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Accessible Quad Dolly @quaddolly.bsky.social · 5h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"I coded it myself."

"We dont do backups."

"I deleted the database."

"I'll just use SquareSpace!"

"He'll do it cheaper."

"15 years experience needed."

"Use the latest stack."

Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 7h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Massage therapist: "Forgot to mention thrombus."

"There's a lavender blight."

"Rash with yellow crust."

"Valentine's day special".

"Your latest appointment, please."

Doc Fancy @docfancy.bsky.social · 7h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

I have a couple, depending on which hat I wear.

“Type specimen: unknown, Europe.”

“Polymerase shouldn’t be *warm.*”

“Another feet first ascent?!”

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 6h

🔪✨ We are LIVE with my slot for the the mutual aid raid train to help @xocrummy.bsky.social get the medical care they need!

Come say hi, donate if you can and let's keep this train moving 🛤️

#VSky #Cutie #Eldenwood #TheGreatElders #MutualAid #REPO #IndieGame

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🔪✨ They/fae, call me Fee! Queer, disabled, AuDHD, Aussie variety streamer 💖 Business enquiries: [email protected].

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 16h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 7h

I have been gifted a *free* eyeball clean.

Truly blessed.

Hashtag so shiny. Hashtag well groomed. Hashtag only a little fishy.

A small calico tabby kitten with hugenormous ears, sitting on my lap and looking up at my face and the camera. I am kneeling on the floor.

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Accessible Quad Dolly @quaddolly.bsky.social · 7h

The founders, Hiawatha, The Great Peace Maker, and Jigonhsasee are worthy of celebrating for their contribution and founding of The Great Law of Peace.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 9h

Morale work saves lives. So do education and outreach.

Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · Feb 6

“…no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing”

I would argue that sick & disabled folks have used social media to organize and mobilize. Some of us can’t protest in the streets or meet in person but we made a difference

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · Feb 5

i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗

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✨ Erinyes ✨ @erinyes.diy · 19h

one of the appeals of the goth club is that if you're a boy it is fully unremarkable for you to wear eyeliner and have long hair and paint your nails and introduce yourself by a mysterious new name,,, , if you need to do all of those things for some reason

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11h

people in Portland are taking down ICE with what looks like a party from Chrono Trigger

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 8h

ICYMI

Autistic Science Person @autsciperson.bsky.social · 8h

Credit scores didn't exist until 1989?!!

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Carebot @carebot.l33t.se · 8h

Please take a few deep breaths. 🌬️

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 21h

Azine needs sheets, medical supplies, and meds.

Call it $0/100
PP: [email protected]
#MutualAid #HelpSky

The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 20d

Azine's informal free housing arrangement is about to end abruptly. We don't know when; it could be at any time. We need to raise money to get her into an Airbnb as quickly as we can manage.

We don't have the resources for long-term solutions, so I'm just keeping her alive as long as I can.

ID: A pond with a duck trailing ducklings on the water & a fox on the shore. Surrounding the lake is a forest of evergreen trees and a snowy landscape. The words are in white with black borders.

Transcript: Azine's Story
Azine travels the world to meet people dear to her. That is her reason for living, as she doesnt know how much time she has left. This goes for everyone, especially with how the world is today. Goes extra for her because of heart-lung disease from birth + a series of embolisms in 2016.

Embolisms are kept at bay by medication, due to having had more than one. Dystonia and seizures, were made worse by Lyme disease (tick bite 2009). MCAS, probably from birth, is made a lot worse by environmental toxins. She takes 4 antihistamines including compounded ketotifen (expensive) in very high doses to keep her skin from peeling off & to keep limited food down.
"I dont have access to health insurance, even though that is mandatory where I was born.Because people with Lyme and ME/CFS are routinely denied healthcare, persecuted, and jailed in psychiatric hospitals. That is why I became a traveler/refugee. That is why my mom, who still lives there, is deep in debt. Because there was never gov. support or funding for me, not even welfare."

I've done all I can out of my own resources. We need your help. Please, boost & share her story, & if you can afford to, donate any amount* you can spare to her mom's PayPal: MadeleineWedemeijer@gmail.com
*Literally $1 helps. Fundraisers with more activity, regardless of the size of the donations, are more successful overall as it motivates people to pitch in. And if you include an encouraging message in the memo line, you'll help to lift the severely flagging spirits of all those involved.

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Wylder needs HELP @wylder.bsky.social · 17h

Just finalized a Big Thing we've needed to do where the funds went this month (then I forgot the next day & helped someone with funds spent but not yet pull) & we've been fucked since.

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Any assistance now will help move us toward safety & closer to having healthcare. 🤞
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23h

I've yet to see a single discussion of "Canadian digital sovereignty" include any Indigenous experts, at best we're given a token mention that at some point they'll "consult with Indigenous Peoples" like we're some sort of monolith. Umm, y'all need to consider all our lands, and our distinctiveness.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23h

It's as if there's some sort of weird cognitive algorithm in the minds of settlers that Indigenous Peoples = backwards and savage therefore anything tech related doesn't apply to them.

Ummmm, you do realize all this "Canadian digital sovereignty" stuff requires unfettered access to Indigenous land.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23h

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 14h

Man I sure love blankets

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · Aug 16

The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this

Woke up because my Al controlled bed is too cold. Went to adjust
temperature and I can't because the Eight Sleep app is currently broken. Can't adjust by hand because I have a Pod3, not the upgraded Pod4 with
physical controls.
Now I am stuck in a cold bed. This feels dystopian.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23h

the number of times I've seen Canadians give land acknowledgements at tech conferences and then immediately launch into discussions about "Canadian digital sovereignty" that completely excludes any concept of Indigenous rights or even us as Peoples at all. It's absurd, I can't wrap my head around it

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 23h

What is it about tech that gets a pass when it comes to respecting Indigenous rights?

Why is it that the Internet itself depends on trespassing through Indigenous territories yet it's framed as something that we're given access to through some sort of charity?

Why are we never even considered?

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 22h

TLDR, if you're a settler whining about threats to your "sovereignty", there's probably an Indigenous person giving you severe side-eye but since you've rendered them invisible in your consciousness you don't even realize they are there, facepalming into eternal oblivion 🫠

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Accessible Quad Dolly @quaddolly.bsky.social · 14h

So many adults *want* that outcome too. Which kinda feel like people already know.

It makes it easier for perps to get away with shit. Doesn't help how many "You can tell me anything" and mandatory reporters help perpetuate a cycle of abuse because "No, I know x. They're a good person."

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 15h

Sex ed for young children focuses on teaching kids what touching is inappropriate and what to do about it, which *fights* child sex abuse. LGBTQ+ inclusion fights bullying.

These bigots call it "grooming" to teach kids to not bully and to report sexual abuse.

That's what's really sick.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 15h

One of the nastiest things from these nasty pieces of work has been the lie that kidlit creatives, teachers & librarians are somehow grooming kids.

Statistically, a parent, guardian, or other relative is more likely to be the perpetrator: www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/n...

National Statistics on Child Abuse - National Children's Alliance

A look at the scope of the problem of child abuse, including how it impacts kids, where and how it happens, and how CACs help.

www.nationalchildrensalliance.org

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 23h

Also, please take a know your rights course and learn how to shut the fuck up

Literally ANYTHING can be used against you.

You were too calm. You were too scared. You were too loud. Too quiet. Too confident. Too meek.

Literally, anything because LEOs lie and society just accepts it

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Accessible Quad Dolly @quaddolly.bsky.social · 15h

Eyyy another person doing this shit 😊

People really are doing the "I want to look like a good person and get more metrics, banking on people not checking the alt-text".

Accessible Quad Dolly @quaddolly.bsky.social · 1d

People putting a space to get the alt text badge but not making shit accessible to blind people is a block ✌🏼

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Accessible Quad Dolly @quaddolly.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes, but not always. It more just depends on the word.

Same with all lowercase. But all caps tends to be read out better more often than all lowercase.

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Mx. Fee - BRING LINK BACK @mxfee.bsky.social · 1d

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Rika Klassen @rikaklassen.bsky.social · 1d

I am trying to save up as a deafblind woman to move from a small city with a poor bus system to a bigger city with a better transit system. I would like to regain my independence.

Anything helps.

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