7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

I wonder about the digitized alienation of labor. Cut and paste is a term that comes people having to literally cut and paste there essays together. To splice them together, like film editors used to do with film reels. While a pain, there is a tangibility, a connection with your words that brings.

The most perfect and peaceful creature in the world

They gave Balatro an 18+ only rating because it had poker cards in it. Disney Solitaire has literal actual real money gambling with dark pattern lootbox microtransactions and is for ages 3 and above.

Once tried to hack the alchemist class in Pathefinder 2 as a baker with explosive pies a la that one Spongebob episode, so I am definitely down.

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

This, a thousand times over. And the same thing is true of education. It’s in the *process* - of reading a whole argument, story, or study, of wrestling w/ the unfamiliar, of exploring a subject & writing the paper yourself, of reviewing for the exam w/ your own brain - where actual learning happens

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

If anyone wants to be added to the #CripLib starter pack let me know go.bsky.app/E6E2Zgy

I've always been convinced that video podcasts exist to force creators to be reliant on a closed distribution platform. Podcasts are built on tech (RSS) that nobody can own. Every major tech company has wanted to migrate podcasts to something proprietary, but it never sticks. Video is their answer.

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.

Students in my class on Radical Women Writers wrote some really great things, including high school lesson plans for teaching Grace Lee Boggs, Alice Childress, and Octavia Butler - check them out! (& feel free to use and share!) eng622.classroomcommons.org/class-collec...

and real management means saying to your team, you will not overwork yourself to provide services in order to compensate for fewer staff -- and protecting them from any pushback

Collaborating with @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and Kanako Shimizu, we put together what's basically a top-ten list of ways to help foster trans inclusivity and awareness within our scientific and academic communities and would love if you could help share the guide!

I'm once again sharing my starter pack of Canadian Game Studies Folks! Follow and let me know if you, or someone you know, might be a good fit. 🕹️✨

not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year

Saying bye to 2025 like...

Since New Years is coming up... Remember! You don't need to be the best writer or the best artist to create a story that resonates with people. All you need is hyper-fixation and a can-do-attitude!

you need look no further than the hashtag #OneOfTheTwo to see how many more than just two jon stewart and co punched down at. but isn’t it great? that so many more than just a few people are taking a simple action that benefits even those who use their vaunted platforms to deride it? i see you all🫡✨

Have a migraine today. Dandy is observing.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Medieval peasant stereotype: Oh no, I haven't bathed in a year and do whatever the priest says. Actual medieval peasants: The abbot tried to take our land so we sacked the monastery in a carefully-planned attack. Our commune's dividing up the spoils. I bathed this morning in the village bathhouse.

I want to wish everyone Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with this quick sketch of two Microraptorine dinosaurs in the snow ❄️. I hope everybody is having a great day and enjoying the presents! 🎁 🎄 🎅 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

This is what I said a while back. People are focusing on the tech because they are feeling discouraged about tackling the actual problem. Which is that we somehow find ourselves in a world where the powers that be are actively hostile towards the population. bsky.app/profile/polo...

The assertion that people can't/shouldn't ask for others around them to help make the world to be a better place unless making the world a better place is a behavior forcibly imposed on them is a really weird position to take. It's okay to be prosocial and constructive and not always adversarial.

Omfg yo holy shit look at this shot. Taken 34 minutes ago. I got some decent video I'll edit once I get to a hotel after catching the milky way...so..3 hours? 🪶

maybe tomorrow will be better

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

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Happy birthday Utena! #rgu #art

when in doubt, draw strawberries!! acrylic markers on wood

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

posting occupies an entirely different part of my brain than texting does

"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation." --Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

In a moment where RFK Jr is taking away life-saving vaccines and spreading health misinformation on an unprecedented scale, making comments that stigmatize other important layers of public health protections like mask wearing is not the play.

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

Again,

if your product can induce suicides, I think it's not sufficient to put a label on it saying, "warning, don't use this for suicides."

This was a really important session. Immensely heartening to hear people in the LIS spaces articulate the case against LLM AI in education, search and reference, writing, etc. etc., especially when certain other foresight organizations seem to be embracing it.

biscuit got an executive membership to costco for christmas #Blueskyねこ部

This is what they didn't tell you was awaiting you as an adult. Bills they said. Jobs they said. Sex they said. Traveling they said. Nobody mentioned you could just eat big fucking masses of cheese and no one can stop you. Unlock your full potential 🫡

Happy #InverteFest to everyone who celebrates. Post your invertebrate art.

Reminder: all those socks you get tomorrow that you didn’t want or need? Donate them to your local shelter, socks are one of the most requested items.

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

Merry Christmas to those celebrating! 🎄 To my fellow disabled &/or public health practicing folks who are masking for travels and visits, thank you! I hope you stay safe! 🫶🏻 To my fellow disabled folks also staying home bc we have no other choice to be safe: I see you. I love you. I’m proud of you.

It crimmus 🎄 [ #cuteart #illustration ]

Alt text does not note that Smudge looks absolutely entranced as he watches, which is crucial to the viewing experience, imo

Blue Winter Birds 💙❄️