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Kristin
@louielouie.bsky.social
Still trying to fill that Google Reader void.
Pun intentional.
A11y enthusiast.

Banner credit: 👨‍🎨 Daniel Temkin
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Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social

Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
January 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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e-readers are just literary devices
January 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Second for The Glass Castle.
Quick read.
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie, Solito by Javier Zamora, The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, Air Traffic by Gregory Pardlo, What You Have Heard Is True by Carolyn Forche. Not only my favorite thing to read but also writing, currently.
December 1, 2024 at 2:54 PM
One step closer to reviving OG Google Reader rapport 🥰
December 1, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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It feels nice to not have to scroll quickly past all the fake blue checks pooping at the top of all my comments.

I’m here to stay.
December 1, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Louder for the people in the back…

DO NOT BUY WHERE YOU WILL NOT BE HIRED📢
November 30, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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The Wizard of Oz being one of the most enduring works of American fiction while also being originally written hyper-specifically as a commentary on 1890s monetary policy is a good reminder that good execution beats good ideas.
November 30, 2024 at 6:22 AM
art’s never finished, only abandoned
November 30, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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ditto.
I think the best thing about this place right now - for me, at least - is the growing sense of community. And sense of humor. Two things I could desperately use right now.
November 30, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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now you can run `npm install bluesky-comments` to use bluesky replies as your blog's comment section!

thanks @coryzue.com 🙌
So cool! I just used this to add comments to my site and published an npm package to make it easy for anyone else to do it:

www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...
Adding Bluesky-powered comments to any website in five minutes
Long live the open web!
www.coryzue.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Stocking the shelves for the holidays earlier and earlier each year…
Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.
November 24, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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It made me think of Cardinal Newman’s prayer, “Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do…” (in a non-missionary Christian sort of way!)
November 24, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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The thing that keeps getting me about all the pieces fretting about Bluesky being too insular is that the argument seems to be that those of us who are most likely to be abused by the right (BIPOC people, trans people, queer people, etc) must put up with being abused for the sake of public discourse
November 23, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
November 23, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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let the bodies keep the score
let the bodies keep the score
let the bodies keep the score
let the bodies keep the
SCOOORE
October 8, 2023 at 8:11 AM
Does this mean Larry David is also my dad in a parallel universe? 🫡🙄
Are there many of us out there?
Is there a support group?
October 5, 2023 at 5:22 PM
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"delete the mobile app from your phone and only check it on the web" ive found to be the most efficacious step for most people. breaks the most addictive aspect of its hold on people immediately.
October 5, 2023 at 4:25 PM
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GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker
October 3, 2023 at 10:07 PM
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meanwhile a couple angry emails about how I’m “obsessed” with Elon… I’m sorry that it’s newsworthy when the richest person alive keeps being a racist transphobic moron while he destroys a major social media platform, believe me I’d love to cover different topics
half a dozen NFT bros trying to harass me on Twitter not knowing I just dealt with all of QAnon and the far-right media waging total war on me for two months
September 23, 2023 at 7:47 PM
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Update: apparently TalkBack on Android reads ampersands in alt text as "and".

Awesome.
I don't know for sure how screen readers parse ampersands and if they read them as "and" or as "ampersand".
September 16, 2023 at 12:43 AM
Bsky in dark mode is a little rough; blinks white-to-black when I drill into and out of other posts, and just got caught in dark mode with black font.

I like a healthy amount of online anonymity, so I appreciate the mystery the black on black adds 🖤
September 10, 2023 at 6:01 PM
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An interactive, clickable fMRI atlas (n = 40k, ukbiobank data) for associations with hundreds of traits and diseases. fmriatlas.org/index.html #neuroskyence #psyscisky
September 8, 2023 at 3:18 PM