Torrey Podmajersky
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Cats, kayaking, and UX content strategy. President of www.CatbirdContent.com
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Kat Abughazaleh
6 days ago
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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Larry Swanson
about 1 month ago
Super-fun to chat with
@torreybird.bsky.social
about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations.
knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/
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Torrey Podmajersky: language and meaning in complex systems
Torrey Podmajersky is a UX writer and content designer and an expert on aligning semantics and language in the design complex systems.
https://knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/
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TakaComics / Shannon / シャノン
about 1 month ago
They’re bringing limes, they’re bringing grapes… and some, I assume, are gourd people.
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The Daily Show
about 1 month ago
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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American Birding Association
2 months ago
Remember, birding is there for you.
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the small, quiet sparkle of PNWers noticing signs of Autumn 💖
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PNW mood. ⛴️ @wsdot
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The online book launch for the 2nd edition of Strategic Writing for UX was a career highlight. Thanks so much for sharing it with me!
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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷
2 months ago
The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....
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Robert Black
2 months ago
Look, the actual causes of the Revolutionary War are oft misunderstood, but to be clear: this is bullshit It was a dispute about the nature of the British empire, & specifically whether the American colonies had the same standing relative to the king as Great Britain did, or, rather...
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Aaron Rupar
3 months ago
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
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Is Mailchimp borked for anybody else? I'm in the middle of newsletter writing 😅
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Dave Levinthal
5 months ago
It’s 6:14 p.m. at the D.C. parade, and it is *quiet* on Constitution Avenue between 20th and 21st streets.
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Sarah Tolcser
5 months ago
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
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Senator Patty Murray
5 months ago
Senators are ELECTED to be a VOICE for their constituents. What happens when that voice is stifled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed like Senator Padilla was? We have a democracy, but we can lose that democracy. I took to the Senate floor to speak out—I hope you'll join me.
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60 Minutes
7 months ago
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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Danny Miller
7 months ago
If Nazi Germany, they sent political prisoners to the camps before they sent the Jews. If a fascist state has a way to disappear a person, then nobody is safe.
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Alexander Howard
7 months ago
Copyright protection under 17 U.S. Code § 105 is not available for any work of the United States Government. The White House is the People’s House. Content for every @WhiteHouse is in the public domain, never copyrighted with “All Rights Reserved.” Small stuff vs human rights violations, but BS.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
8 months ago
Teen Vogue presents: Introducing Vivian Wilson
@thevivllainous.bsky.social
In her 2nd-ever interview, the 20-year-old tells
@ellayurman.bsky.social
about going viral, protecting trans youth, her “pathetic man-child” estranged dad Elon Musk, and more
@teenvogue.com
www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
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Josh Marshall
8 months ago
Quite a fun moment when the security contractors who had been terminated by the USIP but had switched their allegiances to DOGE entered the property with an unconfiscated key and headed immediately to the gun safe.
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ryan cooper
8 months ago
in 2010 if you said "this Citizens United decision will end up with one single person buying the House of Representives like a pound of cheese, so as to impeach judges who rule against his coup attempt" you'd have been dismissed as a hysteric
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Peter Morley ♿️
8 months ago
This picture speaks for itself. Donald Trump and Elon Musk don’t care but we MUST.
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Caffeine 🇺🇦
9 months ago
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elia ayoub
8 months ago
Jewish Voice for Peace is occupying Trump tower to demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release, no muslim ban ever and to stop arming Israel
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Joyce Park
8 months ago
How many of you could put your hands on a passport, birth or naturalization certificate, and marriage record within say an hour? Because NH now requires all that to vote, and it's messing with women who changed their names after marriage. Project 2025 wants this to be a Federal law, the SAVE Act.
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I'm re-reading The Murderbot Diaries, and it is with that perspective I say WTAF. I don't want to live in a corporate polity, and I don't want humans to be enslaved or indentured to them, either. The history of "company towns" and colonies is grim.
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Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build 'Freedom Cities' Run by Corporations
A pro-corporate libertarian movement is attempting to take over the U.S., with Trump's help.
https://gizmodo.com/tech-execs-are-pushing-trump-to-build-freedom-cities-run-by-corporations-2000574510
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henry ✷
12 months ago
the advent of javascript frameworks was not, as was advertised, to "simplify application state & reactivity" on the web, but rather to satisfy man's primal urge and fervent desire to Build A Quite Strange And Peculiar Contraption
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German Aid to Ukraine
9 months ago
Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock has just given a really remarkable, nearly 12-minute speech on yesterday's events at the White House in support of
#Ukraine
. I have translated a large part of the speech for you. PART 1 OF 7
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Dr. Sarah Parcak
9 months ago
America is now kidnapping and disappearing foreigners. I recommend strongly you stop coming here.
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Lilly Irani
9 months ago
CBP is detaining german tourist for over 1 mo because they accused her of intending to tattoo for $$ while in US. In jailing her to deport, they held her in solitary for 9 days, also kept her from her return flight Feb 15. She's still jailed. CoreCivic+CBP ⬆️ 💵
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German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/02/28/german-tourist-held-indefinitely-in-san-diego-area-immigrant-detention-facility
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Ross Floate
9 months ago
Your friend and mine,
@daviddylanthomas.bsky.social
, has a vision. Beneath a park in Philadelphia, lie buried the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people. What if they all came back as zombies, but they only ate white people? Clearly, we need this film.
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Sharon Lurye
9 months ago
This week-by-week tracker for federal education actions is incredibly useful! The most shocking thing I've learned so far is that it's been six weeks since Trump took office.
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When this president says "Right out of central casting" it means that the person has the job based on his biases about race, gender, body shape, etc.
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Pete Buttigieg
9 months ago
I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.
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Gandolf the Grey
9 months ago
My favorite from today’s 50501 March in Boston.
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Jesse Berney
9 months ago
If you can't support the most ardent fighter working Americans have in politics than you simply have no interest in making the world a better place. You're only interested in abstract moral purity and do not care what happens to real people.
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jamelle
9 months ago
so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥
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Jonathon Colman
9 months ago
I loved reading
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's interview with the always-great
@lapope.bsky.social
for the upcoming Lead with Tempo conference. "When you gloss over the complexity, nuance, and detail, you miss so much… it shuts down so many opportunities to learn."
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Leading with…Lauren Pope
In the run up to Lead with Tempo 2025, I spoke to content strategist Lauren Pope to find out what excites her and keeps her energised.
https://medium.com/lead-with-tempo/leading-with-lauren-pope-90131d9a6793
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Daniel Drezner
9 months ago
There’s gonna be so many variations on this theme over the next three years and eleven months.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Autumn is the BEST season
9 months ago
In conclusion, this is why we fired the person who approves the funds for Grandma’s walker
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Pete Buttigieg
9 months ago
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
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Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. Nothing within Gaza without Palestinian Gazans. My government should be working with Ukraine to free Ukraine territory from Russian interference. My government should be working with Palestinians to restore Gaza for Gazans.
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Is it me, or was Vance's speech in Europe a demonstration of his personal fealty to Putin?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
9 months ago
Roses are red Borscht’s Ashkenazi It’s solidarity or bust Against the government Nazis
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This letter is brilliantly clear.
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I am uninterested in the Titanic rebrand while it sinks, thanks.
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One week left! Seats still available!
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John Green
9 months ago
A bright light in a dark moment: The price of the critical TB drug bedaquiline has now dropped to $90 per adult treatment course for TB, a 54% reduction since just 2023. This is a huge win for
@tbfighters.org
and the TB activism community generally.
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Access bedaquiline | StopTB Partnership
https://www.stoptb.org/what-we-do/facilitate-access-tb-drugs-diagnostics/global-drug-facility-gdf/new-tools/bedaquiline
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