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This is a friendly reminder that DRM sucks and that corporations have perverted the digital technologies that should make things easier for libraries and their patrons into ways to squeeze more money out of us while giving us less control.

A ‘hoopla content update’ from a library I used to belong to reading ‘Although it is free for members to use, Capitol Area District Libraries is charged a fee od up to $3.99 for every hoopla checkout. With CADL members checking out more than 19,000 hoopla items each month, costs add up quickly.’


Today’s bike commute getup. One more distant colleague didn’t know who I was until I spoke to her. Other folks who see me more often could recognize me by my helmet alone. 🚲

A man (me!) in a bike helmet, balaclava, sunglasses, a second face covering, and bright-colored jacket. Not pictured: layers of clothes underneath the jacket and a nice new pair of fleece-lines pants.


Reorganizing folders in my RSS/Mastodon/Bluesky client is making me curious about how emoji get alphabetized.

A series of folders, all with the same base name but different emojis afterward. What makes them appear in that order?


J’ai une petite collection d’aimaintins au travail qui me donne de la joie, même si la plupart serait incompréhensible à mes collègues.

des aimantins des trains français et suisses parmi d’autres trucs de nerd


Whenever I put this shirt on for a November jog, I wonder what the Venn diagram is between those who believe gender is biological and immutable and those who believe we have to show one turkey jogger with lipstick, eyelashes, and a pearl necklace so that we know she’s a woman.

Two turkeys on a Thanksgiving 5k commemorative shirt. One turkey has ‘feminine’ eyelashes and is wearing lipstick and a pearl necklace for the race.


Nancy is giving me the courage to finally confess that I do not really like the sweet-potatoes-slathered-in-marshmallows dish.

A Nancy comic where Esther is confronting Nancy on the existence of the ‘marshmallows on top of sweet potatoes’ dish—and on Nancy’s insistence on using a thin layer of sweet potato as a vehicle for a crap ton of marshmallow.


I love having a co-author who can provide the theoretical framing to turn my weird data from a dark corner of the internet into an interesting argument.

Screenshot of a paragraph from a special issue abstract where my co-author and I argue that Mormon groups on Gab illustrate how both Mormonism and the far-right platform rely on balancing the familiar and the strange to be successful.


Have people ever used Snopes as a verb, à la Google? Or is this just the best throwaway detail in a science fiction short story ever?

screenshot from a short story reading ‘I know this is probably an urban legend but I don’t want to snope it and find out’


Love these digs at Twitter in the Kickstarter video for Mike Masnick’s new card game.

picture of a playing card with a stylized Z labeled ‘The Hellsite’ and listing features like ‘Toxic Boss,’ ‘Inflated Metrics,’ and ‘Bot Armies’


Currently feeling some Chidi Anagonye levels of nihilism about grading.

Chidi from The Good Place mixing marshmallow Peeps into a pot of chili and singing a song about it.


Love me a creative rickroll, so I’m glad my brother sent me this right after I got my image posting workflow working.

There once was a singer of old, Who then broke away from the fold, He won’t give you up, He won’t let you down, In a word you’ve been limerick-rolled


It’s been messy, but pretty sure I’ve finally figured out how to post images to my website (and from there to social media) from my phone.

the sickos meme from The Onion