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(he/him/él) Promoting inclusive access to information: IT accessibility, digital usability, and strong, vibrant libraries. Promuevo el acceso inclusivo a la información: tecnologías accesibles, usabilidad digital, y bibliotecas fuertes y vibrantes.
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Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 643 comments

Know your history: Capitol Crawl On this day in 1990, disability advocates abandoned their mobility aids and crawled up the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The “Capitol Crawl” was part of an effort to show support for the ADA, which passed four months later.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I dunno if this is such a great endorsement, but whenever I really need to sleep I play a LibriVox audiobook at 40% speed, which is like getting read a bedtime story by a very stoned babysitter.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This @mcsweeneys.net piece is the best, and I know the Criterion Closet is all the rage at #SXSW, but seriously if you want to walk out with a load of Criterion discs for free without standing in line for six hours, your local public #library is the place. Just bring your own tote bag.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Volunteer group working at restoring and sharing archived CDC data and information.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Good info from Austin, TX on measles, the MMR vaccine, and how to access it.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 13 days ago • 1577 comments

Enshittification per Cory Doctorow: "Here is how [governments] die: first, they are good to their [citizens]; then they abuse their [citizens] to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Songs needed now: All You Fascists Bound to Lose Video: Resistance Revival Chorus w/Rhiannon Giddens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa... Lyrics by Woody Guthrie: www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/All_Y... Please add yours. #Resist

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 437 comments