(Evil) Ashley Blewer ๐ŸŽƒ

(Evil) Ashley Blewer ๐ŸŽƒ

@ashleyblewer.com

๐Ÿ’ปใ€ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป audiovisual archives & preservation ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ปใ€ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

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(Evil) Ashley Blewer ๐ŸŽƒ reposted

I've mostly let this live outside of my personal work, but Belltower House is now halfway through its second season of residents and it's been a true joy to help host artists to work and rest in the high desert I love

Everest Pipkin@everest.bsky.social

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

my husband does admissions interviewing for the Recurse Center & I love overhearing (his side of the convo only, obv). I also like when someone asks if he still hangs with batchmates & he says yes but carefully omits that he's also married to one of them. Like "yeah I see some folks... Often..." ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ

I don't mean to sound like an asshole here, I'm a very tired and retired Cassandra. I feel really bad for all the maintainers scrambling out there. I am legitimately happy I did not let this work kill me because it's gotten real close several times. I'm truly happy to be alive and free

(Evil) Ashley Blewer ๐ŸŽƒ reposted

the uni I teach at asked for faculty to submit brief lightning talks promoting upcoming classes and I feel bad for the grad assistant who is about to have to deal with what I created

(Evil) Ashley Blewer ๐ŸŽƒ reposted

yeah I would rather spend down all my savings and kms over having to sit through another scrum-of-scrums meeting ever again

Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com

Software developers are not okay: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/

(Evil) Ashley Blewer ๐ŸŽƒ reposted

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if youโ€™re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and donโ€™t put it back online until after itโ€™s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

I know I'm always complaining about my mom (naturally), but she bought matching Advent calendars for us to do together so we get the same treat on the same day and I think that's adorable ๐Ÿฅฐ

I know I'm always complaining about my mom (naturally), but she bought matching Advent calendars for us to do together so we get the same treat on the same day and I think that's adorable ๐Ÿฅฐ

You may be thinking, Ashley, yes, that's how Advent calendars work -- but you don't realize I was raised in a wolf's den household where we do not obey things as frivolous as numbers, dates, order, or time. We attack immediately

(Evil) Ashley Blewer ๐ŸŽƒ reposted

I am forever glad to have Ashley as a friend, but is a particular joy to have her as a colleague now ๐Ÿ‘ฝ๐Ÿ›ธ

the uni I teach at asked for faculty to submit brief lightning talks promoting upcoming classes and I feel bad for the grad assistant who is about to have to deal with what I created

Okay I've been working consistently the past 6 months on a project that involves having links on the open web and it's been devastating to see how rapidly we are losing it. Dealing with two major open info losses!

and okay, people are sometimes really eager to point out this info *might* exist somewhere else. I know that, that's not what I'm upset about. It's not for ME, I already HAVE that info in my brain. It's the open access part that I'm upset about!!! ugh I hate it when it shows I have an LIS degree!!

Okay I've been working consistently the past 6 months on a project that involves having links on the open web and it's been devastating to see how rapidly we are losing it. Dealing with two major open info losses!

I'm trying to HEAL from the social burnout of working in/around/with tech with this project, not create a fiery demon god within myself from which there is no stepping back! just leave the internet alone for a tiny bit longer! In good news: I'm starting to be able to feel emotions again. bad news: ๐Ÿ‘น

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Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.โ€