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Britt A

@balloonleap.bsky.social
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SSHRC Postdoc (CRPA), Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (UVic) || PhD in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies ('23, Carleton U) || ~on leave~

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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This artistic render of what the Earth could look like when the sun becomes a red giant brought out some feels. I remember walking to kindergarten when my then step dad told me (incorrectly) that the sun would explode one day. I was five. It had a lasting impression you could say.
Artist's concept of the Earth 5–7.5 billion years from now, when the Sun has become a red giant
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 02/10/2026
The CBC was so lucky to land @alexboyd.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
It’s the biggest Alberta separatist account on the internet. It shares DNA with a movement leader | CBC News
The account Rise of Alberta is anonymous and drives four times as much engagement as the next most popular account.
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Spooktackular! And while you're opting out, opt in to open: open software, open access, open infrastructure...the list goes on ;) www.eff.org/pages/welcom...
eff.org
Welcome to Opt Out October. Let’s Take Control of Our Data and Our Devices
Big tech companies are hell-bent on taking away our agency and forcing us to use their surveillance-based services, apps, and devices. It’s hard to fight against, and it often feels much easier to giv...
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Our kite will fly up and up,” said Frog. “It will fly all the way up to the top of the sky.”
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So good. It's one page. dontbeameatproxy.com
dontbeameatproxy.com
don't be a meat proxy
Please don't copy-paste AI answers at people. Read it, understand it, check it, then say it in your own words.
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just had a great laugh at my own expense. I was momentarily convinced Leonard Cohen was Mr. Spock. Imagine my surprise when I found out that the Spock in question was also a Leonard (Nimoy). Brains are funny pals.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/09/2026
Care work is often invisible and undervalued, leaving history at risk of disappearing. Amanda Gray Rendón examines how social media can preserve caregiving work and the communities that support it in VANISHING CULTURE. 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
Quote tile with an orange background and greenish-black text. Headline reads: "Can we archive a history that is designed to be hidden?" Quote below reads: "The invisible, and at times isolating, nature of care work contributes to the precarity of archiving women's care labor history." Attributed to Amanda Gray Rendon, Researcher. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just came across this article on data&society: "Lessons from Mutual Aid for the Digital Age: Building Collective Capacity for the Future of Care" datasociety.net/research-lib...
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mean is easy, kind is tough.
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What draws me to open scholarship isn't open access publishing, OER, open infrastructure, open methods, or broadening notions of scholars and scholarship... It's that, at heart, OS is mutual aid at work. Peer to peer to peer.
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Frog came running down the hill. He pulled Toad out of the snow.
Frog pulls Toad out of the snow.

From "Down the Hill"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*
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SCOSS @scossfunding.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🔧 5 practical principles for supporting open infrastructure: 1️⃣ Know what you are using 2️⃣ Treat infrastructure as a shared responsibility 3️⃣ Prioritize community-governed infrastructure 4️⃣ Fund as core infrastructure, not a project 5️⃣ Start small and stay consistent 👉 scoss.org/supporting-o...
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Supporting open infrastructure at your institution: Five guiding principles - SCOSS - The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services
Institutions rely on open infrastructure every day, yet many of these essential infrastructures operate on fragile  budgets. While institutions have long invested in research outputs, including…
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton's 9to5 film was based on a grassroots organizing labor movement led by women www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
'A lost history': the US women who fought for better working conditions
PBS documentary on 9to5 shows how women’s organizing efforts in 1970s to better working conditions echos many of today’s social justice movements
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Associate Production Editor – part time remote opportunity workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default…
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Recruitment
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zach @extrafabulous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Today in WTF: Google buys old Spirit Airlines emails and Teams chats to train AI. www.techspot.com/news/113526-...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
404media.co
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 12/08/2026
It feels like we're moving past the idea of "open" as the sharing of everything by everyone to everyone. It's sad for COS, but I think the shift may allow us to foreground a better understanding of openness defined by practices/communities/relationships rather than whether a resource is open/closed.
cos.io
OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Find out more about the finalists in the 2026 @acls1919.bsky.social #OpenAccess Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards Authors from @openbookpublish.bsky.social and @lsepress.bsky.social share their experiences of publishing #OA 🔗 buff.ly/ZWK1Tw4 #OABooks #AcademicPublishing
acls.org
How Open Access Is Expanding the Public Reach of Humanistic Scholarship
The 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prize finalists share how their open access books have reached new audiences.
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TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hundreds of communities across the US have passed or are considering data center moratoriums. What happens next? Join us on Aug 19 at 1pm ET for a workshop on the policy tools and organizing strategies that protect against the data center buildout. zoom.us/webinar/regi...
photograph of data center with yellow text stating "you passed a data center moratorium: now what?!" below as a footer are all the logos of the organizations hosting on top of a yellow background.
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Snake eating its tail is also the imagery Marie Battiste used, I'm 95% sure, to describe Cognitive Imperialism. It's some A1 imagery / conceptual framing for the now moment. Also the autocorrect on my phone has gotten bolder lately & is overwriting/Americanizing more than a few of my words STAHP
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
All of this enshittification is just leading us back to offline everything aka before Internet times aka everything THEY wanted all along but don't ask me who THEY is because I don't have the Simpsons reference locked and loaded yet.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This was a truly impactful realization for me. In the health communication literature, there's "disparate impact frames" which are effective if the (majoritarian) audience actually cares about adverse outcomes affecting people who don't look like them. We saw that this was not the case.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
digitaldigging.org
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The question I have is not whether anyone is actually buying this wagon full of BS that is mostly everything related to greedy grabs and implementations of AI, bc I learned the hard way back in 2016 that the q should be WHO IS buying this, what are their stake, and what do they have to lose...
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Surveillance self defense from the Electronic Frontier Foundation supports newbies like me in thinking through different security scenarios and what to do. Bonus: you'll feel like a character from a Doctorow novel if you implement even just a smidge of some of the suggestions ssd.eff.org
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Surveillance Self-Defense
We’re the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a member-supported non-profit working to protect online privacy for over thirty-five years. This is Surveillance Self-Defense: our expert guide to protecting ...
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Interdependent Study Podcast @interdependentstudy.com · 29/07/2026
📚 EPISODE 260! 📚 In today’s episode, we discuss the book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social (and published by @versobooks.bsky.social).
New episode announcement image for the Interdependent Study podcast featuring a gray background with black marks and stylized image renderings of the cohosts in each bottom corner of the image with episode title Mutual Aid: Solidarity Beyond Crises in yellow text
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Water thievin' light pollutin' data centers have no place anywhere. There are better ways to design these buildings that takes into account principles like environmental stewardship, Indigenous sovereignty, community, and so on
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Learned about an alternative security minded Android OS and some extra things I can do to maintain the security of my mobile devices while travelling.
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Um okay I thought I was alone in my frustrations here 😂 bless
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
FINALLY getting back into @aaronmauro.bsky.social 's 2024 book linking Aristotlean rhetoric to cyber security (and then some—I am slowly finishing the first chapter still, so my understanding is evolving...). I am really interested in how Mauro opens the convo w an invitation to humanities folks 1/2
Book, The Language of Cyber Attacks, by Author Aaron Mauro is featured in the foreground. Adorable babbling baby attempting to attack / slime said book is featured in the background
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a hand holding an envelope addressed to House on the Giant Turtle’s Back. Panel 2: a postal worker, holding the envelope, stands on the rocky shore of a sea before an enormous tortoise trudging through the water. It has some trees and a house on top of its shell. Panel 3: the postal worker looks back down at the envelope, looking emotionally debilitated.
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
NO JUSTICE ON STOLEN LAND
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Your ChatGPT flyer looks cringey AF and other musings on the socio-rhetorics of writing and AI... Finally, the title for the book I don't want to write LAWL
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
More Art! Image of eye and lips drawn with oil pastels. Words written with pen. "No one actually knows what they are doing"
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Exactly! Academics act like organizing and collective action are things that are elsewhere, like in Staples, not something our lives depend on
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
1) it's not gender-affirming care when it's being foisted upon ppl w/o their consent. this policy is *invasive* 2) anti-trans GAC legislation is *also invasive* as it's designed to take away control of our own bodies. LET'S CALL IT INVASIVE! LET'S PROMOTE BODILY AUTONOMY RATHER THAN MAKING GAC JOKES
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 16/07/2026
As governments look to expand Roberts Bank, scientists warn one of Canada’s most important ecosystems for salmon, southern resident killer whales and migratory birds could pay the price. @sobittersosweet.bsky.social’s latest: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-pipe... #bcpoli
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What Alberta's proposed Roberts Bank oil tanker terminal would mean for the Fraser River estuary | The Narwhal
A new oil tanker terminal alongside the Port of Vancouver's Roberts Bank expansion is raising concerns about salmon, southern resident killer whales and migratory birds
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Adventures in print making at our art cabin in the woods. Images of print that has hands reaching toward each other and the word mutual aid etched in
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’
Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
@MadocCairns 3 years ago

me in 1562 having a friday night flagon of sack with my fellows: i will notte be seen Deade at Chapell now the Protestantes hath done a Numbre on it

me on Saturday morning when the constable asks me if he'll see me at church: Most certinly Sir. Chapell gets bettre every Week Sir
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Weekday Jokes @weekdayjokes.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Mortal Kombat was actually based on a Scandinavian church song. It was a Finnish hymn
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hey did you know you can find radically awesome protest posters for printing and flyering at justseeds.org? I love the work this cooperative does, and they are generous enough to share their work openly for anyone looking to adding some post-up action to their days 🤗❤️
justseeds.org
Home - Justseeds
Artists' Cooperative
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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 07/04/2026
All bloody principles and practices, as to our own particulars, we utterly deny; with all outward wars and strife, and fightings with outward weapons, for any end, or under any pretense whatsoever; this is our testimony to the whole world.
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Making. #quakersopposeallwar
a homemade protest poster that says "no war no war" and "oppose all war," and features a cut out of a child carrying a bag on their back.A page from an old National Geographic magazine with the words "no war no war" cut out of it.
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