Notices by Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)

I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

#Labor #Unions #DirectAction

So I just learned there are actually two petitions. I would encourage people with Wikipedia/Wikimedia accounts to sign both.

https://aus.social/@claudinec/116647016400544254

#Wikimedia CEO Bernadette Meehan would like to have a civil discussion about how "the Wikimedia Foundation respects the rights of all eligible employees to determine for themselves whether to pursue union representation." Wikimedia volunteers, feel free to leave a comment on her user talk page and let her know how you feel about this, here's what I had to say to her today:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BMeehan-WMF#c-Fadookie-20260529222100-BMeehan-WMF-20260524225100

(Her original comment is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BMeehan-WMF#c-BMeehan-WMF-20260524225100-Update_from_Bernadette_May_24 )

#WikiWorkersUnited

@cwebber Oof, you weren't kidding, it hurt to read this. Why are we in the bad timeline? 😭

I just finished the audiobook of #Enshittification by @pluralistic . It was good! I read his blog intermittently so a lot of the arguments and info in the book weren't new but I like how everything was organized, the hopeful message, and I definitely learned some new things! It was great to hear it read in his own voice too, you could really feel his passion and righteous outrage coming through. Would recommend!

You can buy DRM-free digital copies of the ebook and audiobook direct from his website and a DRM-free ebook is also available on Libro.fm.

https://shop.craphound.com/

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781250417602

#Bookstodon #Books #AmReading

@cwebber OKAY SO last month on the video game history foundation discord people were discussing the oldest known sonic OCs and this one came up, which is fan art printed in the UK Sonic the Comic, Issue 25, cover date 30 April 1994. It's described as Tails' girlfriend, but I can't help seeing this as just Tails who has come out as transfemme/femboy. Which I actually love for him/her/them 😆

My friend @Rammyyyy is raising funds to help grow food for his community in #Gaza using UV lamps. Please help him this #GivingTuesday and beyond.

https://chuffed.org/project/grow-food-gaza-uv-tech

I've known Ramy since 2017. You can learn more about him and his other engineering projects here:
https://social.coop/@Eliot_L/113760528848672070

Boosts appreciated! :boosts_appreciated:

@MutualAidNet @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @mutual_aid @MutualAidVisibility @edendestroyer @mutualaid@ovo.st

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #GazaWar

@aral I'm Jewish, I have family in Israel and I lived with my partner in Tel Aviv for 3 months, a decade ago. But I'm outraged at the atrocities Israel has been committing and I'm infuriated both by people who conflate opposition to Israel with antisemitism, as well as those who use hatred of Israel as a justification for actual antisemitic acts. Being Jewish and a supporter of Israel are not the same thing. And I see it as the duty of Jewish people everywhere to stand against genocide.

@thomasfuchs @pgreer @cmthiede They wouldn't add these services if they didn't want people to use them. Many libraries have a "friends of the library" nonprofit organization you can join to directly support your local library financially too. We joined ours and it also provides a discount to buy used books.

Nice article about the future of the post-court-loss @internetarchive from @arstechnica

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

#InternetArchive #Copyright

For some inscrutable reason this old video popped up in my YouTube recommendations and it's pretty great. Note it is a bit NSFW but no worse than the original #GangnamStyle video. It does have English subtitles if you turn closed captions on:

https://youtu.be/CayMeza487M

#StarTrek #Klingon #Psy #KPop #NoveltyMusic #ParodySong

@mattl for pet supplies I use my local brick and mortar pet stores as well as https://www.chewy.com/
Well except for dog poop bags and auto cat litter trash bags. Those I still get from Amazon...

@mattl Not sure where you live but you could try https://www.instacart.com to order same-day delivery from local brick and mortar stores, some stores also offer delivery through their own websites and apps too.

@cwebber Your post was just a few posts above this one in my timeline. Coincidence? I think not
https://infosec.exchange/@Heidi/114616227717229075

The #REI #union has another action they would like us to take! They would like us to write a letter to REI's new CEO and let her know what we think about their union busting tactics. Please join me!

https://www.ourrei.com/letter

#Unions #Labor

@soaproot @jeridansky @cascadepbs @BakerRL75 @leapingwoman @wendinoakland @Mikal @EverydayMoggie

@cwebber I was talking about Worms with someone and I was searching for OpenLieroX so I could link it to them and came across your old blog entry pretty high up in the search results! https://dustycloud.org/blog/openlierox/

I just wanted to say I had a similar experience, Liero was very popular in my middle school and I have fond memories of it. I haven't played any of the clones much but I was aware of OpenLieroX. I will have to try to get a group together to play sometime!

@cwebber @daniel @domo Also don't forget they host hate speech and allegedly terrorist organizations, and take a libertarian view of their responsibility here as they view themselves as part of the neutral infrastructure of the internet: https://www.fastcompany.com/90312063/how-cloudflare-straddles-its-role-as-privacy-champion-and-hate-speech-enabler

#Babel by #RFKuang was one of my favorite books to come out in recent years. It's dark academia, anticolonial historical fantasy set in 19th century England. With a magic system based on translation that's super cool. You can pick up the ebook right now on sale for only $2.
https://www.polygon.com/good-deals/505728/babel-rf-kuang-80-percent-off-sale-ebook

#Bookstodon @bookstodon

Interesting article about the erasure of non-american #VideogameHistory and criticism:

https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae

#Videogames

@cwebber Thanks for another great write-up. I chose to read this in blog format again. So I don't think I have any easter eggs to prove I finished it, you'll have to take my word for it. :)