From LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike....

The Foundation has spent twenty years telling donors it is not like other tech companies. The union drive is the moment when that claim either becomes true or admits it was always marketing." https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

#LagoDiGarda, day 13

* off hate filled start https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/116617081340814244 , but it got better
* up to Monte baldo (via the cable car), partner flew down, I took the cable car again
* stroll through the extremely cute Malcesine with another pasticceria meal (I'm not ashamed!) and sitting on the lake
* got stamps, wrote artsy postcards: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/116618105282400999
* off to next accommodation and then to spend the evening at the lake, watching baby birds and the sunset: https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/116619599243080751

Sometimes it feels like the birds in my local park get tired of me trying to take photos of them while they’re high up in a tree or inside a thick bush so they just start posing in the open.

Like this robin: Ok, take a photo! Are you done? Good!

Half the internet is people optimizing routines they don’t like for a life they’ve never once paused to confirm they want.

The dashboard is gorgeous though.

I thought I was coming down with something and took a test.

Looks like I'm just feeling a little flat.

Können wir uns darauf einigen, dass wir versuchen, die Dinge, die wir tun, aus guten, vernünftigen und der Welt zugewandten Gründen zu tun? Mehr dazu in der neuen "Bosetti will reden!"-Folge auf https://youtu.be/HPL6fusMDTw.

#BosettiWillReden #SarahBosetti #Habeck #Reiche

I'm going to whisper this. So I'll choose my words carefully. I'll use general terms but am referring to specific multiple things. Please read between the lines.

Those of you that are doing things are having a good effect.

- The media is not covering you (this is a good sign. it means they dont want to bring attention to your actions).
- They are discussing you in board rooms and in decision making meetings.
- They are saying things like "we have to pause that project at that location because its currently drawing too much attention" and "we have to reframe this announcement to downplay that thing" and "we need to try these concessions to lower the heat a bit".

They are hoping you "get tired and bored and move to a new thing" so they can get back to work without interference.

Keep doing what you're doing. Join folks that are doing things if you aren't doing anything yet. Do what you can, as you can, when you can.

It is working.

#solarpunk