Notices by tools for commensality 🧿 (inquiline@assemblag.es)

@skinnylatte

proudly displayed in my apartment: a puffin either i or best friend rose painted or drew when one of us was, as it says, 4. (it's on the lattice where you'd make a hook rug from it next, but no one ever did that) (my mom discovered it while downsizing a few years ago)

#trashtodon going meta and/or absurd

science: political? who can say!

"Police removed five doctors and researchers Friday from an American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans after they said they had handed out copies of an editorial critical of President Donald Trump"

https://www.nola.com/news/doctors-diabetes-trump-new-orleans-removed/article_e569bcf6-d6e2-4d1c-9c47-bdbf8686c567.html

#uspol #medicine

overdetermined Southern California transport. (also includes: jerk driving a cybertruck, just out of the frame)

#california #BikeTooter

timeline cleanse

my colleagues' votes on whether to form a union are being counted today. last night the university administration ran to the Trump administration asking them to "review the legality" of the situation, meaning, they're scared of losing the vote so asked for a favor in which the feds declare the union in formation null and void

evil shit, with implications for workers everywhere: https://www.provost.usc.edu/an-important-update-on-the-rtpc-faculty-unionization-process/

#unions #higherEd #academia #HigherEdWorkersUnite #USC

update: my colleagues WON their union!! a decisive victory with 70% voting yes!! I'm so proud of them for everything they've done to organize members of our campus under incredibly adverse conditions!!! ♥️✊

(admin, ofc, will keep fighting them--if you have ties to USC, feel free to let them know if you have an opinion on this)

https://web.archive.org/web/20260603183541/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-03/usc-faculty-vote-to-unionize-uaw-election

#higherEd #unions #academia #UAW #USC

[EDIT: don't boost this, but see thread. TY!]

A ban-evading troll stalks me and other people from dozens of sock puppet accounts

Right now he's using @McGee @piaille.fr [EDIT: I think this account has been zapped now]

Please block/report, boost if you wish

@admin , please check on this new user and decide whether this is welcome on your instance.

Thanks, folks

[EDIT: I will add to this thread as needed. THANKS MODS & PPL REPORTING!!]

#SockStalker

[EDIT: been dealt with, no need to boost this, TY!]

A ban-evading troll stalks me and other people from dozens of sock puppet accounts

Right now he's using [EDIT: ZAPPED!] felicitous@ troet.cafe

Please block/report, boost if you wish

@martinmuc , please check on this new user and decide whether this is welcome on your instance.

Thanks to mods and people reporting!

#SockStalker

A ban-evading troll stalks me and other people from dozens of sock puppet accounts

He's on his second one today using gazing@theforkiverse.com

Please block/report, boost if you wish

@kevin please check on this new user and decide whether this is welcome on your instance.

Thanks to mods and people reporting!

#SockStalker

what the US is doing to Cuba is an abomination

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/cuba-announces-that-its-fuel-reserves-have-been-depleted/

i'm impressed with how quote-boost was implemented here: i just saw an interesting quote-boost and the interface notified me that i'd blocked the server OP was on, asked if i wanted to see OP anyway, and i said yes and saw an interesting post

i'm not a computer toucher but this seems to indicate that it's possible to do some form(s) of reply controls with some 1, functionality and 2, nuance, in spite of how federation does weird things

#Mastodon #Fediverse

RE: https://journa.host/@bolts/116620048481796126

we have not been hearing as much about Memphis as we did about Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, and DC; and that's not fair to the folks in Memphis

#Tennessee #uspol #ICE #Memphis

Students (along with other campus community members) were punished severely for opposing the use of US tax dollars, and their own institutions' financial investments to support policies that are now... utterly mainstream to oppose

https://forward.com/fast-forward/819118/democrats-vote-to-block-weapons-sales-to-israel/

#PolicingTheCampus #Uspol #GazaProtests

this looked VERY Where The Wild Things Are IRL

#MagicInTheMundane

"Penn State faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing, in a closely watched decision that could have sweeping implications across the university"

https://radio.wpsu.org/2026-05-14/penn-state-faculty-vote-yes-on-unionizing

#PennState #HIgherEd #HigherEdWorkersUnite #academia #SEIU

@wild1145

super-big thank you for your swift response here!! i'm sorry they misled you at sign-up...

they seem to be signing up for several accounts at once and burning through the process of getting reported and decommissioned fast 🫠

@aral

Hi, I'm sorry to @ you, @wild1145 -- but you appear to be hosting a ban-evading sock puppet troll , currently going by @articulately@ mastodonapp.uk

They're messaging me privately but I have a notification filter set so I can't see the content of their posts, and I don't want to click through/accept this communication. They've also blocked me so I can't use the reporting tool(?)

They're also stalking @aral , as is their custom.

(everyone else, please block and report as you see fit, thanks)

"Investigative journalism is infrastructure...

In a media environment where 80 percent of outlets are government-aligned, a handful of scrappy independent outlets broke stories that changed the trajectory of an election"

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/04/lessons-from-playbook-defeated-viktor-orban-hungary/

https://archive.ph/cmT9F

#journalism

love too work for an organization that found $3.1M under the couch cushions to pay to OpenAI for a ChatGPT contract but denied raises to its employees in FY26