Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This 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. 000
Reposted by Britt ASimon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 02/10/2026The CBC was so lucky to land @alexboyd.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caIt’s the biggest Alberta separatist account on the internet. It shares DNA with a movement leader | CBC NewsThe account Rise of Alberta is anonymous and drives four times as much engagement as the next most popular account. 192
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Spooktackular! 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.orgWelcome to Opt Out October. Let’s Take Control of Our Data and Our DevicesBig 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... 000
Reposted by Britt AFrog 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.” 0717
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026So good. It's one page. dontbeameatproxy.comdontbeameatproxy.comdon't be a meat proxyPlease don't copy-paste AI answers at people. Read it, understand it, check it, then say it in your own words. 000
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just 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. 000
Reposted by Britt AEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’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.wisn.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour 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. 122103192676
Reposted by Britt AInternet Archive @archive.org · 22/09/2026Care 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... 🧵 215543
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Just 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... 040
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What 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. 020
Reposted by Britt AFrog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Frog came running down the hill. He pulled Toad out of the snow. 018116
Reposted by Britt ASCOSS @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...scoss.orgSupporting open infrastructure at your institution: Five guiding principles - SCOSS - The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science ServicesInstitutions 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… 094
Reposted by Britt AMichael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly 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 conditionsPBS documentary on 9to5 shows how women’s organizing efforts in 1970s to better working conditions echos many of today’s social justice movements 3947631565
Reposted by Britt AOpen Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026Associate Production Editor – part time remote opportunity workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default…workforcenow.adp.comRecruitment 001
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Today in WTF: Google buys old Spirit Airlines emails and Teams chats to train AI. www.techspot.com/news/113526-... 000
Reposted by Britt AJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New 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.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe 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. 12537942368
Reposted by Britt A852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Bro. People are cool as fuck. 274164112327
Reposted by Britt ASamuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 12/08/2026It 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.ioOSF Changes | Center for Open ScienceWe 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... 1168
Reposted by Britt ACopim @copim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Find 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 #AcademicPublishingacls.orgHow Open Access Is Expanding the Public Reach of Humanistic ScholarshipThe 2026 ACLS Open Access Book Prize finalists share how their open access books have reached new audiences. 096
Reposted by Britt ATechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Hundreds 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... 22311
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The 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 000
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 08/08/2026All 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. 000
Reposted by Britt AArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This 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. 15120
Reposted by Britt Arax ‘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 863811617
Reposted by Britt AFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026I 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.orgHow to plant a nuclear plant in IranThe question is: what on earth is Google doing? 742393894
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The 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... 010
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Surveillance 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.orgssd.eff.orgSurveillance Self-DefenseWe’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 ... 000
Reposted by Britt AInterdependent 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). 165
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Water 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 000
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Learned about an alternative security minded Android OS and some extra things I can do to maintain the security of my mobile devices while travelling. 000
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Um okay I thought I was alone in my frustrations here 😂 bless 010
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 28/07/2026FINALLY 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 1/2 120
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Your 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 020
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 16/07/2026More Art! Image of eye and lips drawn with oil pastels. Words written with pen. "No one actually knows what they are doing" 000
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Exactly! Academics act like organizing and collective action are things that are elsewhere, like in Staples, not something our lives depend on 051
Reposted by Britt AJulia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/07/20261) 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 4540381139
Reposted by Britt AThe Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 16/07/2026As 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... #bcpolithenarwhal.caWhat Alberta's proposed Roberts Bank oil tanker terminal would mean for the Fraser River estuary | The NarwhalA 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 56340
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Adventures 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 000
Reposted by Britt AFrank 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.comBosses 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 412148
Reposted by Britt AWeekday Jokes @weekdayjokes.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Mortal Kombat was actually based on a Scandinavian church song. It was a Finnish hymn 12664180
Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Hey 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.orgHome - JustseedsArtists' Cooperative 021
Reposted by Britt AFriends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 07/04/2026All 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. 02013