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Research software engineer. Comics lover. Accessibility enthusiast. https://mastodon.social/@eatyourgreens Oxford RSE: https://www.rse.ox.ac.uk
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"Camps." The word you're looking for here is "camps." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

the subtext here is “liberal jews are bad for us and bad for you, so when we come for them, don’t get mad at us”

Talking to the people who a) are not paying attention or b) refuse to acknowledge what their eyes are seeing

To paraphrase James Baldwin again, you either clothe the naked and feed the hungry or you’re not a believer - “and I don’t care what church you go to” Vance says he’s a Catholic, but watch as he places his loyalty to the man he once called Hitler over the literal pope of the Catholic church.

911: what is your emergency TREE: help i’ve fallen and i can’t get up 911: hello? TREE: hello yes help i’ve- 911: is anyone there TREE: YES HELP I’VE FALLEN AND- 911: sorry but i don’t hear anything

The Internet is mostly shit these days, but every once in a great while I stumble across an incredible, passion-project website. This one is hand-animated weird art and it is worth your time as a fun decompressing thing in between your doomscrolling sessions. https://floor796.com I don't […]

Demolishing homes. Murdering civilians. Forcibly displacing thousands. A report on Israeli military actions across the occupied West Bank.

Quietly upgraded 2025.stateofthebrowser.com to build with @eleventy version 3. It’s a great conference. You should buy a ticket.

If the US agrees to become our 11th province, we'll offer them many exciting benefits—including free Bhangra lessons for every US citizen, delivered with our signature Canadian politeness, warmth and welcoming spirit.

Israel is holding 21-year-old Afro-Palestinian artist, student, and activist Shaden Al-Qous hostage. Israel’s military kidnapped her from her home in East Jerusalem on January 6, after five days of forced house arrest. Soldiers ransacked her home, confiscating her laptop and phone.

New guinea pigs. 6-month-old boys: Cassini and Galileo.

Update: We've got multiple people working on "Safeguarding Research ✊" If you know of any publicly available resources in need of preservation, please let us know. Just reply here for example. If you want to contribute anything at all, please consider joining […]

We’re at the Imperial College campus in White City today, for a UNIVERSE-HPC hack day.

Just a reminder that our trans industry colleagues are literally running out the clock. Life and death. If you are wondering if you should offer them a gig even at a low rate outside America, for the love of Pete, do it now.

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

Here's what the United States Department of #Education said today. And it's only Week One. This is their implementation of the trump executive orders so far. In the context of education, (K-12 through #HigherEd) they seem that much crueler: www.ed.gov/about/news/p... #DEI

People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states. To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.

Started my morning off listening to @accessiblenumbers.bsky.social new podcast. Two of my favorite people talking about my favorite subject. What a great conversation. Can't wait for the next one.

you don’t need a civil rights divisions when there aren’t going to be civil rights

Employees of the US federal government (full disclosure- including me) today were instructed today to rat out any colleague suspected of covertly engaging in suspected DEIA activities. chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...

You had different dreams for yourself than having to meet this shit historical moment. I did too. I did too.

• "I put `tabindex` on everything so screen reader users can navigate through everything with their keyboard" • "I put lots of hidden links in the page that you can't see but screen reader users are going to love!" • "I added `h1` in all the major sections of the page so that they are easy to find!"

Si la migra te detiene, ¡recuerda esta canción! No tienes que firmar ni decir nada. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio, y tienes derecho a un abogado. ¡Mantén la calma y recuerda tus derechos! #conozcasusderechos #knowyourrights #immigration

Talk: “Making Victorian News Images Searchable: A Computational Approach to the Illustrated London News, 1842-1899” by Thomas Smits (University of Amsterdam). Wednesday, 15 January, 1pm GMT, Zoom Smits discusses his work on creating a searchable dataset of 72,081 illustrations using […]

The Palestine murals, under the Westway in White City, have been painted over.

Happy Thanksgiving! And another sketchnote from the past, learning about beer. #tbt

gen AI is an attempt to industrialize knowledge work. Luddites keep coming up in this discussion, because it's incredibly relevant. A short thread, I guess

Fires broke out in parts of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, after the Israeli military ordered medical staff and patients to evacuate northern Gaza’s last medical facility, according to the report. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/7zkxmc

I'm a fountain pen ink enthusiast, and one of the ways that manifests is via a growing Col-o-dex collection of ink swatches with sketches relevant to the ink name/label/marketing. Here are some cards I made this week. I like to dig into any stories around an ink name and get a little art practice.

What ARIA still does not do 👉🏼 Use of ARIA is a promise you as a developer make to screen reader users. #a11y #HTML #webDev html5accessibility.com/stuff/2024/0...

Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... my contribution to the 2024 HTMHell advent calendar: htmhell.dev/adventcalend... #AI #accessibility #NeutrimaticDrinksDispenser

“Generative AI does not have the storytelling capabilities of disabled people. Those of us still alive are screaming our stories right now and have been, again, for decades. There is nothing for generative AI to “bring to life.” - @ashleemboyer.com ashleemboyer.com/blog/how-to-...

Daily bunny no.2812 is a long way from home

“Welcome back to LA, Sam thought resignedly. After two weeks on the McNabb Nature Reserve in the Ozarks, she wasn’t sure her shit-tolerance threshold existed any more.” – Pat Cadigan, Synners

“Having said that, this particular scenario, where a visitor is frequently leaving the page and returning, is a scenario where Next.js is simply the wrong choice of technology.” Brain-dumping everything that I think is wrong with isomorphic React apps, while trying to debug why new Zooniverse […]

Security question: several months ago I emailed someone about an XSS injection vulnerability in the code that they use to sanitise user-generated content. I got back a ‘we take security seriously’ canned reply, then nothing. The vulnerable library still hasn’t been patched. What’s the next […]

There was a wonderful talk at PyData Amsterdam last year on using machine learning to study and preserve artworks at the Rijksmuseum, strong recommend. youtu.be/kMfl5SzfkVc?...