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they/them. nonprofiteer, rectangle manipulator, plant grower, maker and fixer of stuff.
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every Halloween in our townhouse complex, our little row of neighbors hang out together in the drive out front with our four different candy buckets rather than make kids walk up every set of stairs, and it is a delight to watch every kid's eyes light up when you say "have some from each bucket!"
if they were good they wouldn't be comfort movies
so i tried three times to reset my Kobo password, but i never got a reset email. tried to create a new account — oh, sorry, there's already an account associated with this email! and the "contact us" button at the bottom of the help page... goes nowhere? y'all.
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"SEO hacks have been keyword-stuffing alt text in images for literal decades. There is no way ARIA will get away unscathed. Every button, link, and div will be roled up to redundancy at best, and the wrong thing at worst. "

adrianroselli.com/2025/10/open...
OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
OpenAI has announced it’s launched a new browser, Atlas, with ChatGPT built in. For those familiar with ARIA, OpenAI outlines what to expect (I left the code as I found it, other than removing the tar...
adrianroselli.com
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The Garden of Life blooms on December 3rd 2025 🌺

Our new expansion will be available to all Monument Valley 3 players - including mobile when it returns to iOS and Android on the same day!
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NEW: we tested Zenni's anti-facial recognition glasses coating. "ID Guard" adds a pink sheen to the surface of the glasses that reflects the infrared light used by some facial recognition cameras.

www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...
Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
www.404media.co
just got my annual shortbox haul!
It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com
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"Self-driving cars" this "robitaxis" that JUST INVEST IN PUBLIC TRANSIT FFS.
side note: every time i am forced to trawl through the enshittified wasteland of sponsored listing chum that is FB Marketplace, i mourn the loss of Craigslist as the default for secondhand selling.
made us a new headboard out of a $20 headboard i just got and a $50 bolt of blue velvet upholstery fabric i got four years ago with no purpose in mind. i play the long game with DIY.
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convert the ballroom into housing for unhoused people
Gibson used they/them, not she/her.
got my flu shot and covid booster today! let us begin the countdown to my left arm being kinda useless
save yourself, i really wish i didn't
ours kicked the bucket last year and I think this KitchenAid is the one we have now. runs quiet, everything is adjustable, and the third rack is super useful. www.costco.com/kitchenaid-t...
www.costco.com
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heavy is the pinky that holds the phone
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I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.
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Here’s a general MAGA blocklist that I’ve been using for years.

bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Announcing When the Creeks Rise—a community journalism project documenting flooding in Atlanta and the systems behind it.

Flooding isn’t just weather. It’s history, policy, development, and equity.

🌊 Follow along and make your voice heard.
whenthecreeksrise.org
i love this! will there be any way to get it in my RSS reader?
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"The largest cuts were concentrated...the division that investigates claims of discrimination & abuse."
"There is nothing frivolous about growing flowers. It is necessary work. And necessary work has room for both wonder and loss, gratitude and grief."
The Wildflower Year
A Love Letters Feature by Lucy Bellwood - October 2025
stone-soup.ghost.io
"The online spaces where amateur content creators once 'created and steered online culture' have been hollowed out and replaced by slop [...] produced by bots trained on precisely that amateur content. Bricoleurs make art out of trash; AI is a machine for turning art into trash."
I Meme Business
Joanna Walsh’s history of amateur creativity on the internet – Katie Kadue
www.bookforum.com