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Happy birthday, tavian!

Techno irks and niggles

Is anybody else have that thing where certain sites just Will Not with Firefox? The latest for me is that academia.edu won't let me log in, fortunately this is not particularly critical I suppose, but other sites are an online supermarket I have been ordering from for some years and a library I have been using since pretty much forever (and this well post-dates any of the annoying updates of their site). Various other more intermittent and occasional examples, grrrr.

Yet again, former workplace email is not letting me log in (it's barely a month since the last time this happened), and they are taking a particularly long time to resolve the issue. Moan whinge. I still do have people/journals/etc who have that email for me, even if those communications are increasingly infrequent. Also pissed off that they have starting purging old emails without actually informing people, or at least telling me. Ugh.

Am also being rather irked by whoever is running the social media account of an institution I know, and focusing on cool quirky stuff and failing to draw attention to major research collections, even when we have been having various awareness Days and Weeks which one would have thought would be ideal prompts to big stuff up.

(There was also the describing of certain images as 'post-war aesthetic' when I was 'those look entirely like 1930s municipal modernism if they're not literally the Pioneer Health Centre', being promoted as lovely examples for the Welfare State. I refrained from getting pedantic on their ass, go me.)

I was also, on a tangential subject, annoyed by a review of a book in Literary Review which describes Doris Lessing as abandoning her children, when I think what actually happened was she lost custody when she got divorced? (There was thread on Bluesky just now on Lack of Factchecking in Books These Days.)