A fortress with a drawbridge. On the drawbridge, a gatekeeper guards the way with WhatsApp's notification that a user has been blocked for spam. In the background, through the portcullis, is a WhatsApp group chat.
  • One false positive is plausible; twice is uncanny; thrice you’d swear is intentional.
Continue reading

  • CONTENT WARNING: Sex, BDSM, questioning authority.
  • Part I – Dave Gorman: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Look Closer;
  • Part II – David Graeber: A quick(ish) rundown of the moral injury of working in a bullshit job on someone else’s clock;
  • Part III – The Amstrads: Use your foe’s advertising against them;
  • Part IV – The T-shirt: What to do when the custom T-shirt website won’t let you mention the boss…
YOU CAN’T SAY “ORANGE” TO YOUR BOSS.

  • The most violent book I’ve read this year. Jenny Odell argues the unthinkable – why don’t we harness doing nothing as a form of political activism?
  • Lessons from the scrivener – you can’t say “no” to your boss, but to refuse, you don’t have to.
  • Published in 2019, it’s a product of its time – might the Fediverse make collective action and co-operation easier?
I would prefer not to.