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A brat green sign on Bart. There's white text that is legible but has really bad contrast.

@bart.gov the contrast on this sign doesn't seem great for people with low vision. Have yall checked it?

YouTube video by UW (University of Washington) A Spotlight on Rumors

On Feb 24, I gave a lecture at UW explaining what my team's decade-plus research on online rumors during crises reveals about the right wing "bullshit machine." Fittingly, a lightning strike impacted the original audio. Here's a fixed version w/ the full transcript: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG...

I hate the quarter system. We have less than a week break between sessions so not really enough time to recharge ourselves. :(

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Peace sign throwing

Off to teach an Osher class about generative ai. Wish me luck.

I've been working on curriculum for an OLLI class I'm teaching next week and it'll be interesting to see how which strategies work and which don't. It reminds me I should review my instructional design stuff.

lol same. Honestly my engagement is "be weird" but that doesn't always work out well.

wtf does lazy linking even mean?

Amazing. Thanks Annie!

I saw this and wanted to play it. Thanks for rec! (Hiii from Droostring on twitch!)

I'm very behind here - anyone got good starter packs for library/info science folks? Or gamers in general?

He's not wrong. Especially the national conferences.

a version of an apple could work for some folks! I'm not deep into how feed creation works. so maybe that wouldn't work. I dunno. I'm just trying to make bsky a viable place to enjoy.

I think what we're finding here is that serendipity is hard to replicate in bsky right now. Since your main feed is just based on your follows, it tends to be skewed. Until there is a better way to go down the rabbit hole, it seems that we are stuck with feeds as an option.

While yes a feed isn't necessarily the same as an index, you could argue that the creation of tagging and feeds based on tags would act as a version of an index - it provides you a list of posts about a specific topic. This requires self-tagging which is a whole other beast.

Helmick, Pun Seek American Library Association Presidency for 2025-26 CHICAGO – The American Library Association (ALA) Nominating Committee has selected two nominees to run for ALA president in the upcoming election. The candidates running for the 2025-26 term are Sam

Attention all library peeps: candidates for ALA president have been announced. Im (re)joining ao i can vote for my friend Ray! www.ala.org/news/press-r...

Yikes! I feel like it's things like this that make people hate vegan stuff.

Oh that looks terrible...haha

It's Hangul Day, a Korean celebration of the coolest and easiest to use alphabet on the planet!

You can learn it in just 15 minutes, by reading this comic!

The harmful legacy of settler colonialism continues to impact native families to this day. Indigenous children are 60% more likely to be torn from their parents and sent to live in a stranger's house than white children are. bit.ly/NewArchiveHelpsNativeBoardingSchoolSurvivors

lol. It certainly feels like we're hemorrhaging librarians. Even though it's only two (possibly three) our of seven.

Is it worth the money? I've been eyeing it for a while.

We were watching some video about chips called munchos so we had to figure out how it's different from Pringles. Reader: it's not different yet is at the same time.

Oh it's 930 am. I should probably start doing some work.

My search history reads as...tech/food/random

Omg I just looked online for sriracha. I think it's all sold out??

Reskeet with glasses selfie

I think I took this right before the pandemic

Honestly I've learned to ignore them most of the time and focus on the ones who care. When they say something rude I just say "okay. Moving on..." I don't have the energy to care for them.

Done!