Reposted by Victoriabsidescharm.bsky.social @bsidescharm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Yep, the clock is ticking ... time is running out for #BSidesCharm 2026 sponsor and Hiring Village opportunities! www.bsidescharm.org/sponsors/ & www.bsidescharm.org/hiringvillage/ 022
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Happy Drug the Pets to Oblivion day to all who celebrate 0180
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Me: Nah I don't really read horror. I feel like real life is horrific enough, ya know? Also me: What's that? You need ideas for details for your DnD campaign? Have you considered body horror? Gore? Maybe a little existential horror, as a treat??? 030
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Honestly, I would rather just sit on hold while I have the motivation to accomplish $goal. 020
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 11/12/2025When I use a chatbot, I wander through a hedge maze of generative AI suggested, loosely-related help articles before eventually getting dumped in a form that puts in a ticket. The ticket becomes an email thread purgatory where each support response is "guaranteed within 3 business days" 110
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Lately when I pick up the phone and call someone I get to "goal accomplished" way faster than sending an email. The hold music is still annoying but I personally can cope with it, for a good cause. 110
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Maybe the types of companies that had horrific phone service have en masse moved over to chat/email generative AI customer support only? Maybe VoIP phone services have improved? Or quality audio hardware has gotten cheaper? Maybe I mostly use B2B customer support for work and it's alway been better? 100
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 11/12/2025In a baffling turn of events, I have somehow become a person who strongly prefers customer service via the phone vs any other form of CS interaction. 120
Reposted by VictoriaKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/11/2025It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop 7589041680
Reposted by VictoriaKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/10/2025LEGAL RELEASE FORM: You agree to let us film you ME: Seems OK FORM: We own your face forever ME: Ummm FORM: We own your face via technologies that haven’t been invented yet ME: FORM: in other galaxies ME: OK hold on FORM: If we kill you during filming you’re not allowed to scream 342215322
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Seriously though, donate to Wikipedia, one of the enduring bastions of the Olde Internet 021
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 17/10/2025You see, I'm not "staying up disastrously late because I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole", I am Doing My Part to resist the robot apocalypse 😤 120
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Seriously what's going on at ORD. They're routing all taxiing the looooong way around 000
Reposted by VictoriaA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2025I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for? 4382942211
Reposted by VictoriaJonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 03/10/2025super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉popsci.comMulti-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifactsCrossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more. 272037885
Reposted by VictoriaWarwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL... 3925571596
Reposted by VictoriaJeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Once again, I'm out on a walk as unofficial town sorcerer. I'm on the lookout for crows, omens, and a missing cat named Moo. I've brought my trusty bag of unsalted peanuts and my hand-embroidered cap. My lower back is in pain, which is also an important part of being an unofficial town sorcerer. 311811
Reposted by VictoriaU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 09/09/2025Bookmarks. Huge timesaver. No more printing out our favorite Bluesky posts and taping them to the walls like some kind lower-tier Batman villain that gets defeated in the opening pages but kicks off a larger more important and emotionally satisfying story. 952952
Reposted by VictoriaKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 02/09/2025LET SHE WHO HAS NEVER NUKED TOSTITOS QUESO AND EATEN IT STRAIGHT FROM THE JARVWITH CHEAP ASS TORTILLA CHIPS DURING A DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL CAST THE FIRST STONE 91596
Reposted by VictoriaRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 30/08/2025Honorary library cards are 1000x better than honorary doctorates. What can you even do with an honorary doctorate? Not like you can go do a heart bypass surgery. A library card still gets you books, honorary or no. 18013
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 23/08/2025The root cause of disease is embodiment. Hope this helps 010
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Pies are actually giant dumplings. I will not be taking questions 140
Reposted by VictoriaKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19/08/2025All this talk about how infodumping is a neurodivergent trait—listen, we grew up reading SFF in the Nineties, OF COURSE we infodump. Y’all are lucky we’re not a full on italicized prologue. 441318188
Reposted by Victoriasecondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 19/08/2025Grim Reaper [ 2 ] Part 5 or 5. 111798383
Reposted by VictoriaIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 29/07/2025we’ve all worked on this codebase 1548176
Reposted by VictoriaAlison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025increasingly want to see an exhibition that is just "lil' guys from history" 812219
Reposted by VictoriaCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/07/2025One like, one opinion about dogs. (Will stop if I run out of good opinions.) 29119068
Reposted by Victorialukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 23/07/2025If I were a moth I would simply conquer the flame, possess and consume it, take it into my soul and live forever 48929163
Reposted by VictoriaGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated. 15646839120870
Reposted by Victoriathe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I encourage you both to enjoy this lively discussion, but not in my mentions, since I am not a participant in it. 1161
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Breakfast at a coffee shop. As I eat, a dog is making unceasing eye contact with my food. Incredible communication skills, recommended for promotion and also increased snack benefits 010
Reposted by VictoriaFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/07/2025I think we should probably be pushing for state and local level legislation that actively bans “posting vital information only on Facebook or Twitter, where a lot of people without accounts will never see it.” 817321
Reposted by VictoriaCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10/07/2025[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad 12114873366
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Do any of the birds eat flies? Maybe it's just kind of gross free bird food? 030
Reposted by VictoriaAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is. In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol. And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence. 403200363778
Reposted by VictoriaScott @smadin.net · 22/06/2025[2025 internet] Me: [chanting] webrings, webrings- Other nerds: webrings, WEBRINGS Everyone: [pounding their keyboards] WEBRINGS, WEBRINGS, WEBRINGS! 0283
Reposted by VictoriaJess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 21/06/2025Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw 599106323004
Reposted by Victoriasecondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com · 19/06/2025There's a baby racoon on my balcony???? He's hiding / taking a nap behind the storage unit??? 2190563
Reposted by VictoriaAnnalee @flowerhorne.com · 18/06/2025Right so I just want to say again that @alt18f.bsky.social actually is real. Those of us who've worked with them can easily tell you that. They had to add "alt" to their handle to comply with bluesky rules. So folks should be discerning - but it's not true that all these alt accounts are grifters. 47018
Reposted by VictoriaKendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social · 13/06/2025We made it to Friday! I'm going to share three tips on using Signal from someone who has been using it for both work and personal communications for...a long time. 25630
Reposted by VictoriaKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 05/06/2025At some point, if you're defining yourself almost entirely in opposition to your hated online antagonists, you're letting them shape and determine your reality. 15913
Reposted by VictoriaCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/06/2025Hey, I'm going to say something general about publishing and bankruptcy. I'm not a bankruptcy expert; I'm just someone who has seen bankruptcy cases and knows how counterintuitive they can be. I do not know anything about UK bankruptcy law. 9521154
Reposted by VictoriaKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 31/05/2025Been awhile since I did this talk, but I saw some particularly egregious examples today, so it’s time for… *drumroll please* DON’T TRUST THE PLANT TAG 2025 451086255
Victoria @vkauff.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Plant ownership is a cycle between guilty shame (where plants die of neglect because you have so many you forget about some) and hubris (all my plants are THRIVING, I am a green thumbed dirty, time to BUY MORE PLANTS) and under no circumstances do I want off this rollercoaster 010
