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Tamzin @tamz.in · 04/08/2026

Fun thing we learned when printing out a copy of the petition to give to CEO Bernadette Meehan @ Wikimania: #MediaWiki's PDF renderer breaks on ordered list items past 1,000. I pointed this out to her when we handed her the petition. She didn't immediately see […] [Original post on wikis.world]

A photo of the printed-out petition, showing the first page, dozens more pages stacked below it, and then the page holding signature #1,000, which is incorrectly numbered #000.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 09/07/2026

final boardstate closeup

Final state of a game of Gingham, 89 pink to 55 green to 27 orange. Pink has dominated the northeast quadrant and created a large and small stockpile there to win.

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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 · 30/06/2026

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

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 28/06/2026

@V Like it seems a little broken that, in a game played to 40, I was able to score 25 points across 2 rounds in what felt like midgame. (Actually should have been a bit more. Move 2A is missing in this because I didn't realize I was about to win and wasted it on […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Annotated version of previous photo, zoomed in on my path. Three arrows lead along a path of pink ants, the sources of the arrows labeled 7, 7, and 11. The four ants that were added to make this possible are labeled 1A, 1B, 1C, and 2B.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 28/06/2026

Game 3, vs. @V & Julera. In this game we learned that you can win in a decisive and very unfun way if you play hardball while your opponents play nice. Honestly that's the first thing about this game that I could criticize as a matter of game design; I don't like […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Similar to the previous image, except on the larger, three-player board. Scores are 52 pink, 9 blue, 39 green.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 27/06/2026

Game 2 with @V, this time not the Dog-Safe Variant. I like when you can gauge from a photo of a game's end-state how hard-fought it was. Game 1 was, I'm told, less gentle than usual for Gingham. Game 2 blew that out of the water, mixing all the brutal complexity […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Similar to photo in previous post, except that there is now a chocolate-themed board to the side listing various special abilities, and the score is 76 (including 1 sugar) for green vs. 94 (including 2 sugar) for pink.

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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 · 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

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 · 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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Tamzin @tamz.in · 20/06/2026

This fever-dream idea brought to you by playing Reiner Kinizia's "Gazebo" with @V while sleepy. I liked it a lot!

Photo of gameplay. A few dozen dominoes are arranged on a grid, making an abstract representation of a garden. Many squares have small plastic gazeboes on them.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 18/06/2026

[Wikipedia-related mild sex joke] "I unprotected sex." "You mean you *had* unprotected sex?" "No."

Screenshot of a Wikipedia log action:

16:48, 18 June 2026
Tamzin talk contribs block changed protection settings for Biological sex [Move=Require administrator access] (indefinite) (drop to PC per reasoning @ Special:GoToComment/c-Tamzin-20260608135000-Stray_thought: likely much less of a vandalism target post-move. any admin can feel free to re-semi if there's too much.) (hist | change)

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 06/06/2026

You ever screw up so bad at a crime that your name becomes grammar?

Screenshot of a Wiktionary entry:

Pronoun
you guys

(colloquial, in the plural) You.
Hey you guys!

Screenshot of a Wiktionary entry:

Etymology 1
Coined by semantic widening from the name of Guy Fawkes (1570–1606), an English Catholic executed for his role in the Gunpowder Plot, which also came to refer to effigies of his image burned annually on Guy Fawkes Night. The name Guy is from Old French Gui, from a Frankish form of Proto-West Germanic *Widō (compare Old Dutch Wido), a short form of names beginning with the element *widu (“wood”), from Proto-Germanic *widuz. Cognate with Italian Guido. Doublet of guido.

Noun
guy (plural guys)

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 06/06/2026

The three genders of NYT piece: • Complaining about the existence of people who do not subscribe to the worldview of the average NYC-based elite establishment liberal, or whose existence is inconvenient for said worldview's narratives • Extremely hard-hitting […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Screenshot of an NYT headline: "Plan Your Fantasy Wedding for Taylor & Travis". Beneath it, a photo of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in a heart-shaped balloon; while not evident from the screenshot, the balloon is moving about the page. Beneath it: "Who's the maid of honor? Who's the musical guest? What's the theme? And what about the dress? You decide!"

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 11/05/2026

it would be a lot more impressive if they found an 11,000-carat ruby *not* weighing almost five pounds

Screenshot of a splitscreen. The top half shows the Sky News headline "Myanmar miners discover rare 11,000-carat ruby weighing nearly five pounds". The bottom half shows a Google search showing that 11,000 carats equals 4.85 pounds.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 10/05/2026

Thank you, unsourced paragraph in an economics article on Wikipedia, for explaining that whether someone will want less money now or more money later depends on whether they want less money now or more money later.

Screenshot of text. The final clause of the third sentence is highlighted:

A practical example: Jim and Bob go out for a drink but Jim has no money so Bob lends Jim $10. The next day Jim visits Bob and says, "Bob, you can have $10 now, or I will give you $15 when I get paid at the end of the month." Bob's time preference will change depending on his trust in Jim, whether he needs the money now, or if he thinks he can wait; or if he'd prefer to have $15 at the end of the month rather than $10 now. Present and expected needs, present and expected income affect one's time preference.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 22/04/2026

—What comes after the introduction? —Some introductory code! —And then? —An introduction! —And then? —An entire chapter on the fact that Python uses significant whitespace. —Seems like the sort of thing that belongs in a... —In a what? —Nevermind. Okay, what's […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Screenshot of the first 5 entries in the table of contents for the Python Developer Guide on wiki.documentfoundation.org. Chapter headings are:

1. Introduction
2. My first macro
3. Initial concepts
4. Common errors
5. Introduction to develop Python

Chapters 1, 2, and 4 are already-visited links. Chapters 3 and 5 are unlinked.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 22/04/2026

A common defense by people who write bad documentation is that it works if you understand it (with the implication being that you're just stupid), but uh, no this doesn't. Spot the error this "my first macro" code will raise? #LibreOffice

Screenshot of Python code:

import uno

def my_first_macro_writer():
doc = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDocument()
text = doc.getText() # com.sun.star.text.Text
text.setString('Hello World in Python in Writer')
return

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 08/04/2026

Sometimes I dunk on The New York Times for promoting bad science, misinformation about crime, various governments' propaganda, & a mentality that liberalism is the only sane ideology. Other times I defend The New York Times for solid investigative journalism and […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Screenshot of text: "They said that Mr. Balat hurled a homemade bomb that was spiked with lethal explosives at anti-Muslim demonstrators near Gracie Mansion The device did not detonate, and no one was injured."

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 05/04/2026

I often complain about installation guides that just say things like "pip install x" or "sudo apt-get x", since that's completely inaccessible to new users and even some experienced developers, and on multiple occasions I've lost hours to readmes that figured […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Screenshot of text: "uno package: To script LibreOffice in Python, you need the uno package. If you run the python included in LO this can be imported without problems. However, if you run you 'normal' python, check if you import the libreoffice uno package since there is also a HTML-Generator named UNO. If you do pip install uno you will get that 'wrong' uno package, not the Libreoffice one."

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 02/04/2026

this document has a totally normal number of zwps ok

ctrl+f dialog from LibreOffice, showing a 68,028-character-long document with 3,972 matches for the zero-width space character

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 30/03/2026

It's always funny when the #nytimes' human-interest journalists push a narrative that's already been flagged as disinformation by its political journalists.

Screenshot of two New York Times headlines and subheadlines, presented here bottom-to-top:

March 27: Gulf States Crack Down on Videos of Iranian Attacks Posted Online / The authorities have made a wave of arrests to stop people posting footage of strikes, citing security risks. Experts also see a fear of damage to the countries’ image as safe havens.

March 30: Can the ‘Dubai Dream’ Survive the War? Residents Say Life Goes On. / The Emirates’ largest city pitched itself to foreign workers and tourists as a sun-soaked safe haven in a volatile region. War has challenged that image.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 24/03/2026

Time elapsed updating #LibreOffice on a reasonably modern PC, from a version that was current 10 months ago when I last used the PC: 15 minutes, across 5 consecutive piecemeal updates. Is there some reason it can't just update straight to the newest version?

A screenshot of 5 "Whats new" [sic] pages loading for 5 different versions of LibreOffice: 24.8.5, 24.5.6, 25.2 (no subversion specified), 25.2.6, and 25.2.7.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 13/03/2026

I wonder what things are like in the universe of the 1Weather devs, where the Moon only ever waxes.

Screenshot of the 1Weather app's Moon info for March 17–19, showing consecutive phases of Waxing Crescent, New Moon, and Waxing Crescent.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/02/2026

A friend wanted to pitch a business idea to me, but forgot to bring an NDA for me to sign. I had my tiny purse notebook open and was jotting something down in #sitelenpona, and he asked if I wanted to just write the NDA myself real quick. "What, in #tokipona?" […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Photo of a page in a small notebook, reading in sitelen pona (romanized here):

jan Wilijan li toki tawa jan Tansin lon esun ona.

jan Tansin li toki e ni: mi en sina li pali kulupu ala, la tenpo suke tu la mi Tansin li esun ala kepeken toki wile sina ni.

Below this are redacted signatures and the date 2026-02-12, and the names William (last name redacted) and Tamzin H. Kelly.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 02/02/2026

I get the faint suspicion that this comment comes from a bot...

$Screenshot of a YouTube comment from a redacted username ending in 8178, posted 6 minutes ago at time of screenshot: "I lost my car to an intersection similar to this.The car was passed down by generations.\nThankfully saved my life." If you are listening to this on a screenreader, note that that is a backslash and an N between "generations" and "Thankfully".$

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 31/01/2026

Seen in the chumbox ads on the CNN app... big if true

Screenshot of an ad depicting a large bacon cheeseburger. Caption reads: "[Pics] Bangkok Restaurant Named Best Burger In The US — Vitaminews"

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 27/01/2026

2/2 But with coverage of Alex Pretti's murder, there seems to be a rift between the site's headlines and the app's push alerts. The site tells us that mistakes were made. The app tells us that cops killed a man. That could still stand to be a bit more direct, but […] [Original post on wikis.world]

Screenshot of text: "New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Pretti Shooting: A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the
officers who shot him shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn't pose a threat."

Screenshot of a push alert: "String of Fatal Decisions: A new Times video analysis breaks down the flawed and lethal actions by federal agents in the killing of Alex Pretti."

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 21/01/2026

found the best view in Bangkok. with a pretty skyline too. @spamcan.bsky.social 💕

Caylee grinning in front of a wide view of Lumphini Park at dusk and many skyscrapers behind it

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 20/01/2026

Honored to be the one to get to make this edit. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=… #wikipedia

Screenshot of text: "This article is about the cartoon. For actual use of tools by cattle, see Tool use by non-humans § Cattle."

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 23/04/2025

[wry humor about govt misgendering] Proud to say I have collected all 3 of a possible 2 genders!

Three government documents, mostly redacted: 1) A DC birth certificate for Tamzin Hadasa Kelly, sex listed as female. 2) A New Jersey driver's license for Tamzin Hadasa Kelly, issued 30 January 2025, gender listed as X (unspecified). 3) A US passport for Tamzin Hadasa Kelly, issued 24 February 2025, sex listed as male.

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