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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3h

This funny (weird) thing happens every few years in tech where there's an a11y lawsuit and then lawyers freak out and act like the ADA is brand new and I'm always the one being like "it's older than our tech stack"

But ARCHITECTS? Like, come on

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3h

That and like there's an entire bidding process for architects to get the contract for a new building?

How were ADA bonafides not established as part of the bid for a CIVIC building

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3h

Worm, coming home:
🪱"My coins! My pearls! My rings! They're all gone! I've been robbed!"

Second worm:
🪱"I saw the whole thing! It was a Swedish dude! He went that way!"

Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 6h

A man digging for worms in southeastern Sweden discovered a medieval hoard containing pearls, pendants, silver rings, and an estimated 20,000 coins. Archaeologists determined that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century.

Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm

A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages.

www.livescience.com

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 22h

Heists are already fun, but throw in some weird, futuristic spy technology? We're in. @franwilde.bsky.social, author of A Philosophy of Thieves, recommends 6 sci-fi heist stories! How many have you read?

reactormag.com/six-high-tec...

Six High Tech Heists That Defy the Odds - Reactor

These heists require tech and talent to pull off a win against impossible odds...

reactormag.com

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12h

Mitch McConnell pretending all of this bullshit had nothing to do with "his" Republicans when he's the prick who wouldn't confirm Obama's court nod, going against all precedents.

You were a pivotal atchitect in getting here, you fetid turd.

Hell's waiting.

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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 20h

Taking in refugees isn't just a nice thing we do — we have a legal obligation. The 1951 Refugee Convention came about specifically because countries like the US refused entry to Jews who were trying to escape Germany, because the world didn't ever want that to happen again.

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Jarch @itsokihaveabook.bsky.social · 19h

"Anger is a funny thing. And it does funny things to us if we keep it inside. I encourage you to consider a question: Who benefits, my dear, when you force yourself to not feel angry?" -When Women Were Dragons by @kellybarnhill.bsky.social

Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 19h

It really is

AuroraFluffy🔜GSFC 26 @aurorafluffynoodle.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder, having the mood on this sign 🐉🤍

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20h

*Sydette lets out a deep ANCESTRAL CACKLE *

Oh you mean the bitch who hid behind a murder from me ?

Or who said immigration wasn’t a feminist issue

Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 22h

I see y'all arguing with Amanda Marcotte & let me crank up the wayback machine...she hung out with a bevy of white feminists who didn't think they were racist, they just thought BIPOC women should wait until all the other issues were solved. She's one of the reasons #solidarityisforwhitewomen exists

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

Some white folk get really mad at the very idea that someone might want to hear the opinion of a Black person, and not their opinion, in any context. They believe that their opinion should be valid absolutely everywhere.

This is weird.

Don't do this.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

Are you Black?

This isn't complicated.

If I wanted to do a survey to learn Spanish speakers' opinion of a new law, question 1 might be "Are you a Spanish speaker?"

Then you bust through the wall like the Cool Aid man: "I am a political science professor! Survey me instead! Take it or leave it!"

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

I've actually gotten this done with all my print short stories and it's been pretty great!

It's a really subtle scent of ink on paper, but over time the molecules break down into this lovely "old book" smell

But I will NOT have anything to do with an anthology that smells of sandwich spreads

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

The fact that Huel was second highest for lead may explain some things about why silicon valley elite are tripping over each other to lose the hardest at Who Goes Nazi

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

This was it! I just remembered it having something to do with whales

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 1d

That sounds like something @sarahgailey.bsky.social posted about cold water under the eyes to trick your brain into waking up but I can't remember the specifics

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

The real trick is anxiety

Just like a truckload of anxiety

Best way to get real good at daydreaming is to use galaxies as like a mental white noise machine to drown out the yelling in the brain basement

Anyway treehouses

Give it a hammock

Nice little stream

Falling water that jawn

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

*slow register

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

I think being on the show register would drive me bonkers too

Also traffic jams

It's like a low battery alert on a smoke detector but worse

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

Okay but seriously, the human experience is a rich tapestry and people think differently and it's fine; there's nothing wrong with not being a daydreamer

It was just one of those moments of realizing that I'm apparently at the edge of a bell curve that I didn't really realize was a spectrum

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

The best I can do is more like surfing brain currents: sweep along on free associations

Which works well enough for what I'm trying to do but like my brain has two speeds: 10 and 11

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

You can start small; breathe like one treehouse into life in your mind

Give it some kind of cool rope bridge; those are fun

Or you can do an algorithm if you're into that

Just make one up, it doesn't even have to be efficient

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

Right? Like surely brains just

Do that?

A lifetime in a faith community whose central worship practice is an hour of silent contemplation and I have always understood not thinking to be really really really difficult actually

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

(yes I know some people are aphantasic; I'm not judging you for not having highly visual daydreams; I'm just baffled about people getting bored in thirty seconds because like have they tried breathing a universe into creation in their minds? It's an option)

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

You're waiting for a crosswalk and you can't see stars forming in the ombre light of the dust between galaxies?

What are you looking at? The STREET?

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

Specifically there was a thing about having thirty seconds to kill and getting bored and I'm like wait wait back up

People can have THIRTY WHOLE SECONDS to kill and they don't reach second twenty literally hearing a brook babbling in a nameless forest where the air smells of loam and forever?

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 2d

this was to do with the default mode network so apparently most of the thinking I do is when I've "run out of stuff to think about" and the short circuit here is just the description

But I'm led to understand that most people can't switch into daydreaming as easy as sneezing and that sounds fake

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