Dannel Jurado

@demarko

Union steward @kickstarterunited.org software engineer (but not on weekends) Avatar illustrated by @caitlinroseboyle.com Socials: Mastodon: Twitter: @DeMarko (unused, parked)

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Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jul 12

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jul 8

Does anyone else keep a note of quotes that hit you?

screenshot of a note app with the following:
# Quotes

There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus — and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you’re free the machine will be prevented from working at all! - Mario Savino, address at Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley, 1964

You are cursed because inside you is your heart which is the fulcrum on which the world balances - Taylor Moore, 2023

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political
I must listen to the birds
and in order to hear the birds
the warplanes must be silent.
– Marwan Makhoul

Love has never been a popular movement. And no one’s ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you’ve got to remember is what you’re looking at is also you. Everyone you’re looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be. - James Baldwin

We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. - Zohran Mamdani, 2025

Ser joven y no ser revolucionario es una contradicción hasta biológica - Salvador Allende, discurso en la Universidad de Guadalajara, 1972

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jul 8

It's interesting that @discord.com's ATO problem has gotten so bad that individual Discords I'm in have started setting up these honeypot channels

Screenshot of the Grounded Discord #do-not-talk-here channel honeypot where if you send a message, you get automatically softbanned.

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jul 8

Oh, they made it worse: with this the @mta.info is saying “you don’t belong here, go use a browser”

Screenshot of the official MTA app that now kicks you to a browser instead of persisting your session and letting you use the app browser to book your pickup

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jul 6

“1 billion players” as a goal, okay cool, how are people supposed to frag out in Call of Duty 7 Modern Warfare 2: Collector’s Edition: The Squeaquel if they can’t afford your console because of your AI-brained shit? Because of a war that drives prices up even further?

Metal Gear Solid screenshot generate to look like Campbell is telling Snake “Snake, you can't keep ignoring the player's material conditions!”

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jul 3

I’M DOING MY PART

Screenshot of my remote AC app set to 78 degrees Fahrenheit and eco mode

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jul 1

THE CRAZE THAT IS SWEEPING THIS BROKEN NATION

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jul 1

MEANWHILE BARRY STONKS ARE UP LETS GOOOO

New Snorlax full art card in PTCGP's Everyday Wonders set.

Full Art Barry Supporter/Trainer card from PTCGP's Triumphant Light (playing Barry makes your Snorlax attacks cost less energy)

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 26

¿Quienes se apuntan? 🤪

Captura de pantalla de Spotify con un playlist con el título “Playlust para cuando Keiko me fusilé en la plaza San Martín” con el subtítulo “vamos Keiko vamos” con un gato loco de portada y dos tracks de los Nosequien y los Nosecuantos “Las Torres” y “Los Patos y las Patas”

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 25

I think Destiny is the first game I'm gonna play until the servers shut off. When I started poking at the Monuments of Triumph update I was like "I could play this game for another 1000 hours, easy"

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 24

COMMIE CORRIDOR SWEEEEEP

Photo of Jeb Bush super imposed with a map of the world colored Jeb

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 23

NY Primary season is brutal

Today 13:22

A text reading “Happy Election Day! Have you voted for Claire yet or doing so tonight? Thank you for your support! skip to end or stop to opt out - Claire Valdez for Congress”
With me replying with an image of me holding a salmon burger at my desk and the caption “Going as soon as I finish lunch, chill”

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 17

This is a fun exercise

Image of 9 Steam Games I want to Spread: Eastward, Sea of Stars, South of Midnight, Flotsam, Windblown, FBC: Firebreak, Gunfire Reborn, Dave the Diver, Shogun Showdown

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 14

tfw the NYC emergency notification hotline tells you to celebrate safely

A text from NOTIFY NYC that reads “Notify NYC: Knicks are the NBA
Champs! Road closures & emergency personnel @ MSG.
Listen to NYPD instructions.
Enjoy the moment, celebrate safely.”

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 8

I'm on this @techworkerscoalition.org panel repping @kickstarterunited.org next week, if you were at Circuit Breakers last year, it's an extension of the talk of the same name. You can register for it here: twcl.ink/twc-edu-june...

Poster for a panel titled "A Value Critique of AI & Tech Worker Opposition" sponsored by the Tech Workers Coalition

GenAI technologies are being promoted as the door to a new era of economic dynamism. However, the opposite is more likely. While LLM-based tools haven’t measured up to corporate promises of productivity growth, they are being used to justify mass layoffs and increase worker exploitation. Further, the gargantuan investment in AI infrastructure is prompting nationwide opposition as it poses the threat of environmental degradation and economic crisis. Control over the deployment of AI is becoming a key issue for society at large, and tech workers could have a defining say in it.

Come discuss how Marx might have tackled the encroachment of AI and how unionists have responded to it in their workplaces. We’ll have a presentation and a panel discussion including representatives from the Times Tech Guild and Kickstarter United followed by a Q&A session.

REGISTER NOW @ https://twcl.ink/twc-edu-june-2026

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 4

"I'm afraid that people hating data centers will prevent us from actually expanding computing capacity that's necessary" NECESSARY FOR WHAT

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Jun 1

I was curious if my search engine (DuckDuckGo) of choice does this properly, thankfully it does.

screenshot of the search results for "what time is sunset" in DuckDuckGo, saying the sunrise and sunset for Sunday May 31st, 2026 is 5:27 AM for sunrise and 8:20 PM for sunset

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 31

YOUR BIRDS HAVE STATS

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 31

Yeah man, this rules

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 29

LMAO, I emailed Wikimedia saying I would never donate again unless they reversed their anti-union ways and I got this

Kristie Robinson, May 29, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC:
Hi,

Thank you for your email and for your support of the Wikimedia Foundation and free knowledge.

Thank you also for sharing your concerns. I am happy to provide you with more context and information about the recent events.

The decision to disband the Community Tech team is not in any way connected to recent discussions about unionizing, nor have we terminated any staff for their participation in those discussions. The Foundation respects the right of staff to unionize if they vote to do so.

Earlier this month, the Wikimedia Foundation restructured the way the organization supports the Community Wishlist initiative, a forum for the volunteer editors behind Wikimedia projects to suggest and collaborate on improvements to our product and technology.

The decision to restructure followed internal assessments dating back to September 2025 on ways to make our Community Wishlist work more effective and to improve our support for volunteer editors. We learned from these assessments that it is rarely possible to fulfill community wishes through a single team due to the vast breadth of the software we support and the number of channels through which we receive wishes. The restructuring shifts the management of the Community Wishlist from a single, sometimes siloed team (formerly known as the Community Tech team) to the full Product and Technology Department — ensuring that community wishes can be acted on by teams who are specialists in many different areas.

As part of this restructuring, the Community Tech team was disbanded, and six roles were impacted. The Foundation has been committed to supporting the affected team members during this transition in various ways. The team members are currently still working at the Foundation and are receiving internal support to identify and apply for open roles at the organization.

[IF BROOKE VIBBER MENTIONED] Regarding Brooke Vibber’s departure, as a general
practice, and o…

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 28

How come some of the coolest weapon designs in the game are only coming with the final update? 🥲 apologies if I grieve in slow motion over the next couple of weeks

Weapon display of the SRL weapons from the final update to Destiny 2, showing some very cool futuristic weapon brands across various weapon types

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 27

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 26

Screengrab of the Spongebob episode where he says everything is better at night with the text "Dire Marsh" on the top and "at night" on the bottom

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 23

Meep meep

Wil E. Coyote picking up his paint after painting a fake tunnel on the side of a mountain

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 22

Incidentally, I was looking through our email history and I found this one from like 2013!!!

Illustration by Caitlin Rose Boyle of a hurt Snorlax being attended to by 3 Nurse Joys who are saying "You'll be fighting fit in no time"

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 16

Listen I-…am still on TikTok

Screenshot of a Discord message DeMarko sent saying “I NEED TIKTOK TO STOP TARGETING ME SPECIFICALLY BY SHOWING ME ALT BADDIES SET TO DEATH GRIPS”

Dannel Jurado@demarko· May 1

The More section of the official @mta.info app is such a mess of settings, info they couldn’t find a place to put anywhere, and links to help and other places and I just am not sure what they’re thinking there

Screenshot of the More section of the MTA app with a number of different heading that combine just about everything.

The text reads:

More
We want to hear from you!
Take our Spring Customers Count survey and...
Appearance
* Language
>
Haptic Feedback
& Access-A-Ride
About the app
Send app feedback
Chat with us
Report trip feedback D
D Subway Maps

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Apr 26

*sigh* it’s time to buy shoes again

Screenshot of a New Balance NB Numeric 480 that they’ve never made in my size, the shoe is a low skater shoe with a cream leather exterior

D.W. From Arthur wearing sunglasses looking through a fence longingly

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Apr 24

Easy enough

Screenshot of the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project donation confirmation screen of a one-time donation of $52.77

Dannel Jurado@demarko· Apr 23

Can confirm