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Ichabod 'iggins

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IRL Richard Higgins. Software developer for libraries and academic research. PhD-haver. Former contingent faculty in English and InfoSci. Fan of good metadata, long novels, and due process.

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Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · Jun 6

The energy I bring to bluesky

Meme "I'm not a robot." Harrison Ford staring at a screen. Superimposed is a reCaptcha challenge box, with which a user clicks to prove "I'm not a robot."

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9h

Last night, the rainbow crosswalks were removed from an intersection in the historically LGBTQ neighborhood of Montrose in Houston, Texas.

Protesters were arrested.

It’s the neighborhood in which I grew up and where I live.

This too is a form of violence.

Rainbow crosswalk at night

Photo via @kissphoria on X

Protesters with a “LOVE IS NOT POLITICAL” sign

Photo via @kissphoria on X

A protester handcuffed with zip-ties being carried away by multiple cops

Photo via @kissphoria on X

Overhead view of the grey crosswalk in the harsh morning light

Photo via @BillBishopKHOU on X

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Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 9h

Tupperware party? More like an Ouija board at a sleepover.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h

“Prompt parties,” gatherings of women over cheese and wine to chat about how ChatGPT can help them, are emerging as the next-generation of Tupperware party in San Francisco.

Wine, Cheese and ChatGPT: Ladies’ Night in San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 1d

Every bad idea in education is driven by venture capital.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

This is the first day in forever that my feed was full of joy and wit instead of an unspeakable new horror every three hours.

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Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 2d

Great to see the elder care van pull up to unload a pack of protesters in my Midwestern, medium-size college town. #NoKings

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Adrienne Sewell @drinfelicity.bsky.social · 2d

Joy and action hand-in-hand at No Kings in Bloomington Indiana #nokings

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Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 2d

Solidarity

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

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Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 3d

some proper enshittification

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 5d

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d

The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)

The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

www.heise.de

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Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 5d

Astounding move by Indiana University to direct its student newspaper on what they can and cannot print:

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 6d

UCSC alum! I miss Santa Cruz all the time

Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 7d

Until it doesn't solve problems, unfortunately. I miss it too.

Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 7d

My spouse has for years listened to Pride and Prejudice to sleep. I used audio of Paradise Lost to help me sleep for a time.

Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 7d

This is articulated so well. I used to talk about the "experience" of a long novel. How a long book shapes daily life while reading it. I don't talk about this much anymore.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 7d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 7d

More dudes should read Jane Austen

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 7d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 7d

Pynchon's novels would be even more unreadable without the influence of Dickens on Pynchon's style.

Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 7d

Can confirm. The teenager in my house is a hardcore rocker. There's an active scene in our college town.

Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 7d

I truly believe that all-ages DIY metal/hardcore shows are the answer to so many of society’s current problems

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John M Danskin @johnmdanskin.bsky.social · 8d

Peter Thiel looking for the antichrist is like me trying to find my glasses when I am wearing them.

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Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 7d

Post you from a different era.

Like "another" era fr

Photo of myself a couple of decades ago, with curly mid-length hair, large prescription glasses, and wearing a thrift-store sport coat. Probably high and ready to go out.

Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 7d

TFW when you give yourself a new set of permissions and lock yourself out. #devopsfail

Ichabod 'iggins @zen0effect.com · 8d

I needed some comedy today. Watched THE LITTLE HOURS, based on some stories from Boccaccio's The Decameron (14th-century). Several laugh out loud sequences. Not a major adaptation, but it captures the irreverent vibes I remember from reading bits of The Decameron years ago.

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