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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Variation of the Traveling Salesman Problem: Find a route to get across town at 8AM that passes as few school drop-off zones as possible

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Josh makes S-tier educational content. If you’ve been thinking about checking out his courses, now’s the time!

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kitsuneart 🦊🔜 MCM London F-22 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. [...]" "...There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

Illustration by KitsuneArt, limited colour palette (blue and yellow/gold). Frodo and Sam from the Lord of the Rings movie (the Two Towers) standing in the ruins of Osgiliath, holding hands. On top of their heads Sam's words, handwritten by KitsuneArt: "There is some good in this world and it's worth fighting for".

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

You don’t need a New Year’s resolution. You need a day’s. Do the right thing today. And then do it again tomorrow. That’s it. All it takes is your life. Day after day. That’s how life is lived. And how it’s wasted. Your choice. We all matter or none of us do. And all means all

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 10/12/2025

I miss a lot of things about my grandmothers, but what strikes me is how little -- if any -- of it is centered in what a Large Language Model or generated images or video or audio could give me back. It's the rooms that my imagination still dwells in. The food I still eat. Haptics of presence.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It’s been almost a year of iterating on this Shortcut. The original design assumed I had more self control that I actually do. It was too easy to just cheat and always choose the option that would let me keep watching videos. Turns out, I’m just a little YouTube gremlin and I can’t be trusted.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Just hit the credits on Hades II. What a great game!

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A Couple of Drakes @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

A wizard ponders five blue crystal orbs labeled WIP

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I’ve been repurposing swag notebooks from tech companies as my journals for therapy. So far, I’ve got one from ThoughtWorks and one from Sanity 😂

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Kienna is making Erstwild @kiennas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Playing The Witcher 3 as God intended* *ignoring the main story to go on sidequests, pick flowers, and play Gwent

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 05/08/2025

Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️

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What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid?

Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Finally getting back to stitching this beast again! I started this one in 2020 but haven’t touched it much in the last few years. At this rate, I should finish it by… 2030 🤪

A massive cross stitch project, partially finished. It’s a collage of the original Pokémon sprites from Red/Blue. Several of the Pokémon have only been outlined in black stitches, not colored in yet.

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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 21/07/2025

One of the most powerful tools in my toolbox is SVG. When combined with CSS and JavaScript, we can do some truly remarkable things. ✨ 📝 I’ve just published a brand-new blog post that covers the most critical fundamentals. It’s chock full of interactive demos. 😄 Check it out:

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A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau

SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 17/07/2025

Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED

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Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Katina Davis @katinadavis.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It's Amazon Prime Day, which means it's yet another great day to stick it to Bezos and support indie bookstores instead! If you wanna shop online, @bookshop.org purchases support a local indie of your choice. Plus, they're doing a sale and free shipping for Prime Day!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This is the first conversation about how to implement AI that has actually given me some hope instead of sending me into an existential crisis. Great insights, definitely give it a watch!

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Got to flex my teaching muscles at DevCon! I facilitated two sessions of a guided workshop about Workday Extend Pro features, including the AI Gateway. Feeling energized by the conversations with students & grateful for the incredible team of educators and developers who made this event happen.

Me and my colleague grinning dramatically at the camera and high-fiving onstage by a Workday podium.

Me kneeling by a student in a workshop, pointing at his laptop to help him debug something.

Me and a group of my colleagues smiling for a group photo at the Junior’s restaurant in the hotel.

Me and the same group of colleagues at Junior’s, “but this time make it a funny one!”

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 02/06/2025

If you look at the state of the world and start feeling like hope is pointless, I want to share this passage from @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's book LET THIS RADICALIZE YOU, from the chapter "Hope and Grief Can Coexist." www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...

Just as patience is a practice, rather than a feeling, hope and grief are not simply things we feel but things we enact in the world.

When we enact grief with intention, and in concert with other people, we can find and create moments of relief, comfort, and even joy—and those moments can sustain us. As Malkia Devich-Cyril writes, “Becoming aware of grief gives us more choices about how to respond to grief and opens up possibilities to approach grief not only with compassion for self and others, but also with joy. Joy is not the opposite of grief. Grief is the opposite of indifference.”

Hope, too, requires us to reject indifference. And like any indifference-rejecting phenomenon, it demands effort in order to thrive. When we talk about hope in these times, we are not prescribing optimism. Rather, we are talking about a practice and a discipline … This practice of hope allows us to remain creative and strategic. It does not require us to deny the severity of our situation or detract from our practice of grief. To practice active hope, we do not need to believe that everything will work out in the end. We need only decide who we are choosing to be and how we are choosing to function in relation to the outcome we desire and abide by what those decision demand of us.

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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 29/05/2025

AI has always promised to help people spend more time doing valuable work by automating the manual, repetitive, toilsome tasks so that software developers can be free to use their time on "something better". That's not what's happening.

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The promise that wasn’t kept

AI is distracting us from creating real value. While we chase speed and automation, meaningful and human-centered work is getting left behind. Is this progress?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/05/2025

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

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Lukas Rosenstock @lukasrosenstock.net · 20/02/2025

As someone who finds it hard to set priorities because I want to do everything and also do everything perfectly, it's good to have regular reminders that you have to set your priorities in life, like @hiroko.io's "You can't be a Straight A student in life, so pick 3":

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You can't be a Straight A student in life, so pick 3

"Life isn't school- you can't be a Straight A student in all aspects of life. So pick 3 to prioritize."

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/01/2025

It is not the point of you to “scale.” You are not at scale. If you are able to do something that helps one person, you helped one person, and that is more than there were before. If you are part of a community that helps people, you are contributing to helping people at scale.

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Laura “y’all’d’ve is grammatically correct” Stone @stoneyboboney.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Welp. Apple snuck something dirty in our phones last night. Settings > Apps > (pick an app) > Siri > Learn From this App TOGGLE OFF. You have to go through each app. My garage app, my BANKING APPS, others had that turned on automatically. 😡

Screenshot of a phone setting highlighting the “learn from this app” invasion of privacy, courtesy of Siri, toggled on. The app is a password manager, which is concerning.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Alright it's two months later and I've finished the first two games. Time to restart the third!

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Shaundai Person @shaundai.com · 11/01/2025

reminder to self: rest IS productive

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I wrote a tutorial on how I built this Shortcut, in case anyone wants to recreate it for themselves! If you do, I'd love to hear what other things you're putting on your "how I want to spend my time" list. meganesulli.com/blog/shortcu...

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How to Create an iOS Shortcut to Prevent Mindless Scrolling | Megan Sullivan

Tired of losing hours to the black hole of social media? Use this tutorial to create an iPhone/iPad Shortcut to be more intentional with your time.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

One of my goals for 2025 is to spend less time binging YouTube videos. I made a Shortcut to help me be more intentional when I open the YouTube app on my phone.

Screenshot of an iOS Shortcut menu.

Prompt: Stop emoji. Why are you here?
Option 1: I’m bored. I should find something else to do.
Option 2: I want to watch something specific.
Option 3: I’m relaxing. I should set a timer so I don’t lose track of time.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It’s been a hectic month so far, but I’m trying to get into the holiday spirit. Hope everyone has a calm and restful new year! 🧡

My hand holding up a Christmas card, with Clifford (a reddish-brown pitbull) peeking up at the camera from behind the card. The card says Happy Holidays in cursive, over a professional photo of Clifford lying in front of a dark blue backdrop. He’s looking off into the distance and looks very regal.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The event page for Workday DevCon 2025 is up! (And I’m on it! 🤩) www.workday.com/en-us/compan...

Home page for Workday DevCon 2025 (featuring a splash image of me helping some attendees at a computer lab).

It’s on: Workday DevCon 2025.

In Person | Digital. Resorts World Las Vegas. Las Vegas, NV. June 2-5, 2025.

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Kelli the Opera Geek @theoperageek.com · 09/12/2024

Hey, you. Yeah, you, the one reading this. I just hummed a song for you. You've got Bardic Inspiration. You can use that extra d12 for anything you need to conquer today. Do the thing. Start that project. Punch the sun. #OperaGeek #DnD #BardLife

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Aurelie Verrot @aurelie.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It’s a December 2. Happy to report I am already one day late for the Advent of Code.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If you’re looking for something to do over the long weekend, I’ve been playing this game all week and it is extremely fun! I feel like I haven’t used my imagination this freely since I was making up stories as a kid. 10/10, would recommend!

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I keep backing similar Kickstarters and then forgetting about them. So a year from now I’m going to have an accidental collection of like four different fey-themed TTRPG books 😅

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BasiliskOnline🦎 @basiliskonline.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"Dyer, why are you such a huge jerk when it comes to alt text!? You unfollowed me? muted me? just cause i don't use alt text! You aren't even blind!" Aight well long version short is this meme, but lets talk about this, and why i encourage other people to do the same...

I Don't Know How to Explain to you that you should care about other people.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I measure the absurdity of my taco order based on how many bags of chips they give me (and thus how many people they think I’m feeding) 🌮

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Alyssa Miller 🦄👩‍✈️ @alyssam-infosec.com · 20/11/2024

Just your little reminder that it's your actions that matter most. You can yell as loud as you want about social justice and equality but when you still spend your money directly or indirectly supporting those that seek to oppress others, you are complicit in that oppression.

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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 18/11/2024

career hack: having fun makes it easier to stick with a challenge, helps you retain more information, and makes people more likely to pay attention to what you’re doing if you can find a way to have fun as you’re learning, you WILL get further. so please: make silly stuff. goof around. play 💜

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Any iOS folks know why sometimes an incoming call has a swipe to answer and sometimes has the green and red buttons? Trying to practice using the phone with my 90yo grandmother, and the inconsistent gestures are proving challenging.

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I’ve been taking piano lessons for the last few years, and I’ve got a recital today. I’m fighting nerves by switching on my teacher brain and thinking about learning objectives. The goal isn’t to play every note perfectly. It’s to keep going and make music with a group.

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BaroqueOak ✨ [OVERLAYS COMMS OPEN!] @baroqueoakstudio.vtubers.social · 08/11/2024

Instruction on how to write alt text can be found here: 1. www.perkins.org/resource/how... 2. veroniiiica.com?s=alt+text Also, here is a handy tool that helps you write alt text, created by coolhand.bsky.social actuallyusefulai.com/ai/accessibi...

An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

- copied from perkins.org

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’m working on finding small things that recharge me and bring me joy. Today’s list: - Massive cups of tea - Walk with Clifford (🐶) - Impromptu taco run What are y’all doing to take care of yourselves?

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spinelli ✨ @spinellicross.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

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alex @dremenec.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

An infographic. There are six panels.

1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded.

2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text.

3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky.

4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german.

5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say.

6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 12/11/2024

Since we are talking about theatre kid energy, can I just say - when looking to hire people for almost anything, I love when I see someone has a background in theatre because they understand how to produce something in a set amount of time. They understand the logistics of a production.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Folks please don’t forget to ALT your images! The more new folks show up here the lower the adoption of ALT is and that’s a bummer cause it means not all Bluesky users can enjoy your images! Here’s how to turn on prompts to remind you to ALT:

Accessibility Settings
Alt text
Require alt text before posting (toggled ON)

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

A lesser side benefit of writing alt text: learning about memes as I google where my reaction GIFs are from

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Megan Sullivan @meganesulli.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

In 2016, I watched the election results come in from outside the Javits Center, where Hillary was supposed to make her acceptance speech. I’m nervous about tonight. But at least I’m more emotionally prepared for whatever happens than I was back then.

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