The creator is active on a professional slack I’m on and they’re lovely and receptive to user feedback. Their tool is very popular in the online archives/cultural heritage scene (we combine small budgets and juicy, juicy data).

My site has enabled js-free screening when the site load is low, under the theory that if the site load is too high then no one’s getting in anyway.

I don’t think they read it or else they’d see it’s a literature review. Those don’t tend to have “controls”, they instead summarize multiple studies on the sane topic to see if anything interesting come up.

I know a few trans librarian acquaintances who got the fuck out of Florida because the legal environment was getting too spicy. So yes, generally agree that if you fear criminal prosecution for doing your job something is wrong. In the trans librarian case, it’s Florida. In Doge’s case it was their behavior.

Not sure where I’m going with this, thinking on which set of folk feared repercussions enough to change something (environment or behavior)

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I get where you’re coming from with wanting a softening in the criminal justice system, I really do, but that’s too much drug dealing to pardon. Shorten the sentence, maybe, but clear the slate? Dude was part of a bigger system, not a kid caught with a bag of pot.

And that much weed is still illegal to possess in my state without the proper paperwork.

My fingers are crossed for a Walz/AOC ticket.

My new boss and I had a similar conversation. We’re both unsettled by the current political environment and eyeing escape routes. She has citizenship prospects elsewhere and I, sadly, don’t. Like, we both love what we do, but shit’s scary.

Show some respect! The Burger King has reigned for over 70 years (founded in 1954).

Ack, I keep reading that as

We’re being led by officials who no longer [recognize] or [refuse to name] the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.

And I’m thinking “wait, which is it? Are you upset the officials no longer recognize the enemy or because they no longer refuse to name the enemy?”

I get what they’re trying to say, but it’s not clearly stated.

Seconding that there is nothing in the dots. It’s just yellow and green dots.

a lot of people are going to die.

Yep. It makes me feel helpless and I hate it.

Side story:

I had the sweetest young store clerk at the grocery checkout. We’d already chitchatted about something, so it wasn’t awkward when he shyly asked if I was sick, if that was why I masked.

I told him “no, I’m fine, but my roommate’s immune system is weak AF. Oh, and my dad died of COVID and I’m still a bit sore there.” and he got big eyes and gave his condolences.

I’d guess he was 14 when my dad died (Jan 2021), when a lot of people’s dads died. That’s a quarter of a lifetime ago for him. It’s been an age. /feeling old and nostalgic

Back when my friends were getting our first COVID jabs, we’d congratulate each other on “a strong immune response” whenever we’d feel crappy afterwards.

Iirc, glasses help reduce infections, too.

Back in 2020 I’d wear my p99 respirator and goggles at the grocery store, then a full strip into the washer and shower as soon as I came home.

Now I’m more relaxed: n95 or kn94 plus standard prescription glasses, washing hands up to the elbow (makes me feel like I’m on MASH). I still strip as soon as I get home, but not because of COVID.

I’ve gotten relaxed at work over the summer because there were minimal people in the library. I’m going to go back to full masking outside my office now that the students are back, especially since I don’t have a new flu or COVID vaccine available to me.