helen a. [last name redacted] (she/they)
@purpleshift.bsky.social
Slow adopter.
Perpetual student 😅 currently not-studying: library technician 📚 ALIA member
Amateur cataloguer - will tag your AO3 fics
#adhd #libraries #critcat #linguistics
is location in bluesky yet? if not: Burramattagal land, Australia
Perpetual student 😅 currently not-studying: library technician 📚 ALIA member
Amateur cataloguer - will tag your AO3 fics
#adhd #libraries #critcat #linguistics
is location in bluesky yet? if not: Burramattagal land, Australia
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All of _my_ reply guy replies and mass like sprees are hand crafted thank you very much! My brain only works and stops rate limiting my thoughts when I feed it fodder to react to! (including currently-hypothetical blockers and their hypothetical anti-AI slop justifications)
today in YouTube comments sections: someone in Adam Etymology Nerd Aleksic's comments attempts to deny that they use Hangul/Chosongul in North Korea?
????? people stop being egregiously wrong when corrected on the internet challenge level impossible
????? people stop being egregiously wrong when corrected on the internet challenge level impossible
September 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
today in YouTube comments sections: someone in Adam Etymology Nerd Aleksic's comments attempts to deny that they use Hangul/Chosongul in North Korea?
????? people stop being egregiously wrong when corrected on the internet challenge level impossible
????? people stop being egregiously wrong when corrected on the internet challenge level impossible
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we are so poisoned by conservatism being the default that people are looking to explain away what are not benign influences: Mormonism, Gun Culture, Gamer Forums, etc. it's getting extremely pathetic
September 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
we are so poisoned by conservatism being the default that people are looking to explain away what are not benign influences: Mormonism, Gun Culture, Gamer Forums, etc. it's getting extremely pathetic
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"just a gamer who liked video games" is a wild thing to imply when there is a whole ecosystem that is designed around delivering conservatism to that exact community but I wasn't flashed with the men in black device so I remember things as far back as the entirety of the 2010s
September 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"just a gamer who liked video games" is a wild thing to imply when there is a whole ecosystem that is designed around delivering conservatism to that exact community but I wasn't flashed with the men in black device so I remember things as far back as the entirety of the 2010s
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All of Africa & Asia to the British Museum:
Put my shit back bro
September 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
All of Africa & Asia to the British Museum:
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Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click.
New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️
New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️
There's a bigger threat to books than bans: monopoly of distribution, by @mariabustillos.com.
www.cjr.org/analysis/the...
www.cjr.org/analysis/the...
There's a bigger threat to books than bans.
Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment.
www.cjr.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click.
New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️
New from @mariabustillos.com in @columjournreview.bsky.social ⤵️
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It’s not so much that the guy is stupid, although he probably is, it’s that he agrees with Hitler and thus is willing to pretend Hitler was being honest
September 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It’s not so much that the guy is stupid, although he probably is, it’s that he agrees with Hitler and thus is willing to pretend Hitler was being honest
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Gamergate never ended, it’s just became the world we all have to live in.
Thanks, we all hate it.
Thanks, we all hate it.
The funny thing is, I thought the sudden wave of people telling me I need to die was about the white-on-white crime tweet, but it wasn’t.
It was just about me being a liberal woman who occasionally, as a freelancer, as a small part of my career, works for Blizzard
It was just about me being a liberal woman who occasionally, as a freelancer, as a small part of my career, works for Blizzard
September 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Gamergate never ended, it’s just became the world we all have to live in.
Thanks, we all hate it.
Thanks, we all hate it.
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September 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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here’s the thing
those rich dudes lived WAY closer temporally to the French Revolution than our rich dudes
like, they were aware that if you piss off the peasants TOO much, money doesn’t matter to a guillotine
I don’t think they were better people than our billionaires, they just remembered fear
those rich dudes lived WAY closer temporally to the French Revolution than our rich dudes
like, they were aware that if you piss off the peasants TOO much, money doesn’t matter to a guillotine
I don’t think they were better people than our billionaires, they just remembered fear
As much as the first gilded age sucked, at least they built libraries and parks and schools (actual schools not Praeger U) and shit.
One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
September 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
here’s the thing
those rich dudes lived WAY closer temporally to the French Revolution than our rich dudes
like, they were aware that if you piss off the peasants TOO much, money doesn’t matter to a guillotine
I don’t think they were better people than our billionaires, they just remembered fear
those rich dudes lived WAY closer temporally to the French Revolution than our rich dudes
like, they were aware that if you piss off the peasants TOO much, money doesn’t matter to a guillotine
I don’t think they were better people than our billionaires, they just remembered fear
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I’m not going to amplify any more of this fucking train wreck. Why the ABC executive capitulate to zionists demanding its once-trusted stations and journalists produce this kind of mess will never make sense to me.
September 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I’m not going to amplify any more of this fucking train wreck. Why the ABC executive capitulate to zionists demanding its once-trusted stations and journalists produce this kind of mess will never make sense to me.
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it is my considered opinion that Google and Apple vastly overestimate the appetite for change from their users
September 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
it is my considered opinion that Google and Apple vastly overestimate the appetite for change from their users
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Meanjin closing & AI stealing the work of authors. Times are tough for Australian writers. Please sign
chng.it/p4KFP8BB9Y #australianwriters
chng.it/p4KFP8BB9Y #australianwriters
September 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Meanjin closing & AI stealing the work of authors. Times are tough for Australian writers. Please sign
chng.it/p4KFP8BB9Y #australianwriters
chng.it/p4KFP8BB9Y #australianwriters
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you can't excise trans people from society because transness is an emergent property of free will. if you divide the world up into men and women and say men do this and women do that, some people are going to say that sucks, fuck you, i do what i want. it doesn't get more complicated than that
September 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
you can't excise trans people from society because transness is an emergent property of free will. if you divide the world up into men and women and say men do this and women do that, some people are going to say that sucks, fuck you, i do what i want. it doesn't get more complicated than that
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Welcome back another 500 years of 3 Houses discourse
September 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Welcome back another 500 years of 3 Houses discourse
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The year is 2026. A new Fire Emblem is out. Somehow, Three Houses discourse continues
September 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The year is 2026. A new Fire Emblem is out. Somehow, Three Houses discourse continues
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FIRE EMBLEM WELCOME BACK
September 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
FIRE EMBLEM WELCOME BACK
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really gonna need these white dudes to stop making me look bad. lord have mercy.
don’t give out your name for things you could get arrested for. EVERY DAY is shut the fuck up Friday.
don’t give out your name for things you could get arrested for. EVERY DAY is shut the fuck up Friday.
The “don’t sign up for protests” thing is just an outgrowth of the Online tendency to one-up other people on how much you care. Oh, they’re protesting and signing people up for it? I’ll show them by claiming that’s wrong and you can care more by not signing up.
September 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
really gonna need these white dudes to stop making me look bad. lord have mercy.
don’t give out your name for things you could get arrested for. EVERY DAY is shut the fuck up Friday.
don’t give out your name for things you could get arrested for. EVERY DAY is shut the fuck up Friday.
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they can subpoena orgs for mailing lists. idk why this is so hard to process. there's an actual reasonable threat here and you're acting like it's just some Online People Being The Most Online.
The “don’t sign up for protests” thing is just an outgrowth of the Online tendency to one-up other people on how much you care. Oh, they’re protesting and signing people up for it? I’ll show them by claiming that’s wrong and you can care more by not signing up.
September 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
they can subpoena orgs for mailing lists. idk why this is so hard to process. there's an actual reasonable threat here and you're acting like it's just some Online People Being The Most Online.
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"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
Our pals The Mary Wallopers have just been pulled off stage and the PA shut down at VictoriousFest in Portsmouth for taking out a 🇵🇸 flag and saying Free Palestine
Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal
Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡
Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!
Speak up against genocide in England and you're treated like a criminal
Up the Mary Wallopers 💚🤍🧡
Free Palestine!
Free the 6 counties!
August 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
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trans people are flesh and blood
trans people are biological
gender isn't biological, and all sex variation is biological
this dogwhistle is intended to make you rhetorically think of trans people, subtly, as less real, less human, and less deserving than cis people
don't swallow the bait
trans people are biological
gender isn't biological, and all sex variation is biological
this dogwhistle is intended to make you rhetorically think of trans people, subtly, as less real, less human, and less deserving than cis people
don't swallow the bait
May 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
trans people are flesh and blood
trans people are biological
gender isn't biological, and all sex variation is biological
this dogwhistle is intended to make you rhetorically think of trans people, subtly, as less real, less human, and less deserving than cis people
don't swallow the bait
trans people are biological
gender isn't biological, and all sex variation is biological
this dogwhistle is intended to make you rhetorically think of trans people, subtly, as less real, less human, and less deserving than cis people
don't swallow the bait
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In science fiction, so much of what is "classic" was essentially written for one man: John W. Campbell, the editor of the pre-eminent US SF magazine. Even the stuff published elsewhere, because it was often sent to him first. Think on what it means to have a whole genre filtered through one dude.
August 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
In science fiction, so much of what is "classic" was essentially written for one man: John W. Campbell, the editor of the pre-eminent US SF magazine. Even the stuff published elsewhere, because it was often sent to him first. Think on what it means to have a whole genre filtered through one dude.