Jess Sand

East Coast West. Lots and lots of Johnny Cash. People and content and question everything. Current labors of love:

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Just a reminder: a militarized, exploitative, brutalizing, dehumanizing, disenfranchising capitalist system is far more violent than any smashing of windows.

[Frank O'Hara bot @oharapoems]

I have always wanted to be near it
though the day is long (and I don’t mean Madison Avenue)

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

More worker organizing in #tech, more worker organizing in #nonprofit, more worker organizing worker organizing worker organizing!

[United JustFix Workers @JustfixWorkers]

The staff @justfixorg have unanimously voted to unionize under the United JustFix Workers represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1101 for the purpose of collective bargaining.

#weareujw
#webuildjustfix
#tenantsareworkers
#justfixourworkplace

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Tech friends, listen to @BootsRiley! What’s happening at Twitter can happen anywhere. Organizing takes motivation, time, trust & persistence. Start now, one-to-one. @techworkersco is a decent place to start off you need help.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

Twitter employees could stop all layoffs by having all employees stick together and shut down all operations til they reinstate all.

Strike. Form a union.

We're in the biggest strike wave in the US since the 40s, w thousands of strikes in last 2yrs. Tech workers- get on board.

[Writers of Color @WritersofColor]

if you search for "from:writersofcolor sad trombone" you will find a permanent public historical archive of companies and publications refusing requests for pay transparency from writers of color. deleting the original tweet does not remove this record. https://t.co/nHLZHddS38

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

This conversation ended up feeling so much more…personal than I expected. Thank you, @LarrySwanson, for being so easy to talk to!❤️

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Yes! Love seeing tech companies embrace worker-ownership.

[Bocoup @bocoup]

We're happy to announce we've decided to become worker-owned! We'll be rolling out a series of blog posts to share resources and progress reports on our path to worker ownership. Check out part one about what led to this decision here 👇🏾
https://t.co/HyQMJwPt3h

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

FOUR HOURS on the phone w/ @VerizonSupport trying to activate a phone line & access my account. 3 agents (2 of whom disconnect me at the 2-hr mark). Auth emails & texts from their system fail every single time so cannot verify any account action. Not enough curse words for this.

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

(so many...)

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

"Crip time is time travel..."

This essay explains and validates to many things for me: https://t.co/2WqW7OhAhm

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Fucking gross: https://t.co/NqbX21n7PS

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Been making a deliberate effort to NOT keep up lately and mostly been okay with it. But damn, does the world make it hard to just check out for awhile. No hard feelings if you haven’t heard from me in awhile, y’all. You’re still in my heart.

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

@candiwrites Does my dog tucking her croc into bed for the night help at all? (Also, she told me you’re fucking amazing before falling asleep.)

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

OMG @Twitter requires a BUSINESS CARD to prove I'm a company rep? WTAF. #securitytheater

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

@lubes You, too, are a wonderful human who makes me laugh and helps me do what I do. <3

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Sitemap, who dat…

[Actually, @eaton]

tag yourself I'm footnote

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Someone please point me to the gd tik tok life hack video for washing a gd silpat baking mat without drowning or wearing all the soap. I swear the only reason I haven’t thrown this thing out is because it actually works reallly well for certain things. Like my mah hot nuts…

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

These dwarves make me laugh but their personalities make me cry.

[Julie Meridian @juliemeridian]

I give you the Seven Dwarves of a Bad User Experience.
Say them with me now!
~Horsey, Shonky, Hinky, Wonky, Kludgey, Dreadful, Redonk~

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

@wright_ame See, this one’s now saved in the ol’ feel-good file. 😉 Thank you, darlin’, I have a long list of beautiful things for you, too, starting with the size of your heart.

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Note to self: if someone writes something nice about you, keep it forever. 10 yrs later when life takes a turn sideways (as it does) & yr filled w/ self-doubt, pull out that nice thing, read it & remember who you are & be grateful for the amazing people throughout yr life.

[Jess Sand @sDesignLabs]

Free US gov covid test program is ending on Sept. 2, so get 'em while they're hot: https://t.co/VvFZUxjIfc

(h/t @banderlin)