Bruce Bell-Myers

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Enterprise UI Specialist by day, actor by night.
Githubhttps://bbellmyers.github.io/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Blymers
Bloghttps://bbellmyers.github.io
Bruce Bell-MyersJul 4, 2025
Sarah TaberJul 4, 2025

Hello Americans on Mastodon, I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.

So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.

Bruce Bell-MyersApr 7, 2023
@estelle since it steals all its answers from the internet, perhaps "mansplaining by proxy"
Show threadBruce Bell-MyersDec 26, 2022
@tsalazargr paying for cheap labor in cash to keep it off the books?
Bruce Bell-MyersDec 24, 2022
SarahDec 24, 2022
“It seems highly unlikely that the parents being frozen out of #Christmas dinners are those who ‘just happen’ to vote Republican, but rather those who insist upon torturing their relatives with QAnon conspiracies... If those relatives don't want to put up with that behavior, don't want to put their children or their friends at risk of being discriminated against by these people, then they should perhaps consider being less terrible.” https://t.co/6VXfkXlmrc
Won't Someone Think Of All The Bigots Who Won't Be Invited To Christmas This Year?

Dennis Prager will.

Wonkette
Bruce Bell-MyersDec 24, 2022
Katherine Alejandra CrossDec 24, 2022

It appears, at least in my little archipelago of Mastodons, that there's a Great Quote-Tweet debate happening.

One person I respect asked pointedly to see data that proved QTs were abusive. Since I've been researching affordances of social media platforms I pulled some bits and bobs out of my hideous pile of papers and thought I'd share some insights with y'all about this question.

Cards on the table: I think QTs are a net negative. But nothing's ever simple.

Bruce Bell-MyersDec 24, 2022
Show threadCory DoctorowDec 24, 2022

#8 - Unlearn purity culture

This is a big one guys. What is purity culture? It's referenced a lot, but I think a lot of you don't know what it is.

In short, purity culture is when people take many nuanced situations and try to divide them into black and white categories. There's the Good category and the Bad category. The problem is, life is not in black and white. You can't put a neat line down the middle between good and bad.

Bruce Bell-MyersDec 20, 2022
After a month of shows, (minus two which vanished in the Great Green Room Flood of 2022), I lay Bob Wallace to rest. I am pleased and greatly relieved. Now to get this hernia fixed 🙂
Show threadBruce Bell-MyersDec 12, 2022
@hyc it’s the most wonderful time of the year.
Show threadBruce Bell-MyersNov 30, 2022
@electron_greg I played that game on a printer-type terminal at my high school. Loved it.
Bruce Bell-MyersNov 24, 2022
Andrea Junker Nov 23, 2022
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.