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Wikimedian (User:Tamzin), tokiponist (wan Tansin), tattoo enthusiast (5), polycule LLC member (kulupu olin), proud denizen of not-America (2025-04-30). When you say "I […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ wikis.world/@tamzin, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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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

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.

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."

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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Userboxes @userboxes.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Pink is one of this user's favourite colours.

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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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Userboxes @userboxes.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

This user identifies as an Anarchist.

Tamzin @tamz.in · 30/07/2026

If you contact donate@wikimedia.org, I recommend referencing the transaction IDs for your past donations. These should be in an email with the subject "A record of your support for Wikipedia", and should look like CNTCT-12345678.

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)

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

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".

Tamzin @tamz.in · 29/07/2026

Happy full moon to those whose mood disorders observe.

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]

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

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

That last one's not a joke. You are exempt from many of NJ's gun laws if you aren't from NJ. Note that people from NJ are much more likely to be non-white or non-Christian than people from most other U.S. states.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 18/07/2026

For context, in varying ways, NJ makes it harder or impossible to buy a gun for: • Poor people • People who work full-time • People who don't have cars • People who have ever had any kind of mental health treatment whatsoever • Homeless people • People without stable addresses (incl. those […]

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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

(Which isn't to say there are zero good-faith reasons to critique such casting. In particular there are some reasonable arguments rooted in antiracism, like that it can be an excuse for studios to not come up with new and compelling non-white characters. But those aren't the kinds of argument […]

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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."

Tamzin @tamz.in · 17/07/2026

Admittedly, July is often where Wikipedia activity hits a low, but this high-profile an article being this significantly out-of-date in its lede section is still quite unusual. Usually Wikipedia's problem is people being *too* eager to update this kind of thing.

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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."

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

esun Pesiko li pana e telo "Sierra Mist" kin.

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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

FWIW, impressionistically I would say Bangkok is above-average in overall safety for major cities I've spent time in. The actual statistics can be interpreted a few ways, and there's certainly no denying things like a very high rate of motorcycle fatalities, but a confident assertion of "a […]

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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

Speaking of which, somehow the intro to the whole thing, trying to justify why this is a good idea, fails to mention that both cities have canals. Which is like, the one obvious connection. It does mention that they are both "anchored by enchanting bodies of water", you know, unlike all those […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

In conclusion, you have done 8 things in the 2 cities, 5 of which were going to restaurants or bars, 2 of which were wandering around looking at art, and 1 of which was wandering around not looking at art.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

Because yes, to be clear, the next thing you do is go eat dinner. It lasts 2 hours. Dutch dinner is 33% better than Dutch lunch but still 33% worse than Thai lunch or dinner. You then wander around a canal, starting at 8:30 and ending apparently never. You never return to Bangkok, apparently […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

Did starting day 1 at noon seem a bit unreasonable? Fortunately we will start day 3 at 2 PM. What with? Lunch, of course. This lunch will only last 90 minutes. I guess Dutch food isn't as good. Like with day 1, you then wander and look at art for a bit, which fine, I guess; these are the only […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

At this point they give up completely at explaining how this day's itinerary will at all work, on any timeframe let alone one involving jet lag, only mentioning one activity, at noon. It is, you guessed it, lunch.

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

Now is day 2, which is obviously the hard-sell part of this idea. BKK to AMS is 12 hours, plus 3 hours waiting at BKK and maybe 2 hours clearing AMS and getting to a hotel. So, 19 of the 16 waking hours in a day. What is Thai Airlines' solution to this, for the luxury travelers it is courting? […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

What to do for the meat of your day in a massive city with tons of things to do? Spend 3.5 hours looking at street art, apparently. This at least is a coherent part of the itinerary, although I like that they stress the "laid-back pace", you know, as one does for a 36-hour intercontinental […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

You would think if you're pitching something as ludicrous as a 3-day travel itinerary that features an 11-hour flight on the 2nd day, you would have the 1st and 3rd days start early and be jam-packed with activities. Well, Thai Airlines thinks you should start day 1 at noon, with a 3-hour lunch […]

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Tamzin @tamz.in · 12/07/2026

For starters, you just, magically start in Bangkok? It is worth noting that most people are not currently in Bangkok. Now, *i* do happen to be there at the moment, so given the placement in the NYT maybe they're deliberately targeting American expats in Thailand, but uh, as you are about to see […]

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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

RE: wikis.world/@tamzin/116829014665133… Also since I went through the trouble of creating a notation system last time I posted about this, the winning move here would be: [idk round number] W ... P1 (10,6)-- H(6.5,6.5)>(10.5,6.5) = 38 P2 (9,10) P(10.5,10.5)>(8.5,6.5) P(8.5,10.5)>(10 […]

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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

link repost for embed www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QuD7UO-ZY0

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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.

Tamzin @tamz.in · 08/07/2026

@MegaMichelle Yeah I mean, that's part of the thing when you have a large centrist-ish movement that likes to pretend it's something well to its own left: When people voice the sincere ideas that group imitates, then it's easy for bad actors to write that off as "just virtue-signaling." A lot of […]

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