Reposted by k8linJacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The important thing to remember here is that in the early days of personal computing, lots of software was widely and freely exchanged. Microsoft hated this and worked hard to shift both culture and law against free software but they could never quite kill it totally dead. 131
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When you dreamed of a new normal in 2020, was the new normal filled with repeat infections, loss of cognition, fatigue, excess deaths, watching people "too young" having mysterious heart attacks and strokes, etc.? No? Me neither. It's why I still mask and why you should too! :) 070
Reposted by k8linJane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 05/10/2026i can't help but think of how many university/college students, queer or otherwise, disabled or not, racialized or not, are going through it rn. you do not have to share your experiences on the internet if you're not ready & don't want to. but if you do choose to, you deserve protection and support. 0188
Reposted by k8linViolet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026If you haven't read @jjpionke.bsky.social's obituary yet, do it now. He names names about the institutions who let him down as he tried to navigate the tenure process while disabled. jj-pionke-memorial.org Please join me in donating to the JJ Pionke Memorial Scholarship for disabled LIS students. 📚jj-pionke-memorial.orgJJ Pionke Memorial FoundationJJ Pionke - Librarian, LIS Educator, Disability Advocate, and Lover of Cats 13330
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's hard to see this move as anything other than a cash grab. But they made sure to slam the door in disabled member's faces first. For context, I volunteered for them for over a decade and considered myself a valued member. They didn't think I, or anyone with digital access needs, was valuable. 021
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Shocking to see that ASIS&T decided to pivot and add a virtual conference, after making sure to shut out everyone who needed a virtual track in their call for papers. I organized for years with colleagues to beg ASIST to consider adding a virtual option for inclusion. They refused. 120
Reposted by k8linViolet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...meta.wikimedia.orgEvent:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki 44638
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(It's not lost on me that a similar obstruction of a flashing light is partly what caused the 3 Mile Island emergency. The tape isn't permanently on my screen, fwiw.) 010
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My bonkers solution? Lab tape or artists masking tape. I use it on my laptop screen for similar issues and it doesn't ruin my screen but blocks out flashing icons that I can't remove technically. (Maybe test on a less conspicuous spot first, ymmv.) 100
Reposted by k8linBrian (Stuttering Loudly) @stutteringloudly.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Disability related conferences (or ANY conference) can easily do this, rather than coming up with so many excuses Buy 1-2 boxes of masks for those who don’t have masks or forgot, or didn’t know, etc Conferences that don’t try have shown what they REALLY think about disabled / immunocompromised ppl 618944
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I absolutely adore working with Academic Audio Transcription and can't sing their praises highly enough. Amazing captioning and transcription work, I recommend them constantly! 021
Reposted by k8linElizabeth Pearce @elizabethpearce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026BTW, the CDC just changed the rules again saying healthcare workers can return to work 4 days after testing + for Covid, meaning they will be treating patients during their peak infectiousness. If anyone was considering not wearing a respirator or mask in a doctor’s office or hospital 13917
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026making fun of gay people for caring about a pandemic is so 90s 030
Reposted by k8linDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026Disabled people endured & fought against Centuries of paternalistic & outright draconian treatment, eventually making Section 504 a livable, workable reality. Rolling it back will hurt & kill people, & that is not hyperbole. This country's increased anti-disability push is eugenicist to its core. 112050
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I teach 3 hour seminars in a duckbill and it truly becomes unnoticeable to me, like glasses, or most accessibility aids and other technologies that extend/augment/hack the self. 090
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I've got lots of different mask styles if you still haven't landed on one that works. Duckbills are nerdy but man, they are so much easier to speak in! And if you want to wear a classic earloop style but find that they hurt, I can offer you ear savers or earloop kn95s. There are options! :) 090
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hey, if you're teaching in a classroom right now, you'll want to mask up with a kn95 or better. Yeah, they're less comfortable to teach in, but covid is ticking up, and I truly want you to be well. 4395
Reposted by k8linbabs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it is no exaggeration to say that the only way 300,000+ masks were distributed to angelenos as our city burned is bc we learned how to do this kind of thing together: in our leisure spaces, at our drag shows. you laugh—til you need us. and i’ll have a mask for you, because we all deserve clean air. 212219
Reposted by k8linGuy (aka glecharles) @loudpoet.com · 18/09/2026“There's nothing stopping libraries from not accepting [the Big Five’s] terms right now." The Big 5 have shown their cards. I think it's time to call their bluff. www.wordsandmoney.com/in-the-libra...wordsandmoney.comIn the Library Ebook Market, Can Librarians Learn to Just Say No?If recent tensions over library ebook legislation has shown librarians anything, it is that maintaining the status quo in the digital library market is ultimately a choice being made by librarians. Le... 24522
Reposted by k8linMa$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We have the medicine to completely stop the spread of HIV around the world but we won't give it to the people who need it because someone needs to make money off it. 🙄 312350
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If me saying this makes *you* uncomfortable, ask yourself - why? What does that discomfort feel like in your body? What does it sound like in your brain? Dissonance and discomfort are productive and necessary for growth, even though they can feel icky. 081
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Would you be uncomfortable if I didn't wear a mask?" is one of my least favorite questions. I cannot absolve you of your desire to eschew care for yourself, me, or anyone else. And this isn't about comfort. Wearing a mask is solidarity. You can do it! Why don't you? 1134
Reposted by k8linDr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Yes, too burdensome to organise hybrid… but not too burdensome to make hundreds of people burn thousands of dollars on travel expenses - including accommodation, leave their jobs/families for longer than needed, and burn down the planet. 05912
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hey, the North Brunswick, New Jersey town council just banned data centers! Thanks to all the community members who showed up and made their voices heard 💜 080
Reposted by k8linPlague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Based on the date many college students will be returning to campus today. And based on the data SARS-CoV-2 will likely be returning to campus with them. 15711
Reposted by k8linLunatraktors @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Teaching doctors about smoking is a moral imperative. And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking the tobacco industry's money or doing nothing! 04821
Reposted by k8linAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026If you enjoy things like your boss not being able to demand why you’re calling out sick and FMLA and not being forced to hand over your genetic information: thank a disabled activist. Better yet, show up for disabled people. 19130
Reposted by k8linJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Feels like more Disability Cry Month than Disability Pride Month because [gestures at it all] 16712
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I never want to hear the phrase "unintended consequences" again. It's just a facile gift to the opposition, imagining care and empathy when there is only indifference and cruelty. "The purpose of a system is what it does" and all that. 050
Reposted by k8linDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The productive capacities of society are truly unbelievable. Scarcity is entirely about power. 210729
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Hey there! It's a great day to wear a face mask (kn95 or n95). Hit me up if you need some. 092
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026We say that all the time about our cavvy, their snores really are something! 100
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026For sure she is a black & tan Cavalier King Charles spaniel. Very very sweet little guys. 010
Reposted by k8linTim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...bangordailynews.comThese Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big TechDespite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful. 6666402477
Reposted by k8linSciAm Union @sciamunion.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On Tuesday, Scientific American was sold by international publisher Springer Nature. Large numbers of staff were immediately laid off, and salaries of remaining workers were cut by as much as 30% SciAm staff had just voted to unionize. We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting. 3183104
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026They're thinking anout building a data center in my lovely town of North Brunswick, NJ, right next to the high school and a half a mile from my home. Check out datacenternb.com for details and come to the town council meeting on Monday, June 26 to tell them why we don't want this in our community! 042
Reposted by k8linJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 16/06/2026In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comRFK Jr. will oversee disability education policyThe dismantling of the Department of Education continues apace. 81093600
Reposted by k8linMary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Where fiber history meets Pride. This is a large piece (10x28') of one of the two original 30x60' pride flags, the only known surviving section of either. They were designed, hand dyed and sewn by a community of queer artists. The colors are slightly different from most rainbow flags today.smithsonianmag.comLong-Lost Fragment of First Rainbow Pride Flag Resurfaces After Four DecadesThe brilliantly colored banner—now on view in San Francisco—flew on "Gay Freedom Day" in 1978 4674302
Reposted by k8linThe Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 09/06/2026From @whoevenreads.bsky.social: Indie bookstores have often served as hubs of political action and community care. Read more about their masking policies and COVID-19 consciousness in 2026. bit.ly/4unyhKE 19032
Reposted by k8linACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports. 86110694468
Reposted by k8linHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/06/2026This reveal and the news yesterday— about Meta having shipped the code for facial recognition in their glasses—should be understood as very deeply intertwined. 8330202
Reposted by k8linBilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Happy Pride! Reminder: LGBTQ+ people are more likely to be disabled & to lack access to healthcare. Especially trans people. Queer liberation is disabled liberation. You can support both by rejecting eugenics in your daily life: wear an n95 in public spaces. Give/get mask mutual aid:maskbloc.orgWorldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask BlocMaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe. 010375
Reposted by k8linashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/06/2026People have been asking me if I know of a resource like StandWithMinnesota for New Jersey, and I haven't found something comprehensive. So, for the moment, I have put together all the links to NJ orgs, crowdfunding links, events, and stuck them on a page of SWM. standwithminnesota.org/jerseystandwithminnesota.orgNew Jersey — Stand With Minnesota 15873627
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026No one likes to feel dumb! But if we avoid feeling dumb, we won't engage with information that challenges us, surprises us, pushes us, or that supports us in building knowledge and (eventually) wisdom. 040
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The bad feelings - the uncertainty, confusion, doubt, and even hopelessness - are an essential part of the process of engaging with new information. A good teacher will sit with you and figuratively hold your hand to guide you through those feelings so that you can do it on your own in the future. 130
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026If students in my classes learn only one thing, I hope it is the understanding that learning new things is hard and often makes you feel bad. I say: "If you are learning, you will probably feel bad, but in this class you don't have to feel bad alone. We will get through those bad feelings together." 150
Reposted by k8linJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more. 111017281
k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Your question reminds me of this book: www.dukeupress.edu/the-archive-...dukeupress.eduThe Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas 010