bri watson 🐝
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they/m | brimwats.com | PhD.
working @westernufims.bsky.social on how GLAMS describe marginalized folks; information's histories & identity in sociotechnical systems
🔗 Homosaurus.org HistSex.org CritCat.org NCPWG.org QMDC & TMDC
working @westernufims.bsky.social on how GLAMS describe marginalized folks; information's histories & identity in sociotechnical systems
🔗 Homosaurus.org HistSex.org CritCat.org NCPWG.org QMDC & TMDC
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Imagine moving from the UK to Mexico and saying that you were going to open Mexico's greatest bakery because Mexico don't have a culture of bread.
I live in NYC which is not heavily Mexican for the US, and I still live a couple of blocks from a panadería. What is this man talking about?
I live in NYC which is not heavily Mexican for the US, and I still live a couple of blocks from a panadería. What is this man talking about?
Panadero inglés desata polémica al afirmar que en México ‘no existe la cultura del pan’
El panadero inglés Richard Hart desató polémica al afirmar que en México “no existe cultura del pan”.
www.excelsior.com.mx
December 14, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Imagine moving from the UK to Mexico and saying that you were going to open Mexico's greatest bakery because Mexico don't have a culture of bread.
I live in NYC which is not heavily Mexican for the US, and I still live a couple of blocks from a panadería. What is this man talking about?
I live in NYC which is not heavily Mexican for the US, and I still live a couple of blocks from a panadería. What is this man talking about?
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I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.
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The 19th century is so back, baby!
"Srinivasan himself has started a 'Network School' on an artificial island near Singapore, where techno-optimists can work their day jobs remotely while living in a hotel together and learning how to 'bootstrap'... a new society [ — ] 'society-as-a-service'"
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The 19th century is so back, baby!
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DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
December 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚
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When you buy into the USPS as a business losing money, you are buying into losing these other public services:
-libraries
-public schools
-fire/EMT/911
-public transportation
-senior services
-public utilities
-roads & infrastructure
And MORE...
Public good costs very little for the benefits.
-libraries
-public schools
-fire/EMT/911
-public transportation
-senior services
-public utilities
-roads & infrastructure
And MORE...
Public good costs very little for the benefits.
December 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
When you buy into the USPS as a business losing money, you are buying into losing these other public services:
-libraries
-public schools
-fire/EMT/911
-public transportation
-senior services
-public utilities
-roads & infrastructure
And MORE...
Public good costs very little for the benefits.
-libraries
-public schools
-fire/EMT/911
-public transportation
-senior services
-public utilities
-roads & infrastructure
And MORE...
Public good costs very little for the benefits.
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I truly forgot the power of drunk east coast undergraduates in December at 11pm: wearing nothing but antlers, short skirts, belly shirts, and high heels in 0° & a few inches of snow
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I truly forgot the power of drunk east coast undergraduates in December at 11pm: wearing nothing but antlers, short skirts, belly shirts, and high heels in 0° & a few inches of snow
what endstage of capitalism is this
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
what endstage of capitalism is this
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University of Iowa Center for the Book fosters annual kozo tree harvest for Japanese-style paper 📜
www.thegazette.com/news/univers...
www.thegazette.com/news/univers...
This special paper is used to preserve the Constitution — and it's made in Coralville.
Every fall in Coralville, the University of Iowa's Center for the Book hosts one of only two mulberry harvests by universities in the country. The ancient Japanese tradition remains a key to preservin...
www.thegazette.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
University of Iowa Center for the Book fosters annual kozo tree harvest for Japanese-style paper 📜
www.thegazette.com/news/univers...
www.thegazette.com/news/univers...
useful app for rescued or wild animals in distress
Call wildlife rehab for advice. You can find local help on the Animal Help Now website: ahnow.org. It's recommended not to give food or water until the bird has been checked. S/he may have flown into a window/structure and needs professional care. Thank you for caring!
Animal Help Now - Emergency Resource
Animal Help Now provides the best wildlife 911 app and helps humans be better neighbors to wildlife. The nonprofit serves the entire United States.
ahnow.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
useful app for rescued or wild animals in distress
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.
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the way we talk about "the economy" hasn't really caught up with this.
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the way we talk about "the economy" hasn't really caught up with this.
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Man walking past the British Library: It’s closed. I must come back. Libraries are the best.
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Man walking past the British Library: It’s closed. I must come back. Libraries are the best.
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Has anyone read my beautiful (credit to my lovely publisher), calming, life-affirming book? Do you think it would make a nice Christmas gift? Can you help me let people know about it? Here it is: geni.us/ThePlaceImin 🎁
November 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Has anyone read my beautiful (credit to my lovely publisher), calming, life-affirming book? Do you think it would make a nice Christmas gift? Can you help me let people know about it? Here it is: geni.us/ThePlaceImin 🎁
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My book has a cover, and it comes out at the end of this month as part of @edinburghup.bsky.social'[email protected] book series!
Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...
Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My book has a cover, and it comes out at the end of this month as part of @edinburghup.bsky.social'[email protected] book series!
Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...
Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...
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Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
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People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
BASH: We have seen these attacks from the president at other people. It's not new. And I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I think that's fair criticism. And I would like to say, humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics.
November 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.
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"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton (@rosiehampton.bsky.social)
Where is the left?
Radical organizing was once backed up by a network of physical spaces. How can we rebuild them to support the movements we need now? By Rosie Hampton.
newint.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...
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The management of this Home Depot came out with loudspeakers denouncing my pastor and the other assembled clergy members and concerned citizens as "not Godly people" and "not real Christians" which is a heck of an official policy statement to hear from a representative of the Home Depot corporation.
Just learned that my pastor, the sweetest human I ever met, led a vigil protesting Home Depot's open-doors-to-ICE policy on Dia de Muertos, and the Home Depot they were protesting shut their heavy steel security doors to the harmless clergy, something they do not do to actual ICE.
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The management of this Home Depot came out with loudspeakers denouncing my pastor and the other assembled clergy members and concerned citizens as "not Godly people" and "not real Christians" which is a heck of an official policy statement to hear from a representative of the Home Depot corporation.
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‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
‘The Owl House’ creator Dana Terrace responds to Disney+ funding AI-generated short form content in new tweet:
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. Fuck gen AI.”
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Several years ago, we put a whole bunch of data from a project into Wikidata. Now, as a result, some people who we had no more info for aside from a name or could not disambiguate are actually identifiable. LOD FTW.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Several years ago, we put a whole bunch of data from a project into Wikidata. Now, as a result, some people who we had no more info for aside from a name or could not disambiguate are actually identifiable. LOD FTW.