David Fi&er

UX Web Services Librarian at a large Canadian university. Reader, cyclist, text-based lifeform.

Pronouns: he/him
Github: https://djfiander.github.io
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2026-11-03 15:52:54 UTC

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An anarchist that wants fewer meetings?

2026-09-16 15:34:32 UTC

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That's not a "fir" coat 😆

2026-08-21 17:16:32 UTC

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I could hate it more, but that would involve reading it (yes, I did support it; what's your point?)

2026-08-18 23:48:50 UTC

@npub1prs…eh8y "Right to race" laws sound like a really bad idea, but it makes sense.
https://youtu.be/TClqZ3_VYNI

2026-08-17 17:53:13 UTC

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I do have a great deal of sympathy for the Metric Committee, who had over a hundred years of precedent for the meaning of "G", "M", and "K" before the CS people came along and (as always) said "fuck that, 'M' means 1,048,576, not 1 million."

2026-07-29 22:20:47 UTC

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not coming to Bakka? 😞

2026-07-20 18:00:20 UTC

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waggle the mouse a lot and the cursor will get big

2026-06-25 18:30:03 UTC

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New residence comes with new yaks

2026-06-25 00:12:32 UTC

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I mean, there was a deodorant ad campaign that used "Don't stand so close to me", and that song is about statutory rape.

2026-06-11 11:59:18 UTC

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I was wondering, and I'm sorry to hear that. This is my first time attending, and I was hoping to meet you

2026-06-09 15:17:12 UTC

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how many sets of keycaps, though?

2026-06-01 14:15:21 UTC

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How recently have you read "The Dispossessed"? It's got an interesting take on "freedom" and how societies tend toward conformity and enforcing social expectations however much they claim to be "free".

2026-02-10 19:18:51 UTC

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I wasn't asking about the plodding, I was asking about the prey! Fortunately, Vancouver transit is pretty good

2026-02-10 19:17:13 UTC

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you're what now?

2026-01-31 23:48:53 UTC

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have they met me?

2026-01-14 16:09:05 UTC

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I love "hipster pda hard drive"

2025-11-07 22:05:45 UTC

Rosalind Franklin's Lab notes

2025-10-20 14:53:44 UTC

@npub19tp…nk0r #doctorWho #AI
https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/code4libsocial/media_attachments/files/115/407/057/840/863/776/original/62b02c5e1b3b4284.png

2025-10-08 20:06:18 UTC

I just started reading "Queen Demon" by Martha Wells
#bookstodon #books #reading

2025-09-13 20:52:19 UTC

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Please ignore our watch-guy gushing and continue to wear it on a 70s-vintage department store band.

2025-09-13 20:29:33 UTC

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It's a "Grand Seiko" (hence the "GS" mark). it's Seiko's top of the line compete with Swiss watches .

2025-09-13 20:25:30 UTC

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fancy! Was it your father's?

2025-09-05 14:26:19 UTC

@npub1hhs…rl5g you were cited on the podcast No Such Thing as a Fish ep. 597 for you work on the Ashley Madison hack! (It was a segment on computer dating)

2025-03-15 17:44:31 UTC

I have completed multiple tasks today.

2025-03-06 21:02:36 UTC

Just what I always wanted: a three hour long podcast about the assassination of President Garfield

2025-03-06 16:57:18 UTC

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probably because it's a tiny press and probably viewed as a niche audience. But honestly, anti-Bibi, anti-IDF Jews need all the help they can get nowadays.

2025-03-06 15:56:19 UTC

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ILL request submitted

2025-02-18 20:13:41 UTC

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I enjoyed this book too, and was amused at how much people protected onto the librarian when it turned out she was just making random suggestions

2025-01-31 15:49:36 UTC

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that sounds wonderfully absurd

2024-10-29 17:23:35 UTC

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American exceptionalism: the only country with a national K-12 school shooting database

2024-10-23 14:48:41 UTC

Those caution-tape bars on CWs is really annoying.
And my library got custom caution tape made up during our major renovation because some students commented that they were troubled by the black and yellowed striped tape because of personal experiences.

2024-10-10 16:00:21 UTC

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OK, that makes sense, because I was like, "But she doesn't have an accent?" Racism is a hell of a drug.
(I've heard you talk at WisCon)

2024-09-29 00:17:10 UTC

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I tried it once and nailed because I find the host supremely annoying

2024-09-06 16:13:32 UTC

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I think that the "one-for-one" CDL that IA was doing was fine, and is probably legal in Canada.
They ruined it for everybody when the lock down started and they said, "Fuck it! Everybody can read everything all the time", which is clearly not legal, and I knew that they'd get nailed for it in the end.

2024-08-27 15:08:35 UTC

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Insert "The Wire" meme.

2024-08-22 19:41:53 UTC

A $50k fine? Useless.

2024-08-16 20:08:22 UTC

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That background looks green to me, mostly.

2024-08-15 21:11:41 UTC

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I don't expect you to know, of course

2024-08-15 21:09:37 UTC

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why is the word for the publicly funded book distribution system some variation of "bibliotheque", EXCEPT in English which decided to use the word for bookstore?

2024-08-09 18:12:51 UTC

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the ending felt a bit rushed, but it was a fun read and a good first novel