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@clairebaire.dev

front-end engineer making websites performant and accessible at a big company. really like adhering to web standards and talking about public infrastructure. chicago | she/her

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Do trans, be crimes Dimensions: 4.5" h x 3.5" w (approximately 12oz) I'm a crime, and so can you! Trans rights are under attack around the world, but...

More and more governments agree that my life should be criminal. Haha, fun. Welcome, Iowa. Here's a new batch of mugs:

art.miriamsuzanne.com/product/tran...

12.03.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s right!

11.03.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mood lately: πŸ₯΄πŸ€ͺπŸ™„πŸ« 

10.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I wish this point was made more often
1989 I came out. It's not illegal to use the bathroom
1994 I started medical transition. It's not illegal to use the bathroom
1997 I socially transitioned. It's not illegal to use the bathroom
2026 I've to check a map to see where it's legal to use the bathroom

07.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

It’s hard to properly convey the lunacy of these proposals to people outside aerospace.

Reflect wants to put gigantic mirrors in orbit and beam down sunlight at nighttime.

SpaceX wants a million more starlink sats.

If either of these actually happens, space will be unusable.

06.03.2026 17:26 πŸ‘ 503 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 10

that you might not be over it

06.03.2026 13:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you sound over it for sure

06.03.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Setting up a personal music server (Navidrome) Tired of using Spotify? Want to listen to your personal music library on all your different devices? This is a step-by-step guide on setting up your own personal music server that you can stream your ...

blog.wellssanto.com/steps-to-set... this one seems good (and follows a similar setup that I did)

Doesn’t look like it integrates with Doppler tho, but there are some other good made-for-macOS/iOS apps out there like nautiline.app

05.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I host Navidrome and have it available via Tailscale that automatically connects when I’m off my home WiFi. Works really well. Plenty of clients for iOS/Android as it uses the Subsonic API.

05.03.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Pokemon have universal healthcare but we don’t lol can’t wait to Pokemon go to the polls.

05.03.2026 01:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Playing LeafGreen on the Switch has me vividly remembering being so incredibly excited when Crystal came out and knowing I could choose to be a girl in it.

04.03.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

03.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 7007 πŸ” 3173 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 48

High speed EV chargers should look like this but instead of gas in the top it’s a cylindrical screen of a big battery filling up so that 1) it looks cool and 2) it’s *incredibly easy* to identify who is being a jerk at charging stations.

01.03.2026 14:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.

From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.

28.02.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 7406 πŸ” 1826 πŸ’¬ 159 πŸ“Œ 56
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The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

26.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 9579 πŸ” 3148 πŸ’¬ 524 πŸ“Œ 115

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of powerβ€”to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformityβ€”is terrifying and it will not stop here.

26.02.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 3058 πŸ” 1307 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 58

Very much not the point but listing sex at birth on a document meant to identify you right now is utterly useless from a security standpoint. but of course this is about cruelty and forced outing of queer private lives.

26.02.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 1562 πŸ” 328 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 12

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public.

It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

26.02.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 3280 πŸ” 653 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 25

There’s a particular candidate in the IL-9 race that seems to not do ANY of her own advertising, and yet this advertising is spamming my mailbox. Peculiar!

25.02.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lmao democrats

05.03.2025 04:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted…

The Sanitizer API landed in Firefox 148, along with element.setHTML().

This lets you fully configure how HTML strings are cleaned as they're parsed.

hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/good...

24.02.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 203 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 14

Stop giving the New York Times money.

24.02.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Trans people for the past decade: This isn't actually about sports or ensuing there's appropriate screening before someone starts medically transitioning. The goal is to effectively criminalize the existence of all trans people.

Very Reasonable Journalists: You're crazy

21.02.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 3040 πŸ” 537 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 15

Oh boy, as a trans person, if this doesn't hit home right now

21.02.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 2893 πŸ” 740 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

Music is great.

21.02.2026 03:47 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this doesn’t surprise me at all

20.02.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Gonna need my tariff refund stat thanks

20.02.2026 15:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hello yes i would like a shitty person to experience a consequence?

idk man fucking any of them surprise me

yes i'll hold

31.01.2026 17:42 πŸ‘ 730 πŸ” 213 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7

I love reporting political texts as spam.

18.02.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Feeeeel this so much. Still cannot find a system that works.

18.02.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0