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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Reading books about revolution hit different these days.

starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's been a minute since a book has made me so angry I was tempted to throw it across the room. I might have, if I wasn't afraid of breaking my kindle. 💙📚

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Another day, another set of inaccurate API documentation that completely screws weeks of architecture conversations by not marking required fields as required. Why. Please, WHY?

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

What's the best friends to lovers you've ever read? I'm talking PINING. 📚💙❤️

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CNN @cnn.com · 24/02/2025

The CIA’s 7th floor is home to top leadership. Some officers are quietly discussing how mass firings and buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.

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How Trump’s government-cutting moves risk exposing the CIA’s secrets | CNN Politics

The CIA is conducting a formal review to assess the potential damage caused by an unclassified email sent to the White House in early February identifying some officers by first name and last initial,...

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I got a raise this year. John Scalzi reminds me that my money can do some good locally. Time to search out some local organizations doing good DEI work in the very red area I live in. I can't afford donations his size, but I can afford $25/month to a few places.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/02/2025

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

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The Great Resegregation

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

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Nancy Ammerman @ntammerman.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Absolutely

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Introducing my daughter to the wonder that is the 1980s Anne of Green Gables. I knew she'd love and relate to Anne because they share an amazing imagination and sense of drama. After the first 10 minutes I realized that Anne is so clearly ADHD that there are medical articles about it.

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Holly Croft @hollycroft.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Yesterday I took 15 minutes of my Archives and Collective Memory course to explain the firing of AOTUS and the resignation of Deputy AOTUS. I’m not one who wades into politics in class lightly, but it was very important fo be honest about this from the standpoint of the profession. 1/4

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I can chop wood and tell you how much of it you need to last a winter, butcher a cow, and grow a half decent garden. I can sew. Plus I know a whole lot of people who did the whole homestead thing before it was cool. Also I'm real good at finding useful info in books.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Some nights just really call for cheesecake to follow the yoga.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Oh no, I accidentally started the first book in a duology while still having 6 weeks on my hold for the second one. Nooooooo. 💙📚

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I stumbled into the Merciful Crow duology this weekend and adored it. The end is particularly satisfying to the mood of the moment. It's got romantasy vibes, but is heavier on the world and plot than romance, and has one of the coolest magic systems. Reminds me of Mistborn and One Dark Window. 📚💙

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Something no sprint planning can ever really account for: That day when you go to lunch with your local working just fine and come back to find it crashed with errors that take the rest of the day to solve.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Out of everything I've read in the past two weeks, this gave me the deepest sense of absolute fear and dread:

Comment: Would love to hear your thoughts on how the current situation/moment (Trump broadly and recent days) ranks as far as dangerous/threatening time in US history.

Response from Heather Cox Richardson: This is the most dangerous threat the U.S. has ever faced.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We are in Hell and Hell pushes directly to prod.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

In case you ever wonder how much librarians are paid, this month, after 2.5 years as a Jr software dev, I have officially doubled the salary I was making after 15 years in academic librarianship.

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Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

1. Programming gives you the joy of hacking. 2. Testing raises confidence in its correctness. 3. Documenting helps users understand it all. In the case of public software, like OSS, to me, a complete programmer commits to the three of them.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This thread about companies that focus on 'technical' workers to the exclusion of others is great, but this one struck me. I've seen engineers say they could get more done with fewer meetings, and then end up flailing because no one understood the context of anything. GOOD conversation is vital.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

What's it called when they do both at once?

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

You know, I used to read dystopian stories for FUN.

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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Trending: comfort food.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This, 1000%. Worse, it's helped degrade our sources of information by lending itself to click bait, so when those who don't participate are affected.

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Kathleen Moran @kittymo1.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

'Misinformation is the biggest short-term risk to the world'. Strong words from the WEF. School librarians are more important than ever in teaching students information literacy skills. #SchoolLibrariesMatter #SchoolLibrariansMatter www.euronews.com/embed/2729616

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Video. Misinformation is the biggest short-term risk to the world, says WEF

Video. A number of countries in Europe ranked misinformation as one of its top five risks, due its ability to influence voter intentions and harm the wider geopolitical environment.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I've been sick so I haven't been painting as much, but I gave misty mountains another try. New paper this time. 100% Cotton really does make a difference.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This whole thread. It was enlightening to move from higher ed to tech and to realize that things everyone I knew could do - public speaking, breaking down complicated ideas, leading productive discussions - are skills almost no one in my new job had. And they aren't less important in tech.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

My daughter loves to play pretend games in which she's an orphan. I wondered for a bit whether I should be worried, but then I remembered that these were some of my favorite stories growing up:

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I used to sneak dirty harlequins from my mom's closet. Generally speaking, I'd rather my kids read things they're curious about and feel like they can talk to me about them than make them feel policed.

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Gregory Brown [MOVED, SEE BIO] @skillstopractice.com · 24/01/2025

Over the last year I've been trying to develop a fairly complete "top level" categorization of software errors. Would really appreciate some feedback on what you think of the categories I've come up with and their level of clarity. The purpose of this is to build a shared mental model.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 24/01/2025

The more I use GenAI coding tools, the more I am convinced keeping to "traditional" software engineering practices is what works most productive here. As in 10x more productive. E.g. - Small changes - Test that the change works before moving on - (unit) tests wherever you can

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Exactly my experience, too. I use GitHub copilot with Ruby, which I know pretty well, and JavaScript, which I'm learning. It's led me down real wrong paths in js. It didn't get the chance in Ruby, because I know when it's won't.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I read this and wondered whether the apocalypse might be preferable to the dystopian hell we're sinking into.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I believe this 100%. I was lucky enough to start my career in software with a boss who believed this and was realistic about how long it takes to become familiar with with the codebase to be truly productive.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I'm a library girl till the day I die. Books don't come into my possession until I want to reread it, usually for the third time. It's mostly because I grew up without ever having enough money for book fair, and libraries still gave me the world, but it's also just because I love libraries.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Finished Onyx Storm this afternoon and have been living in a book hangover since. 💙📚⚔️

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

100% me yesterday and much of today. Then I emerged from the fog and considered whether I really wanted to do laundry, or start a reread of the list few chapters.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Scrambling to finish my Iron Flame reread because somehow against all odds, one of my 6 Onyx Storm holds came in DAY ONE. Damn. Good thing I took the week off work (unrelated, but handy). 💙📚⚔️

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Perils of working from home: last night I ran out to pick up dinner and realized it was the first time I'd left the house in almost two weeks. I've been sick and stayed in last weekend, but still.

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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

An era in which people create their own realities and truth no longer matters, promoted by mass media owned by oligarchs: a librarian's nightmare.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Confession: I'm a self-taught dev who started as a hobbyist and now works full time. I have never once completed a tutorial or read more than a couple chapters of a book on code. I always get bored and wander off to break things instead. Maybe it's not as efficient, but it's a lot more fun!

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

There are probably not enough trigger warnings in the world for this article.

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Freezing fog

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I found this too. What's scary is that over my 15 years teaching, I saw an increasing rate of information nihilism. They went from healthy skepticism to believing that nothing was trustworthy. By the time I left the field in 2021, many treated source evaluation as meaningless and hopeless.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

One more today. I like a lot of things about this, though I still need to work on my composition. I wish I hadn't accidentally changed color palettes in the middle. One of the things I struggle with most with watercolors is looking at the paint on my pallet and knowing what it will look like dried.

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starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

My daughter wanted to paint with me today, so we followed an Andrea Nelson tutorial to make some winter birds. She got more creative than I did. #watercolor

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