Erin
@biscuit.quest
Gay they living in Providence, RI, by way of the South. Former digital librarian now working in civic tech. PVD, bikes, UX, a11y, etc. Go Dawgs. erinrwhite.com
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Erin
@biscuit.quest
· Feb 21
Malicious compliance gender patterns
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codepen.io
May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...
My very tiny LLC paid for a tiny sponsorship for our local public media station and I *immediately* got a new client from it that will likely cover that advertising cost and then some! Support public media however you can!
December 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
My very tiny LLC paid for a tiny sponsorship for our local public media station and I *immediately* got a new client from it that will likely cover that advertising cost and then some! Support public media however you can!
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
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Happy bday Sinéad. 💕
Sinead O'Connor - The Emperor's New Clothes (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SineadOConnorVEVO
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Happy bday Sinéad. 💕
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Wake up, babe. New ugly, inaccessible .gov site just dropped.
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Wake up, babe. New ugly, inaccessible .gov site just dropped.
Hungry for lunch at 9:43 am: A memoir
December 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hungry for lunch at 9:43 am: A memoir
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New edition of this classic risograph print from Molly Fair! justseeds.org/product/the-...
December 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
New edition of this classic risograph print from Molly Fair! justseeds.org/product/the-...
The reason we love the Star Wars universe is that there is no ubiquitous video surveillance. Ain’t got CCTV, Ring, or Flock on Naboo
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The reason we love the Star Wars universe is that there is no ubiquitous video surveillance. Ain’t got CCTV, Ring, or Flock on Naboo
Re-upping this thread!
I ditched Spotify and it reminded me that it’s really not tough to change tech services nowadays erinrwhite.com/goodbye-spot...
Goodbye, Spotify: Or, switching costs ain't what they used to be | Erin White
The switching costs aren't as high as you think.
erinrwhite.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Re-upping this thread!
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In September, I (and many other accessibility advocates) reviewed the America by Design website, finding sloppy AI-generated code and accessibility bugs.
@notus.com wrote on it, and also spoke to many amazing folks from @alt18f.bsky.social and @ethanmarcotte.com
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
@notus.com wrote on it, and also spoke to many amazing folks from @alt18f.bsky.social and @ethanmarcotte.com
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
'Sloppy' Code and Accessibility Issues: The Trouble With Trump's Silicon Valley-Inspired Web Design Project
“Some of these sites feel like another round of ‘move fast and break things,’” a former federal web designer told NOTUS.
www.notus.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In September, I (and many other accessibility advocates) reviewed the America by Design website, finding sloppy AI-generated code and accessibility bugs.
@notus.com wrote on it, and also spoke to many amazing folks from @alt18f.bsky.social and @ethanmarcotte.com
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
@notus.com wrote on it, and also spoke to many amazing folks from @alt18f.bsky.social and @ethanmarcotte.com
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
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Today is World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ bus stand A lifelong activist, Parks was also a lifelong quilter and contributed her talents to sew squares for the AIDS quilt: www.changethepattern.org/stories/rp?r...
www.changethepattern.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Today is World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ bus stand A lifelong activist, Parks was also a lifelong quilter and contributed her talents to sew squares for the AIDS quilt: www.changethepattern.org/stories/rp?r...
Thank you for this thread! In the US we love tidy narratives about heroes and their bootstraps, stories that don't fundamentally challenge power. The civil rights movement was nonhierarchical, grassroots, distributed. We should celebrate folks who lit the path, and also not flatten their stories.
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Thank you for this thread! In the US we love tidy narratives about heroes and their bootstraps, stories that don't fundamentally challenge power. The civil rights movement was nonhierarchical, grassroots, distributed. We should celebrate folks who lit the path, and also not flatten their stories.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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Read This When Things Fall Apart is now 25% off when purchased through AK Press. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
November 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Read This When Things Fall Apart is now 25% off when purchased through AK Press. www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
I cannot remember which one of you recommended Lillian Smith’s 1949 book KILLERS OF THE DREAM but holy shit 🔥 interminablerambling.medium.com/the-importan...
The Importance of Lillian Smith’s “Killers of the Dream” 75 Years Later in 2024
The Importance of Lillian Smith’s “Killers of the Dream” 75 Years Later in 2024 This year marks the 75th anniversary of the initial publication of Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream, and as …
interminablerambling.medium.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I cannot remember which one of you recommended Lillian Smith’s 1949 book KILLERS OF THE DREAM but holy shit 🔥 interminablerambling.medium.com/the-importan...
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Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Hi everybody,
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
It's Black Friday, a big day for us at The Onion, since we rely almost entirely on your memberships.
Our goal for 2026? More print subscribers than the Washington Post.
This is, somehow, feasible.
So sign up! A year of print is $75 for the year today. Help us do a very funny thing.
Time for the annual Thanksgiving watch of Addams Family Values: or, the first time we heard a contrary story about Thanksgiving and learned that Malibu Barbie ain’t all that
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Time for the annual Thanksgiving watch of Addams Family Values: or, the first time we heard a contrary story about Thanksgiving and learned that Malibu Barbie ain’t all that
I'm not on BearBlog but I have *really* loved subscribing to the BearBlog "discover" RSS feed and reading blog posts like this from kind folks across the smallweb. Thanks @tallywinkle.itch.io for the nudge to try Linux again after many years! bearblog.dev/discover/
new blog post! today is the one year anniversary of me installing linux. here's some reflegtions on the cange 1 year later tallywinkle.bearblog.dev/one-year-of-...
one year of linux
<font size=1><b>current mood:</b>
excited</font>
I installed Linux on Nov 24, 2024, amid the news of Windows 10 support going away. The one year mark ...
tallywinkle.bearblog.dev
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm not on BearBlog but I have *really* loved subscribing to the BearBlog "discover" RSS feed and reading blog posts like this from kind folks across the smallweb. Thanks @tallywinkle.itch.io for the nudge to try Linux again after many years! bearblog.dev/discover/
Meanwhile in fun bike stuff, the 2025 #Coffeeneuring challenge is a wrap! I finished just under the buzzer. erinrwhite.com/coffeeneurin...
Fall 2025 coffeeneuring challenge | Erin White
I was back on two wheels in fall 2025 for more silly bike tricks. I squeaked through this year with 7 rides over 6 weeks to 6 locations for a total of 49.2 miles.
erinrwhite.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Meanwhile in fun bike stuff, the 2025 #Coffeeneuring challenge is a wrap! I finished just under the buzzer. erinrwhite.com/coffeeneurin...
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"no, hosting a stuff swap is not a lot of work, and I’m gonna share my personal blueprint right in this here free post, so you can start stuff swapping wherever you are."
open.substack.com/pub/ashleepi...
open.substack.com/pub/ashleepi...
The antidote to everything? Hold a 'Stuff Swap'
From someone who's been throwing 'em for 20 years (and counting)
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"no, hosting a stuff swap is not a lot of work, and I’m gonna share my personal blueprint right in this here free post, so you can start stuff swapping wherever you are."
open.substack.com/pub/ashleepi...
open.substack.com/pub/ashleepi...
And a happy birthday to Dana Scully
a man and a woman are standing next to each other and the woman is saying sure fine whatever
Alt: Mulder and Scully in an early season of The X-Fiiles. Scully snaps on a latex glove and says, "sure, fine, whatever" as Mulder looks on.
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And a happy birthday to Dana Scully
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Superior Court intern mistakenly targeted by ICE in PVD today, per RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Suttell
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Superior Court intern mistakenly targeted by ICE in PVD today, per RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Suttell
In a live demo of new gen-AI feature for [REDACTED]
Presenter: Oh, it looks like this isn't working the way I expected.
Me: 🌝
Presenter: Oh, it looks like this isn't working the way I expected.
Me: 🌝
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
In a live demo of new gen-AI feature for [REDACTED]
Presenter: Oh, it looks like this isn't working the way I expected.
Me: 🌝
Presenter: Oh, it looks like this isn't working the way I expected.
Me: 🌝
I gotta say, I've been enjoying this Ken Burns American Revolution doc. It's trying to *not* do that thing where you center white men's voices, which I appreciate even when it seems kinda tacked on
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I gotta say, I've been enjoying this Ken Burns American Revolution doc. It's trying to *not* do that thing where you center white men's voices, which I appreciate even when it seems kinda tacked on
Question for tech workers: have you successfully refused to use generative AI in your workplace due to your ethical objections and *not* been penalized for it?
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Question for tech workers: have you successfully refused to use generative AI in your workplace due to your ethical objections and *not* been penalized for it?