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TheAutistech
@theautistech.bsky.social
AKA Buckybits

Information Technology Being, working in Libraries. Autistic, Dyspraxic, Alexithymic, Allergies. They/Them.

Also model-building, Tabletop/video gaming, etc. I'm a Geek.

I once got a bunch of award nominations for a bad game I wrote.
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The public safety ministry sent out a false response to a freedom of information request by the NDP. It covered up 130 pages of correspondence about Dale McFee's request for Minister Ellis to intervene in police commission appointments, including multiple signed letters by the minister himself.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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I have been ignoring how bad of a condition my shoes are in because I can’t afford new ones but this is very bad

Please consider helping me buy new orthopedic shoes

I’m disabled and getting injured

PayPal.me/crippledscholar
ko-fi.com/crippledscho...
Buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Let O & G use their massive profits to pay their own bills and face their own responsibilities.
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Day 3 without food I am dizzy and tired please help me eat today

anything helps

please share

#MutualAidRequest
Hi I am queer and disabled and am trying to survive abuse and extreme poverty. I can barely walk these days because my left ankle is chronically injured and is just an ever worsening sprain

I also can't afford food

Please Help

paypal.me/crippledscholar
buymeacoffee.com/crippledscholar
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This could be Canada.
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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An underrated part of the discussion of how to fund Vancouver's Celebration of Light is that a generation ago, big businesses spent tons of money on local culture because it was an efficient form of advertising.

And today, when everything can be targeted through online algorithms, they don't.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Just heard that the UCP may be trying to restrict Public Libraries like they have School Libraries.

Complete with defunding if we don't comply and/or the removal of local boards. This is...bad.

Anyone got a Library System IT job opening outside of Alberta?
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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There can be something badly wrong with a person without it being a mental illness or disability. In fact, it almost never is.
Bigotry is a symptom of precisely zero mental illnesses.

Fascism too.

Leftists have got to unpack their saneism.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Read a lovely Rascal article on this - what a beautiful project. I'd love to see more like it (and funding for them) from lots of other places ❤️ www.rascal.news/carved-in-st...
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Hey librarians,

How is sustainability one of our core values if we're also supposed to be all-in on the AI hype?

Asking for these folks.

#medlibs 📚
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Meeting in just over 2 hours to set up a server, and I don't know what the term is, but like the fear people will think you're incompetent/not smart, it's high.

I know what I am doing. I have literally rebuilt servers more complicated than this in my sleep, but the moment someone watches, I fumble.
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Still need to find £840 for the rent tomorrow if you can place an order! Up to 33% off tonight! £5 extra off if you spend £50 and use code TAKE5OFF
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heresyminiatures.etsy.com
#miniatures #scifi #doctorwho
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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The government is not saving $35–54 million a year.

The government is cutting drug benefit spending by $35–54 million a year.

Objectivity in the media is a myth. There is always bias.

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Just heard that the UCP may be trying to restrict Public Libraries like they have School Libraries.

Complete with defunding if we don't comply and/or the removal of local boards. This is...bad.

Anyone got a Library System IT job opening outside of Alberta?
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Nothing quite like having to catch the attention of a security guard on an enclose office just to ask if you can be let in to the *public* washroom.

...and then be perp walked across the transit depot to be let in.

Lethbridge is really special.
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Noise cancelling headphones are less good at noise cancelling when you have to wear them over a toque.

Bus noise is still reduced, but I can still hear the people behind me talking.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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BREAKING: Pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I have said before and will say again that it is such a loss that we no longer get covers of this caliber for fantasy books.

This art is by Jean-Léon Huens. These covers are for the Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. They lit my imagination on fire as a kid.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Shouting this louder.

CITE YOUR GODDAMNED SOURCES!

The fact that MOST misinfo circulates among the right wing doesn't make us lefties immune to falling for nonsense. We're also human and thus fallible.

To minimize the chances of being taken for a ride, CITE SOURCES.
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I've noticed a lot of users are interested in joining some iteration of "resistance" to oppose fascists. Allow me to outline some first steps:

1. Cite your sources. And when someone asks you to, or when someone sources your claim for you, say thanks.

Fascists survive on mis- and dis-information.
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Bibi is a good and trusted person who cares about others and the disabled and chronic illness community! If you can help out, know you're helping someone who needs it and will be using it responsibly!
Hello!! Here's my Ko-Fi goal to help with my surgery costs! The surgery itself is covered but stuff like the nasal splints (300$) & recovery items aren't covered. So any help is greatly appreciated!

🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 2% of goal on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/bibiblossoms...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Have I mentioned how awesome @bibiblossoms.bsky.social is?? Because seriously. Want to be a mensch and help with surgery recovery?
Hello!! Here's my Ko-Fi goal to help with my surgery costs! The surgery itself is covered but stuff like the nasal splints (300$) & recovery items aren't covered. So any help is greatly appreciated!

🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 2% of goal on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/bibiblossoms...
Support Bibi
Support Bibi
ko-fi.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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by your 30s you should have at least 3 or 4 internet friends with tastes in weird cartoon pornography that don't overlap with your tastes in weird cartoon pornography
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM