Persephone (cat): hits puzzle button Persephone: follows me excitedly as I get the puzzle and put treats in it Also Persephone: Looks offended that a) I expect her to actually do the puzzle and b) it's not her favorite treats (we're out, so we just have like... 3 other kinds)

Related to that re-post about accessibility issues at PAX West (but I didn't want to derail that post), one of the coolest aspects of @orcacon.bsky.social is the Accessibility Coordinator (who patrols with a measuring stick to make sure the con is navigable). www.orcacon.org/accessibilit...

It's not intersectionality if it's not accessible

Candace the Magnificent 🔜 PAXU@thecandacemarie.bsky.social · 17h ago

Marginalized gamers rise up, this is unacceptable. @officialpax.bsky.social @penny-arcade.com you're doing a massive disservice to your disabled, queer, & BIPOC communities. Please fix this. A diverse & accessible space is the least you can do for fans who spend their time & money w you every year.

JKR is alive and very rich and hating trans people is her whole deal so you can just not f with her or her work. So much art in the world that isn’t being made by someone who is trying to erase my children.

Brainstorming pages/layout/etc. for my website. There are a ton of guides and templates and such, so I'm sure I can make something decent. Question: for those who look for job candidates or panelists or collaborators or otherwise look at people's websites, what info do you want to find?

Tetris, welcome to the Resistance

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 23h ago

I did not have Tetris needing to put out anti-fascist statements on my bingo card, but here we are

One #PAXWest panel left to do! Sunday, September 6th 11:00 am Blue Dragon Theatre with me, @samanthabethune.bsky.social @kindofstrange.com @geekyfriedrice.bsky.social @gregtito.com and @adamjohns.bsky.social

I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.

This is your periodic reminder that I'm on the job market and would love to bring my approach to your department, school, lab, or organization. carolinerpitt.phd Autumn 2026 Teaching: Moral Reasoning and Interaction Design (INFO 356) And we've got some fun papers in the works.

I don't currently have any plans to be at PAX West but I will be in the area, so if anyone needs last-minute booth/table support... (Or if you want to grab lunch or a beverage or something.) (I wasn't sure I would be in the area so I didn't apply for any panels. Welp.)

... I talk like I'm from the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic and very much not the Midwest apparently. True, but not precise. Also kind of GenAm/newscaster accent but nowhere near as crisp.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 2d ago

Damn. It really works.

As a reminder I have this starter pack that I'd love to add more folks to (mostly to make a fun custom feed of TTRPG scholar nerdery). I know there are more than 150 of us but I haven't hit that limit yet so... #TTRPG #RPG #TTRPGScholars go.bsky.app/NmSNGup

My favorite blend is BACK (in a few days technically) #synesthesiaart #thegoblinking #greentea

Everyone's a critic of my photography staging. (I got my backer stuff and also a gift for someone.)

Getting some conference/convention FOMO this summer for sure, but super inspired by all the great work coming out of these meetups! Looking forward to attending in the future, but for the moment I'm living vicariously through the posts. (And channeling some positive energies into job searching!)

Hope all my fellow Seattle folks are safe. Went to Bite of Seattle on Friday afternoon (bf wanted to go) because it was likely to be the least crowded. It was still *very* busy, so I can imagine how densely packed it was today. Terrifying.

Please enjoy first strawberry of the garden and first cherry tomato of the garden. Both delicious.

By the rules of the social construction of knowledge, the academic article form is a fantasy sub-genre

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

every genre is fantasy if you remember it's made up

We have discovered a planet. It is small-scale and impolite. The wind is dainty and smells of garlic.

Meatballs and orzo tonight. Somehow the mint was mysteriously absent from the fridge but we made it work... turns out shiso/perilla works fairly well, the catmint was fine but didn't do much compared to the shiso. (I have both in the garden.) www.foodandwine.com/greek-meatba...

What are your favorite Python learning resources (preferably .edu/free/open)? I took a couple semesters of object-oriented programming (Java) in undergrad and I have some basic web programming familiarity, but I want to strengthen my quant analysis and dev skills, as I've been doing a lot of qual.

Yep: “[T]he point is that communing with other people doing critical work is necessary to sustain the work.”

Community, Care, and Joy in Remaking, Resisting, and Reimagining EdTech — Civics of Technology

Civics of Technology Announcements Annual Conference : We are holding our 5th Annual Conference on August 6th-7th, 2026! Our keynotes this year are Dr. Meredith Broussard (data journalist & aut...

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*taps microphone* Is this thing on?? I AM LOOKING FOR SCIENCE HISTORIANS. IF THAT IS YOU PLEASE WAVE AT ME OR YELL LOUDLY IN MY DIRECTION! (It's for a wee little side project)

I have various goals this summer and they include 1) learning more programming (Python, mostly) and 2) making a proper website. Have begun both of these, eventually carolinerpitt.phd will redirect to carolinerpitt.github.io and we will be ~fancy~.

I don't think we have a lab bsky so gonna put this here... Ari did a new version of the lab sticker with our newer lab members! Clockwise, starting at 12: Jin Ha, Jason, Emmi, Johnny, Marc, me!, Lidia, Michele, Runhua, Alex, Dany, Lane, Nisha. It's so cuuuute.

Spring quarter grades submitted! Now maybe I can catch up on CR. Or hibernate briefly. ~semi-sabbatical summer~

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

sinceyouarrived.world

We need to have a long conversation in higher ed (and ed in general tbh) about our dependence on proprietary software platforms, especially learning management systems

For years I've insisted that my dream job is working in an 18F-style software modernization office for higher ed. This is exactly why.

Brendan Harley@profharley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Who could have imagined turning over campus instructional infrastructure to a private equity backed for-profit firm would have a downside? Not like this is the end of the semester with students studying for exams that start tomorrow. And all their course materials are inaccessible. 🤡

This makes me want to email my ethics and policy masters' students from last quarter and go "remember when we talked about data minimization?"