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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still finding settings for illegible AI clutter I missed after OS27 updates🤪 Soon they’ll be self-hiding and I will have to apologize to every Linux fanboy I’ve ever met

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here are instructions for how to get the screen-obscuring OS27 AI overlays out of Scrivener...Seriously you guys I'm starting to feel as if I'm being texted dick pics by my boss, how do I make it stop without losing access to the apps I need to live lol www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scriven...

literatureandlatte.com

Scrivener and AI: Why Do I See AI Prompts in My Scrivener Projects on Mac? - Literature & Latte

Seeing AI icons in Scrivener on Mac? That's Apple Intelligence built into macOS Sequoia and Tahoe. Scrivener itself contains no AI features.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

for whoever needs help muzzling Siri’s AI integration in OS27, this guide shows how. Apple didn’t make it entirely impossible…yet. Autocorrect is still an absolute nightmare 🤷 The TTS model is still unstable 🤷 but security updates are nice I guess… discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250...

discussions.apple.com

Turn off Apple Intelligence in macOS 27

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You just don't understand today's youth, or the way we underestimate them!!! >:[

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

But fart ghosts are so accessible

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Anime Herald @animeherald.com · 12/08/2026

We're preparing to ship out Anime Herald Magazine #2 as we speak! This is a special book, with so many amazing articles. Order today to get yours in the first shipment and support anime journalism. Details: hera.fyi/ahmag2info Print: hera.fyi/buyahmag2 Digital: hera.fyi/buyahmag2dig #anime #books

Cover art for Anime Herald Magazine #2, which features Hera in a grey floral yukata deciding between two masks, at a Japanese summer festival

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Great Plains ADA Center @greatplainsada.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Recent episode of The Sunday Story on @npr.org features the Gang of 19 protests in 1978 #DisabilityHistory

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Great Plains ADA Center @greatplainsada.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The April 2026 issue of our free e-newsletter, The ADA Report, is available now! Get the latest regional and national ADA news. Be sure to subscribe and have it delivered to your inbox. To read the full issue, visit conta.cc/4txGXys

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Gorgeous work, I’m so grateful Kodansha brought this over! Please consider using a standard sans serif font for translation notes in future editions. The current one is extremely difficult to read, even with a magnifying glass!

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Congratulations! As a fellow avid birder I have to say that your depictions of nuthatches are in fact highly accurate. I would know those butts anywhere

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Gorgeous English language run of Mushishi Collector’s Edition from @kodansha.us ! Unfortunate font choices were made for translator‘s and author’s notes (I can’t read them to comment), but the overall quality is amazing. Have some bad pictures

The cover of Mushishi Collectors Edition, a manga, in English. Cover features main character Gin in watercolor painting amidst ghostly botanical and protozoan type creatures whilst tipping a sake cup filled with luminescent liquid.

A picture of a page in Mushishi Collector’s Edition in English. The scene depicts ancient Japanese wilderness in full watercolor pigments. Featured in the painting is a man with a jar on his back, tromping through waist high vegetation whilst chasing a rainbow that artistically stands out amidst a moody twilit sky.

A picture of a page in Mushishi Collector’s Edition in English, depicting translators notes in what for me is an illegible font. A machine copy of the text is as follows—but I can’t verify accuracy.

Watahaki, p. 421
means something like "otonspiter"（綜吐士）inJapanese.
Hitotake, p. 422
Hitotake means something like
“human mushroom”（人茸）. Compare with words for common
mushroom varieties, such as shita
（椎茸）of maitake（舞茸）.
Matagi, p.454 Matagi (X 5) are traditional winter hunters of Japan's Tohoku region who hunt deer and
bear.
Sakabu, p. 454
This is possibly a regional variation of the word sakebu (P4,5%; cry).
Household altar, p. 454 The household shrine, or kamidana (*#*), is a miniature Shinto altar found in many Japanese homes. They are used to enshrine a type of charm known as an ofuda (tED #L), people typically setting out daily offerings of rice, water, salt, and sake before it. Other items such as seasonal fruits may also serve as offerings.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I do use TTS models to access documents and webpages that are otherwise 100% illegible to me. Specifically Natural Reader, which hasn’t been involved in any scraping scandals that I’m aware of…yet.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

”What do we lose when we outsource the drafting phase? We lose thinking…Do not lose the writing muscle, or the ability to wrestle with your thoughts.” Ethics aside, this is exactly why I refuse to use LLMs. Even as a chronically ill dyslexic. Especially as one. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/10/o...

bostonglobe.com

I write to find out what I think - The Boston Globe

I understand the allure of using AI to draft an essay. But if I did that, what would be the point?

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Anime Herald @animeherald.com · 17/02/2026

This is our EIC, talking plainly about the harms GenAI does to many smaller publications, including ours. Needless to say, Anime Herald does not, and will never support or condone the slop generators.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I didn’t think I could appreciate Douglas Adams’ absurdism any more than I already did, but this decade has learned me all kinds of things

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 06/01/2026

I finally read through all of @animeherald.com's new magazine and it was awesome! It's so great to physically hold and flip through such a thing, and I love the focus on animanga culture history.

a digital illustration of the anime herald's mascot, hera, reading the magazine. it's drawn to resemble illustrations in old anime magazines

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 12/11/2025

"What led to the great data loss of the 2020s?" "Well, you see, some dipshit had a great idea to allow emojis - those little faces that nobody uses anymore - in filenames. Suddenly, you had defining works named '😭❤️😭😭😭" or "💃💃💅" meaning that the filenames lost all meaning."

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We’re fully exploring the limits of the politics of language when it comes to effecting actual changes these days. I worried at the direction activism took after Web 2.0 and hoped I was just being old and paranoid. But when people just want to feel superior to each other what can you do

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Free thyself (and thy screen space). I switched to primary Mac user after it became difficult to exorcise Microsoft’s AI bunk and tame Edge’s proliferation thru systems, especially after onerous price hikes for 360. Cancelled my sub and now I only use Windows for gaming. Open Office works well.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Thanks! I noticed (what for me was) a decline in sub quality around the same time Funimation took them over. I was not a fan of hard to read colors being experimented with later, and before, they were excellently timed even with minimal words on screen. But anything is better than missing content 😭

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

16 pages of excellent translator notes in the first volume of #Noragami 🥰 please pass on my love to Alethea and Athena Nibley, @kodansha.us

A photo of the cover of Noragami omnibus volume one, english version, physical copy

A photo of a page of English language translator notes found in Noragami omnibus, volume one, physical copy

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Lovely! I hope things work out! (Also that was a very polite stare about the advice)

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Next you’ll be trying to trying to treat your papercuts with a bandaid. You’re practically doomed!

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 26/09/2025

I've looked into the international shipping costs for AH Mag and it looks like it's a combination of tariffs and Shopify's shipping partner getting a taste Costs to ship a magazine with the specs outlined by our estimates to Halifax are about $24.88 CAD, or $17.85 USD $35 CAD comes to $25.11 USD

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Anime Herald @animeherald.com · 25/09/2025

We have an update on Anime Herald Magazine today! 💖 We're excited to share our (near-) final cover and logo, as well as news that folks who order will get a free bonus with their magazine. 🥰 Link: hera.fyi/ahmagissue1up2 #anime #magazine #zines

Cover visual for Anime Herald Magazine Issue #1, which depicts Hera - a red-haired woman in a grey suit with a red tie, walking out of a convenience store - Anna Drees - while carrying an ice cream cone and carrying a bag full of of snacks.

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Geek Grammy @geekgrammy.com · 25/09/2025

As I'm sitting here watching the UPS tracker get closer to my house, I'm struck by how much different things have become since I was a kid. Gather 'round, children, and let Grammy tell you a story of The Olden Days. 1/

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Such a long way in so few years! Thanks for the great times, Owlcat!

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

At some point UI designers need to decide if they are going to use mysterious glyphs for their drop-down menus, or standard language words. Cramming in both on every line leads to illegible cluttering. It is not cute. Better yet, give people an option to select which works best!

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I haven’t and won’t return my Medicare survey because I have no idea how the data will be cooked or used by our beloved elected profiteers and entertainers 🤷

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

😱 & TRUE!

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

I love it. ❤️ I’d add a slight correction to the one about gatekeepers being able to ask about tasks—that’s only true if it’s not “obvious” that a dog is a service dog. See Q7. I got stopped about my vested/labeled dog so much due to these kinds of misinterpretations proliferating through media.

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Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA

This document provides guidance and answers about the ADA’s service animal provisions.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Cedar Waxwings checking out a Pokeberry bush. These birds love Pokeberries, which are poisonous to humans but are used to make a natural dye.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Any dime for Trevor project is a win. Others have done all the moralizing already so I had a dark chuckle and called it good

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I was so sad when they dropped that for Gintama. In later seasons I have to wonder how much of Sorachi’s corvid humor the loc paves over. Another example is Funimation’s loc paving over the awesome wordplay in Noragami, which was spectacularly explained in endnotes in the manga

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Love how market practices repeat with some fresh new spin when the only thing that has been proven to correct it (for the companies too!) is valuing human labor. Especially when it comes to art. Ugh.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Crunchyroll used to have the best subs in the industry until Funi-Sony got their paws on them, in both formatting and thoroughness. Their localizations were great too. No jelly donuts. Now they’re feeding us AI??? If I were the original creators I’d be losing my mind.

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 30/06/2025

It's been about a half a day since we hit this, and it still hasn't fully sunk in. I'm genuinely grateful to everybody who backed us this month, and helped to make this happen. 💖💖 Happy Pride, everyone.

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Anime Herald @animeherald.com · 30/06/2025

Looking Back on Protoculture Addicts 15 Years Later: Red Bard covers the history of Protoculture Addicts, which currently stands as the longest-running anime magazine in North America. They examine the publication's founding, its partnership with ANN, and its settling into dormancy.

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Looking Back on Protoculture Addicts 15 Years Later

15 years after its last issue was published, Protoculture Addicts is still North America’s longest running anime magazine.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

My service dog Anjelika makes it possible for me to do things that I could not do without her assistance. Here she is exhausted after spending the day with me in DC. I’m so grateful that I have her in my life and I was able to do this trip. This bill cannot pass. I did everything I could to stop it.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

These guys again. A universal anything concerning disability is pure fantasy. It’s appalling they’re trying to sell it as science when it’s just a socioeconomic, political and cultural erasure-laden shortcut.

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Great Plains ADA Center @greatplainsada.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Important article about proposed changes to disability survey methods that could result in significant undercounting of Americans with disabilities. Learn more in this Health Affairs piece.

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

So glad I didn’t crash out and burn it myself. Truly the self destructive impulses of creativity are best controlled 👀

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just got minimal edits back on a piece I thought would be slashed full of holes and bathed in red ink. I was sure it would be wrapped around a brick and hurled through my window with the words TRY AGAIN written in bold sharpie. It belonged in the dumpster, I thought…it was even praised?

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Lydia M. Rivers @lydiarivers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Such great tools. I used one with my dobe when I was still walking full time. He took nonverbal cues thru it without leaving his support position, seemed happy to not have to turn around and look at me LOL. He liked the really thin ones best, he’d dunk his face right in it

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A Cedar Waxwing figuring out where to fly to next as this current location has nothing to eat. Cedar Waxwings are very fond of berries, but in the summer months they will hunt down insects, catching them on the wing.

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

(we also respect kingfishers and kinglets)

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Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit @sam-animeherald.northsky.social · 12/06/2025

We can do it - let's see if we can break our biggest-ever donation of $555 that we made last year 💖

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