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@claire-sinclair.bsky.social
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Former Starbucks union organizer and strike leader, current musician and other stuff, she/they
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I generally don't like to criticize labor unions outside of private conversation, for the sake of solidarity and presenting a united front against capital. Generally speaking, any critiques I have of unions come from a committed and disciplined opposition to capitalism in all forms.

But this sucks.
Quote from the previously posted Boston.com article from September 21st, 2022, regarding the strike in question: "Employees at the 874 Commonwealth Ave. store - located near Boston University - have been on strike 24/7 since mid-July, making this the longest documented action against the global coffee chain."
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Template meme: An outraged guy is pointing at a short woman with stylized anime eyes, saying, "if you read this, you are gay lmao" The short woman says "waow" and thinks "based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based cooper cooper based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based based
September 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Happy Dorsal Fin Day to all my dorsal daddies and marine mommies (who have dorsal fins).

Sea cucumbers, narwhals, lobsters, sailors, right whales of ANY kind (including right whale dolphins!!!), and all other seafaring posers, go about your day as normal. Today isn't for you. It isn't about you.
A collage of (mostly) marine life, with commentary based on whether or not they have dorsal fins. The image includes a mudskipper (I think): Sick!!! a bottlenose dolphin: Lisa Frank Baby!!! a cluster of barnacles: ??????? Who are these guys a manitee: Stupid, Ugly. No. a clownfish in a sea anemone: the clownfish is circled in green, the anemone is scribbled out in red. a king crab (I think): Not Today! an ocean sunfish: ok a sailfish: aWOOga!!! huminahuminahumina 😍 a Pacific sea nettle jellyfish: FUCK YOU!!!! a showy blue betta with long, flowy fins: 😏 a Caspian seal (I think): BAD a chart showing several different species of porpoise: those with prominent dorsal fins are circled in green, labeled "yes". Two without dorsal fins are crossed out in red. a blacktip reef shark (I think): 😳 a fucking ugly ass horse: not even close some kind of eel? I think? or a sea snake? idk, it doesn't have a dorsal fin: SHIT another mudskipper (I'm sure this time): 😲 an orca with a particularly long dorsal fin: tall guy over here! a hammerhead shark: That's What I'm Talking About! and a lamprey, which has two dorsal fins: this fucked up guy gets double presents
August 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Old reaction image depicting a man pointing at a PC monitor from the 90's, saying, "This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time."
August 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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A piece of paper depicting Woody, the lovable cowboy doll from Pixar's landmark debut feature "Toy Story", tipping his hat beside some text that reads, "I know you're going through a lot right now Just know You did this to yourself"
July 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Two skeets back to back: the top, from More Perfect Union, reads, "BREAKING: The FCC approves $8 billion Paramount-Skydance merger. The following is the Evil Guy Wins Lottery skeet
July 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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A screenshot of my four most recently logged films on letterboxd, including a five-star rewatch of The People's Joker, A liked rewatch of Nathan For You: Finding, Frances A liked initial watch of Wild Things, and a four and a half star rewatch of Kneecap
July 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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July 18th will always be a holiday to me. Three years ago, my coworkers and I went on strike to push back against the egregious unfair labor practices that Starbucks was using to punish us for organizing. None of us thought it'd go on as long as it did, but after 64 days of picketing 24/7, we won.
The first half of a letter notifying the manager and regional manager of the 874 Commonwealth Ave Starbucks that the workers were going on strike. The text reads: "July 18, 2022 Dear Tomi Chorlian and Phil Mann, We are writing to inform you that, effective at 4:30am on July 18th, 2022, we, the partners of 874 Commonwealth Avenue, will be on strike, and will remain on strike until further notice. The rights to engage in concerted activity, including the right to strike, are protected under Federal Law by the National Labor Relations Act. Starbucks is prohibited from retaliating against or discriminating against any partner who participates in our strike. Immediately after our store voted to unionize, Ms. Chorlian was temporarily assigned to our store as a Store Manager. Since then, our partners have been subjected to not only a slew of unfair labor practices on the local and national level (including threats, overly restrictive policies, denials of benefits, changes in operations, and other alleged violations), but also a chaotic and hostile work environment. We are striking for the following reasons: 1. Ms. Chorlian has made illegal threats of discipline or termination of employees if we do not comply with a newly imposed availability policy in direct violation of Starbucks' obligation to first bargain in good faith. 2. Since her arrival, Ms. Chorlian has aggressively cut hours for long-time employees, dramatically understaffed shifts, while simultaneously hiring an influx of employees. Additionally, Ms. Chorlian has continually made unilateral changes to our schedule without any notice." The second half of the strike notice. The text reads: "3. Ms. Chorlian does not align with Starbucks' proposed mission and value of "creating a culture of warmth and belonging, where everyone is welcome," by perpetuating harmful and offensive rhetoric with respect to the race, gender, and orientation of both our partners and customers. Ms. Chorlian must be terminated from the company; however, in the event that Starbucks chooses to ignore its own mission and values, we demand that Ms. Chorlian be promptly removed from her current position at 874 Commonwealth Avenue and required to undergo additional training and supervision. Furthermore, we demand that management review labor needs with workers on a monthly basis to ensure that shifts are adequately staffed (i.e. a minimum of two baristas and one shift manager at all times)." The letter is signed by the store's workers, whose names have been removed for privacy. A photograph taken during the first couple hours of the longest continuous strike in Starbucks history (as of the writing of this post). Several baristas wearing matching Starbucks Workers United shirts stand on the patio in front of the Starbucks at 874 Commonwealth Ave in Boston, MA. They have signs with various pro-labor slogans decrying the company's union busting. They all look really cool and sexy. The letter as it appeared in the inboxes of Ms. Tomi Chorlian and Mr. Phil Mann, at 4:29am on July 18th, 2022. Yeah, we really missed an opportunity to send it at 4:20am, but it was very early in the morning and our brains were not operating on that level of comedy yet.
July 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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My 1000th review on letterboxd. They haven't all been great, but there's a thousand of them! I love The People's Joker.
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Meme of Robert De Niro and Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019). De Niro is looking at Phoenix, saying, "Let me get this straight - You think The People's Joker is a better exploration of queerness than Brokeback Mountain or Call Me By Your Name?" Phoenix sneers mischievously over his shoulder at De Niro, responding, "I do, and I'm tired of pretending it's not." Not mentioned in the image, but The People's Joker is a better Joker movie than Joker (2019).
July 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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A screenshot of my four most recently logged movies on letterboxd, including a four and a half star rewatch of Wet Hot American Summer (2001), a four star watch of Bring Her Back (2025), a four star rewatch of Pieces (1982), and a five star rewatch of End of Evangelion (1997).
May 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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10 horror movies to get to know me (do NOT attempt to define horror)
Letterboxd list of ten horror movies to get to know me, including Inland Empire (2006), Videodrome (1983), Alien (1979), From Beyond (1986), Evil Dead 2 (1987), Hellraiser II: Hellbound (1988), Stage Fright a.k.a. Aquarius (1987), Hausu (1977), It Follows (2014), and Sleepaway Camp (1983) These aren't all necessarily my favorites, but they all have a specific vibe I like. Except Inland Empire, Alien, and Videodrome. Those are my favorites. And Evil Dead 2. And Hausu. I guess some of these are my favorites.
May 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Unfair to start with The Thing, but I'm a big fan of the typewriter beetles from Naked Lunch
A frame taken from the film Naked Lunch (1992, directed by David Cronenberg). A creature that looks to be a cross between a typewriter and a beetle sits on a desk before a man with his back turned to the camera.
May 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Ope, I forgot one more!
You part wet lips over my ear and swallow my whole name like fresh cherry popped from the stem between your teeth in knots and I forget how much I hate to hear people chew
May 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Here are the remaining poems I did last month. This was a decent year for me, not all stellar but there are a couple I really enjoyed and some I sorta surprised myself with.
I am drawn with quivering hands missing detail in blind spots a cluster of segments to figure where about I fall on paper not made to last a gesture at a place containing the unrenderable In my purest expression I am unfinished without an end not enough for now The Importance of Physical Media The powers that be often change their idea of me What's allowed, they remind, is never guaranteed Edit their proof of me at will, meddle in demographic minutiae whether I know or care or object Everything old made new is old again My name is whatever's on file today and that's fine for them because my tits are in front of me every day, friends and lovers know the name I answer to honestly, and I can read the mind of my reflection Self-Defens/ive It's not enough to keep a fold ing knife in my purse I need to keep it open in case the split sec ond it takes to arm myself costs every thing I reach in to my purse with bare ha nds to find my wallet or phone, pull out blood y fingers too damn aged to work around what I need When the time comes, will I be able to hold the knife still Tonight she dons her drowsy lids A hook on which she hangs the night to firmament Drowsy lid donned half-hearted hook-sliver above to better hang dark's heavy curtain against firmament I watch her up there almost still as we turn I stare so long I swear I can see her falling asleep Tomorrow she will hide away and leave us with holes in heaven and tonight she will defer to dancers
May 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Apologies in advance for the alt text on this one. Not really sure how to go about it with something like this, but if anyone has any ideas, pls let me know!
I found my self in side women Loving them too wrong Making my self sick Taking care with blood letting leeches suck the imbalance d humour left full of holes bile and no better off In my self obsession I miss ed the trail of dead bodies I had amassed dis member re ing as I went through collecting body parts I didn't realize I would need to make a new self I mourn what who I can't make right by history an epitaph to a cruelty still scratching at the splintered lid of its coffin until its nails blood less and bile black reach the loose dirt I replace every morning and the corpses I have butchered lie in shallow graves unmarked
April 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This one was inspired by, but is not about, David Cronenberg's new movie
Queen-Sized Casket It kills me to watch you decaying alone It would kill you to do it at all whether I'm there or not What must be done must be done in private so it doesn't get ahead of itself It will come for me on its own and you won't be there to watch me even
April 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Metal Gear Solid reference? 🤔
Lapsed Suicide Pact You can taste the stale cyanide leaking from my false tooth that I don't want anymore Your tongue digs at it like you're trying to save me I can feel the gap where your tooth was I don't want to swallow until I need to but you are forcing my throat
April 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Castlevania reference 🫵😲
What a Horrible Night it used to be that you wrote in open secrets and I could see how you spelled out your curses where my name present cropped to sigils wasn't enough to anagram all your anguish but you don't keep that record anymore and when curses creep in to decrypt, they are spoken I don't know how to spell them but they sound more like me and less like you than they used to
April 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Alright, these are lyrics to a song I wrote last week but it counts

Also, I didn't take this picture but I'm in it so it counts
Stall Out Keep it to yourself There's still so much to work on When you die they'll all see how perfect it is Keep it to yourself There's so much that could go wrong When you die they'll pile on the credit you live for Too much to do Too much to get to it all Might as well not try So no one can say they could've done better Keep it to yourself There's too much out there now When you die all your work might come back into style Keep it to yourself There's too much to excuse you When you die all your work will be ghosts without haunts Keep it to yourself Your life's a dirty secret That you're dying to tell Too much to do Too much to get to it all Might as well not try So no one can say they could've done better
April 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I was still writing, though. These are from the last couple of weeks.
The mind shuts down and the world moves beyond it in choppy stuttering People move too quickly here to there and say too much without lips to read All you smell is warnings and all you taste is what you smell and all you feel is harsh and inescapable Discreet signals blend in a roar of looping feedback Everything you need to know all at once and impossible to parse You can't catch everything only catch up and hope nothing important slipped between frames When they ask if you caught all that you nod because they won't take you a long otherwise
April 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I took a break from uploading stuff while I was on vacation* because I was supposed to be relaxing but I'm back at work and the relaxation is over :)

*watching movies on my couch for a week
Tied to The Feeding Post The beast feeds like it can't stop even as its claws cut its mouth in greedy haste but it can And its mouth bleeds from raw wounds it can't allow to heal Its teeth wear and decay beneath the endless onslaught of more We are only allowed to hope it chokes itself still before it reaches us
April 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I've been trying to correct my posture for a lot of reasons
It's quicker to rip seams than to make them Fabric stays folded creased in its habits Shoulders bunch together refuse to smooth and spread And the neck rounds too far forward I walk half-strung My eyes the buttons with which I fix myself to the world still hang loose towards the ground before me but I pull at rebel threads to keep some kind of shape while I slowly sew
April 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Tongue-Eating Louse your voice chitters and clacks more than it used to and I hear it less than I used to the tone comes through before the words in our every correspondence little scrapes that shape letters just so sharper though without points and your mouth is full of something you don't chew legs slip out from between your teeth in brittle segments and you take care not to crush them even as I see you gag and you gag and choke less than you used to I am afraid I will still try to remove it before they bury you and of what I will find it was hiding
April 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Individualism is delusion
The Vindicated Individualist I drive the car I built through the city I established to the office I maintain Walk past the receptionists, security, custodians all of whom look like Me, I assume (I don't need to look at faces) I sit down at the desk I made from wood I grew I harvested I shaped and finished before the typewriter I invented, made of metal I found, mined, forged Load the paper I manufactured and check the ink ribbon (My own design, of course) and begin another masterpiece in a language I invented from whole cloth (a phrase I came up with) Each letter I conceived to express a sound I need to make to communicate My genius, to better the World
April 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Not much to say about this one, I don't think.
Mario Bava Peel the dead skin off my sore hand Blue green neon runs through wet fingers There is no rain only puddles and rivulets and my jacket soaked A cloud stirs at my feet Refit my slick leather and begin my rain dance once again
April 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM