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rotate(180deg);\">&#x1f1fa;&#x1f1f8;<\/span> Work this week was something of a study in contrasts, whipsawing between celebrating our students at end-of-the-year celebrations and preparing for commencement, and getting news of <a href=\"https:\/\/convergeaccessibility.com\/2025\/06\/02\/doj-web-accessibility-rule-in-danger\/\">two major attacks on disability rights and accessibility<\/a>:\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/\">American Council on Education<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/Documents\/Letter-OMB-Deregulation-RFI-051225.pdf\">sent a letter (PDF link)<\/a> to the Office of Management and Budget asking that implementation of last year&#8217;s Title II updates be delayed. The reasoning is the usual &#8220;but it&#8217;s too hard\/expensive&#8221; whining from people who don&#8217;t want to do even the bare minimum of work to support disabled communities; the surprise is who the letter is coming from and being signed by. This has prompted a <em>lot<\/em> of uproar in the higher education accessibility communities, and we&#8217;re just getting started.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The Department of Energy is trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lflegal.com\/2025\/06\/energy-department-rollback\/\">fast-track rolling back the regulations<\/a> that require new construction to be made accessible. This would be a <em>huge<\/em> blow to accessibility, and because of how they&#8217;re doing this, comments can only be submitted until June 16 (next Monday).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>&#x1f913; On Saturday, we went down to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtownkentwa.com\/event\/knp25\/\">Kent Nerd Party<\/a>, something of a local mini-convention in the historic downtown area. We were only there for a little over an hour (it being the first day of a two-day spring heatwave, with temperatures in the mid- to high-80s), but it was fun to see costumes, geek-centric street booths, a small Lego museum with some really impressive creations, and a few friends that we happened to run into.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x1f4f8; Photos<\/h2>\n<p><figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_4356.jpeg\" alt=\"24 small Lego dioramas featuring well-known artists and their work, with cards below explaining which artist each diorama represents.\" title=\"IMG_4356.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"347\" \/><figcaption>Seen at the Lego display at the Kent Nerd Party. My wife and I could identify most of these little artist dioramas without needing to reference the clue cards beneath.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_4357.jpeg\" alt=\"A large size Lego person sitting in a lawn chair next to a plant with another figure emerging from it, both next to a poster for the classic sci-fi horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.\" title=\"IMG_4357.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><figcaption>I really appreciated this nod to classic sci-fi horror. Figured it out before I noticed the poster to the side!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_4342.jpeg\" alt=\"Small inclusive, bi, and trans pride flags displayed in the grass by a paved walkway.\" title=\"IMG_4342.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"747\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption>Nice to see Pride flags set out across campus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_4339.jpeg\" alt=\"A metal tray with nine snacks made up of stacked lettuce, meat patty, tomato slice, and pickle\u2026and nothing else.\" title=\"IMG_4339.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><figcaption>There&#8217;s an old Bloom County comic where Milo goes into a Burger King and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilobrow.com\/2019\/03\/20\/seriocomic-12\/\">orders a Whopper, &#8220;hold the bun&#8221;<\/a>. So I was _very_ amused to see a tray of burgers, sans bun, among the food options at a catered event on campus this week. For somewhere around four decades, I&#8217;d only ever known this as a comic strip gag, but apparently it&#8217;s a real thing?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>&#x1f4da; Reading<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>I finished the final book in <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/06\/07\/the-vorkosigan-saga\/\">Lois McMaster Bujold&#8217;s Vorkosigan Saga<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/06\/07\/gentleman-jole-and-the-red-queen-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold\/\"><i>Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen<\/i><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x1f517; Linking<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>S. Baum at <i>Erin in the Morning<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erininthemorning.com\/p\/defying-desantis-florida-pride-marchers\">Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors<\/a>. It&#8217;s good to remember that as horrible as Florida the <em>state<\/em> is being right now, there are still a <em>lot<\/em> of people there that don&#8217;t agree with what their local government is doing, and are willing to make that known.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>John Scalzi: <a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2025\/06\/03\/well-can-you-prove-youre-a-us-citizen\/\">Well, CAN You Prove You&#8217;re a US Citizen?<\/a>: &#8220;How many US citizens <em>could<\/em>, in fact, prove that they are US citizens at the drop of the hat? Leave aside for the moment the <em>absolutely correct<\/em> argument that it should not be incumbent on any of us to do so, and focus on this particular question. Can <em>you<\/em>, directly and\/or indirectly, show that you have citizenship here in the US?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Amanda Guinzburg: <a href=\"https:\/\/amandaguinzburg.substack.com\/p\/diabolus-ex-machina\">Diabolus Ex Machina<\/a>: &#8220;Presented to you in the form of unedited screenshots, the following is a &#8216;conversation&#8217; I had with Chat GPT upon asking whether it could help me choose several of my own essays to link in a query letter I intended to send to an agent. \u00b6 What ultimately transpired is the closest thing to a personal episode of Black Mirror I hope to experience in this lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Nathalie Graham at <i>Seattle Met<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattlemet.com\/news-and-city-life\/2025\/06\/washington-midsummer-renaissance-faire-nightmare\">A Midsummer Nightmare<\/a>: &#8220;According to performers and volunteers interviewed for this story, something is rotten in the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire: Poor labor conditions, bad actors, and business-over-people decisions by the board of directors are sapping the Renaissance faire of its magic.&#8221; <strong>Content warning:<\/strong> Contains reports of sexual and domestic abuse. Ammie, the first person interviewed in the article, is an acquaintance\/friend from the Norwescon and SeaGoth communities, so I&#8217;d heard bits and pieces of her story over time; the other stories are new to me.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sen. Patty Murray in the <i>Seattle Times<\/i>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/opinion\/sen-patty-murray-shut-up-and-be-quiet-no-thanks\/\">Shut up and be quiet? No thanks<\/a>: &#8220;Make yourself heard however you can. Maybe that&#8217;s a social media post or maybe it&#8217;s organizing thousands of parents to speak up for funding you care about. Big or small, it all makes a difference and it all adds up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week in the life of\u2026. 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