https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-58/ this week in sentences: semicolons, a conversation ensues, polemic, golf, Venus, uninhibited
Hi everyone, sorry for going so long without an update!
While Fastmail management declined to give us voluntary recognition, today we had our NLRB vote, and unionizing with CWA won with 75% of the vote! We're looking forward to negotiating a contract with Fastmail that helps ensure a safe and equitable future for everyone here!
Thanks to everyone who offered their support throughout this process!
https://wares.lifewinning.com/products/2024-plotter-postcard-quarterly heads up that I am closing up orders on this yearlong project of quarterly plotter postcards today so I have a consistent edition through the year. Printing for the first postcard starts soon, gets mailed out in March.
not really sure what the fuck I'm doing here but it looks cool I think? trying to riff on the USGS isometric diagram aesthetic https://socks-studio.com/2023/10/15/the-hidden-territory-usgss-1950s-to-1970s-isometric-geological-diagrams/
If you want to read long email chains that amount to "Adam Mosseri feels there's a big gap between 'perceived' harm and actual technical violations and "Mark Zuckerberg declines to fund any work on improving known and terrible Meta performance on abusive everything" this is a "fun" read
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/13124metadocuments.pdf
(Link courtesy Adi Robertson at The Verge, I couldn't find it on anyone's sites.)
aging dog, weird housing life
for this kind of building in this part of Brooklyn, the most likely buyer is going to gut the whole place anyway, so while it is a decent move on his part for our quality of life it's pretty irrational for him to spend more money on things like this if he really wants to sell in the next year. very confusing mixed messages!!
aging dog, weird housing life
Kitty has been having some incontinence issues as she's gotten older which has led to more than one pissing incident in our building's front hallway. my landlord was trying to sell the building like four months ago but he just texted to say he's going to see about getting his contractor to replace the front hall carpet with hard flooring, which is thoughtful but also seems like a weird expense if you're really planning to sell this place?
Absolutely losing it after discovering what3words took control of the whatfreewords domain by arguing that "three" and "free" are indistinguishable when spoken.
https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/search/text.jsp?case=D2019-2439
Nice book story
The co-op bakery in my neighborhood has a little book rack and a few months ago I gave them some zines including one of the first self published copies of Networks of New York. Today I learned there's a family with a little kid who reads it every single time they come to the store!! It's their favorite book!!
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-57/ this week in sentences: how lucky, severed, the Eighteenth Brumaire, laissez-faire dogmas, dog stew, the thing behind the dumpster, probably