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Tristan Masat
@tristanmasat.bsky.social
union organizer • mutual aid • grassroots internationalism • #1u • solidarity forever
“The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.”
December 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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New video on Union TV 📺 What to do if your employer pressures you to resign?
Watch our legal experts explain how to defend your rights and protect yourself from forced resignation 👉 youtu.be/xbCsOE7_Ti4
Як захиститися від примусу до звільнення: поради юристів
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December 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🎥 New on Union TV: Since May 2025, state authorities monitors job ads for discrimination. Employers can now be fined up to 80,000 UAH for illegal requirements. Watch more here: youtu.be/bOa5-RXUnbM
Дискримінація у вакансіях: що потрібно знати кандидатам і роботодавцям
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November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Circling and circling—два шахеди знову на Гостомель, Бучу, Ірпінь.
October 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Spent the morning in a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine, listening to explosions.

I guess I should be grateful to be safely away from my hometown of Portland.
September 28, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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And for today we have:

🎥 New video on Union TV
President Zelensky has signed draft law No.13388 changing how collective agreements can be suspended under martial law. 🚫 No more unilateral suspensions – only with consent of all parties. Watch here 👉 youtu.be/tIIeN3szEU0
Новий порядок зупинення колективних договорів під час війни
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September 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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In the first 7 months of 2025, Russian attacks on industrial sites in Ukraine injured 676 workers and killed 146. Missile strikes, artillery, airstrikes, and drones keep targeting workplaces and transport. #StandWithUkraine #StopRussianAggression

www.industriall-union.org/russian-stri...
Russian strikes continue to cripple Ukraine’s mines and communities
IndustriALL Ukrainian affiliates report a dramatic escalation of attacks on workers and workplaces in recent months. In the first seven months of 2025, because of Russian aggression, 676 workers were ...
www.industriall-union.org
August 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
We passed the 50% mark in literacy, globally, at some point in the 1950s.

It beggars belief that humanity may spend less than a century over this line—but there it is.
August 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The phrase free market was always mostly double speak to obscure who controlled a thing—but if the oligarchs own the state, they care less if things are state owned, it isn’t ideology, it’s advertising.
August 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I suppose it makes sense that if the Industrial Age devalued work under output that the Information Age would bury knowledge under drivel—save us from the Imagination Age.
August 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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A short thread about Spain at the moment. Leaving aside that I feel like Spain in the 1930s has a lot to teach us about where the US is right now, Spain at present is in a very tenuous state.

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July 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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In #Odesa, a 4-story residential building was completely destroyed by fire after a night attack by #russian_aggressors.
1 person was killed, 14 injured — including 3 rescuers.
June 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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#russian_aggressors attacked #Kharkiv with strike drones, targeting the Barabashovo market — one of the largest in Ukraine and Europe.

90 stalls were damaged, 20 completely destroyed.
May 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM