glans [none/use name, any]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • I have considered dling via yt to make use of sponsor block as you suggest. Does it work?

    Podcasts are extremely neglected in this general area. Few torrents exist. They are at high risk of disappearing off the internet forever because they cost a lot to keep hosted while producing zero revenue. Archiving is not happening as far as I know.

    Add removal would be great. TIP if you use a VPN you might gets ads targeted to that country. Which in some cases is actually no ads. Hop around and see if you can kind the right one. It’ll be different per distributor.






  • set them on fire

    Don’t be afraid to leverage that.

    The great thing about being frontline workers with strong community relationship is that sometimes people who feel strongly in solidarity take actions which would be “in bad faith” or even illegal if the workers themselves did same action. You can’t be held responsible for what independent people do.

    A comrade was organizing at a nonprofit when they were fired. Big union did not back them up. Bricks started being thrown through the windows of the nonprofit by discontented service users. Comrade went on to another job but none of the other organizers were fired and now org has a contract.



  • A comrade was employed as an organizer with a union. This employer exclusively hired from a recent immigrant community in an attempt to break the unions previously established in the white/settler community. When it came time to start taking actions, the workers began listing the managers that most especially got on their nerves and debating which ones were the highest priority. Comrade had a hard time following the discussion for a little bit and eventually asked for clarification. Was told: “Oh we know how it goes. We knock off some of theirs; they get a few of ours. We are not sure which ones we will go after.” The agenda item was Union Hit List. Back home, unions were serious business and everyone had engaged in organizing with this understanding. Suddenly for the first time, comrade was in the position of not being the militant fringe of the labor movement. But as is inevitable for any union staffer, trying to reel the workers back in line. But it was not without ambivalence.









  • How do you manage ULPs in such a way that people don’t become focused on them?

    I’ve seen so many organizing campaigns lose power because of some BS legal strategy. ULPs take like 2 years to go through the system so the fact that they are bound to fail won’t be clear for some time. But they kind of let people procrastinate doing challenging, scary organizing/action because that ULP is on the back burner.

    It is the case especially with people who have some sort of deep down belief that that state will protect them. Even if you know in your brain that’s fake shit it is sooo tempting to relax into it. Because of how egregiously unfair the practices of the boss really are. This time even the pigs at the NLRB will see through the lies!!

    Also I think union staffers like them because they have all the expertise so it kind of makes the workers reliant. The boss likes them because they know they will win.

    With really good inoculation it’s possible. I’ve seen it too, once in a long while. Where ineffective tactics are pursued on purpose just to let people get it out of their systems and teach about power. Not easy to pull off and requires knowing the situation backwards and forwards.