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Stephanie Leary
@sleary
Front end developer
@EquinoxOLI
. Previously: MLIS
@UW_iSchool
, some WordPress books and stuff. AO3 tagging and fiction classification nerd. She/her
Texasstephanieleary.comJoined January 2007
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The StoryGraph
@thestorygraph
You can now flag content types and specify things you don’t like to read about in your StoryGraph reading preferences survey! We use this info to improve your recommendations and show a handy icon around the app if a book likely features any of your flagged content types. ⚠️
Screenshot of a new “beta” section when viewing your StoryGraph reading preferences survey. Two sections a highlighted by a golden yellow box labelled “Beta”. The two sections have green headings: “Types of content you never want to read about” and “Topics, themes, and tropes you don’t like.”
Explanatory text under the new beta Content Warning Preferences field in the reading preferences survey. The text reads: In your recommendations we will filter out any books that feature the above selected content types, according to our user-submitted reviews and author-added content warnings. We will warn you if we have insufficient review data for a particular recommendation. On a book's page and in the list view, you will see the following icon if a book features any of the above selected content types, according to our user-submitted reviews or author-added content warnings: ⚠️
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I can’t tell you how little I care for vampires as a storytelling device, but the new Interview with the Vampire is *fantastic*. I just finished the finale and I am cackling like mad.
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Dr. Sunny Moraine PhD in awful things
@dynamicsymmetry
I recall seeing someone quoting an anonymous Twitter employee saying “look, the one big hope regarding the impending election disinformation catastrophe is that he changes his mind constantly” and welp
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Ryan Mac 🙃
@RMac18
Twitter is delaying the roll out of verification badges until after the US midterm elections, according to an internal post we've seen. nytimes.com/2022/11/06/tec
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Katherine Stewart
@kathsstewart
Good to see folks connecting the dots. It's all part of the plan. nytimes.com/2016/12/13/opi
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Mike Hixenbaugh
@Mike_Hixenbaugh
NEW w/ ⁦⁦⁦@KateReports⁩: School board wars over Covid, racism, gender and sexuality have “softened the ground” for private school vouchers in Texas. Now far-right megadonors are spending big to get the policy across the finish line. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t
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Greg Abbott’s accomplishments as governor of Texas:
But then 2020 happened. As the pandemic raged, Governor Greg Abbott banned municipalities including Austin from implementing COVID measures such as mask mandates. The following year, amid a brutal winter storm, the state’s electric grid failed, killing hundreds and leaving millions freezing in the dark, and it has yet to be fixed. That summer, Abbott codified permitless carry and further restricted voting access. This past February, he ordered investigations into the parents of trans children for child abuse. By June, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas was ten months ahead, having already effectively banned abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest and topped it with a $10,000 reward for informants.
The alarm was acute among transplants.Bri Jenkins is moving home to Hamden, Connecticut, after six years working with various nonprofits in Austin. “It could be three weeks before I saw another Black person, and that was such a mindfuck for me,” she recalled feeling when she first moved to Austin. After a far-right gunman killed 23 people in El Paso in 2019, she stopped going to parades. “Too many vantage points,” she said. “White men with guns and Army fatigues are protected, but people who are peacefully protesting … are always bombarded by the police,” she said, referring to the police crackdowns during 2020’s George Floyd protests. As a queer woman, she fears for the fate of gay rights, which Senator Ted Cruz and Attorney General Ken Paxton have expressed could be next.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.
@amydiehl
People fleeing Austin: "As a mother, it feels very much like I have a responsibility to the safety of my child. Sacrificing your body to the Texas GOP is not worth it. It doesn’t matter how liberal Austin is. You still live in Texas.” @caseyquack nymag.com/intelligencer/
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@sleary
Oh, you mean firing everyone who could make blue checks work the day before turning the company into Blue Checks R Us wasn’t a 5-D chess move? This is my shocked face.
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Casey Newton
@CaseyNewton
Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴
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Candy
@gleebags
Twitter: We're testing and changing our half-baked changes in Production!! Everyone:
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Esther Crawford ✨
@esthercrawford
The new Blue isn’t live yet — the sprint to our launch continues but some folks may see us making updates because we are testing and pushing changes in real-time. The Twitter team is legendary. 🫡 New Blue… coming soon! twitter.com/sawyermerritt/…
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Jay Tholen
@jaytholen
again, we need to reframe what they're doing with the new Verified system: Shadowbanning unpaid accounts and charging $8 to reinstate them to normal visibility. It's extortion & simply makes Twitter suck for people who don't pay. Oh and I guess we can post long vids too.
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Matt May
@mattmay
Journalists covering the Twitter layoff: While you focus on cutting ethics, trust and safety, etc., PAY ATTENTION TO THE ACCESSIBILITY TEAM. A 3500-employee tech company without an accessibility team is unheard of. It's a statement that disabled users aren't worth serving.
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tanb leltang
@revhowardarson
musk bought an advertising-supported website full of left-of-center users and now plans to attract a completely new audience to a paid-media business model where the product being sold is the right to harass the users who are its key value proposition
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ADHD Designer
@ADHDdesigner
Friendly reminder that if you have ADHD and you're feeling incredibly overwhelmed and behind on work, trying to just "force" yourself to sit down and do it will absolutely not work. You will end up just sitting there doing nothing. Take the time to reduce the overwhelm first.
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@sleary
That didn’t take long.
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Josh Eidelson
@josheidelson
Scoop: Twitter was just sued in a proposed class action for conducting a mass layoff without the required 60 day notice bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Stephanie Leary
@sleary
BFF and I have decided that we need fake IDs for middle-aged people. We don’t want drinks, but we do want the cheap unlimited cell phone plan for people 55+.
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