Lydia M. Rivers
@lydiarivers.bsky.social
♿️ Writer; Editor; Dyslexic; Quiet™️
Current: Assistance Animals & Accessibility Study w/ Tufts University
Ongoing: Anime Herald Editor-At-Large; Grassroots Accessibility Advocate; Opinions
Current: Assistance Animals & Accessibility Study w/ Tufts University
Ongoing: Anime Herald Editor-At-Large; Grassroots Accessibility Advocate; Opinions
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"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."
"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."
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"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."
"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."
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.
Open Office works well.
October 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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.
Open Office works well.
16 pages of excellent translator notes in the first volume of #Noragami 🥰 please pass on my love to Alethea and Athena Nibley, @kodansha.us
September 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
16 pages of excellent translator notes in the first volume of #Noragami 🥰 please pass on my love to Alethea and Athena Nibley, @kodansha.us
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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
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
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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
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
Reposted by Lydia M. Rivers
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
Link: hera.fyi/ahmagissue1up2
#anime #magazine #zines
September 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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
Link: hera.fyi/ahmagissue1up2
#anime #magazine #zines
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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/
Gather 'round, children, and let Grammy tell you a story of The Olden Days.
1/
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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/
Gather 'round, children, and let Grammy tell you a story of The Olden Days.
1/
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!
September 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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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😱 & TRUE!
I got a blanket Medicare email talking about tips from Dr Oz and I replied that sending such emails would diminish their credibility.
September 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
😱 & TRUE!
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.
September 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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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Cedar Waxwings checking out a Pokeberry bush. These birds love Pokeberries, which are poisonous to humans but are used to make a natural dye.
September 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Cedar Waxwings checking out a Pokeberry bush. These birds love Pokeberries, which are poisonous to humans but are used to make a natural dye.
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.
This is the kind of shit that's going to get me to stop using CR.
And then you're at this point of, "I've spent literal decades promoting legal anime. WTF."
But this? oof. No. No. no no.
And then you're at this point of, "I've spent literal decades promoting legal anime. WTF."
But this? oof. No. No. no no.
oh I found the line lol
JP: 「この先も余を楽しませることができたら……」
rough EN: "If you are able to continue entertaining me..."
voice recognition misheard the first-person pronoun 余 as 世 so it's all sorts of wrong lol
JP: 「この先も余を楽しませることができたら……」
rough EN: "If you are able to continue entertaining me..."
voice recognition misheard the first-person pronoun 余 as 世 so it's all sorts of wrong lol
July 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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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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.
I'm genuinely grateful to everybody who backed us this month, and helped to make this happen. 💖💖
Happy Pride, everyone.
Oh my god, we did it, everyone. We reached our $750 donation goal this year. You are all the very best. 😭💖 Thanks to everyone who backed us this month.
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart and everyone else here, thank you so much. I'm just... floored right now.
Thank you. From the bottom of my heart and everyone else here, thank you so much. I'm just... floored right now.
June 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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.
I'm genuinely grateful to everybody who backed us this month, and helped to make this happen. 💖💖
Happy Pride, everyone.
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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.
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.
hera.fyi
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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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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.
June 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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.
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.
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.
A proposed disability survey change could cut disability population counts by over 50%, excluding many people with disabilities. We need to uphold US Disability Data standards. Disabled researchers must lead the way to improve how we collect #disability data: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
June 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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.
Reposted by Lydia M. Rivers
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.
A proposed disability survey change could cut disability population counts by over 50%, excluding many people with disabilities. We need to uphold US Disability Data standards. Disabled researchers must lead the way to improve how we collect #disability data: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
June 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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.
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?
June 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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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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.
June 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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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(we also respect kingfishers and kinglets)
June 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
(we also respect kingfishers and kinglets)
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Oh hey, that's me.
Curious and excited about Anime Herald's upcoming print magazine, we caught up with Editor-in-Chief Samantha Ferreira to learn more. @animeherald.com @sam-animeherald.bsky.social
An Interview with Anime Herald Editor-in-Chief Samantha Ferreira
The online publication Anime Herald recently announced a print magazine, which is due out in October 2025. Launching a print magazine is no small endeavour, but we are looking forward to seeing th...
www.otakunews.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Oh hey, that's me.
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We can do it - let's see if we can break our biggest-ever donation of $555 that we made last year 💖
We're nearly halfway through our June 2025 funding drive! This month, we're matching the first $750 we raise in subs with a donation to the Trevor Project 🥰
Back us today to support independent anime journalism and help support LGBTQ+ youths.
Patreon: hera.fyi/patreon
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/animeherald
Back us today to support independent anime journalism and help support LGBTQ+ youths.
Patreon: hera.fyi/patreon
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/animeherald
June 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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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A yellow warbler singing in the thick vegetation near the Cedar Avenue Bridge over the Minnesota River
📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f6.3, 1/1000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography
📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f6.3, 1/1000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography
June 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A yellow warbler singing in the thick vegetation near the Cedar Avenue Bridge over the Minnesota River
📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f6.3, 1/1000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography
📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 1100, f6.3, 1/1000s) 🪶
#birds #birdphotography
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Anime Herald's June subscription drive is officially on. This month, we're matching the first $750 we raise with a donation to the Trevor Project. 🥰
Back us today to support independent anime journalism and help LGBTQIA+ youths. 💖
Details: hera.fyi/funding2025
Patreon: hera.fyi/patreon
Back us today to support independent anime journalism and help LGBTQIA+ youths. 💖
Details: hera.fyi/funding2025
Patreon: hera.fyi/patreon
June 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Anime Herald's June subscription drive is officially on. This month, we're matching the first $750 we raise with a donation to the Trevor Project. 🥰
Back us today to support independent anime journalism and help LGBTQIA+ youths. 💖
Details: hera.fyi/funding2025
Patreon: hera.fyi/patreon
Back us today to support independent anime journalism and help LGBTQIA+ youths. 💖
Details: hera.fyi/funding2025
Patreon: hera.fyi/patreon
It’s the year 2025 and @tumblr.com finally stopped plastering flashing gifs on their login page. Clap clap. In exchange, the rest of the UI looks like meta and X got together and had a stressed-out child. 😬 of course it’s just as illegible as those for me now, pity.
June 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
It’s the year 2025 and @tumblr.com finally stopped plastering flashing gifs on their login page. Clap clap. In exchange, the rest of the UI looks like meta and X got together and had a stressed-out child. 😬 of course it’s just as illegible as those for me now, pity.
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An indigo bunting chattering away in tall grass near Pennyfield Lock along the C&O Canal.
📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm 🪶
#birds #birdphotograpy
📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm 🪶
#birds #birdphotograpy
May 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
An indigo bunting chattering away in tall grass near Pennyfield Lock along the C&O Canal.
📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm 🪶
#birds #birdphotograpy
📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm 🪶
#birds #birdphotograpy