A week or so ago, I was looking for a couple books by an author from 10 and 15 years ago and my library didn't have them. I requested them via a library form. Today I got a notification in Libby that they purchased both titles. Asking your library for writers' books is an amazing way to support us.

Sydenham is really leaning hard on the HAM today. Big smell of smoking pork. There's at least 2 smallgoods manufacturers there and they are obviously high on the hog tonight 🤭

they should invent a mug of tea that I don't forget about

When something's gone very wrong with your double sided scanning, on a scanner that you have to manually flip the paper, so you get fed up and write up the actual page order so you can unfuck it afterwards

and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

The sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel... Good thread about tipping and racism and just tip service workers already

Paper cutter, specifically Dahle 550 or any other one that pins the paper down while you cut it. Honourable mention to the ancient Dahle guillotine at my work with a big heavy blade that goes CHOMPK but is also incredibly dangerous.

The Toast, always. I used my Toast Tote as my handbag until it got too fragile late last year. I'm still thinking of repairing it and sallying once more. Also, the old Jezebel comments section. It was a fucking riot.

Spoiler alert but historically speaking, at no time have disabled people got along just fine as a class. We face entrenched prejudice, societal isolation, and oh yeah, idiots on the internet.

Once in a while a thing comes along, like delivery, that isn’t intended for us but can be very helpful for us and BOY, does it make people who aren’t disabled need to ponder aloud about what we do or don’t need.

if you send me stuff unsolicited there is NO GUARANTEE that I won't put it in the fucking bin

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

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I grew up near Lismore. It's still fucked. This is a travesty.

Not cis but these people think I am, and I have deployed this strategy several times Once I gave a grammar lecture and pointed out that "multiple theys in a sentence is no more or less confusing than multiple hes or shes so really this problem happens regardless of they/them pronouns"

this is, yes, a very specific message to a very specific group of cis people but hey we are overrepresented on this app so: when your otherwise well-meaning friends say they don't understand being trans the answer is "you don't have to"

archive.is/sxVco paywall jumped, screen reader accessible

Folks, give a warm welcome to Australia’s national broadcaster @news.abc.net.au who are doing the right thing and migrating away from toxic Twitter and posting more on BlueSky. Great to see that ethics and integrity are of higher priority than follower numbers. Give them a follow!

I'd been wondering what would happen if I had a bush turkey wander in. Now I know. I was in the back up store room: Turkey: Rustle rustle I'm investigating this new cave next to my nest Me: *head whips around* Turkey: !!! Me: OI! YOU! OUT! Turkey: ohshitbye So. Nothing happen. Turkey is a coward.

Heads up. He is/was in a lot of starter packs, too, so check yours if you've made one so you're no longer recommending a rapist.

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Reminder that if you block someone on bsky, it doesn’t unfollow them for you. Your friends may not be truly following him (and you may not have spared yourself the wrath of people unfollowing anyone who appears to follow him). Unblock, unfollow, block. He’s a weasel.

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

And if you're following him, we can See You and form opinions accordingly 🤨

Remember if you were following him before you blocked him, you might still show on his followers list. You need to unblock him, unfollow him, then block him again.

oh my god… they’re giving regent honeyeaters remedial education www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The problem with letting Stella on the balcony is that she yearns for Exploration and I need her to not do that

I hate straight pin fasteners so fucking much, they hurt my fingers to pull out and they're ALWAYS rusty!

I wish I could send the cat pics I find at work over to @catsofyore.bsky.social but alas we are private collections and I would have to own up to wanting to use private pics on the internet for it so we could credit them properly, and I don't have the guts 😔

Re FamilySearch using prison labour to digitise/transcribe documents Once again I must repost my thread about Australian archives using "Australian Disability Enterprises" aka disabled workers paid subminimum wages to do the same thing! bsky.app/profile/kayl...

I regret to inform you that I have once again been forced to deploy the meme

You simply love to see it

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

I'm stuck

I'm kind of on a cleaning out the pantry kick and I'm thinking of ways to use up the rest of these (several years old) dates. Probably date and ginger muffins as per Aust Womens Weekly.

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

Making scones. What kind of fool decided oven lights should be yellow tint? I can't tell for shit if my baking is browned under a yellow light?

all learning management tech is bad, all authoring software is bad, this entire sub-sector of tech is atrocious, abandon all hope ye who enter education or L&D

I've been dragging my feet on making a new psychiatrist appt bc I _know_ he wants me to read stuff i haven't read and make a psychologist appt. Finally forced myself to make one today. He? Had? Telehealth availability TODAY! How? Who knows.

i can't talk to the the privacy implications but when did we start talking about software updates in terms of their environmental impact

80,000 works on medieval history published a year. If you read one an hour, 24 hours a day, it'd take you ten years 🤓

I just saw the GP and my most recent bloods have my C-reactive protein value as FOUR POINT EIGHT I repeat 4.8 I have NEVER been below 10 ever since 2021 or probably earlier Normal range is 5mg/L or lower I have NEVER been this low before The Rinvoq is WORKING 💪 🥳

So they dropped a new drop bear?

a conspiracy theory I actually believe is that they keep doing this so they can claim higher user numbers, they don't care whether you use it or not, they just care that it's on your device so the line can keep going up

What an unusual fellow. I've worked for several religious orders and read about and/or met all kinds of Catholic religious and this kind of guy is entirely unique.

The best argument against the idea that AI or the Internet contains all of human knowledge is to bring students in a state archive. Every year, they fix these long corridors of unopened boxes, they look at me and they say: "no one ever opened these yet?"

I've been cursed. Commute filled with evil. Bus 1: gridlock traffic Metro trains: fucked. Took T4 (slow) to Town Hall instead of Metro (fast) to Victoria X. TH escalator: out of service. Bus 2: cancelled, 15 min wait for next. Bus' Opal readers not working & EVERYONE must try & complain.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social please enjoy whatever is happening here, or, as the kids are wont to say, dudes rock.