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@parodybit.bsky.social

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Friendly tech and bird nerd; also a librarian, engineer, & data munger, currently a web dev & systems admin for an academic library. Very caffeinated. 🌶️🧠, chronically ill, immunocompromised. #CovidIsntOver so #MaskUp

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · Nov 7

Here is a Pumpkin to cheer you up

A notebook sits below a monitor. Poking up behind it, trying to chew on the rings, is an adorable cockatiel. He looks very sneaky and cute

Same scene, but now he is trying to chew on the paper. What an adorable little criminal he is

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1h

You wouldn't say "Person who has queerness" like-- being marginalized by society is a reflection on *society's* failures but being queer or [insert examples here] is fine and a part of who someone is, always, is not the totality of who they are, etc etc. There's nothing *wrong* with being disabled.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1h

cc: code4lib 😡

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1h

If you all started wearing masks in public places, we could go see something better in a theater.

Do it for art.

This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 2h

I haven’t been in a movie theatre since 2019, and so because of all you assholes, my last theater memory is still freaking Rise of Skywalker. I hate you guys.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1h

LB: Nuance: There IS an effort to tie masking to virtue, but you only see it in a subset of disability-centered leftist spaces.

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 2h

Most people still operate on a virtue theory of disease (even those who can recite the germ theory thereof.)

We don’t wash our hands because everyone has internalized the germ theory, but because mass public relations has tied hand washing to virtue.

There is no effort to tie masks to virtue.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1h

I'm so excited for you!!!

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WP Accessibility Day @wpaccessibility.day · 2h

Join us for "Being a Colourblind Designer" by Matt Roberts, starting in just 10 minutes! This session will explore the unique challenges and solutions for designers who experience color vision deficiency. 2025.wpaccessibility.day/sessions/bei... #WPAD2025 #WPA11yDay #WordPress #Accessibility #a11y

Being a Colourblind Designer - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025

Matt is a designer. Matt is also colour-blind. This combination helps him see things from a different perspective. Being colourblind in a profession that requires a certain eye for detail has…

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 2h

a glass of water with a post on top of it:

@KevinFarzad I don't get why feel bad bad all the time when I drink 8 glasses of water a year just like you're supposed to

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 3h

Small text: Unfortunately, some libraries are a bit credulous and also have tools built on LLMs, so you may have to be cautious there too.

Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 3h

Fascists want you to use ChatGPT instead of your library.

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This is not an Overreaction @mudlock.bsky.social · 3h

New Republican talking point of “no kings means no paychecks” is them DARING workers to go on a general strike.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Slippy @damnslippy.slippy.me · 19h

my god. new levels of orange unlocked.

Registered hearse @monkeypie76.bsky.social · 19h

I am not surprised this orange boy got caught in a trap. Nothing in that had except love and a love of food.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 18h

ffffuuuuuuck

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Meegan🌙[Boo👻][Beegan🐝] @jovialstarfish.bzky.team · 19h

Secret of Nimh (1982 CHILDRENS FILM)

A widow mouse struggles to care for her deathly ill child, humans experiment on the rats, multiple traumatic near death experiences of children, many graphic murders, also the art is dark and terrifying (thank u don bluth)

Also rated G for holy fucking shit

Patrick @dattil.io · 20h

Rock a doodle do (1991 CHILDRENS FILM)

Rooster elvis gets feels shame and gets so depressed the fuckin skies open up and start to drown the whole world

Rated G for what the fuck

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WP Accessibility Day @wpaccessibility.day · 22h

#WPAD2025 Spotlight

On The WP Minute, Adrienne Grace and Isla Waite discuss web accessibility, common pitfalls, and how WP Accessibility Day helps teams learn and grow.

Learn more: thewpminute.com/wp-accessibi...

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WP Accessibility Day Is a Learning Opportunity for All - The WP Minute

In this episode of The WP Minute podcast, Eric Karkovack discusses the importance of web accessibility with experts Adrienne Grace and Isla Waite. They preview the upcoming WP Accessibility Day…

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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, a chance to see a blonde woman in game of thrones. This is worth the collapse of the environment and economy imo

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 22h

I just think we should call things by their names and all agree what noun goes with what thing

Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1d

The hospital (whoops) where my primary care doctor works? It has a duck pond!! 🪶

(Yes my immunocompromised ass tries to avoid hospitals, I messed this one up.)

A swan in center frame, on water, with a duck off to the top right.

A sleeping g black and white duck and her pile of sleeping fuzzy babies along the side of a mostly dry canal.

A whole bunch of ducks resting on grass under a tree, between an empty canal and a pond with more ducks on it.

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ClaireDeluxe @firecrackerboom.bsky.social · 1d

My husband works in renewables. All of his investors - ALL of them - are counting on massive brown and blackouts in 2026

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 1d

the students at the encampments were right

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 1d

If journalistic ethics still existed, @sciam.bsky.social would apologize for this bullshit. But today it seems most once-respected outlets are hollowed out shells of their former selves, repurposed as Scientific American proposes to do with Marilyn, to help grifters sell slop & fascism to the masses

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to see the video Bechard created with Sora AI, it’s on his Instagram. In it the AI generated Monroe simpers about how as a ‘Targaryen, her family likes to breed dragons. And each other.’ Somehow it does not occur to you at ScAm that there are profound philosophical/moral questions here.

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Corvid Spooky-Howls @parodybit.bsky.social · 1d

I am unfailingly professional.

(This is a screenshot from a ticket reply I just sent.)

The LibGuide has also been fixed. Are we there? Is this success? Butterfly emoji.

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Dr. Michael D. L. Johnson @copperbae.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a baby turtle on its birthday trying to make it to the ocean on instinct. He made it and you can make it through this week too.

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