Stephanie Leary

@sleary.bsky.social

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Front End Developer at Equinox OLI, doing UI and accessibility work on open source library software. Previously: MLIS @ UW iSchool; some WordPress books and stuff.

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Labor issues create pandemic issues.

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Brooke Binkowski

The wasteland in that lower quadrant where our leaders should be…

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I've got to give @vierleger.bsky.social the reply of the day for this, possibly of the week.

I don’t know exactly what the 20-something at the drive-thru window expects from someone who blithely orders a Happy Meal while oblivious to the fact that NIN’s “Closer” is on the radio… but apparently a middle-aged white lady isn’t it.

Clearly the youth have not been educated in the classics. Kids, I’m sorry that the music of today doesn’t feature Trent Reznor screeching that he wants to fuck you like an animal. I don’t know what to tell you; we live in dark and degenerate times.

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Bruh they are paraphrasing not just fascists but THE fascists

This truly embarrassing garbage is why I unsubscribed from the NYT.

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Natalie 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Congrats on surviving all that shit! 🎉

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Gwenda Bond

Either he’s *very* confused on how leaving room for Jesus works, or he’s just tried Nair on his nuts.

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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I'm working on policy proposals to protect consumer rights when companies brick smart devices. So please share devices that you've owned that stopped working because the company that made it killed software support or went out of business. Also, please share this request. Thank you.

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"we conclude that sensational and misleading claims about LLM agency and capabilities emerge from a deep misconception of both what human language is and what LLMS are."

Large Models of What? Mistaking Engineering Achievements for Human Linguistic Agency arxiv.org/abs/2407.08790 New paper with Marek McGann

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It’s awesome how the entirety of the American security apparatus is completely helpless when it comes to a white guy with an AR15

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Kid has decided his Lego town needs a college, so he started with a graduate student lab, where everything is on fire and people are crying.

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I'll repeat what I wrote in my book. People going after others should ask themselves: Am I going after the appropriate entity or the *available target*? A LOT of latter goes on. But cruelty laterally/downward does nothing to the entity that created a situation &ensures creation of a truly awful vibe

I think a lot of people get into a bad space here because the people with power they actually want to yell at would never in a million years be on Bluesky so we end up yelling at people who aren’t that bad and it makes everyone pissy and weird

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Page A1: BREAKING NEWS: ASHLEY JUDD SAYS BIDEN SHOULD STEP DOWN Page B16: City of Houston has no power for a week and its 105 degrees there and no one's doing anyting to help them boring boring boring

The fourth largest city in America is still in crisis under a deadly heatwave & the power company can't get hundreds of thousands of households back online, but you'd barely know it from our national news.

850K CenterPoint customers remain without power after Hurricane Berylwww.houstonchronicle.com More than 850,000 CenterPoint customers were without power four days after Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast.

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This was The Matrix (before The Matrix) meets Memento (before Memento). This movie is spectacular.

Dark City (1998) is on Tubi right now and it's fucking great, I can't believe I hadn't seen this film before. I normally fall asleep next to my dog while trying to watch movies at night but I watched this one all the way through without even yawning, strongly recommended

Eat them up.

The DOJ is reportedly prepping a rental market collusion lawsuit against software maker RealPage, whose tools are used by landlords to set apartment prices. Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs: www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.www.propublica.org Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting compet...

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“project 2025 wants cops to lock up librarians because there’s EBSCO access on the public computers” may not be like, a slogan, but

kind of useless w/o explaining to people what project 2025 means by porn newrepublic.com/article/1836...

The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Pornnewrepublic.com It’s not just about people watching porn. It’s drag queens, trans people, LGBTQ library books, and more.

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This is a new-to-me angle on concerns about Bridgerton. It focuses on fans being hateful and how, "for all that Bridgerton shows that making this genre inclusive is a good thing, it can feel as though it comes at the cost of the wellbeing of other people of colour – the actors."

‘Sorry, we don’t want lesbians’: Bridgerton’s problem with racism, homophobia and body-shamingwww.theguardian.com From petitions against LGBT romances to actors being deluged with racist comments, the Regency drama has a huge toxicity problem in its fandom – to the detriment of some of its stars’ mental health

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My sister said the cybertruck looks like a Dustbuster and I’m gunna have to give her that one

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I keep sitting down to work like my brain is working. My brain:

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Community college libraries have been pressured to compulsorily activate all patron checkout history. #academicLibraries #Privacy 📚 #https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26431

The Ethical Tightrope: Navigating Library Values in the Face of the Parents’ Bill of Rights and Patron Privacy Challenges | Sills | College & Research Libraries Newscrln.acrl.org The Ethical Tightrope: Navigating Library Values in the Face of the Parents’ Bill of Rights and Patron Privacy Challenges

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Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.

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Kelly Barnhill

Part of the problem stems from the Myth of Male Genius - organizations twist themselves in knots to protect their access to whatever Male Genius they've tied their careers to, be they philosophers or physicists, conductors or or inventors, teachers or hotshot attorneys. We've all experienced this.

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I was just saying to a friend, someone who was horrified by a prominent person’s wretched behavior (but this individual was fine/good to my friend)—I said, “never forget, these people choose the targets of their generosity & goodwill & appreciation as carefully as they choose their abuse targets.”

I think all the time about the interviewer who asked Meryl Streep “how did you not know about Weinstein” and she was like “I didn’t know because he NEEDED me not to know” it isn’t a character flaw to have been deceived by someone who is a deceit expert cultivating the cover of your faith & goodwill

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What? No it wasn't. A bunch of people warned about exactly this, before it happened, and then AS IT WAS HAPPENING. People just… kept pretending that the dude who conned them hadn't conned them and was, in fact, a super genius, instead of taking the fucking L and holding him anything like accountable

SpaceX and Elon Musk "misled" the National Park Service and FAA about its Starship launch plans in South Texas, a new report alleges. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

SpaceX deceived officials to fulfill Starship plans in South Texaswww.chron.com An official with the National Park Service said the agency was "misled" by Elon Musk and his company.

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"You can't grind your way to a just society" goes on the t-shirt.

The reason we hear so much meritocracy propaganda is that it's the only socially acceptable origin story for the people it happend to work out for, could stay in the game longer thanks to generational wealth, or are just pretending to have "made it." You can't grind your way to a just society.

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Seeing even this small snippet put in plain language is just devastating:

NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...