Baima Li
@laimab.bsky.social
Layoff fodder -> aka software/data engineer (remote worker)
We're just a budget line item now...
Caretaker for disabled person
Hoping we survive what's coming
AWS Certified: Able To Pass A Data Engineering Exam While Menopausal
Not a libertarian techbro
We're just a budget line item now...
Caretaker for disabled person
Hoping we survive what's coming
AWS Certified: Able To Pass A Data Engineering Exam While Menopausal
Not a libertarian techbro
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I'm gonna be real honest man, the fact that we have to keep constantly exhorting everyone to call their elected representatives every other day to say "please do not sign off on the Make Life Worse For Everyone Bill please" is intensely degrading, and also a pretty poor sign for a functional society
December 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm gonna be real honest man, the fact that we have to keep constantly exhorting everyone to call their elected representatives every other day to say "please do not sign off on the Make Life Worse For Everyone Bill please" is intensely degrading, and also a pretty poor sign for a functional society
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As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.
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Or! Just hear me out. 1. It doesn't matter if someone is lying. It's more important that disabled people have access to education. 2. Those accommodations benefit everyone? Oh, no more time a on a test? That's a good thing. Universal design is a thing.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Or! Just hear me out. 1. It doesn't matter if someone is lying. It's more important that disabled people have access to education. 2. Those accommodations benefit everyone? Oh, no more time a on a test? That's a good thing. Universal design is a thing.
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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You can trace a straight line between this moment, McConnell’s declaration that his task was to make Obama a one-term President, and Newt Gingrich’s whole congressional program.
Johnson admits that Republicans refuse to fund SNAP because it would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats
October 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
You can trace a straight line between this moment, McConnell’s declaration that his task was to make Obama a one-term President, and Newt Gingrich’s whole congressional program.
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Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
September 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Vaccines save lives.
And no, they do not cause autism.
And no, they do not cause autism.
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A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.
September 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.
I remember back in the day, I hooked up an elderly neighbor with a nurse friend to try to sort out her medication list from multiple doctors.
I think now, every tech person should get with their elderly neighbors and help them sort out their SaaS subscriptions. Serious overcharging there.
I think now, every tech person should get with their elderly neighbors and help them sort out their SaaS subscriptions. Serious overcharging there.
August 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I remember back in the day, I hooked up an elderly neighbor with a nurse friend to try to sort out her medication list from multiple doctors.
I think now, every tech person should get with their elderly neighbors and help them sort out their SaaS subscriptions. Serious overcharging there.
I think now, every tech person should get with their elderly neighbors and help them sort out their SaaS subscriptions. Serious overcharging there.
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My general rule of them is if you or anybody else finds yourself saying “why didn’t you just…” that’s a good indication that there is a deeper complexity at work that countless smart people have tried to fix
August 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
My general rule of them is if you or anybody else finds yourself saying “why didn’t you just…” that’s a good indication that there is a deeper complexity at work that countless smart people have tried to fix
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One in four nursing homes have said they’ll close facilities because of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” – and they passed it anyway.
Talk to, essentially, ANY families who have moved someone into long term care recently. There’s not exactly a surplus of facilities around today…
Talk to, essentially, ANY families who have moved someone into long term care recently. There’s not exactly a surplus of facilities around today…
July 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One in four nursing homes have said they’ll close facilities because of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” – and they passed it anyway.
Talk to, essentially, ANY families who have moved someone into long term care recently. There’s not exactly a surplus of facilities around today…
Talk to, essentially, ANY families who have moved someone into long term care recently. There’s not exactly a surplus of facilities around today…
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7.5 million students with Individualized Education Plans—accounting for 15 percent of all students nationally—will lose access to special education services funding.
July 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
7.5 million students with Individualized Education Plans—accounting for 15 percent of all students nationally—will lose access to special education services funding.
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Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid.
I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.
I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.
June 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Disabled kids like mine rely on Medicaid to survive; this bill cuts Medicaid.
I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.
I don't know how else to say that medically complex disabled children will die as a result of this bill.
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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
June 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Always money for war.
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TL;DR: You can block website trackers via changing settings, installing privacy-protecting extensions, or switching to a new browser.
This is how you stop data trackers from sucking up your health data – The Markup
The Markup and CalMatters found multiple ways consumers can block the trackers quietly sending your data to tech companies, including those used on state-run health exchange websites.
themarkup.org
June 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
TL;DR: You can block website trackers via changing settings, installing privacy-protecting extensions, or switching to a new browser.
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Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
post your comfort album
April 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
post your comfort album
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March 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
March 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
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The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
February 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.