Keziyah

@KeziyahL

Black, bi, dev, UX designer & digital nomad | Frontend at | Making | Professional bootcamp exposer | Tweets == my thoughts | she/her

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    Sep 8

    Priyanka "Girl, Don't Yell" Chopra is an investor in Holberton School, a tech bootcamp that promises grads a career with a 6 figure salary. On the surface, it seems like a great program. However... If Lambda School is trash, then Holberton School is a dumpster fire. Thread.

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    2 hours ago
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    NFL has a players union. MLB has a players union. But thinks it's unreasonable that people earning 2 or 3% as much should unionize?

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    Sep 11

    Ectopic pregnancies can literally kill the women who experience them, and often the only treatment is abortion. Abortion opponents are now calling for "watchful waiting," instead of treatment, which doctors are calling "malpractice."

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  4. 3 hours ago

    The vast majority of Americans aren't. And yet people flex what little they have, and look down on those who make less than them. As if most folks aren't 1 missed paycheck or health crisis away from being homeless.

    Good morning. This is a reminder that you’re probably not middle class.
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    Sep 11

    Black cis women were once told (by white people) they weren’t real women and the remembering of that can either be a teacher on why transphobia is violent, dumb as shit, and born from white supremacist ideas of gender,

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    4 hours ago
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    That you pay someone this little at Stack Overflow to live in a major metro and don’t understand why tech workers would unionize is seriously embarrassing.

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  7. 3 hours ago

    I love this exchange

    A subthread, in which psu_chris writes "unions don't guarantee anything. they 'try' but will gladly take your money" The reply from paycircuit reads "have a great WEEKEND"
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    10 hours ago

    Tech often espouses the idea of leaving code better than you found it. Unions are the same idea applied to the workplace itself. We love things that are meta. We should love unions!

    At its core, unions are about helping to level the power imbalance between you & your employer. Whether you end up fighting for higher salaries, or an ice cream fountain, why wouldn't you want that? Why would you want to have no power at all at your job?
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    10 hours ago

    This article is extremely compelling. Not only does it show why Income Share Agreements that are financed completely wreck incentives, but even unfinanced ISAs are problematic.

    . analysis of ISAs is really interesting. I highly recommend reading this blog and giving Christof a follow to learn more about why ISAs are very problematic.
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    6 hours ago

    Ask this on Stackoverflow you coward

    I will never understand the desire to "unionize" in tech. Why should rich people unionize? So they can get .. uh.. even more money?
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    12 hours ago

    People enter tech for financial reasons. Most tech workers don't have access to old money. In some cases, their current financial security or worth is their family's only retirement plan.

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    12 hours ago

    This. Another nuance people miss is that SV has to import workers internationally in order to survive. Work visas don't sponsor spouses. Many households of 3 or 4 only have one person working.

    The people in tech I know are balancing high rents, student loans, healthcare bills, and being their parents' retirement plan, just like everyone else. *she types as she sits in her mom's home that she helps pay rent for with $15 in her checking account*
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    15 hours ago
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    You're serious? Let me be clear... if you are a minority in tech, you are last hired and first let go. Minorities work disproportionately in certain G&A functions... marketing, sales, legal, and other "overhead." Also, contractors do a LOT of tech work with no protections, so...

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    13 hours ago

    Somebody gotta say it: The overwhelming support for Joe Biden is based purely off fear that white folks won’t vote for anyone else on that stage. Because there is no way you see him in these moments and think he’s actually the best candidate.

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  15. 12 hours ago

    Anyway, I stand 100000% in solidarity with the workers at Kickstarter

    This morning, after six years of pouring my life into the mission, the staff, and the creators of , I was fired for organizing a union. They offered me no real reasons, but one month's severance for signing an NDA. I will not be signing it.
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    14 hours ago

    "Ya'll hoes broke I make x amount of money, ya'll don't cuz yall lazy" Great to hear in a rap song when you're at a club, doesn't actually apply to everyone in real life

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    16 hours ago

    As kickstarter employees come forward with stories of management's unfair labor practices, I (who have organized a union) remind you to wait for workers' specific call to action & not mistakenly undermine their strategic efforts via your own tactics such as boycott. (thread)

    I’ve organized a union & been union-busted by my employer. As you react to the news that kickstarter isn’t voluntarily recognizing unionizing efforts, don’t jump to boycott, which may help or harm employees as strategy depending on specifics. Wait for the union’s call to action.
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    13 hours ago

    Which one of you did this?

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  19. 12 hours ago

    Just because *some* of us in tech make a higher salary than most Americans, doesn't mean we're not workers. Doesn't mean we shouldn't fight for our rights. Doesn't mean we don't need a union.

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  20. 12 hours ago

    I was lucky compared to some people who get no severance at all.

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  21. 12 hours ago

    My last job gave me 6 weeks pay when I got laid off. And they tried to get me to work through those 6 weeks. I said no. (Oh and my last paycheck was a couple hundred short, and they didn't pay out my vacation days.) I was out of a job and completely at their mercy.

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