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Ivan Boothe

@rootwork

Working with nonprofits and social change groups on web + online strategy. Into creative social protest and radical nonviolent praxis #nptech #Drupal

 Portland, Oregon, USA
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Joined March 2007
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"Nobody wants to work anymore": A brief history of capitalists complaining that nobody wants to work for starvation wages, via @deanna's newsletter (collected from @snopes, originally by @paulisci) deannazandt.substack.com/p/y… snopes.com/fact-check/nobody…
Collection of news clippings going back to 1894 claiming 'nobody wants to work anymore'

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#Markdown syntax for def lists is so bizarre: Item title : Item definition The colon changes the formatting of not only its line but also the *previous* one. Can't think of another situation like it. MediaWiki's version: ; Item title : Item definition makes much more sense.
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The @nytimes article on a park in Anacostia, DC, is beautifully designed, except... (and no, there's no way to dismiss the message) I get paywalling articles, but this is effectively paywalling random sentences! nytimes.com/interactive/2022…
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#PDX ShotSpotter / acoustic surveillance community teach-in and workshop meetup.com/Portlands-Techno-… Monday Aug. 8, 6PM, online, free! w/ Je Amaechi of @freedomtothrive, @tsnvaa of Carceral Tech Resistance Network, @liaholland of @fightfortheftr, hosted by #TA3M #PDXtech
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Replying to @css
Survey link doesn't seem to be a link...
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"How Come Only the Unborn Have the Right to Life?" Barbara Kruger, Woman's Action Coalition, 1992 Shared via a @poligraphiks email, here's another poster of Barbara Kruger's they have: politicalgraphics.org/post/p… #RoeVWade #RoeVsWade #RoeOverturned #RoeVWadeprotest
"How Come Only the Unborn Have the Right to Life?" Poster by Barbara Kruger, Woman's Action Coalition, 1992

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The New Abortion Strategies: A discussion of the state of reproductive rights, lessons from different parts of the movement, and how we win. Free, online, Thurs June 16 6:30PM US-EDT eventbrite.com/e/the-new-abo… Hosted by @readlux @VersoBooks @haymarketbooks
The New Abortion Strategies: Thursday June 16 2022, with Farah Diaz-Tello, Rockie Gonzalez, Sarah Leonard, Monica Simpson and Laurie Bertram Roberts. Sponsored by Lux Magazine, Verso Books, and Haymarket Books.

ALT The New Abortion Strategies: Thursday June 16 2022, with Farah Diaz-Tello, Rockie Gonzalez, Sarah Leonard, Monica Simpson and Laurie Bertram Roberts. Sponsored by Lux Magazine, Verso Books, and Haymarket Books.

Nothing like spam email offering bulk email lists with the promise that email lists were collected with the permission of users.
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I know it's petty but I love seeing the inner workings of media companies. (cc @nytimes you missed one)
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Hey #PDX here's a reminder that when the TX abortion ban happened, just ONE city commissioner opposed allocating money for abortion care to help. @MingusMapps4PDX Also pay attention to who he endorses for city council. js opb.org/article/2021/09/14/p… #Portland #orpol
Screenshot of quote from article: 'The ordinance passed 4-1. Commissioner Mingus Mapps cast the lone ‘no’ vote over what he called a “symbolic pushback” by his colleagues. Mapps said, while he found the Texas law unjustifiable, he believed the ordinance was a poor use of taxpayer money and that he was “genuinely mystified” by what the council was trying to accomplish.'

ALT Screenshot of quote from article: 'The ordinance passed 4-1. Commissioner Mingus Mapps cast the lone ‘no’ vote over what he called a “symbolic pushback” by his colleagues. Mapps said, while he found the Texas law unjustifiable, he believed the ordinance was a poor use of taxpayer money and that he was “genuinely mystified” by what the council was trying to accomplish.'

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Big thank you to Von Reyes, @TimLehnen & others at @drupalassoc who made #DrupalCon so fantastic - especially after such an uncertain time period. #DrupalConPortland: Came for the community! @drupalcon @DrupalConNA
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.@sugaroverflow leading us through Futures Cones - projected, probable, plausible, possible, preposterous #DrupalCon #DrupalConPortland
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