Pips, or Holly, either is fine
@pipsqueaky.bsky.social
Holly Bowen. San Francisco, ex-evangelical, ex-straight, ex-ThoughtWorks. I do fannish things. And software things. And I like cats.
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If you're going to be around friends and loved ones this holiday season, we invite you to share our Dirt in a Cog zine with them. It gives some very practical ways to resist rising alt right sentiments in your every day life. Visit the Zines pages on our website at invisiblehistory.org.
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you're going to be around friends and loved ones this holiday season, we invite you to share our Dirt in a Cog zine with them. It gives some very practical ways to resist rising alt right sentiments in your every day life. Visit the Zines pages on our website at invisiblehistory.org.
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EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too.
Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Hi everyone!! As the holidays approach, it is time for a mass boycott!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Hi everyone!! As the holidays approach, it is time for a mass boycott!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does??
Please share this everywhere!!!!
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ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe t...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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If you haven't signed up for a migra watch or legal observer training yet time to do it comrades
October 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you haven't signed up for a migra watch or legal observer training yet time to do it comrades
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala on growing up, getting cynical—& how
trying weed nearly broke her (for the 1st time, she remembered being shot—& then the trauma she’d avoided ensued) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... her bravery is as endless as the burden of her fame
trying weed nearly broke her (for the 1st time, she remembered being shot—& then the trauma she’d avoided ensued) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... her bravery is as endless as the burden of her fame
‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala Yousafzai on growing up, getting cynical – and how getting high nearly broke her
The global icon of women’s education is ready to tell the full story of her turbulent recent life, from arguing with her parents to being ghosted by the statesmen who were once desperate to be seen wi...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:21 AM
‘To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op’: Malala on growing up, getting cynical—& how
trying weed nearly broke her (for the 1st time, she remembered being shot—& then the trauma she’d avoided ensued) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... her bravery is as endless as the burden of her fame
trying weed nearly broke her (for the 1st time, she remembered being shot—& then the trauma she’d avoided ensued) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... her bravery is as endless as the burden of her fame
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There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.
With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.
www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...
With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.
www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...
Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store
Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."
www.businessinsider.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.
With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.
www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...
With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.
www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...
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Some stories you may not be aware of if you’re not inside the circles where tech industry workers talk to each other: the groups at Microsoft that have been organizing for years to stop providing tech to enable genocide scored their first massive victory last week. www.theverge.com/news/785733/...
Microsoft blocks the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services
The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians.
www.theverge.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Some stories you may not be aware of if you’re not inside the circles where tech industry workers talk to each other: the groups at Microsoft that have been organizing for years to stop providing tech to enable genocide scored their first massive victory last week. www.theverge.com/news/785733/...
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
September 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover
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The entire global economy is currently so over-leveraged on "AI" that if we don't find a credible use case for it, and fast, we're likely to tumble into an economic meltdown of 2008 proportions, so please, your corporate overlords beg you, use "AI" to write that fucking email
Have we ever seen a technology go from zero to "your boss is aggressively demanding you use it every day" quite as quickly as modern "AI" tools?
(This is a genuine question).
(This is a genuine question).
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
September 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The entire global economy is currently so over-leveraged on "AI" that if we don't find a credible use case for it, and fast, we're likely to tumble into an economic meltdown of 2008 proportions, so please, your corporate overlords beg you, use "AI" to write that fucking email
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The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
September 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
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Happy Labor Day! We labor too much! I wrote on the beauty of not working.
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We Deserve Way, Way More Time Off
There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
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September 2, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Happy Labor Day! We labor too much! I wrote on the beauty of not working.
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I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
August 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
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One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes
August 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes
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We view hoarding as a mental disorder except in the one very specific case of money, and it’s killing the planet
August 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
We view hoarding as a mental disorder except in the one very specific case of money, and it’s killing the planet
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America constantly tells teachers that they’re supposed to do it for the love of the job, not to get “rich” at 50K. But then you’ve got members of Congress making almost 200K acting like they’ll starve if they can’t do insider trading and manipulate the stock market
July 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
America constantly tells teachers that they’re supposed to do it for the love of the job, not to get “rich” at 50K. But then you’ve got members of Congress making almost 200K acting like they’ll starve if they can’t do insider trading and manipulate the stock market