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@katbamkapow.bsky.social

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over-explainer for fame & fortune, 9-5 academic, 24/7 analog enthusiast. PhD of computer/networking/net histories, LGBTQ+ activism, STS, critical HIV/AIDS studies. you might know me from video games once: uc irvine now: u of michigan 💾🌿💽 kb.place 💽🌿💾

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · Nov 26

pub day +1 & i am so thrilled to share this piece!! are you interested in the queer roots of the 'net, alternative networking politics, and radical, anarchist, queer ideologies we might use to imagine the future of networking? wahoo, is this piece for you!!

pls consider this a bsky walkthrough...

kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · Nov 22

pub day! please welcome "Network breakdown: the queer anarchist politics at the heart of the ‘net from FidoNet to HOMOCORE" to the world

the piece puts Tom Jennings' work as the co-architect of FidoNet alongside the queer, anarchist politics in his zine HOMOCORE

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Network breakdown: the queer anarchist politics at the heart of the ‘net from FidoNet to HOMOCORE

In a 1993 interview for the anarchist magazine FringeWare Review, software developer Tom Jennings remarked to his interviewer, “Think you can mention somewhere that I’m a fag anarcho nerd troublema...

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 1h

we are lore hunting in clock tower, it's speedrun strats time...

live now!

twitch.tv/katbamkapow

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Hallowstream 2025 Pt. 3 - Clock Tower Rewind

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Guillotine Hunger Force @themilfmag.net · 8h

and theyll have u blv the negativity comes from the voters

A furious person labeled both democrats and republicans screeches I hate you and hope you die at an innocent happy person labeled Zohran who is saying I like New York City

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 7h

am currently sifting through ancient objects in my gmail so that i can eventually offload gmail from my life and be free. part of my 2025 new year's resolution to be free from/diversify/divest from as much M/FAANG as possible

kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 7h

found an ancient artifact

google+ invitation e-mail dated 7 september 2012

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Danika Harrod @danika.bsky.social · 1d

i’ll be joining @remapradio.bsky.social at 11am pacific/2pm eastern to “help” rob find a new coffee machine and to also make him very very mad at my home coffee setup 😌

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RemapRadio - Twitch

A new adventure from the creators of Waypoint, brought to you by Patrick Klepek, Rob Zacny, and Chia Contreras. Art by Conner Fawcett (abadbucket)

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 1d

A big update to the @friends-table.bsky.social Perpetua soundtrack on Bandcamp, with combat themes for indoor scuffles and a boss fight with a sniper added. The big ticket item, though, is Beachminton, a new minigame theme! notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/beachm...

Beachminton, by Jack de Quidt

from the album Perpetua: Friends At The Table Soundtrack, Season Nine

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

I’d like to amplify others’ pleas to *please* acknowledge and build upon the work of librarians and other organizers — @heykellyjensen.bsky.social, @tasslyn.bsky.social, @everylibrary.bsky.social, et al — who’ve been tracking *all of this* and developing expertise for YEARS.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

Help us investigate book bans across the USA.

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

🔗 www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 1d

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 2d

playing clocktower rn come thru

Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 2d

Hallowstream continues tonight, going live around 7pm ET at twitch.tv/katbamkapow! We're going to be continuing our exploration of the Awful House in Clock Tower Rewind

katbamkapow - Twitch

i got a phd and i still play video games on the weekends

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 2d

ironic that i posted this query just as bsky glitches out spectacularly… bsky dot app let me ask about global pirate ISPs!!!!!!

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 2d

only just now learned that there is/was a thriving pirate internet service provider culture (think pirate radio & pirate television) in lebanon, where a state run ISP is too expensive & offers slow rates. does anyone have any good leads for where i can learn more abt this, bc i am late to the party

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 2d

JPL's website from 1995

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 3d

Turns out when @hypervisible.blacksky.app called OpenAI a "social arsonist" last week, he had no idea just how accurate that was.

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 3d

sorry this is an earnest response but it looks sarcastic i genuinely relate to this anguish

kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 3d

wow very real

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 3d

The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...

GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis

Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis - GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 5d

when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 28

It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance.

Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.

Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · Oct 28

Personally I think it's great that my company's HR sends out an official looking tool where they even ask you to pre-populate your healthcare providers and instead of being the actual insurance enrollment process it's just some bullshit checklist to try and convince me I actually don't want a PPO

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 5d

ah, “the michigan of the east“

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 5d

there should be a slightly smaller MacArthur Genius Grant I could get to figure out which gas station has the best coffee

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 5d

if you'd like to hear my #othernetworks talk and/or gather virtually with likeminded people who are part of @metagov.bsky.social, please join us Wednesday Oct. 8th 10am MDT! luma.com/4kfjgd6a

Seminar: Other Networks with Dr. Lori Emerson · Zoom · Luma

For this seminar, we will welcome Dr. Lori Emerson (from the Media Studies Department at University of Colorado Boulder) to give a talk about some of her…

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 5d

Are you an adjunct or VAP? Someone who works in history but outside academia? Check out this call for papers!

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 6d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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