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UX Researcher in Big Tech, erstwhile librarian, diving into collapse informatics/disaster research, esp. how volunteer groups use tech during the emergency lifecycle. Views my own. Also into ✒️s, 📷, 🎨, & writing. Texas Gulf Coast ex-pat loving NYC. 🏳️‍🌈🇲🇽
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Reason #83737 why Starlink is fucking awful and should be avoided at all costs.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

FEMA has taken down its websites related to the Community Disaster Resilience Zones, which are mandated by Congress and part of the decision-making process for major federal grants like the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program:

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

If the Racism Watchdog on twitter were real, it would have barked itself to death by now.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Promises made, promises shot to hell within days because y’all voted in a whole predator with no accountability whatsoever and now you’ll sit on your hands to do anything about it.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Pilots use hands and eyes to fly a plane, right? What exactly does the right think a trans helicopter pilot would use instead that would make a difference??

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Yesterday she said it sounded "undemocratic" to fire him. THE CALLS ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING, Y'ALL. Tell her to fire Adams NOW. 1-518-474-8390

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

I should have known they were coming for DEI when work tried to convince me that POC means Point of Contact.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

submitted 13 days ago • 759 comments

Go birds but please don't set fire to New Orleans its a really nice city and they've been through a lot.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Congratulations to Super Bowl LIX champion Kendrick Lamar

submitted 14 days ago • 39 comments

Happy Black History Month

submitted 14 days ago • 55 comments

I’m glad everyone has come around on the Musk hate, but I could have told you he was on some villain shit since Starlink. Pure disaster profiteering in action.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

At this point I don’t think the good guys are the ones that developed Time Machine technology first.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "Dude, this is actually a very minor conflict," said Gandalf, "Sauron isn't even the main bad guy, that's Morgoth. All of this is a minor skirmish compared to what was happening before. Read the Silmarillion, damn."

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments