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Caffeinated tech librarian. Onward and upward.

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we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer

08.03.2026 22:55 πŸ‘ 2025 πŸ” 335 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 0

In honor of Twin Peaks day, give yourself a present.

Rather than feed a megalomaniac with your attention, try:

β€’Dancing slowly with your arms out
β€’Stacking donuts
β€’Eating pie
β€’Befriending a tree, or part thereof

25.02.2026 02:08 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything

18.01.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 2688 πŸ” 793 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 8

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.

It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

03.01.2026 23:09 πŸ‘ 3648 πŸ” 490 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 59
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Hero of 2025: Alice Wong The disability justice icon's last message: "Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

β€œI’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

31.12.2025 18:32 πŸ‘ 498 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 7

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

14.12.2025 23:45 πŸ‘ 7046 πŸ” 2171 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 14

Yet another example of using β€œAI” but mixing up GenAI and other forms of machine learning.

The polls they cite about AI attitudes? People are talking about GenAI

The examples where AI is working? Non-GenAI machine learning.

The latter, more speculative ones? Back to GenAI

Fave trick of AI fans

13.12.2025 23:33 πŸ‘ 175 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.

10.12.2025 02:26 πŸ‘ 1760 πŸ” 295 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 14

This is how you know that it's not about the money. Because if it were, then libraries would not keep being defunded.

18.11.2025 02:45 πŸ‘ 1100 πŸ” 353 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! πŸŽƒ πŸ‘» πŸ’€

#PublicHealth

31.10.2025 11:35 πŸ‘ 1888 πŸ” 474 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 24
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

30.09.2025 23:33 πŸ‘ 8514 πŸ” 1054 πŸ’¬ 140 πŸ“Œ 76

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

25.09.2025 23:09 πŸ‘ 9730 πŸ” 4422 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 122
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Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

23.09.2025 19:20 πŸ‘ 15886 πŸ” 4368 πŸ’¬ 537 πŸ“Œ 177

Be the Chotnier you want to see in the world.

23.09.2025 19:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women.

Someone, plz ask him.

15.09.2025 13:40 πŸ‘ 6899 πŸ” 1730 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 48

Jia Tolentino writes some really funny lines. " On social media, many of the most chaotic and emotionally lawless people you’ve ever known are posting on a regular basis about having at long last achieved inner peace."

26.08.2025 22:17 πŸ‘ 472 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because

a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked

b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

25.08.2025 23:14 πŸ‘ 10308 πŸ” 4121 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 43

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

26.08.2025 19:51 πŸ‘ 12074 πŸ” 2252 πŸ’¬ 97 πŸ“Œ 129
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No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter.

Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting.

#art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

26.08.2025 04:01 πŸ‘ 14815 πŸ” 2910 πŸ’¬ 558 πŸ“Œ 336
slurpee machine with one crashed screen

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

29.07.2025 21:29 πŸ‘ 18505 πŸ” 5968 πŸ’¬ 229 πŸ“Œ 356

I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop
working

05.07.2025 21:47 πŸ‘ 3742 πŸ” 619 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 9
The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. β€œAutopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. β€œAutopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

05.07.2025 09:53 πŸ‘ 16086 πŸ” 6151 πŸ’¬ 350 πŸ“Œ 490

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

09.06.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 18405 πŸ” 3889 πŸ’¬ 560 πŸ“Œ 187

Let’s not forget that earlier today, this day was known as β€œwe cannot build bananas in America” day. That is, until everything went bananas

06.06.2025 00:57 πŸ‘ 4411 πŸ” 793 πŸ’¬ 117 πŸ“Œ 28

trump threatening to nationalize spacex would be something i tell u what

06.06.2025 01:08 πŸ‘ 1001 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 3

the enemy of my enemy of my enemy oh the hell with it

06.06.2025 01:09 πŸ‘ 354 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 0

the number of times i was told i did not really want a simple chronological feed

01.05.2025 01:19 πŸ‘ 6895 πŸ” 727 πŸ’¬ 109 πŸ“Œ 31

this is obviously quite minor but the more i hear rfk jr. talk about anything the more bewildered i am by the entire nuzzi thing

01.05.2025 01:32 πŸ‘ 11069 πŸ” 659 πŸ’¬ 321 πŸ“Œ 79
NYT headline: β€œKennedy Advises New Parents to β€˜Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
β€œIn an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

NYT headline: β€œKennedy Advises New Parents to β€˜Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: β€œIn an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

β€œAnd I’m like, what do you mean, you β€˜do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

30.04.2025 11:36 πŸ‘ 27226 πŸ” 6714 πŸ’¬ 746 πŸ“Œ 371

www.deejmovie.com/poetry

16.04.2025 21:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0