Richard Becker

Union Staffer, Artist, Birder, Freelance Writer. Bylines: @voxdotcom @inthesetimes @labornotes #1u KY ➡️ WA 🍞🌹

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Trump is not speaking at a union shop! This is false advertising.

[Richard Becker @richardbeckerwa]

@IwriteOK @shane_burley1 @IwriteOK you should definitely familiarize yourself with Rovics! https://t.co/HJq1epBx3J

[clare @sadderlizards]

at 18 you have your whole life ahead of you. not like me, at 23

[Richard Becker @richardbeckerwa]

Still excellent to hear Mitch getting booed, just maybe not as unique an occurrence as it seemed

[Richard Becker @richardbeckerwa]

Memo to @DailyZeitgeist cc @jack_obrien, @milesofgray—the Fancy Farm picnic is a very long-running political event every year in far western Kentucky where *everyone* who speaks—Dems and R’s—are relentlessly heckled and booed. It’s all part of the aesthetic of the event.

[Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms]

Søren Kierkegaard claimed that if a person behaved perfectly rationally they would be so discordant with civil society that people would deem them mad.

[Grace Panetta @grace_panetta]

....oh

[Best of Dying Twiter @bestofdyingtwit]

the irony of this graph not having an x-axis

[Richard Becker @richardbeckerwa]

As an avid birder and an avid @DailyZeitgeist listener, I was so happy to hear birdwatching come up as a five minute segment in today’s episode. I do have notes for @jack_obrien but I’m not sure I want to pierce the bubble of his bird-joy with my nitpicking

[Richard Becker @richardbeckerwa]

Lol what an AI Tool

[Martin Crowley @AIToolReport]

"My boss thinks I'm an AI genius, (I'm not) it's because I read The AI Tool Report (and they have no idea it exists.)" - AI Tool Report Reader

[Stephen E. Sachs @StephenESachs]

The Majesty of the Law:

[GoliathFan1952 @ByYourLogic]

@ettingermentum @bugman_spencer Gorsuch normally: it’s completely within an employer’s rights to castrate any employee
Gorsuch on reservation law: I am issuing this ruling from Piscataway land,

[Rachel Metz @rachelmetz]

This week I learned ⁦@VentureBeat⁩ is using AI to help write and edit articles, and has decided not to disclose this on stories to readers. It bothers me — not just bc I’m a journalist, but bc I’m a reader, too. Curious how others feel about this. https://t.co/dezUdPk9b0

[The Hill @thehill]

Washington governor signs law setting new limits on the sale of customer health data https://t.co/RsLVj2TnXg

[Courtney Rose Laudick @LaudickCourtney]

A union isn't an outside organization that comes in to help you, a union is YOU and your colleagues coming together to empower each other as a collective. And trust me, that's way more powerful.

[TacomaArtMuseumWorkersUnited @TAMWorkers]

BIG NEWS! After months of inaction, the @TacomaArtMuseum Board announced after our rally that they will vote on whether to recognize our union on March 31st. The workers united will never be defeated!

@cwuafscme @TheStandWA @AFSCME

[james wikifeet (inventor of wikifeet) @baldeaglemeat]

@news4buffalo "we did, tactically ascertain, that there was a gravity-based situation that became a kinetic incident, at which point, a rifle did find itself in the crowd"

[Ohio AFL-CIO @ohioaflcio]

We encourage anyone to read @GrimKim's Fight Like Hell to learn about the fight people with disabilities have had in the past while recognizing there is so much more to do to give them the dignity of work.

[Josh Eidelson @josheidelson]

Scoop: 47 workers building a Microsoft data center were fired for staging a work stoppage, protesting wage theft, and trying to organize with the Carpenters union, organizers alleged in a complaint to the labor board https://t.co/u1v8xBihjw @UBCJA_Official @va_labor

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

Media is like:

Freelancer, $35,000/yr: “I self-funding a three month reporting trip to a warzone to capture the untold stories of the war crime victims”

Columnist, $300,000/yr: “China’s foreign policy is like an egg roll”