Mike MacFerrin

Many people don’t feel moved by disability justice because they don’t consider themselves disabled, but disability is a state we will all find ourselves in at points in our lives. The fight for disability justice should be your fight too.

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March is supposed to be Colorado’s snowiest month. After a record warm/dry winter we desperately need it. Instead next week we’ve got summer sun & temps up to 87 F (>30 C).

This “winter that never arrived” is worrying me.

Fires in May/June gonna be BAD this year. 😣🔥

Learn more, do better, help people in your own community by asking what would support them best, and—this is critical—LISTEN to the answer.

“Zoom” on my computer does this.

Now on an iPhone I can’t purchase an app because it wants me to “verify my account password” in Settings, which I do, but it never maps that back to the app that wanted it. Did the engineers just do 🚫 testing on this?

Students write better software than this crap.

Getting sick of computer & phone apps that demand you “log in” first, which pops up an entirely different app (a browser window, your phone’s Settings, etc). When you log in it never maps back to the original app, which just keeps you logged-out indefinitely.

Enshittification is insufferable.

This. ^ “Economists with the graphs said ‘line go up,’ and are shocked it didn’t!”

Meanwhile everyone else trying to buy groceries and avoid debt (if they can) is watching their friends & neighbors get laid off, and/or are looking for new work themselves.

It still bothers me that this country figured out how to cut child poverty rates in half during COVID lockdowns and then just said “nah, F those kids!” and went right back to what we were doing before.

(And yes, I know we’re killing kids right now, there’s a straight line from there to here.)

Not all heroes wear capes, but seriously someone get this dude a cape.

“Nero fiddled while Rome burned”

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME

Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day.

Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

OMG Outlook Search! WHHHHHY!

I can type a name verbatim and it’ll show me a random selection of “likely-related” matched emails from the past 8 years but NOT SHOW ME the email from that exactly-named person sent just yesterday.

I honestly couldn’t explain the difference between “OneDrive” and “SharePoint” if you forced me to at gunpoint, other than I can stare at the same document in both depending on where I navigated there from, and each platform has its own peculiarly-subtle-but-distinct flavor of hell.

I laughed unreasonably loud at this
😭

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Our Uni force-migrated us to use Microsoft-everything (sigh) and our team is having to scale back because:

- Sharepoint sucks (!) for editing docs
- MS Teams randomly throttles peoples’ audio on group calls where we can’t even hear each other
- File-sharing gets wonky as hell
- etc

It sucks! 👎

We are going to need Nuremberg Trials when this is all over.

“Please give me $100M to put my thoughts and feelings on the Blockchain for the world to see and we’ll make a $billion back by having computers solve a trillion sudoku puzzles to save them there forever.”

It really was a flawless business model.

amazing insight bro

Eugenics is not just history; STILL it’s written into law in some states.

In Colorado, people with disabilities can still be sterilized over their objection.

This MUST end.

https://nationaltoday.com/us/co/denver/news/2026/02/15/colorado-bill-aims-to-repeal-forced-sterilization-law/

I’m old enough to remember when the Blockchain was going to change absolutely everything.

I get “One year of free credit monitoring” about every 3-8 months at this point.

I 🖤 how in the modern US, every 6 months you get a letter like…

“We wish to inform you [a Company you’ve never once heard of] had all your medical information which may have been compromised & leaked in a security breach. We’re sure it’s fine tho.”

…and you can’t do a single damn thing about it.

I truly wish more of these bills would get introduced (and pushed through!) in times when we have a Dem majority and presidency, when they have a chance of passing. But then it’s *crickets*. This feels purely performative.

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An anti-vax elderly family member has been sick & coughing for 3 straight weeks, refuses to get tested, and insists this “bad flu” is being treated effectively by their chosen regime of supplements.

For 3 weeks!

I love this person enough to care but they’re driving me to wits’ end with this.

So you’ve been to these. 😁

I skipped the felt cowboy hat! Primarily because it didn’t fit (I have a big noggin’) and I had nowhere else to carry it, lol.

100%. We run relatively simple “AI” algorithms (like random-forest decision trees, etc) for specific scientific apps on a desktop machine with just a handful of minutes compute time. Not all ML algorithms are “wasteful” in the “drain aquifers run a data centers” theme of Grok, ChatGPT, etc.

(Narrator’s note: It was allowed, and pre-Trump was a welcomed part of Broader Impacts. Reviewer 2 just didn’t like we planned to PAY people for that work rather than it being all-volunteer.

I’m still miffed the PM let that factually-false comment sail through review untouched.)

We had a killer proposal exploring the boundary of melt zones in high-elevation Greenland. Zones were discovered just in the last 8 yrs; no one knew squat about where they intersect.

Tanked in part b/c Rev 2 didn’t like 5% of our budget doing DEI work. “I don’t think that’s allowed,” they quipped.

I've become ever-more impressed with scientists I know in anthro and sociology.

Physical Earth Science, by contrast, is closing its eyes and hoping to weather the fascism by putting its head down & ignoring the fires. (Exceptions exist! But not enough.)

The scientists who study human behavior? 🔥

I had never in my life thought about it. But yeah, somewhere, there’s gotta be.