NGL folks. Moving even just one of these originals would really make a difference for my husband & I with our continually piling up medical bills.🥲 Plz help spread the word, if you can. Even just re-sharing is powerful for small artists like me.🙏

lovingly crafted web

Today, @washingtonpost.com is hosting a Global Women’s Summit. Meanwhile, the @postguild.bsky.social is protesting and raising awareness about the fact that the Washington Post illegally fired me, its only Black woman opinion columnist, for doing my job. Salute to the Guild. Shame on the Post.

this is wild it is now nov this started in aug....

"The goal was to shift surveillance from strictly utilitarian into something residents could feel proud of...the playful, abstract shapes invite a second look and spark curiosity and engagement with your environment instead of dread." cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual & I am going to explode

I’ve been saying this for ages: These folks are doomed to be permanently angry because they’re angry about aspects of the culture that policy ultimately can’t change. They’re seeking political power as a consolation prize for lack of cultural power, and will always be dissatisfied.

nostalgia is a scam invented by big new to sell more old

@pds.labeler.tny.im i would like to request that the PDS katproto.girlonthemoon.xyz get it's own label it's the 27th largest PDS and has a pretty active Lead Dev

we’re watching Brahm Stoker’s Dracula and we both completely forgot how absolutely batshit it is

@katproto.girlonthemoon.xyz pls explain nixos to me like i am five

I think this is right, and I also think that the proliferation of tech methodologies/tools/processes/frameworks serves to deflect from this central problem. No tool or protocol can force decisionmakers to revise their antisocial values, or make amends when they hurt people

NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

okay theo might be okay?

wednesday nights are gonna be lonely now :0

hoping to see technology's downfall in my lifetime fr

just teared up a bit www.are.na/jill-blackmo...

please for the love of god buy an external hard drive and back your shit up

After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.

there is no path until you walk it

That’s a wrap on my federal service. I wrote about my time in gov, and how it ended. matthenry.fyi/posts/moving... 1/

woah blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-n...

Cloudflare holding its own in the big leagues by having an outage just like AWS and Azure. www.bbc.com/news/article...

cloudflare outage is looking real bad I definitely thought they would be back now but alas (I noticed it at 7am when I was trying to get onto a variety of websites)

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy? 1/8 www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

goals

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Hey @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, you talk a good game about fighting back against MAGA, so why are you teaming up with MAGA folks to require intrusive, privacy destroying surveillance that can and will be abused by those you keep warning us about?

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED. So here:

finalizing realizing the dream is just to be a youtube/soundcloud dj you will not see me in the club but on the feed

ambient...one my one true love www.youtube.com/@Ambient2k/v...

we are so back www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDJB...

They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.” They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.

obsessed youtu.be/BCLfyHkSFq4?...

Omg omg omg youtu.be/3YsEnfCyNwM?...

gosh I love alternative posters letterboxd.com/kiauna/list/...

heres how i made the phone pillow, a pillow to put your phone to sleep learn more at internetsculptures.com

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

It turns out that there's still quite a lot of new music coming out! I'll add some recommendations for you while I listen

re: tutorials and early game friction, here's a blog post I wrote in 2021 on why I like the social practice of game wiki'ing, and the "ludic mystery" that motivates it mixedinitiatives.net/blog/apologi...

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

tonight's reads (along with lots of tutorials because I need to start making stuff again) www.are.na/block/21141889

this diva is clocking it in the comments

are we joking

#30daymapchallenge belated day 8: Urban Looking at a city map through its trees 🌳🌲 #dataviz #map 🗺️

30daymapchallenge submissions are too good...inspiring me to finish some stuff

loveeeee

New art in @scholarslab.bsky.social's Text Aisle! Huge thanks to #DHmakes colleague @fosis.bsky.social for letting us exhibit his bright & strong "Pride" banner in our public space ("Make your pride part of history"🌈):

"if you love it so much, why are you procrastinating" ok ok you got me

Tucked away deep in the Settings app on Android are all sorts of privacy and security features you may have never seen. It’s time to get to know those settings. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.