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hmm my former landlords are trying to deduct a frankly off the rails amount of money from our security depositβ¦my time has come once again
i was chatting with a coworker about this whole saga today and someone nearby popped into the convo to be like βyou know, you can use chatgpt to write a demand letter!β and i sort of blinked and went, βokay. i did it myself, though.β and she was like, βyeah but it can tell you what laws and stuff are relevantβ and i was like, βi also did research myself.β and she was very well-meaning but she said βchatgptβ like six more times before she left and it was genuinely baffling to me, this insistence on it.
and in the one hand, did i enjoy spending hours researching housing regulations in my state? not especially. drafting this email was stressful. but on the other hand, did i learn a lot by doing that research? yeah, i did. iβm more prepared for my current and future leases. i used some of that info to make decisions about a new renterβs insurance policy. i already told three different people about things i learned that are relevant to their leases that they didnβt know yet. (pro tip: see if youβre supposed to be getting annual interest payments on your security deposit! also look up what specific appliances your landlords must legally provide as of 2026.) i also got to reconnect with my cousin for a bit because her job gave her specific insight on part of the situation, and iβd much rather do that than have a chatbot make shit up for me.
also, i drafted that email with the power of friendship (friends angry on our behalf) and spite (from landlords telling me not to do my research). chatgpt could never.
(we got the money back, by the way πͺ)

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i feel like game piracy is sometimes viewed as this massive disruption to the game industry and not just βa small group of people who werenβt going to buy a game anyways now have it on their computer.β when companies report βlossesβ due to piracy thatβs fake. thatβs a fake number because no money was actually ever exchanged and companies cannot possibly know how many people actually pirated their game. piracy does not work like this
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Trying to figure out how to draw armour. These are some of my notes I uploaded on patreon. A lot more to come since I really want to figure this one out.
when youβre mean to me, this is who youβre being mean to
Okay, hear me out.
One of the quiet background realities of the Star Wars galaxy is that it is spectacularly bad at labor. Not just βlate-stage capitalismβ bad, but structurally, culturally, and institutionally allergic to the idea that workers should have enforceable protections. Youβve got child soldiers, child labor, debt slavery, corporate fiefdoms, and a Republic that can field a galaxy-spanning bureaucracy but somehow never gets around to standardizing βmaybe donβt enslave people.β The Empire of course doesnβt fix this; it industrializes it.
So in that environment, formal labor law is either nonexistent, unenforced, or actively hostile. Which means if youβre operating in a sector where the state either canβt or wonβt protect you, you get a classic historical pattern: workers build their own rules.
Enter the gray economies.
Groups like the Smugglers' Alliance (Legends) and the Bounty Hunters' Guild (new canon) look, at first glance, like professional associations for criminals. But if you squint at them through a labor history lens, they start to look a lot like early, proto-union structures β especially the kinds you see in maritime or extralegal industries on Earth.
Think pirate codes (yes actual ones, Pirates of the Caribbean didn't make that up). Think matelotage agreements. Think dockworker brotherhoods that predate formal unions.
Because what do these groups actually do?
They:
set norms for compensation and contracts
regulate competition to prevent destructive undercutting
provide a framework for dispute resolution
establish reputational systems (βyou donβt honor contracts, you donβt get workβ)
Thatβs industry self-governance in the absence of law.
Take bounty hunting. Without something like the Bounty Hunters' Guild, the field collapses into chaos: clients donβt pay; hunters underbid each other into oblivion; jobs get duplicated, interfered with, or sabotaged. And nobody trusts anybody!
The Guild steps in and says: here are the rules of engagement. Hereβs how claims work. Hereβs how you get paid. Hereβs what happens if you break contract.
Thatβs basically a union crossed with a licensing board and a regulatory agency, just without any moral pretense.
Same with the Smugglers' Alliance. Smuggling is inherently risky, decentralized, and dependent on trust networks. If everyone is constantly betraying everyone else, the whole system stops functioning. So instead, you hash out agreed-upon routes and territories, informal protections against betrayal, mechanisms for information sharing, and consequences for breaking the code
Again: not altruism. Stability.
And the reason this emerges specifically in gray/illegal sectors is because they have to. The Core Worlds might pretend they have laws, but those laws donβt meaningfully protect the people actually doing dangerous, itinerant, high-risk work. So the margins of the galaxy β where enforcement is weakest and risk is highest β become the places where labor organization evolves first.
Which is very historically grounded.
On Earth, some of the earliest labor protections didnβt come from governments; they came from workers in dangerous, decentralized industriesβsailors, pirates, minersβwho literally wrote their own rules because no one else was going to save them.
Pirate codes, for example, often included:
compensation for injury
shared distribution of loot
limits on captain authority
Which is β¦ shockingly progressive compared to a lot of contemporary working conditions (cough Amazon cough).
So in the galaxy far, far away, you end up with this ironic inversion:
The βlegitimateβ systems β Republic, Empire, megacorporations β are exploitative, inconsistent, or indifferent.
The βillegitimateβ systems β smugglers, bounty hunters β are the ones building functional labor frameworks, because they need to survive.
And that feeds back into why the galaxy feels so unstable overall. Thereβs no universal baseline of rights. Everything is hyper-local, network-dependent, and contingent on whether youβre inside a system that has rules you can rely on.
If youβre a clone trooper? You are literally property.
If youβre a factory worker on a corporate world? Your protections are whatever your employer feels like offering.
But if youβre a smuggler or a bounty hunter?
You might actually have clearer expectations about your pay, your risks, and your recourse β because your βunionβ is the only thing standing between you and total chaos.
So yeah: the Smugglersβ Alliance and the Bounty Huntersβ Guild arenβt just flavor. Theyβre a glimpse of what labor organization looks like in a galaxy where the state has fundamentally failed to provide it.
Which is both deeply funny and a little too real.
#you're telling me han solo is a union man? (via @professorsparklepants)
Han Solo looks SO MUCH like a union man.

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Happy May the Fourth! I added a second page to this comic from last year!
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surely someone else has thought of shipping these two. i dont know what the ship would be called but like. LOOK at them

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Thanks for the info prev!! Still a little funny to think about tbh lol
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