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Anna (Spots)

@dalmatian.life
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Tulsa, for now. Art/blog/fun: dalmatian.life Dev: C++/Py/Ruby/Rust: codeberg.org/Spots Cat mum x3. Religious leftist. Real life librarian(ish) @ UCB! en, learning fr and ua. Follow for computers, Dalmatians, and/or the Chicago Bears.

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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 07/08/2026
Very disappointed in AirDrop's #accessibility in Mac OS Tahoe. Using VoiceOver for testing, needed to share a screenshot to my other Mac: No update on transfer status beyond initial 'boop', nor any notification when the transfer completed. If I had an actual #disability, I'd never know it finished!
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 28/07/2026
New post! dalmatian.life/2026/07/28/a... #art #digitalart #MyLittlePony #FriendshipIsMagic #101DalmatianStreet #101DS You know the funny thing is, I made this art before the G6 announcement 😂
Twilight Sparkle looking a bit concerned, with Spike to her left as a Dalmatian looking even more concerned.  Triple D, in pony form, are upset with Twilight: Deja Vu asks "What have you done to us?!", Dallas asks "How do I care for a mane?!", and Destiny asks "Are there any foxes in the Everfree Forest?"
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Danuki of Danuki's Dalmatian Studio!!🔵🐢🎥 @danukistudios.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#101DalmatianStreet #Disney #DisneyPlus #101Dalmatians My dedicated pups, let's wish a VERY Happy Birthday to the beloved voice actress behind the animal pacifist Destiny, and the goofy odd-ball Deja Vu: Lauren Lindsey Donzis!!🎉🎈🥳 (1/2)
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 07/05/2026
I wrote a #blog a bit different than most I write. It's meant to be #inspirational. Take a moment out of your day to intentionally acknowledge a nice thing someone does. It doesn't even have to be at you. Maybe it's even something *you* do. Keep smiling =) dalmatian.life/2026/05/06/i...
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It’s the little things that matter – The Dalmatian Life
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 03/05/2026
I have finally drawn Daffodil, a character from my stories! Check out my blog for more info about her! dalmatian.life/2026/05/03/r... #art #furry #oc #dalmatian #digitalart #101DalmatianStreet (she's Delilah's sister, after all…)
A sketch of a Dalmatian wearing a yellow collar with black ears.A sketch of Delilah, Daffodil, and Dave, three sibling Dalmatian dogs next to each other.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 27/04/2026
I wrote an article a few days ago about the disappointment I feel that the Title II regulation in the US has been pushed out another year. #accessibility #webdev #tech #humanrights dalmatian.life/2026/04/22/a...
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Accessibility: the deadline is now – The Dalmatian Life
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 27/04/2026
Update: I am proper knackered from the diphenhydramine but I also just wrote what I believe may be the best example of object oriented Python in my entire career and I am so proud of it! We will see if that pride lasts tomorrow when I wake up without being drugged.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 27/04/2026
Well, now that my visit to A&E (dalmatian.life/2026/04/27/s...) is over, I suppose I can just work an early shift and go to bed super early. Especially since there is no way sleeping for two hours is going to do me any good. Anyone know what diphenhydramine does to Python skills?
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Spots Visits the Emergency Room – The Dalmatian Life
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Danuki of Danuki's Dalmatian Studio!!🔵🐢🎥 @danukistudios.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
#101DalmatianStreet #101Dalmatians #Disney #DisneyPlus #HappyBirthday April 15th, my dedicated pups! Which means it's VA P.C. Pearl voice actress Tameka Empson's Birthday!!🎊🎉🎈 Let's give her a big round of applause for her performance as Camden's finest police horse!👮🐎
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a dalmatian dog is being held by a dinosaur
ALT: a dalmatian dog is being held by a dinosaur
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 11/04/2026
Yesterday I did two art projects. A quick sketch of Da Vinci, this time in charcoal on physical paper, and a digital illustration of my Dal form! dalmatian.life/2026/04/10/m... #art #furryart #101DS #dalmatian #101DalmatianStreet #fanart #digitalart #charcoal
My sketch of Da Vinci in charcoal
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 31/03/2026
Being visible this #TransDayOfVisibility. 🏳️‍⚧️ dalmatian.life/2026/03/31/b...
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Being visible – The Dalmatian Life
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 31/03/2026
A rough sketch of Da Vinci! dalmatian.life/2026/03/30/a... #art #furryart #101DS #dalmatian #101DalmatianStreet #fanart #digitalart
A sketch of Da Vinci Dalmatian, rendered in 30px Graphite (grayscale) in Adobe Fresco on an iPad Pro.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 29/03/2026
Sadly, the #MARCHintosh + #101DS crossover stream is not meant to be. My G5 has decided to ground itself. dalmatian.life/2026/03/29/l...
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Live stream is: Delayed – The Dalmatian Life
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 24/03/2026
Keep an eye on this space: I'm planning a #MARCHintosh + #101DS crossover live stream on Sunday! dalmatian.life/2026/03/24/p...
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Planning my first live stream! – The Dalmatian Life
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 21/03/2026
"Scan early, scan often": one Dalmatian's thoughts on cancer screenings. dalmatian.life/2026/03/21/s... #health #wellbeing #cancer #screening
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“Scan early, scan often” – The Dalmatian Life
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 20/03/2026
Old band Web sites: a trip down memory lane. dalmatian.life/2026/03/20/o... #history #archival #music #retrocomputing
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Old band Web sites – The Dalmatian Life
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 19/03/2026
New blog post: Oh, for a simpler Paint… dalmatian.life/2026/03/19/o... #technology #simplicity #ui #windows
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Oh, for a simpler Paint… – The Dalmatian Life
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 24/01/2026
Tehran: Iranian government kills protestors, violating human rights and garnering international condemnation. Minneapolis: US government kills protestors, violating human rights and garnering international condemnation. Khamenei and Trump are virtually indistinguishable at this point.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 21/01/2026
Also, I spent the entirety of winter curtailment writing plot outlines and dialogue for a series of graphic novels. Early review with a few close friends seems to be that I may actually have something here worth developing. So that's kind of cool and an unexpected hobby!
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 21/01/2026
Shoutout to my former next door neighbour that played The Black Parade at 100% volume one day during the height of the pandemic. I sang along so hard. I'm doing that right now since the adjoining flat is presently empty, and it just reminded me of that day.
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 25/10/2025
I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
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Katerina Marchán 🐈 @zkat.tech · 06/10/2025
"An actual community-oriented/governed/powered co-operative rolls in to do a full takeover of the RubyGems ecosystem after RubyGems/Ruby Central themselves got taken over by the fash" was not on my bingo cards for 2025 either but here we are and I am here for it: gem.coop LFG, kids. Coops ftw
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 29/09/2025
A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.
I'm calling to demand that Senator Schumer not allow Donald Trump to take away access to transgender health care for anyone, let alone people with federal or state health insurance.
Trans healthcare is lifesaving medicine. It is not cosmetic or frivolous; it is miraculous and it is vital.
It is not something trans people can just go without.
[You can add a personal anecdote here-how it has helped you or someone you love, how long you've been receiving trans healthcare, etc.J Trans people are also over twice as likely to live in poverty, which means they are often receiving this care through government-funded programs. They simply cannot afford it otherwise. If this care is lost, trans American lives will be lost too. This is the truth.
If none of this stirs the Senator's compassion, please understand that trans people are, as a group, politically active, and they are rarely Republicans. The Senator should understand that if he caves and allows Trump to do this to us, it would be a betrayal of his constituents at an unforgivable level. If he caves, I will never vote for a Democrat again. I will not vote for a Democrat for president, for senator, for dogcatcher. This is a promise.
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Xe @xeiaso.net · 28/09/2025
What's not working: the pure JS fallback. The library I hoped would work did not. If there is anyone out there in my audience that is a WebAssembly expert, please poke me in DM.
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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...
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RubyGems.org | your community gem host
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 11/07/2025
Why the actual hell did my phone in Tulsa, OK just tone out a #WEA for a blue alert in Texas? Who do I report this abuse of WEA to? This is clearly not related to anything #okwx and it will have a hugely detrimental effect on keeping people weather aware if this continues.
My iPhone Lock Screen showing an Emergency Alert, about someone who injured a police officer in Texas.  It says at the end: "no credible info Song [the suspect] is in Oklahoma".
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 12/06/2025
I am so excited! Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in #Tulsa act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...
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Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Tulsa
RSVP today to say you'll join Bernie in Tulsa on Saturday, June 21! Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Tulsa Saturday, June 21 3:30pm Doors Open 4:00pm Music by Parker Mi...
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 30/11/2024
Wrote a new blog on the surprising portability issues I hit while working on OpenCL for the distro: catfox.life/2024/11/29/t... #Linux #graphics #programming #MoreCPUDiversityNeeded
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The complexities of enabling OpenCL support
Hello, and welcome back to FOSS Fridays! One of the final preparations for the release of Adélie Linux 1.0-beta6 has been updating the graphical stack to support Wayland and the latest advancements…
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austin @aparker.io · 16/03/2024
is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?
Screenshot of a headline in The Atlantic reading “Crows are taking over American cities”
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 17/03/2024
Also: if you’re a privacy activist, watch NCMEC. US legislators will track to their position on this pretty quickly if things come under discussion. You can’t imagine how many doors opened for me because I was on their Board.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 17/03/2024
Even the supposed good guys can be bad sometimes. It's very important that the govt doesn't mess with our encryption.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "S1ackbot" and the G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 23/02/2024
For FOSS Friday, I wrote up how I have recently deployed a Gentoo #Linux virtualisation server: catfox.life/2024/02/23/e...
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Experiences with building a Gentoo virtualisation host
As part of my work to set up infrastructure for a few projects that I hope to launch with some mates in the coming months, I needed to set up a KVM virthost using Gentoo. I decided to write up the pro...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/02/2024
📢👇
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 08/12/2023
Finally figured out the correct way to make a global theme for KDE Plasma 5, so now the design stuff we've done at Adélie Linux can be provided to users in a nice way.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 21/09/2023
Hurts my soul.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 17/09/2023
I've written a long article on my identity but I'm nervous to share it with how the US seems to treat "others" these days. I want to share it on every social network, but I don't know how some of my ppl - family and professional - would react. I'm in the "LGBTIQA+" acronym. It shouldn't matter…
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 12/09/2023
Any ham radio fans? 🙋Check out the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications, now with >90,000 items related to amateur radio, shortwave listening, amateur television & more! blog.archive.org/2023/09/12/d...
DLARC logo in white, featuring a radio tower, on an orange background.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 17/09/2023
Finally cleared out my phone of six years of photo and video debris. Now I have the space to install apps again, including Bluesky! Maybe now I'll be more active here.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 18/07/2023
In the past ten years, I signed up for a total of one social network: Mastodon. In the past month, I have signed up for two more social networks: Threads, and Bluesky. Each one seems to have its own feeling and it's honestly kind of nice to see them all grow.
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Anna (Spots) @dalmatian.life · 18/07/2023
Just setting up my bsky…
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