Sorry Disney/ABC, you can backpedal all you want but you've already shown us your spinelessness. You ain't getting me back.

For the love of God & All the World, #Organize, #Mobilize, #Protest & #Strike. October 18th #NoKings All Over the #USA (& probably worldwide US Embassies). A crippling weekend strike is needed. Stock up on supplies & Get Out & #Protest like your lives depended on it - because that is the truth!

It's not good when your drone video ends with a propeller visible... that wasn't visible at the start. Going through some old footage from 2013, the degree to which a DJI Mini 3 outperforms this old Parrot AR Drone 2.0 is ... night and day.

Farmers alarmed as US nears #ag crisis. A bumper crop year, but #farming challenges remain. The #trump #tradewar is taking its toll on #soybeans and #drought and #labor shortages are hanging over the #harvest. #farmers are now begging for government bailouts and subsidies to tide them over […]

Lol, score that 1-3-4-2-6, that's quite the run-down. #redsox

One of my favorite places to visit, and one of my favorite airports to fly in and out of: Saba! A tiny Dutch Caribbean island, the runway is the shortest commercial runway in the world and has sheer cliffs at both ends. It's a load of fun, and the diving is great! #saba #dutchcaribbean #scuba

This video by Business Insider is a little sensationalized, but I think it's an interesting window into some of the human stories behind communities fighting back against data center construction. https://youtu.be/t-8TDOFqkQA I also think their methodology of finding data centers through […]

Things you will take pictures of when you're building a house: random holes in the ground. (Can you tell I'm scrolling through my Google Photos?)

I stand by this #Untappd check-in.

#google may have lost its soul (if a corporation could ever be said to have one), but there's still a lot of good #googlers around, and many of them have a great sense of fun. From the Pittsburgh, PA, office. Taken back in 2023 so I have no idea if it's actually still there.

Today in #DynDNSHistory , the networking / server room of our first Manchester NH office. It was still pretty messy at this point, as we were still moving in. I'm not sure if it ever got CLEAN, at least not while I was in the picture. I'm not good at being […] [Original post on union.place]

Disney/Hulu/ESPN cancelled.

Agoda, the Asian travel booking service, laid off people in Singapore and somehow their lawyer thought it was a good idea to write that they will revoke severance payments if workers reported this to the Singapore government n00bs […]

Dear Disney: fuck you. All the way.

This article argues that labor unions in the U.S., which paradoxically have very high public approval and very slow growth (they are effectively shrinking as a % of the labor force) need to start operating as if: 1) the National Labor Relations Board does not exist and 2) the Democratic Party […]

Season 4 had so many amazing Simpsons episodes. Monorail. Dental plan. Mr Plow. Dr Nick. Choo choo choose. So good.

Ah, 2005 hybrid technology. I remember being so excited about the Escape Hybrid - first US manufacturer hybrid, first SUV hybrid. It ... did not get particularly spectacular fuel economy. And when the gas engine turned off, so did the AC. This wasn't great in Davis, CA. It's hawt there.

Are there any #histodons still on here? I’ve not been very active recently since I was spending a lot of time on Bluesky—where most of my old Twitter community ended up. I’m not sure how much longer that’s going to be a viable place, though. As luck would have it, though, just as I’m […]

someone give me an acting job so i can finally become a #sagaftra member. they’ve gone from The Nanny to electing Samwise Gamgee as their next #labor #union president: https://deadline.com/2025/09/sean-astin-elected-sag-aftra-president-1236530416/

Sigh, the building's BMS has decided to break the cooling loop again... and the client license on the Magical BMS Laptop expired 9/1. I wonder if setting the date back on the laptop will work... On the plus side throwing a couple of things into manual mode got things flowing again for now. But […]

Fascinating. I have two Google Drive folders that appear to contain substantially the same photos... but they're not actually identical. Different sizes, (obviously, since they're different sizes) different hashes... and subtly different EXIF too. One version has definitely been reprocessed at […]

Lol, BTD don't play, just saw them towing an #xfinity van for street sweeping. That's gonna mess up someone's schedule. (Also sucks for that someone because Xfinity will probably blame them for it and penalize them in some way even though it's likely they didn't really have better options...) […]

[Okay, fine, one uspol] Y'all know that the American Revolution was political violence, right? #rev250

I'm pretty sure I took this photo while walking past the sign. I was a tourist. Oops. (It's okay, we were on a guided tour. I swear. Close up look at Arecibo, definitely one of my top life experiences.)

(In case it's not obvious I'm quite intentionally not posting about current events because, well, fuck that, and all the rest of y'all are doing quite okay at it. So you get me randomly dissembling instead!)

OMG I can't believe I haven't posted this one to #dyndnshistory before. This is my ultimate geek cred photo: me, with Larry Wall (creator of #perl) and his wife Gloria (I'm super embarrassed to admit I just had to look that up). At Arecibo Observatory. 2002, Perl Whirl, #startuplife

Aw man at some point I turned on Storage Saver mode in Google Photos? To hell with that, FULL QUALITY BAYBEE.

Is "covered with writing" a code violation for a circuit breaker box? (Inside the Green Monster at Fenway Park - March 2014 so I'm sure it's all been completely re-graffitied since then.)

Dear Google: why don't we have a one-button way to upload things from Drive to Photos? Seriously?

I have 33 ZIP files (2GiB each) of my mp3 archives I downloaded from Google Drive at a point at which I was short on space there. What should I do with them?

Wow, my NAS is sustaining 110MiB/sec transfer over SAMBA. That's closer to saturating 1Gb ethernet than I expected.

If anyone has been following any topics on gup.pe, be aware that they are gone. The registrar sold the domain before it could be renewed. It's not clear who is at fault. I will be blocking gup.pe to stop spending resources on retries and to protect this server from any future misuse of the […]

I'm pretty down on Major League Baseball these days, and the Red Sox, but I have to admit, it was pretty cool when we were season ticket holders and they were in various phases of sucking so they did lots of exclusive ballpark events. Inside the Green Monster! #redsox #greenmonster

My hobby: scrolling through old Google Photos and imagining the extra work I'm making some system do to load (or generate) the thumbnails and images for me.

#unionplace announcement: if you get a notification that we've blocked a.gup.pe, don't be alarmed; unfortunately this popular group subscription service had its domain bought out from under it, and is now pointing to a spam blog. 😞 We have blocked the domain proactively to prevent them from […]

That time when they mowed Big Papi into the grass at Fenway...

It's back, more #DynDNSHistory ! Looking back through photos, here's a gem from our first "real real" office in Manchester, NH. I recall being so excited to move from CRT to LCD monitors - look at the massive bezels on those things! 2004 was such a different […] [Original post on union.place]

Senator Bernie Sanders has denounced a plan by Tesla’s board to grant its CEO, Elon Musk, a compensation package worth $975 billion -- which would make him the world’s first trillionaire. “No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the working class struggles to survive,” […]

Ranked Choice Voting When

Local media: we're dying, help! Also local media: flies helicopters over Boston to collect B roll of Mass and Cass just because it's preliminary election day. You don't need to waste all that fuel, guys. Use your old B roll. That's why it's B roll. Sigh. #politics #boston

**Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class** _"Working people want#unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting […]

Maria Peralta: Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" rallies, demanding an end to wealth inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze. #billionaires #laborday #labor […]

Like weekends? Thank a union. Like eight-hour days? Thank a union. Like a childhood where you don’t have to work? Thank a union. I could go on, but you get the picture. Photo of the fence around the Ludlow Massacre monument, Colorado. #labor #unions #colorado

That feeling when you have a dream about the ending of the de minimus exemption...

@powerspectra@mastodon.berlin @[email protected] I see you're posting from both of these accounts, with roughly the same content. Do you have a preference for one over the other? Is there any particular reason you're using two?

Dear mouse: Why do you work almost all of the time... and then not, randomly, as if you have bad signal? But nothing has changed about your signal! WHYYYYY????

I am still not over the situation when someone asked for my “gmail”, I gave them my email address and they were like “No, your gmail!” And tried to explain to me that they only could send messages to Gmail accounts and they do not have an email. We really need to teach more computer literacy […]

@andypiper (or anybody else ...) Somebody working with a non-profit that is considering starting up a Mastodon instance to use as part of an activism campaign asked me for a rough estimate of how time consuming it is to administer a mastodon instance. Good question! Is there a good wrteeup of […]

Stupidly obvious features my LG washer/heat pump dryer tower combo is missing: "Start this load of washing when the dry cycle is appropriately close to finishing." Like, you know how long the wash cycle is going to take, you know how long the dry cycle is going to take. You nag me if I don't […]

Re Air Canada, this is not hard folks. If you work, you should get paid. I stand w the flight attendants. #aircanada #unions