Shelly
@wages4housewerk.bsky.social
User experience researcher and service designer working in civic tech. PhD in sociology. Feminism and economic justice.
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S is for SOLIDARITY—let’s help the Sesame Street workers as they fight the expropriation of kid’s media! Sign the below and spread the word! @kimkelly.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social
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Solidarity with Sesame Workers
The recent unjust layoffs of dedicated Sesame Workshop workers following their announcement to form a union with OPEIU Local 153 contradicts the core principles of the community that Sesame Street cla...
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March 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
S is for SOLIDARITY—let’s help the Sesame Street workers as they fight the expropriation of kid’s media! Sign the below and spread the word! @kimkelly.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social
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600+ volunteers.
8 neighborhoods.
≈7,000 ballot signatures collected.
In a single day.
Our momentum is powered by people.
8 neighborhoods.
≈7,000 ballot signatures collected.
In a single day.
Our momentum is powered by people.
March 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
600+ volunteers.
8 neighborhoods.
≈7,000 ballot signatures collected.
In a single day.
Our momentum is powered by people.
8 neighborhoods.
≈7,000 ballot signatures collected.
In a single day.
Our momentum is powered by people.
Another tragedy
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Another tragedy
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WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
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any appearance of a connection is pure coincidence, needless to say
February 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
any appearance of a connection is pure coincidence, needless to say
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Earth pregnant
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
The core of the Earth is undergoing surprise structural changes, researchers believe.
www.independent.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Earth pregnant
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this OPM career civil servant is risking a lot to share her situation slate.com/news-and-pol...
I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
this OPM career civil servant is risking a lot to share her situation slate.com/news-and-pol...
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NEWS: DOGE operatives accessed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) internal staff directory last night—and according to a source inside the building, are currently back in the office *right now*
nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
February 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
NEWS: DOGE operatives accessed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) internal staff directory last night—and according to a source inside the building, are currently back in the office *right now*
nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
nteu335.org/2025/02/07/c...
What thrives in the dark
www.404media.co/doge-employe.... What do they want to hide?
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to a Records System Not Subject to FOIA
Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."
www.404media.co
February 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What thrives in the dark
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Anyone who cares about the core principles our of government will need to protect civil servants who defend the law. But a defensive crouch is the wrong response. If you’re mad about what Musk is doing to government, it’s time to go on the offense to reform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
Opinion | This Is How Democrats Can Counter Elon Musk
Recklessness will not get us to a revitalized government, but neither will excessive caution and addiction to procedure.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Anyone who cares about the core principles our of government will need to protect civil servants who defend the law. But a defensive crouch is the wrong response. If you’re mad about what Musk is doing to government, it’s time to go on the offense to reform it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...
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Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
Opinion | There Is No Going Back
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Yeah so the Constitution isn’t really in effect right now
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Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
February 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
There’s a typo here
BOOK PREORDER:
In March there is a new book coming out about the Wages for Housework campaign and a significant fraction of the book is about my family/childhood milieu.
I encourage people to read bc there’s a lot of valuable organizing history in it. #BookSky
www.sealpress.com/titles/emily...
In March there is a new book coming out about the Wages for Housework campaign and a significant fraction of the book is about my family/childhood milieu.
I encourage people to read bc there’s a lot of valuable organizing history in it. #BookSky
www.sealpress.com/titles/emily...
Wages for Housework
The “illuminating, honest, nuanced” (Robin D. G. Kelley) story of a radical campaign to change the way we value work Women do more than three-quarter...
www.sealpress.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
There’s a typo here
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SCOOP: We have full details of changes Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, is asking government coders to help the administration with. This includes using login.gov as a fraud surveillance system against Americans, which employees told him is an "illegal task"
www.404media.co/things-are-g...
www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
SCOOP: We have full details of changes Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, is asking government coders to help the administration with. This includes using login.gov as a fraud surveillance system against Americans, which employees told him is an "illegal task"
www.404media.co/things-are-g...
www.404media.co/things-are-g...
BBC is like you know what jumpy audiences need right now? A 1% chance of being hit by YR4
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
YR4: the asteroid with a tiny chance of hitting Earth - BBC News
The asteroid named YR4 has a 1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
www.bbc.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
BBC is like you know what jumpy audiences need right now? A 1% chance of being hit by YR4
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The EOs raining down like asteroids and then an asteroid is like hold my beer
February 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The EOs raining down like asteroids and then an asteroid is like hold my beer
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It certainly is not responsible for the scale of what is happening, but eventually folks are going to have to reckon with how DOGE’s tactics mirror USDS’s & how more checks were needed.
from 2017 federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-no...
from 2017 federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-no...
February 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
It certainly is not responsible for the scale of what is happening, but eventually folks are going to have to reckon with how DOGE’s tactics mirror USDS’s & how more checks were needed.
from 2017 federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-no...
from 2017 federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-no...
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If people leaving USDS are looking to stay in #civictech, the Alliance of Civic Technologisits (@civictechallies.bsky.social) is recruiting for both our current member organizations and for starting NEW civic technology volunteer organizations.
Get in touch -> hello(at)civictechnologists.org
Get in touch -> hello(at)civictechnologists.org
January 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
If people leaving USDS are looking to stay in #civictech, the Alliance of Civic Technologisits (@civictechallies.bsky.social) is recruiting for both our current member organizations and for starting NEW civic technology volunteer organizations.
Get in touch -> hello(at)civictechnologists.org
Get in touch -> hello(at)civictechnologists.org
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Fighting communism and socialism by nationalizing social media apps
So we're nationalizing TikTok now
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Fighting communism and socialism by nationalizing social media apps
😱
it’s not that complicated, they’re one and the same now
what was before flexible hiring & spending for Obama/Google friends is now flexible hiring & spending for Trump/Elon
it’s clever that only the D changed, DC loves nested acronyms
what was before flexible hiring & spending for Obama/Google friends is now flexible hiring & spending for Trump/Elon
it’s clever that only the D changed, DC loves nested acronyms
Uh, who is the Administrator of the Doge Service?
Also, there us already a USDS (US Digital Service) where DOGE employees were supposed to sit. Are there now 2 USDS, or is the Digital Service a skin that DOGE will occupy?
(From hiring freeze EO:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...)
Also, there us already a USDS (US Digital Service) where DOGE employees were supposed to sit. Are there now 2 USDS, or is the Digital Service a skin that DOGE will occupy?
(From hiring freeze EO:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...)
January 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
😱
The TikTok thing (it’s banned, no wait cancel that it’s not banned) kinda ruined it for me. Anyone else?
January 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The TikTok thing (it’s banned, no wait cancel that it’s not banned) kinda ruined it for me. Anyone else?
Thinking today about MLK, who said “only when it is dark enough can you see the stars,”
And I’m holding that close.
And I’m holding that close.
January 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Thinking today about MLK, who said “only when it is dark enough can you see the stars,”
And I’m holding that close.
And I’m holding that close.
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Veterans of the many guaranteed income threads on Twitter (RIP) won't be surprised by anything here but it is a good intro to critiques of UBI/GI from the Left.
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
Why These Leftists Oppose Free Money
A conversation with Daniel Zamora Vargas and Anton Jäger about why a “basic income” isn't such a progressive welfare idea.
www.thenation.com
October 2, 2023 at 7:34 PM
Veterans of the many guaranteed income threads on Twitter (RIP) won't be surprised by anything here but it is a good intro to critiques of UBI/GI from the Left.
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
