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babelglyph, MLIS
@babelglyph.bsky.social
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I wear wonderful yet very dumb things. I would like everyone to have this option. blurbs are hard. information is good. she/her
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babelglyph, MLIS @babelglyph.bsky.social · Nov 13
Yo! I'm babelglyph. I wear ridiculous things, mainly #LolitaFashion but sometimes cosplay, steampunk, vintage, or whatever else floats my boat. My two core fashion philosophies are "pay your bills then buy frills" and "shitpost hard, coord harder". Here are a few of my recent outfits!
A two-photo collage of Babelglyph wearing a yellow lolita dress with a toast print, a blue sweater, and a large white headbow with an oversized blueberry on it. Left photo shows her standing at a podium during Kei-Con 2024. Right side shows a close-up selfie, smiling. A four-photo collage of Babelglyph wearing a Waffle House themed lolita outfit. She wears a black and white checkered dress, a small white apron with a notepad, an embroidered lace Waffle House necklace, a black rosette with a button reading "cash tips appreciated", and a decorative waffle headpiece. A four-photo collage of Babelglyph wearing a red and white lolita skirt, blouse, and long coat. Left photo shows her full outfit. She stands with one finger raised. Right side photos depict touching grass -- preparing a finger to touch the grass, touching the grass gently with one finger, then touching with her whole hand. A two-photo collage of Babelglyph wearing a teal, purple and pink lolita outfit. On the left, she stands with her fingers pointing together shyly. On the right, she raises one finger to her cheek to look thoughtful.
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scarlettohairdye.bsky.social
I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are:

1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and;

2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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i.amnot.social
Q+D, graphic design is my passion, etc etc
A 3x3 grid titled "What is a social media site?" It has "reach purist", "reach neutral", and "reach radical" as its columns, and it has "structure purist", "structure neutral", and "structure radical" as its rows. There are descriptors for each label. Reach purist says, "A social media site allows users to post messages that can be seen by anyone". Reach neutral says, "A social media site allows users to post messages that can be seen by a target audience." Reach radical says, "A social media site allows users to post messages." Structure purist says, "A social media site is a live service that lives on the Internet, providing feeds of posts to users." Structure neutral says, "A social media site is accessible via a computer." Structure radical says, "A social media site is anywhere people can send messages." The blocks are: Structure purist, reach purist: "Bluesky is a social media site." Structure purist, reach neutral: "Discord is a social media site." Structure purist, reach radical: "Nostr is a social media site." Structure neutral, reach purist: "Craigslist is a social media site." Structure neutral, reach neutral: "AIM was a social media site." Structure neutral, reach radical: "A BBS is a social media site." Structure radical, reach purist: "A skywriter is a social media site." Structure radical, reach neutral: "The post office is a social media site." Structure radical, reach radical: "The bathroom stall at your local dive bar is a social media site."
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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hugobookclub.bsky.social
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.

These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
Stamps featuring Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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mllejacquesnoel.bsky.social
Btw for j-fashion people in NYC and the surrounding area—

LIVE BAIT will be having a pop up at Pop-Up Collective NYC for Black Friday weekend. Swing by if you have time! Peruse the wares fresh from Tokyo.

57 Bond Street, 11am-7pm

#nyc #jfashion #harajukufashion
Flier for LIVE BAIT at Pop-Up Collective NYC. It has a pale pink background with images of clothing and accessories. The text reads— LIVE BAIT AT POP-UP COLLECTIVE NYC FRIDAY 11/28-SUNDAY 11/30 11am-7pm 57 Bond Street, Manhattan
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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cpsc.gov
KPOP Demon Hunters is a movie about the importance of effective public health communication in this essay I will...
November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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noisyastronomer.com
THIIIIIIS
mcnees.bsky.social Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 2d
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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awest.uk
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
babelglyph.bsky.social
I doubted this, so I spent part of tonight looking up stats for just the parts of the US and Canada that I tend to drive in. Turns out yeah! Even when narrowed to just a handful of counties/regions, in 2021, the lowest fatalities-per-100k-population in WNY was still 1.5x the highest in the GTA.
cpearsall242.bsky.social Collin Pearsall @cpearsall242.bsky.social · 3d
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
babelglyph.bsky.social
please read the whole article, it delivers, including choice lines such as describing it as a "jarringly jovial discussion", which is simply accurate.

bonus: "Both said they were united over a mutual love of New York City. They did not mention Queens."
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
babelglyph.bsky.social
Missing your sorted tabs now? Visit Settings>Inbox, choose Multiple Inboxes, and add new filters. They'll look different, but they'll sort!

Priority - is:inbox -is:forums -is:social -is:updates -is:promotions
Forums - is:forums
Social - is:social
Updates - is:updates
Promotions - is:promotions
A screenshot of Gmail showing the top of the Settings > Inbox menu. Inbox Type: Multiple Inboxes Multiple inbox sections: Add up to 5 custom sections that you can view alongside your inbox. Section 1: Search query "is:inbox -is:forums -is:social -is:updates -is:promotions" Section name (optional) "Priority" Section 2: Search query "is:forums" Section name (optional) "Forums" Section 3: Search query "is:social" Section name (optional) "Social" Section 4: Search query "is:updates" Section name (optional) "Updates" Section 5: Search query "is:promotions" Section name (optional) "Promotions" Maximum page size: show 9 conversations per page for the multiple inbox sections Multiple inbox position: options are "Right of the inbox" (unselected), "Above the inbox" (selected), and "Below the inbox" (unselected).
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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kateross.bsky.social
Friends, this is a low hanging boycott action.

Similar to Hulu and Disney+ actions.

You can help turn the tide and it will make other platforms think twice.

The working class has much more power than they think.
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d
Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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bethanyblack.bsky.social
Really enjoying ICE finding out North Carolina is an open carry state with a stand your ground law. My current favourite genre of TikTok videos is ICE agents in full camo in the woods being hunted by North Carolinians
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
babelglyph.bsky.social
forget all of the tips I've ever given about traveling in lolita fashion. get on your yoga pants and hoodies, we're comfymaxxing until this jamoke is gone
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4d
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:

"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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laurasaurus.bsky.social
I’m howling.
Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph. "The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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lefttheprairie.bsky.social
The joy this man has doing his patriotic duty
November 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
Hey I just want to remind everyone that even if vaccines did cause autism (they don’t), they also cause ALIVE CHILDREN, and if you don’t think an alive autistic child is something to celebrate, please fuck off into the sun forever
elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d
The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.
Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. • HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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davidandress.bsky.social
This is how "fast fashion" works. This is how it has always worked. There is no such thing as a robot sewing-machine. Only women, and starvation wages. This was true 150 years ago. And it's true now.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less." She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards. They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it. This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil. The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option. "We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents. "We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""
November 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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miski.bsky.social
people encourage this and make you feel bad about yourself so you devalue your genuinely niche and valuable skillsets so you'll fight less to get paid what you're actually worth
matthewdowsmith.bsky.social Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 4d
One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.

You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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tylerfromtheinternet.com
Holy shit. They did this in the back half of November?

Capitalism must be stopped.
Walgreens ends holiday pay for hourly employees
The move will affect Christmas, Thanksgiving, and four other major holidays, costing full-time workers hundreds of dollars per year
share.google
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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dandypuppeteer.bsky.social
Omg the goal has now been reached!! THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
dandypuppeteer.bsky.social Dandy Puppeteer @dandypuppeteer.bsky.social · Oct 21
Poker Bag Collection is now live on Backerkit ♠️🃏♥️
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/d...
A bag hanging by its shoulder strap on a mannequin. The bag is rectangle shaped to look like the playing card Ace of Spades with a large black spade in the center. A bag hanging by its shoulder strap on a mannequin. The bag is rectangle shaped to look like the playing card Ace of Hearts with a large red heart in the center.
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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fangandfable.com
Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.
raynegrimm.bsky.social Rayne Grimm Vulpes Zer-Duh @raynegrimm.bsky.social · Oct 20
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
A I age showing a typical collection bucket for the salvation army which is read with a lid holding mechanism on a tripod holder. There is a big stop/do not symbol over the hand depositing money with the words "we don't donate to the Bigot bucket" over the bottom bucket section
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 PM
babelglyph.bsky.social
I don't know whether it's a healthy amount of paranoia or not that my first question on learning about a garment design contest is "what are the terms and conditions around the intellectual property rights of submitted designs?"

Protect yourself, your labor, and your creativity
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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kalina2hu.bsky.social
Extra two panels to the meme 1: Guard on the tower saying [bluesky post by Qsy ‪@qsy.bsky.social‬ "Oh yeah btw the reason why Vine is being relaunched with great fanfare and no Al is because it's jointly operated with an Al company and they probably don;t want to pollute their scrap pile with stuff they've already shat out."] 2: Guy in blue tunic pulling the lever and shouting "CLOSE THE GATE".
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM