Stephanie Leary
@sleary.bsky.social
Front End Developer doing UI and accessibility work on open source library software. Previously: MLIS @ UW iSchool; tag wrangling; wrote some tech books a while back. Pretty young for an Old Internet Person.
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the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)
I once worked for a small business whose founder ran off to Vegas (again) with the tax money, having temporarily forgotten that his wife owned 51% and her father owned the building.
That was previously my benchmark for professional self-immolation.
That was previously my benchmark for professional self-immolation.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I once worked for a small business whose founder ran off to Vegas (again) with the tax money, having temporarily forgotten that his wife owned 51% and her father owned the building.
That was previously my benchmark for professional self-immolation.
That was previously my benchmark for professional self-immolation.
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I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.
I am legitimately speechless.
I am legitimately speechless.
We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion.
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”.
Which is why the rage.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I mean I have been enraged about this topic for a while, but I had also never actually figured out how they calculate the poverty line.
I am legitimately speechless.
I am legitimately speechless.
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"Assume everyone I interact with online is struggling with their mental health" has only become a more important guiding principle in the past couple years
My personal guidelines for dealing with people on social media:
Assume everyone is a friend you haven't yet gotten to know.
Assume everyone is struggling with their mental health
Don't promise any emotional labor you might not be able to provide
If someone seems like a hater, disengage right away
Assume everyone is a friend you haven't yet gotten to know.
Assume everyone is struggling with their mental health
Don't promise any emotional labor you might not be able to provide
If someone seems like a hater, disengage right away
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Assume everyone I interact with online is struggling with their mental health" has only become a more important guiding principle in the past couple years
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
Sometimes when there is too much laundry to maneuver the basket downstairs, I just tip it over the railing and collect it at the bottom.
My child, wide-eyed: You can just DO that?
Kiddo, adulthood is fuckin’ great.
My child, wide-eyed: You can just DO that?
Kiddo, adulthood is fuckin’ great.
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Sometimes when there is too much laundry to maneuver the basket downstairs, I just tip it over the railing and collect it at the bottom.
My child, wide-eyed: You can just DO that?
Kiddo, adulthood is fuckin’ great.
My child, wide-eyed: You can just DO that?
Kiddo, adulthood is fuckin’ great.
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😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
November 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years.
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail!
🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will
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Source: https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie
Median US households (income $80K) are in poverty if the same calculations as in 1963 are used to rebase the poverty line threshold.
Median US households (income $80K) are in poverty if the same calculations as in 1963 are used to rebase the poverty line threshold.
Why the USA is stressed: in 1963, poverty was defined as family income < 3x food budget. But costs have exploded since 1963, and food is now 5-7% of a budget including health, college, childcare, housing, etc—a realistic food budget multiplier for poverty is 16x, so families under $130K are poor.
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Source: https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie
Median US households (income $80K) are in poverty if the same calculations as in 1963 are used to rebase the poverty line threshold.
Median US households (income $80K) are in poverty if the same calculations as in 1963 are used to rebase the poverty line threshold.
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Broke: DOGE is dead
Woke: DOGE was specifically constructed in a way to avoid accountability partially by zombifying the USDS which still exists as an entity
Bespoke: Dead or not, there needs to be a blue ribbon committee and a massive internal cybersecurity review to root out all the damage.
Woke: DOGE was specifically constructed in a way to avoid accountability partially by zombifying the USDS which still exists as an entity
Bespoke: Dead or not, there needs to be a blue ribbon committee and a massive internal cybersecurity review to root out all the damage.
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Broke: DOGE is dead
Woke: DOGE was specifically constructed in a way to avoid accountability partially by zombifying the USDS which still exists as an entity
Bespoke: Dead or not, there needs to be a blue ribbon committee and a massive internal cybersecurity review to root out all the damage.
Woke: DOGE was specifically constructed in a way to avoid accountability partially by zombifying the USDS which still exists as an entity
Bespoke: Dead or not, there needs to be a blue ribbon committee and a massive internal cybersecurity review to root out all the damage.
Me: y’all are seriously underestimating how similar the chatbot craze is to Victorian spiritualism
Allyson, 29: I asked ChatGPT to act like a Ouija board and one of the spirits is my husband now
Allyson, 29: I asked ChatGPT to act like a Ouija board and one of the spirits is my husband now
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Me: y’all are seriously underestimating how similar the chatbot craze is to Victorian spiritualism
Allyson, 29: I asked ChatGPT to act like a Ouija board and one of the spirits is my husband now
Allyson, 29: I asked ChatGPT to act like a Ouija board and one of the spirits is my husband now
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Missouri court strikes down 2022 law that pulled library books off shelves
missouriindependent.com/2025/11/18/m...
missouriindependent.com/2025/11/18/m...
Missouri court strikes down 2022 law that pulled library books off shelves • Missouri Independent
A Jackson County Circuit Court struck down a 2022 law that criminalized school employees for providing "sexually explicit material."
missouriindependent.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Missouri court strikes down 2022 law that pulled library books off shelves
missouriindependent.com/2025/11/18/m...
missouriindependent.com/2025/11/18/m...
I am a simple woman, and you can get me to watch just about anything by casting Bradley Whitford and Nick Offerman as bearded politician bros.
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I am a simple woman, and you can get me to watch just about anything by casting Bradley Whitford and Nick Offerman as bearded politician bros.
This book is delightful!
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This book is delightful!
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Idk, guys, I guess it's a choice between ChatGPT and the sun now. It's a close one.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Idk, guys, I guess it's a choice between ChatGPT and the sun now. It's a close one.
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Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
The Space Exploration Logo Archive
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. There is also a book, but it looks like it was only
kottke.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Good luck losing less than an hour to this: a huge archive of logos for government, non-profit, private, military, and even fictional space agencies and companies. [kottke.org]
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This is one of the most profound statements & pieces of wisdom I've ever seen in a meme 🖤
Go enjoy the forest, for the Wolf is always near. 🐿️🍁🐺
Go enjoy the forest, for the Wolf is always near. 🐿️🍁🐺
![There is no moral
The wolf eats you one day
And until it does
The forest is beautiful
[Collage of a forest with a picture of red riding hood and the wolf in a circled close up]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tcvpjkdcsdotgvcgdf6epyoe/bafkreid2swc7pkhtfwjjacunslkfar77cbxz3repztkebse4vaojhifwqu@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is one of the most profound statements & pieces of wisdom I've ever seen in a meme 🖤
Go enjoy the forest, for the Wolf is always near. 🐿️🍁🐺
Go enjoy the forest, for the Wolf is always near. 🐿️🍁🐺
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This is…brilliant.
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is…brilliant.
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congratulations everyone. having met our "enough Internet for the day" quotas within moments of logging on, we're all free now
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
congratulations everyone. having met our "enough Internet for the day" quotas within moments of logging on, we're all free now
I concur. Everyone involved in this needs to be in prison. Holy shit.
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I concur. Everyone involved in this needs to be in prison. Holy shit.
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Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
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also i am begging you not to give ryan lizza money
if you are tempted to whip out your credit card to read cringe shit about the sex dreams of a bag of beef jerky, please smack yourself and instead donate to mutual aid / a palestinian in need / a medical expense gofundme /anything else
if you are tempted to whip out your credit card to read cringe shit about the sex dreams of a bag of beef jerky, please smack yourself and instead donate to mutual aid / a palestinian in need / a medical expense gofundme /anything else
November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
also i am begging you not to give ryan lizza money
if you are tempted to whip out your credit card to read cringe shit about the sex dreams of a bag of beef jerky, please smack yourself and instead donate to mutual aid / a palestinian in need / a medical expense gofundme /anything else
if you are tempted to whip out your credit card to read cringe shit about the sex dreams of a bag of beef jerky, please smack yourself and instead donate to mutual aid / a palestinian in need / a medical expense gofundme /anything else
