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evilrooster.bsky.social
Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Technical writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night. My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
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Man hands on misery to man, It deepens like a coastal shelf. Perhaps a tweak of the Algorithm is in order.

I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...

Ah, capitalism, where “my employee in a healthcare setting has trouble sticking to our dark pattern scripts” is just another management question. (The suggested solution is to get him to practice more, presumably until he dulls his conscience with repetition.)

Attention @swindled.bsky.social

Are you a product designer and into video games? Want to sit next to me and listen to my regrettable puns? Then you may be in luck! www.guerrilla-games.com/join/senior-...

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

In the folklore of the Anglo Scottish Borders, the "Broon Man of the Moors and Mountains" is solitary dwarf who serves as the guardian of wild animals. He is often seen with his companion, a red fox. #BookologyThursday #Scotland art: Stephen G. Rae

Just me? Maybe.

This is incredible

Just back from an emotionally difficult family visit, and it turns out that The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon is to Murderbot what the Murderbot show is to me. In unrelated news, I have a certain theme tune running through my head.

Happy Pride ONLY to LGBQIA+ folks who celebrate & defend our trans siblings who are under sustained assault from a massive right wing conspiracy using them as a wedge issue to exterminate us all because don't let the assimilation fool you, they still despise us for daring to be who we are

Plums, plums the poetical fruit The colder the sweet, the more you loot. The more you loot, the lower you feel So bring home more that I can steal.

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in Northern California have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history. When the California gold rush began, the tribe lost 90% of its territory despite having lived along the Klamath for millennia.

⭐Calling cisgender women!⭐ I'm so proud of this open statement from #NotInMyName speaking up for our trans siblings. Far too often, the only women’s voices we hear seem intent on stoking the flames. Sign & share to build the inclusive world we actually want to live in. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows. arstechnica.com/science/2023...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

One day I will check in for a transatlantic flight without a panic attack. This was not that day.

I'm traveling in just over 24 hours. I don't need to be idly designing an Altoids tin loom in the back of my head. I'm not going to the hardware store and dinking around with this idea. No, I'm not.

When you have all kinds of sinister dice and want something beautiful too.

Then he arrived a decade ago: someone who gave them what they needed to finally abandon the performance completely: permission to be horrible; someone who erased any semblance of decorum, any expectation of decency, any level of accountability. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/this-presi...

Well, it worked for Trump…

Trans rights are human rights.

I have FINISHED my Celestarium shawl. At last. 🧶