Video game companies. I don’t feel like I need to explain this one, but some extra shittyness to digest: less than a year after forming, the Activision QA union has filed at least 1 ULP for illegal termination

This account is new, but I trust it.

Nuclear proliferation is always bad. I don’t give a damn about the second cold war.

I cannot stress enough how bad of an idea it would be to allow nuclear proliferation at this point

Intellectual property is a resource. Corporations are in the business of hoarding resources to extort ration at a price. Microsoft doesn’t care about the studios. They care about owning ip.

60 psi is definitely in the “rip your dick off” range

In a general sense, the difference between a regular workplace with a union and a worker co-op is that the company is, in part, managed and/or owned by the workers themselves. There’s varying degrees of this, but the best (and unfortunately least common) co-ops elect their managers. It’s my opinion that electing managers is a crucial part of a worker owned economy, but a union is still needed to represent the workers.

The hair gremlins wake us up if they try to pluck our facial hair

with minimal effort

no, none of my action items are minimum effort, sorry. Defending democracy will never be a low strain activity. I’m organizing unions in my workplace by following the disruptive and worker-led Minnesota Model of organizing. We workers make the world go round. As the US labor movement gears up for a genuine general strike in 2028 (yes, we’re following through with Fain’s call to action), we need unions of all stripes to form. Labor unions, tenant unions, debtor unions, etc. Then after forming, we need unprecedented inter-union cooperation. It’s ok to be tired and burnt out. Let yourself recover, and then continue the good fight.

That’s why we as citizens need to organize and stand together in solidarity. Don’t depend on institutions to fight back.

We don’t need to go all in on 1 specific strategy. A diversity of tactics will always be best. From the sounds of it, activists are also trying to ban yachts.

Overtourism is an ecology problem in and of itself. They specifically want less people to visit to protect their local environment.

Capitalism is in decay and panicking to preserve itself. Usually that means fascism.

Article 5 also has provisions to prevent starting the same political mess of WW1

I think that it’s a pretty reasonable assumption that intersection of people familiar with alternativeto and the people interested in seeking Facebook alternatives on the fediverse are also more than capable of spinning up a friendica instance on an rpi

Friendica is starting to seem like a fantastic option to serve as a hub account to the fediverse! There’s a reason people liked Facebook at one point, and I think they’re on the right track to advancing the idea with less corrupting influences

you’ll also need to remember to interact with the platform like you were with them in public, for a few reasons. Plus the Internet could stand to be less harsh

There wasn’t enough notice for you to still figure something out, but they explained enough for why they couldn’t cover. Don’t be too mad at them, they clearly also have a need for that time off. This one is a dish best served cold. I’d respond with something like

Damn, that’s too bad. Thanks for considering it!

When they ask you to cover for their shift next, tell them you’re busy

I had a coworker randomly suggest that we needed a union one night while we were shit talking the CEO. It intrigued me, but I didn’t actually think much about it. 3 years later I helped form the largest union in our industry.

If it was less “come on dude you’ve worked here for x years this isn’t hard” and more “you’re a stupid piece of shit that frankly should quit now”, you have a lot of power. Bully managers are real, and always need to be pushed out of their position of power. It’s always hard speaking out in the moment, but you tried and that’s what you should remember. You can’t go back now to reassert yourself, but you could still take action by reporting it to the company, or asking how your coworker felt about the interaction.