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Researcher researching research (and software engineering). Observing observability. Co-imagining more expansive futures. More at threlk.net (🚧 under construction 🚧)
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A reminder that bikes are Patriot Transit
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A reminder that bikes are Patriot Transit
something simmering on my mind, that this post just happens to connect with directly, is just how constructed “crime” is
yes, old news, but here’s a specific: compare this treatment of “person attacked with hammer” against how “person attacked with 4805 lbs of metal” is typically treated
yes, old news, but here’s a specific: compare this treatment of “person attacked with hammer” against how “person attacked with 4805 lbs of metal” is typically treated
December 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
something simmering on my mind, that this post just happens to connect with directly, is just how constructed “crime” is
yes, old news, but here’s a specific: compare this treatment of “person attacked with hammer” against how “person attacked with 4805 lbs of metal” is typically treated
yes, old news, but here’s a specific: compare this treatment of “person attacked with hammer” against how “person attacked with 4805 lbs of metal” is typically treated
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I've just launched the demo for my new game Factory 95! It's a retro-Windows inspired automation game about making PowerPoints. You can play it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3987250/...
#gamedev #indiegame
#gamedev #indiegame
December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I've just launched the demo for my new game Factory 95! It's a retro-Windows inspired automation game about making PowerPoints. You can play it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3987250/...
#gamedev #indiegame
#gamedev #indiegame
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Me fifteen years ago: aaah all these people further along in these careers than me need to write more about this
Me now: God damnit
Me now: God damnit
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Me fifteen years ago: aaah all these people further along in these careers than me need to write more about this
Me now: God damnit
Me now: God damnit
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Haymarket’s Books Not Bars program receives an average of 50 letters each week at its post office box, many of them requesting books about Black liberation, radical poetry, and political history.
Sending Books to Prisons
PW checks in with two prison literacy groups, one of which originated with a publisher and the other with a bookstore.
www.publishersweekly.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Haymarket’s Books Not Bars program receives an average of 50 letters each week at its post office box, many of them requesting books about Black liberation, radical poetry, and political history.
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Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
one of the main reasons trans healthcare moved away from strict gatekeeping and toward informed consent & GAC is that trans ppl who were denied the means to transition would simply seek it out elsewhere
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Transition is a matter of free will and freedom. Trans people are going to do it anyway and you cannot stop them.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
We are full human beings with the right to decide our lives for ourselves and no one has a right to stand in the way of that.
occasionally, when dealing with Serious Business things, I’ll write a bit of prose that is clearly a product of a side of me that doesn’t say “lol” or “lmfao” or “no worries!”
instead, it says things like “thank you for your cooperation so far!” when no party has been remotely cooperative so far
instead, it says things like “thank you for your cooperation so far!” when no party has been remotely cooperative so far
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
occasionally, when dealing with Serious Business things, I’ll write a bit of prose that is clearly a product of a side of me that doesn’t say “lol” or “lmfao” or “no worries!”
instead, it says things like “thank you for your cooperation so far!” when no party has been remotely cooperative so far
instead, it says things like “thank you for your cooperation so far!” when no party has been remotely cooperative so far
a good thread
also, somewhat tangentially, “it skips critical analysis of what you’re trying to do” is basically the thesis of my entire career thus far lol
also, somewhat tangentially, “it skips critical analysis of what you’re trying to do” is basically the thesis of my entire career thus far lol
C. Eames' statement that design is addressing needs and constraints is axiomatic because people who engage in design understand it implicitly. The idea that "convergent evolution" necessitates Homo sapiens-like robots for human labor feels like it skips critical analyses of what you're trying to do.
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
a good thread
also, somewhat tangentially, “it skips critical analysis of what you’re trying to do” is basically the thesis of my entire career thus far lol
also, somewhat tangentially, “it skips critical analysis of what you’re trying to do” is basically the thesis of my entire career thus far lol
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
coincidentally this is also step one if we want to stop careening into various authoritarian tendencies
failure to recognize children as their own individuated person, with their own agency, desires, and interior lives, is a pedagogical misstep that leads towards the cliff
failure to recognize children as their own individuated person, with their own agency, desires, and interior lives, is a pedagogical misstep that leads towards the cliff
and the first step to being a parent is recognizing that your children are their own people, not extensions of you
December 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
coincidentally this is also step one if we want to stop careening into various authoritarian tendencies
failure to recognize children as their own individuated person, with their own agency, desires, and interior lives, is a pedagogical misstep that leads towards the cliff
failure to recognize children as their own individuated person, with their own agency, desires, and interior lives, is a pedagogical misstep that leads towards the cliff
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Yeah the Knights of Labor ethnically cleansed Seattle while the IWW organized Chinese workers, a set of facts that is almost impossible to ignore for a labor historian but Erik Loomis isn't a labor historian he's an anti-anarchist racist
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
The Knights were anti-chinese pogromists, in contrast to the IWW, which was co-created by anarchists and other socialists, inspired in part by the Haymarket anarchists. If more (racist) workers were interested in the Knights than the anarchists, that's a bad thing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yeah the Knights of Labor ethnically cleansed Seattle while the IWW organized Chinese workers, a set of facts that is almost impossible to ignore for a labor historian but Erik Loomis isn't a labor historian he's an anti-anarchist racist
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.
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I think they should all leave if they want. I think every young girl and non-male person gets to say no fucking thanks to software if they decide to. I have no desire to work on the psychology of manipulating people into picking code over themselves. We should work to *deserve* young people.
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I think they should all leave if they want. I think every young girl and non-male person gets to say no fucking thanks to software if they decide to. I have no desire to work on the psychology of manipulating people into picking code over themselves. We should work to *deserve* young people.
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Happy Resistance Day.
We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.
Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.
It's a good day to be Indigenous
so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.
Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.
It's a good day to be Indigenous
so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.
@margaret.bsky.social @jamieloftus.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Happy Resistance Day.
We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.
Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.
It's a good day to be Indigenous
so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
We exist. We resist. We revitalize and tell the old stories.
Nonhelema & the Moravian Lenapes spent too long being erased and forgotten.
It's a good day to be Indigenous
so glad I shared this story w/ @margaret.bsky.social and that she told it to @jamieloftus.bsky.social
of all the spices in my house I somehow don’t have ground cinnamon or ground cloves right now so we’re going with traditional methods
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
of all the spices in my house I somehow don’t have ground cinnamon or ground cloves right now so we’re going with traditional methods
this chart makes me feel so much older than I actually am, one of the few places I’m strongly with the at large 55+ crowd lol
That's because they have no idea what's coming. They've never lived through a recession as an adult.
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
this chart makes me feel so much older than I actually am, one of the few places I’m strongly with the at large 55+ crowd lol
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The squirrels have been trying and failing for decades to attain superpowers the high voltage way.
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The squirrels have been trying and failing for decades to attain superpowers the high voltage way.
increments the “personal experiences with squirrel-induced power outages” counter up by one
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
increments the “personal experiences with squirrel-induced power outages” counter up by one
shitposting aside this is essentially how I ended up in, and tend to approach, research
not now, I’m locked in a staring match with the abyss
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
shitposting aside this is essentially how I ended up in, and tend to approach, research
not now, I’m locked in a staring match with the abyss
November 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
not now, I’m locked in a staring match with the abyss
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This is true though! People learn writing informally from their mentors. Or, if a program is really on it, there might be a scientific writing class with someone who everyone thinks is a pretty good writer - but that doesn't mean they know about how to *teach* writing.
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is true though! People learn writing informally from their mentors. Or, if a program is really on it, there might be a scientific writing class with someone who everyone thinks is a pretty good writer - but that doesn't mean they know about how to *teach* writing.
always bring your own dry erase markers! and sticky notes! only those expensive name brand “super sticky” ones will actually do the job
Lots of schools now teach writing (VERY GOOD). However, I don't know about you, but the most useful pedagogical training *I* ever got before being unleashed on a higher ed classroom was, "the dry erase markers will always fail you, so bring your own" (side note: this is in fact very good advice)
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
always bring your own dry erase markers! and sticky notes! only those expensive name brand “super sticky” ones will actually do the job
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Some speaker joy as we look back at 2025 and plan for public speaking in 2026!
My inbox is now open for '26 events that need empathy + evidence + psychology for technologists 👀
My inbox is now open for '26 events that need empathy + evidence + psychology for technologists 👀
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Some speaker joy as we look back at 2025 and plan for public speaking in 2026!
My inbox is now open for '26 events that need empathy + evidence + psychology for technologists 👀
My inbox is now open for '26 events that need empathy + evidence + psychology for technologists 👀