Rachel Hands
@rachelhands.com
contains work, tech, books, good light, weird art and music. also sometimes cats. she/her. 🖤🩶🤍💜. opinions mine. mostly-work writing at the link: rachelhands.com
ok it’s bandcamp friday this week (all $ goes to artists and not songtradr) so if you tell me 1) an emoji/vibe 2) whether you want lyrics or not and 3) whether you’re budgeting for a song or an album I’ll recommend you something out of my weird-classical collection
I bet I would get at least one workday per month back in time saved explaining why my answer is no, ai cannot decide that
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 7h agoHaving fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card 📚
i would like to buy a round for whoever was on the team that built “hide this post for me”
sure, why not. bonus internet points if you can guess my answers.
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
this is also not to fall into the trap of the woman who, having stopped to help me get my car out of a snowbank, heard a Philip Glass string quartet on my stereo and said “classical music! you must be a good person.” a few minutes earlier and she would have been scared away by George Crumb.
Rachel Hands@rachelhands.com · 2d agoam I really going to have to write my fucking Senators about how I majored in the French horn and am also a contributing member of my community
am I really going to have to write my fucking Senators about how I majored in the French horn and am also a contributing member of my community
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
millennial story time: a few weeks ago I threw away a box something came in, feeling like I had thrown off the curse of my generation. unstoppable. anyway I need to return that thing now. we’ve all been right this whole time
Might anyone know of a small, non-intimidating zine-y guidebook that helps folks navigate the logistics (+ ethics) of *collaborative* publication — demystifying the design + production process; explaining formatting + rights clearances; addressing mutual accountability + collaborative review, etc.?
Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?
This publication was prompted by an invitation from Mariame Kaba to join her in a discussion titled: Why Make Zines in 2025: Information Control Under Fascism
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“In some ways, the worst part about the MemoMind One isn’t its flaws; it’s that it works almost exactly as intended.” gizmodo.com/you-dont-wan...
Xgimi MemoMind One Review: You Don’t Want Smart Glasses That Record Everything You Say
I tested Xgimi's MemoMind One, and I don't think I ever want to venture down that path again.
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update: it’s a mandarin x-pression rose, apparently
Rachel Hands@rachelhands.com · 4d agoteam, i need to draw yr attention to this weirdo in particular. what is happening here. i know one of you nerds knows.
continuing to try to figure out whether I can write about this whole situation in a way that is useful (to me and/or others), doesn’t exploit the experiences of my colleagues who were hit harder by the implosion of the company, and doesn’t involve swimming in it for longer than is healthy for me.
Rachel Hands@rachelhands.com · 6d agothinking, again, about how defrauding investors out of $100M sent the co-CEOs of my last company to federal prison for 9 and 11 years
eighteen years ago this perfect angel was the awakest one at the cat shelter and my housemate thought that was a sign we were meant for her. he was right, I guess
In a strange coincidence: today at SITE, there were free FGT workbooks. my sister & I remembered seeing FGT‘s retrospective @ The Bund Art Museum in Shanghai when I lived there and we teared up looking at the lightbulbs hanging in the stairwell, coiling on the floor. more reminders to read
Rachel Hands@rachelhands.com · 4d agoI managed to not do any work today but I did not manage to avoid wrecking myself in the coffee shop
I managed to not do any work today but I did not manage to avoid wrecking myself in the coffee shop
team, i need to draw yr attention to this weirdo in particular. what is happening here. i know one of you nerds knows.
Rachel Hands@rachelhands.com · 5d agohaving a bit of a rough week and bestie told the florist to send me their weirdest about it. 💜
exactly tired enough that I thought this was the cover of an & Other Stories book
Dael Norwood@dael.bsky.social · 5d agoIt's been a minute since the title page of a law review article made me frown this hard
having a bit of a rough week and bestie told the florist to send me their weirdest about it. 💜
if you’ve ever wondered why I trust @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social to sell me books without asking first, I could tell you or you could read this review
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 6d agoIt's Thursday #BookSky AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! New review at PSRB! This week it's our first collection of poetry as @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social reviews the "vibrant poetic tableau" Designated Stranger by Gion Davis
sorry, I can’t, I’m listening to a bassoon album called Righteous Rage rebekahheller.bandcamp.com/album/righte...
Righteous Rage, by Rebekah Fawn Heller
5 track album
rebekahheller.bandcamp.com
LucidChart (current home to all my emotional support flow charts) just started forcing you to use their chatbot when you want to change the shape of a diagram element, and I do not have time to find a new solution about it. just let me move from square to parallelogram in peace.
Rachel Hands@rachelhands.com · last wk.so in addition to being entirely incorrect about the output, this is a really interesting data point about what the Miro team thinks their product is for. I have more thoughts about this than time to skeet right now but it kind of boils down to: are we here to facilitate a collaborative process? or…
thinking, again, about how defrauding investors out of $100M sent the co-CEOs of my last company to federal prison for 9 and 11 years
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
so in addition to being entirely incorrect about the output, this is a really interesting data point about what the Miro team thinks their product is for. I have more thoughts about this than time to skeet right now but it kind of boils down to: are we here to facilitate a collaborative process? or…
Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · last wk.Just opened Miro for the first time in a little while to find that it won't let me just draw a diagram, it wants to me to hang out with its little chatbot friend. So I ask it to draw three concentric circles.
it is my sincere hope that none of you ever need to access my zine, but if you do happen to find yourself leading in times of crisis, the Somerville Public Library has you covered
Rachel Hands@rachelhands.com · last wk.yes hi hello i have a CALL NUMBER at my LOCAL LIBRARY and it is SMALL PRESS HANDS (if it’s also your local library you can come check it out!) somerville.minlib.net/Record/.b438...
