The "why can't I hold all these limes" meme but with multiple screenshots of the "Recall process for City elected officials" page from the Portland.gov website. It includes a tiny Governor Tina Kotek for good measure.
Made this during the election fiasco and didn't post it, but the sentiment remains.
Incredible article detailing humiliating behind-the-scenes behavior of nearly half our city council and those pulling the strings, esp during the clown show that was our council president elections.
Grateful to have Jeremiah, the Mercury, and the progressive caucus calling these embarrassments out.
my ideal future is not one where tech makes everyone go faster but one where everyone has the freedom to slow down
There are a lot of causes that need help today. I'll be donating to trans orgs in red states as well. But any #pottery sales today and tomorrow will go to support families at a south Minneapolis Public School:
art.miriamsuzanne.com
www.gofundme.com/f/support-mi...
The web is immeasurably worse with so many of our modern knowledge bases on a single, gated platform.
A generation of information lost and never indexable to anyone besides by a company that paywalls gradients, GIFs, and usernames over long-requested safety/QoL features or a usable interface.
Begging communities to use forums again.
stranger: what do you do for work?
me, shamefully: computer
(evening sesh)
Screenshot of a Twitch stream with a Procreate interface. The comic illustration shows a Mindflayer giving a TED talk as a photo for a LinkedIn blog post. Off to the side are comments both praising and condemning their "insights".
@mattkicks.bsky.social is currently live on Twitch drawing more of his comic if you're looking for chill Monday vibes or simply enjoy dunking on LinkedIn influencer culture.
www.twitch.tv/matt_kicks
Adobe is once again leaving some of their largest, most long-standing clients out to dry because it was more important to embed tools that don't work and ways to train on art that isn't theirs.
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
(In the meantime there's Waterfox and, for instances that require Chromium, Vivaldi.)
For anyone interested in spoilers, this is where it ends:
This multi-year campaign of not listening to your users has been such innovative, subversive marketing. To abandon Servo only to destroy faith in your own brand in order to elevate them as the rightful successor?
Kind of an anti-ARG, but great storytelling nonetheless.
Macromedia flash
As if Figma didn't already burn enough trust with designers, now they are also silently opting everyone in to let them train their AI on your work.
For the time being, you can opt out in the settings. But for how much longer?
Hypothesis has pivoted a bit since, but this was essentially what they were proposing in 2011. I think often about how different things might be if it had gained the traction it deserved or if the functionality was standardized and inherently built into browsers.
web.hypothes.is
So much admiration for Steve and the GN crew's unwavering exposés on what's happening in tech right now while underscoring that it is a concerted effort to transfer the ownership of data, devices, and intellectual freedom from individuals to private equity at the expense of human rights.
Absolutely shocked to learn that no responsible development is taking place on Adobe's end, even in a package marketed specifically to K-12 educators and students.
I don't think Masto is perfect by any means, but it at least lets me discern who can and can't follow and/or interact with me, and my current instance is run by lovely people who care.
A reminder that if you're an old mutual, a front-end-oriented person, or a Portlander, I'm a lot more active (and candid) over on Mastodon — front-end.social/@mandy
You love to see it.
On desktop, FF now has these summaries tied to extended keydown on links—which I've come to learn is something I unknowingly do a lot—so not only does an obnoxious UI now interfere with my natural behavior, but it doesn't even work 90% of the time and I wouldn't trust it if it did.
if anyone’s looking for aknitomy, I’ll be on my own site, which doesn’t quiiiiite have the foot traffic that etsy does. So feel free to share if you know anyone who needs a knitted dissected frog www.aknitomy.com/shop
Thank god CSS isn't owned by a company.
Although I use Figma daily, I'm ready to switch to another design tool at any moment. I don't care. I will start using Penpot more, just in case.
The dropdown to block an account on bluesky but with an added option that says ETERNAL SUNSHINE with a person icon with an X on their head. A reference to "Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope, describing a state free from painful memories.
we could go further
The irony of wearing this while announcing a battle royale, too. 🙃
Made a little demo using sibling-index() to create sparkling celestial objects for some constellation SVGs. Currently requires Chrome Canary with the Experimental Web Features flag enabled.
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
Made a little demo using sibling-index() to create sparkling celestial objects for some constellation SVGs. Currently requires Chrome Canary with the Experimental Web Features flag enabled.
codepen.io/mandynicole/...
Medical negligence the day prior left nurse Adriana Smith braindead the following morning at 9 weeks pregnant. Georgia is forcing her body to incubate until delivery at her family's expense.
They have been having to tell her young son that she's just "sleeping" to explain why she's still breathing.
