whitney
@heyitswhitney.bsky.social
durham, nc. | public media. | big nerd for journalism, music, boardgames, genre fiction, videogames. | online MADC student @ UNC-CH, beware grad school brain worms
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Experimenting with tools that scrape websites, collect data and format it efficiently. rjionline.org/news/efficie...
Efficient ways to collect information for a community directory
Experimenting with tools that scrape websites, collect data and format it efficiently.
rjionline.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Experimenting with tools that scrape websites, collect data and format it efficiently. rjionline.org/news/efficie...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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A former colleague asked me "Is there a way to use a D&D campaign to teach public records access?"
My answer: "Your party must study the dark arts of bureaucromancy to unearth why a storied adventuring party died. Someone wrote a report. You just have to find it"
What other ideas do you all have?
My answer: "Your party must study the dark arts of bureaucromancy to unearth why a storied adventuring party died. Someone wrote a report. You just have to find it"
What other ideas do you all have?
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A former colleague asked me "Is there a way to use a D&D campaign to teach public records access?"
My answer: "Your party must study the dark arts of bureaucromancy to unearth why a storied adventuring party died. Someone wrote a report. You just have to find it"
What other ideas do you all have?
My answer: "Your party must study the dark arts of bureaucromancy to unearth why a storied adventuring party died. Someone wrote a report. You just have to find it"
What other ideas do you all have?
Support local businesses! Just ordered some albums from Chaz's
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Support local businesses! Just ordered some albums from Chaz's
So anyway my entire family forgot to tell me when and where they were doing Thanksgiving, my mom got upset, then I was going to drive out to see her Saturday and she decided she was too tired, so my holiday has been mostly me at home alone dissociating:
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
So anyway my entire family forgot to tell me when and where they were doing Thanksgiving, my mom got upset, then I was going to drive out to see her Saturday and she decided she was too tired, so my holiday has been mostly me at home alone dissociating:
Hahahaha feelings
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Hahahaha feelings
Started rereading this children's scifi classic for the first time in ... 24 years? My grandma got the original trilogy for me one Christmas. I remember really enjoying the juxtaposition of faux medieval with mind control robots.
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Started rereading this children's scifi classic for the first time in ... 24 years? My grandma got the original trilogy for me one Christmas. I remember really enjoying the juxtaposition of faux medieval with mind control robots.
That's my purse, Charlie Brown! I don't know you!
IS THAT MY DAUGHTER, CHARLIE BROWN?!
It’s the Medical Examiner, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
That's my purse, Charlie Brown! I don't know you!
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Woodworking is on NPR's top books of 2025 list, and as a longtime user of NPR's book lists to purchase holiday gifts and add stuff to my library list, I am so glad to think some alternate universe version of myself might decide to check out my new book!
apps.npr.org/best-books/?...
apps.npr.org/best-books/?...
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Woodworking is on NPR's top books of 2025 list, and as a longtime user of NPR's book lists to purchase holiday gifts and add stuff to my library list, I am so glad to think some alternate universe version of myself might decide to check out my new book!
apps.npr.org/best-books/?...
apps.npr.org/best-books/?...
Liquor Ferris wheel at the hotlot
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Liquor Ferris wheel at the hotlot
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another year, another must-read annual report from @defector.com. come for the small, cooperative org insights (omg the whole feedback section!), stay for the ideas about business for the whole industry (yes, please, distributing fractional support).
defector.com/defector-ann...
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Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
another year, another must-read annual report from @defector.com. come for the small, cooperative org insights (omg the whole feedback section!), stay for the ideas about business for the whole industry (yes, please, distributing fractional support).
defector.com/defector-ann...
defector.com/defector-ann...
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NPR just posted the Goo Goo Dolls Tiny Desk concert that you didn't know you needed in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0X1...
Goo Goo Dolls: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
NPR just posted the Goo Goo Dolls Tiny Desk concert that you didn't know you needed in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0X1...
I am begging people to actually read job postings before sending in an AI-generated generic cover letter
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I am begging people to actually read job postings before sending in an AI-generated generic cover letter
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If you saw this outside your window would you feel safe? (Photo from the News & Observer in Raleigh.)
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If you saw this outside your window would you feel safe? (Photo from the News & Observer in Raleigh.)
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According to @ncgovernor.bsky.social, state officials aren't getting information about Border Patrol immigration enforcement activities in the Triangle and Charlotte. "We don't know pretty much anything. They're operating in the shadows."
www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol
www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol
NC Republican leaders backing immigration enforcement in Triangle, Charlotte, as Democrats oppose moves
As Border Patrol agents descend on Charlotte — and are reportedly active in Wake County and Durham too — the state's top Republican leaders are supportive of the immigration enforcement action.
www.wunc.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
According to @ncgovernor.bsky.social, state officials aren't getting information about Border Patrol immigration enforcement activities in the Triangle and Charlotte. "We don't know pretty much anything. They're operating in the shadows."
www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol
www.wunc.org/politics/202... #ncpol
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“If journalists want to be viewed as trusted messengers, they have to get clear about what sets their product apart.” As part of the Creator Journalism Trust and Credibility Toolkit, Mollie Muchna from @trustingnews.bsky.social shares how transparency can take creator journalists to the next level:
Why creator journalists and funders need to go all in on transparency
If journalists want to be viewed as trusted messengers, they have to get clear about what sets their product apart.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“If journalists want to be viewed as trusted messengers, they have to get clear about what sets their product apart.” As part of the Creator Journalism Trust and Credibility Toolkit, Mollie Muchna from @trustingnews.bsky.social shares how transparency can take creator journalists to the next level:
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2/ And speaking of birds, have you taken our "AI or not" bird quiz? It's a fun, educational way to test students & to teach about how realistic AI tech is getting.
Bird quiz: bit.ly/BirdQuizNLP
Bird quiz: bit.ly/BirdQuizNLP
AI or not? Bird quiz
The rapid advancement of generative AI tools have made it easy to create photorealistic images in seconds. See if you can spot which bird images are real photographs and which are AI-generated. You mi...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
2/ And speaking of birds, have you taken our "AI or not" bird quiz? It's a fun, educational way to test students & to teach about how realistic AI tech is getting.
Bird quiz: bit.ly/BirdQuizNLP
Bird quiz: bit.ly/BirdQuizNLP
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From WFDD: Siembra NC, an immigrant worker organizing group, has developed a new app to create a historical record of DHC and ICE arrests in the Charlotte area.
www.wunc.org/2025-11-17/n...
www.wunc.org/2025-11-17/n...
New app tracks immigration enforcement movements in Charlotte
Siembra NC, an immigrant worker organizing group, has developed a new app to create a historical record of DHC and ICE arrests in the Charlotte area.
www.wunc.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From WFDD: Siembra NC, an immigrant worker organizing group, has developed a new app to create a historical record of DHC and ICE arrests in the Charlotte area.
www.wunc.org/2025-11-17/n...
www.wunc.org/2025-11-17/n...
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i think if you run downdetector you really can't allow your site to go down. like the onus is on you to have a backup, a backup to the backup, a backup for that backup, and a final backup server in your basement with a really big battery pack. maybe even a ham radio that can send out morse code
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i think if you run downdetector you really can't allow your site to go down. like the onus is on you to have a backup, a backup to the backup, a backup for that backup, and a final backup server in your basement with a really big battery pack. maybe even a ham radio that can send out morse code
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U.S. Border Patrol coming to Raleigh on Tuesday, mayor says, as NC crackdown continues #ncpol
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U.S. Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, mayor says • NC Newsline
Cowell said city leaders "don't have a lot of information" about the scale of the operation or how long the agency plans to be in Raleigh.
ncnewsline.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
U.S. Border Patrol coming to Raleigh on Tuesday, mayor says, as NC crackdown continues #ncpol
ncnewsline.com/2025/11/17/u...
ncnewsline.com/2025/11/17/u...
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Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I just really like opening packs y'all
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I just really like opening packs y'all
Rebel Cheese Ship My Order Challenge (impossible difficulty)
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Rebel Cheese Ship My Order Challenge (impossible difficulty)
