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mandy @mandynicole.com · 05/10/2026

They're doing this part now, in case anyone needs proof that it's always cyclical.

mandy @mandynicole.com · 03/10/2026

It is the opposite of victim advocacy to request someone go through the labor- and trauma-intensive work of providing a one-off resolution; to harm their health & subject them to doxxing so you can gaslight other survivors and create a path that pits the wishes of future victims against each other.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 03/10/2026

A simple barometer is to mind who people choose to center before [the] victim(s). Especially when it's rooted in a complete misunderstanding of justice frameworks and unironically surrounded by photos of the abuser in the very act of skirting accountability and further multiplying their harm.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 03/10/2026

Survivors are keenly aware of who is engaging in apologia as our brains put them into the same category of "unsafe" as the abusers themselves. And if one perceives this evolutionary threat model as a threat itself, they can thank it for being alive and recalibrate themselves accordingly.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 03/10/2026

We love a day ending in -y, folks.

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

triggered! by the discourse

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Yuri Gnu @yurignu.com · 08/09/2026

loving the new look

Link in the new Ocarina of Time remake and totally not Elizabeth Holmes looking completely normal on the new You Can See Everything documentary

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Victor Bizar Gómez @bizargomez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Watching the trailer, I couldn’t stop thinking about how interesting it could look if they leaned a little more into a Laika aesthetic. Something that has a stop motion look and feel would help give it a little more humanity to it.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 05/09/2026

Truly a shame the Real Lives franchise went downhill so fast after the original 2001 release and appears to be slop itself these days because it really had an impact on teenage me and I've been waiting for a true successor ever since. archive.org/details/Real...

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Real Lives Demo

Real Lives is an interactive life sim that enables you to live one of billions of lives in any country. Through statistically accurate events, Real Lives brings to life different cultures, political s...

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Xavier Salazar @xsalazar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The year is 2045. PBOT just finished their seventh public outreach survey about painting sharrows to a residential street that’s been in the works since 1995. I get hit while biking across a high-crash intersection. My insurance claim is denied because of a Bluesky post I made two decades ago.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 24/08/2026

Monday brain boot sequence.

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king lola 👑 @lolaodelola.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

📣 I’m looking for work! I’m open to taking on clients and full time remote positions. If you need someone to help you implement or navigate web standards, check out my CV: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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[Q1] Lola Odelola CV 2026

Lola Odelola lolaslab.co | lola@lolaslab.co | github.com/lolaodelola Technical Leader & Strategist I’m Co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, the body responsible for the architectural int...

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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Here are some photos (provided by the CWA) from the 'Save Our Devs' rallies that took place yesterday at Microsoft studios across the United States and Canada in protest of the mass layoffs at Xbox. I'm sure you'll notice some very choice words on the placards carried by those in attendance.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

what the fuck is going on here what is this menu supposed to do

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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hidden in the news about the Netflix layoffs is the fact that the only person working on accessibility for their games division was let go.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 13/08/2026

(Personally, I don't buy that Amazon wasn't already ingesting streams, at the very least to prototype with. There's no way they saw Tangia eating their lunch by getting popular creators to give up their content and likenesses for cheap gimmicks all these years without doing something about it.)

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 12/08/2026

As we've seen, toggles for such settings can quietly reset upon feature/term changes. And here, the intentional cascade of responsibility required for this to actually protect anyone inherently makes it an illusion of choice.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 07/08/2026

(Especially for someone who emphasized during their victory-by-indecision speech that they really did not want the job!)

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 07/08/2026

If my pettiness caused me to vote in a way that single-handedly undermined my stated politics and incentivized billionaires to use my city as a case study to gut others' coffers despite existing data and subject matter experts, it would be a 'leave town and never come back' scenario for me.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 07/08/2026

I'd sooner hand in my resignation than tell people I think a stadium is more important than teachers, transit, affordable housing, mental health, et al, especially if the sole reason I was council president was due to the racism and conservatism of the people I voted with to screw over taxpayers.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 28/07/2026

To you as well. 💔 An absolute state of affairs.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 28/07/2026

Former colleague used my skillset to create a role at his new company. Said they were struggling to find someone and asked if I'd be willing to move states for it. Interviewer was late, could not qualify me, and asked hypotheticals about a completely different project. Didn't get it. 🫠

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 22/07/2026

Things are getting heated on the solitaire leaderboards.

A screenshot showing a top 3 leaderboard for a recent Game of the Day on Solitaired.com. The number one position is held by an account named "Not using AI" in all-caps. The second position is held by an account named "User (Long ID Number) Most Exalted Cheater Uses AI". The third position is held by the user with the ID being accused of using AI to cheat by the second place player.

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

odyssey this, odyssey that. some of you fellas odda see a dang therapist

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 13/07/2026

(And for the record, I have a lot more heat for the mess of 90's era-looking, non-responsive web applications being used at the state level for people who need them most, but thinking about that would PMO more so we're sticking local and trying to stay hopeful.)

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 13/07/2026

Alt text correction: I did not scale up the image enough to see that his tie is not polka-dotted, but instead columns of skinny-hexagons. Incredibly embarrassing error, please forgive me.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 13/07/2026

Trying to strategically separate and elevate the "Silicon Forest" for Good would be such an easy win, and there are so many people here already designing and building cool civic tech projects who are itching to do it at a greater, more impactful scale.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 13/07/2026

NYC just announced the creation of five "Public Interest Technology [PIT] Crews"—teams that will work with city agencies to build meaningful, "user-first" civic technology—and they rode in on karts, bro. 😭 Wilson and his loser roster could never. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcbU...

A photo of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani standing behind OTI (Office of Technology and Innovation) Commissioner and Chief Technology Officer Lisa Gelobter, who is at a podium with a blue sign that reads "Pit Crew" in white letters.

Lisa is wearing a bright red-orange three-quarter sleeve top and pair of dark, possibly tortoise-shell, Wayfarer-like sunglasses.

Mamdani is wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and dark gray tie with white polka dots, and the cuntiest little rectangular sunglasses.

A somewhat blurry NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani coming out of a sharp right turn on an orange go-kart with a huge smile on his face.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 07/07/2026

Temporarily preventing myself from promoting chaos on the timeline. 😇

A screenshot of an unsent Bluesky DM that reads "The posts you delete are always my favorites," appended with a crying emoji.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 07/07/2026

The "don't be scolds" takes are in this same camp. Deflecting any level of accountability and introspection at the expense of victims and anyone who did even marginal diligence. Equally unserious and unsafe people.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 07/07/2026

The Harper's Signatory labeler never misses. bsky.app/profile/harp...

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Grant Stoner @supercrip1994.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm currently writing this report for @aftermath.site. If any member of any accessibility team was impacted by the layoffs, please reach out through email, messages, or my signal –4129804478.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 06/07/2026

Hearing about this stuff as a survivor is compounding. Traumatic that it is so pervasive, traumatic that no one cares. This is the upteenth story about this loser that has me shaking and feeling ill. And that isn't because of him, but because of the sheer amount of his "progressive" defenders.

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red. logged on edition @likethecolour.red · 03/07/2026

it needs to start becoming clear that many, many of the best people in the industry are being so affected by the bin fire that ravenous corporations have turned the internet into that they’re leaving it behind it’s bad, and it’s worse without them

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 15/06/2026

These age laws won’t stop anything, they will just do what limitations on clever kids do: create an artificial barrier to get around by any means possible. And on today’s internet, it’s a lot riskier where they’ll find it than me exploiting free Juno accounts to stay up all night on AIM and IRC.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 15/06/2026

Replace Supernatural with Petz and design, but all the same; the internet was essential to my physical and mental health, and to understand the world around me. I was finding ways to bypass AOL age restrictions when I was 13 just to talk to friends.

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FRENDEN @frenden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I've been running a social-club-third-space centered around gaming for going on four years. Whenever I see people post about the sorts of spaces we need, societally, I mentally check all the requisites we hit. It's gone really well, we're not going anywhere. It's tiring work, but rewarding.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 11/06/2026

To imply that authenticity can only be determined through the narrow lens of metrics is fundamentally anti-human. And by even existing, parameters that define non-human behavior are exploitable. Emboss is a false promise being used to profit off of vulnerable writers' real fears.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 11/06/2026

Recently, a script topped rhythm game leaderboards by using ML to train on thousands of hours of real player keystrokes—good and bad—allowing it to mimic human error & progress undetected. If someone really wanted to bypass tools like Emboss, it's trivial. For real writers it flags, it's not.

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Top 20 worldwide with social-engineering and a cheat that's still undetected

how we used math, reinforcement learning, and social engineering to build a universal rhythm game cheat, climb to top 20 worldwide, and get banned without ever being detected.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 10/06/2026

www.fwmj.shop/category/ban...

An orange Ban Dolan t-shirt from Frank William Miller Junior's, a version of which got him banned from all of the properties James Dolan owns.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 22/05/2026

Can't be overstated how refreshing it is to see statements like this finally cropping up in tech job listings.

A screenshot from the Fangamer's Mid-Level Web Developer job listing showing their "AI Notice". It reads:

AI Notice
Fangamer prohibits the use of GenAI / LLMs like ChatGPT for coding work, but also for basically anything we do. AI is becoming more and more ubiquitous in the tech industry, but we have judged that use to be detrimental to creative thought and productivity. We highly value the human aspects of problem solving, communication, and knowledge acquisition, and work best with like minded people.

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 21/05/2026

Lissa please reopen the store, I need this mug so bad. 😭

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 21/05/2026

It's also a total misunderstanding of the tech that devalues design and implementation the same way people who have undermined the purpose of knowing how to write good CSS in the first place always have, and the web is worse for it. Why learn to sew when there's sweat shops and child labor?

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mandy @mandynicole.com · 20/05/2026

🏳️ Marked safe from a last-minute ballot-dropbox meet-cute.

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Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

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