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Rebecca Taylor
@rebeccasaid.bsky.social
Product Designer (UX) / Former Librarian. Outside of work, I'm reading 📚, watching science fiction and fantasy 🤖🧝‍♀️, finding noodles 🍜, and sampling creative hobbies (🧶🎨✍️📝🧵).
I am obsessed with the Brazilian porcupine Rico, so we drove down to Cincinatti for my birthday to meet him. 5 out of 5 stars.
April 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If you are looking for a way to host local events, you should check out OpenMeet! www.openmeet.net/community-ac...
March 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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This is Tellen. She went to work with her human today. The only agenda item on her calendar is dropping toys in the hallway until someone plays with her. 14/10
March 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Honestly can we make it normal that all public employees take a whole month off all at the same time every year?

Mebe help us to appreciate how much we all depend on them.
February 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Breaking News: Rico's very boopable nose is squishy: www.facebook.com/share/r/1A7L...
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www.facebook.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Whhhaaat?! I didn't know any social media made this a possibility
February 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Is there some sort of hashtag to follow where we all pretend things are going to be OK, because I could really use that right now.
February 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I've just played around with Bubble.io, and I have to say I am both excited and terrified of the future...
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Bubble.io
February 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sometimes you have to just let yourself rest. This was one of those days.
January 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
It has come to my attention that Rico may not be as popular as he deserves and you may not all be acquianted with him. Here is Rico to cleanse your timeline ahead of a cold, long week: youtu.be/hSaKbCi6pBk?... (watch with audio)
Rico eating corn - Cincinnati Zoo #shorts
YouTube video by The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
youtu.be
January 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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An LA organizer I trust shared this General Resource Spreadsheet with me. It includes nonofficial shelters and other resources for people affected by the LA fires.
MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
docs.google.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I see the light. I'm going to mine small data for a living and get back down to the things that really matter. Maybe I'll pull some 32 mb microdiscs from the closet so I can dream smaller. youtu.be/eDr6_cMtfdA?... Thanks, @krazam.bsky.social.
Small Data
YouTube video by KRAZAM
youtu.be
January 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
This is why discovery research can save you more money than evaluative or summative research combined, but you'll never know it because that is how avoiding big mistakes entirely works.
Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off.
He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off.
December 27, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Pro tip: if you are prone to motion sickness and own an iPhone, go into accessibility settings and enable vehicle motion cues. It’ll add dots to the sides of your screen when it detects you’re in a car.

Usually if I’m on my phone in the car, I’ll feel motion sick but this actually worked for me.
December 20, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Who needs UX, just add a label so users will know what to do
December 14, 2024 at 5:54 PM