with 6 sugar for pink vs. 71 with 1 sugar for green.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 26/06/2026

If Intel just started making really high-quality potato chips in large quantities, do you think it could trick AI day-traders into overvaluing it?

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 26/06/2026

[sex (meta)joke] Cautionary fable about an ffmpeg dev who uses forbidden magic to make everyone forget about the obvious "ffmpreg" joke, only to emerge into a reality where everyone instead makes the obvious "F/F/M peg" joke.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 25/06/2026

[passing-related humor] Hint: If it's not about whether people perceive you as the gender you want to be perceived as, it's in the left-hand circle. (A derivative work of xkcd #1180 "Virus Venn Diagram" by Randall Munroe, CC BY-NC 2.5.)

A Venn diagram of two non-overlapping circles.

The first: "THINGS TRANSFEMS LOOK TO TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY PASS"

The second: "THINGS THAT DETERMINE WHETHER SOMEONE PASSES"

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 25/06/2026

Spreading disinformation for distant-future historians that Alan Greenspan's name was originally <span style="color:green;">Alan</span>, but it got changed at Ellis Island.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 25/06/2026

tenpo poka la tenpo suno "o pali e sitelen musi leko ike" [ #MakeATerribleComicDay ] li lon. mi lukin ala e ni, la tenpo suno ni a la mi pana e musi ni pi #tokipona

A two-panel stick-figure comic.

In the first panel, a person says "mi toki pona" in sitelen pona. They imagine three people's inner monologues: "What language is that?"; "The phonemes are so simple yet their combination so alien"; "This is truly a person of great mystery and intrigue".

In the next panel, we see those people's actual thoughts: "That is Spanish"; "I am not paying attention"; "I am also not paying attention".

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 22/06/2026

Worked out that if @spamcan.bsky.social and I wanted to meet up exactly halfway for our next window of time together, it'd be approximately in the village of Neregey, Kazakhstan. So if it's Neregey. And we're far-a-gays. Where's Wherever-you-are-a-gay?

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 21/06/2026

Ok so, is it just me or does it totally look like there's a driver planking on top of the car in the right-side image here? (I only see this at low resolution, hence uncropped screenshot.)

A screenshot of the English Wikipedia's Main Page. The image in "In the News" is of the car that won 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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