On this Good Friday, we remember Spock died for the needs of the many.

The problem with software is that it is made by people who like software, and who have never spoken to the modal user, because they think that's someone else's job. This applies to all software.

Making art today. Cats know what is what. Martharichartprojects.bigcartel.com

Brighten someone's day: www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-...

a new Jira account called “CC” pops up & is assigned tickets we didn’t have capacity for in sprint planning at the start of the week. “he is going to take these tickets“ I’m told after asking why the LLM tool has a Jira account. I believe I have entered a new circle of hell called Gas Town.

In case it wasn’t clear: If your designs aren’t accessible they aren’t going to work. Your average user does not exist. This is an incorrect bias is built on an ableism. People have disabilities. You need accessibility or your designs will not work at scale. Full stop.

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

“You love the trees wrong!” is perhaps the most Seattle NIMBY thing imaginable.

Actual creative people have a ton of ideas, they quickly break through the thousand lowest-hanging least creative ideas. You're seeing them execute their *millionth* idea. People who only want to be *seen* as creative, have one idea, their very first idea, the lowest hanging fruit idea.

This is something tech people don't grasp about nonfiction writing: the process of deep research, of deciding which little details are interesting or which obscure anecdotes have historical value, is all part of the creative work of writing. It's not grunt work. It can't just be automated.

I think the web as we know it is absolutely under attack by out of control technocapitalists, and the status quo can’t hold but the nostalgia for “the old internet” is the same as pining for “the old days” as portrayed by Leave it to Beaver.

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

In an overwhelmingly Democratic state of 8 million, it is essentially meaningless to call Democrats "the party of the rich" because around 16,000 people subject to a new tax live in districts where more than 50% went for Dems. It's much more accurate to say rich people don't live in rural areas.

cis day of asking yourself what else the trans people who warned you how bad things were going to get might have also been right about

was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please

Websites should load quickly and, once they've loaded, work 100% of the time

There's a great late-season TNG episode in which some of the crew return to the ship to find it seemingly frozen in time battling the Romulans, but it turns out the warp core has already exploded, it's just progressing at an extremely slow rate, and they can't stop it. Anyway, the world economy.

The thing most people in tech seem to have forgotten about friction is: it’s the force that allows you to stop before you fall off a cliff.

"Where other cities have forfeited the existence of third spaces to commerce, Paris has actively facilitated their existence... In doing so it has made a statement as politically radical as any purported 'war on cars'. There is a right to simply be that is not conditional on one’s ability to spend."

The problem with every claim of "you need to start using AI or you will be left behind" is why, if AI could indeed do the work, one wouldn't be left behind regardless. Factory labourers whose work was replaced with robots are not currently being paid to idly look at those robots moving their arms.

Given how often famous humans do things that make me wonder "don't they have friends or family members who love them enough to stop them?" it's not at all surprising I believe that many people do not need more sycophants, automated or not, in their lives.

America's economy is dominated by finance, a point of view that thinks that all businesses are in the same business. Whether your business bakes bread or builds fighter jets, you're making the same thing: Money.

Dear normies, Do you not find it strange that you only ever hear negative stories about trans ppl? Only ever hear them being banned from stuff? Most of you won't even (knowingly) know a trans person, so doesn't this all strike you as a bit...odd? 🤔🌈

Abolishing section 230 to regulate tech monopolies would be like if instead of trust-busting train monopolies in the early 1900s we instead legally classified everyone as a train company for some reason

This piece in @garbageday.email identifies how US social media is similar to Japan’s circa 2016. It’s good. www.garbageday.email/p/everyone-s...

Is anyone who reads The Atlantic not hate reading it?

Before you go citing the “millions” of developers using genAI tools daily to back whatever “everybody loves these things” argument you’re making, you should probably figure out many of them have been coerced into using them on threat of losing their jobs. It’s not a small number.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

There are often days when I just want to ignore everything and spend the day sitting at my drum kit, and this is absolutely one of them

This whole thread is *chef kiss*

like here's a fun thought exercise: if you're talking about some { computer, electronic, software, media } company's product, try actually referring to it as a "product" instead of a "technology" try to do it for like two weeks; i guarantee your brain will do this:

yes, if picasso were still alive and playing a leading role in driving systemic harm toward trans people and you bought guernica and he got all or some of the money you would be a bad person. this is not a relevant thought experiment bc all conditions related to harm are missing.

Let's Save Ballard Rail! @seattlesubway.org is hosting a community organizing meeting at Stoup Brewing in Ballard on Saturday, April 4, from 12PM-2PM. See you there! secure.everyaction.com/PQntavBshESZ...

a reminder that sora, like chatgpt, is a commercial product that can come and go like any other website, which is another reason why a lot of us remain critical of “AI” — and why we focus more on its political economy than its technological mechanisms

Donate to Erica! Donate to PublicCola!

If SPD can’t solve crimes without cameras everywhere, we should use some of their crazy huge budget to replace them with officers who can.

Designers: everybody only thinks we do decorating 🤬 Also designer: look at how much of my Figma workflow I’ve handed off to Claude Code! 🥳 Y’all are about to have a really bad time if this bubble doesn’t end soon.

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

saw someone tweet that the point of ice at airports is to get people accustomed to the police state as an everyday thing, and i remember when people made that same (correct) point about tsa in the naughts

By the same logic, everyone is lying on their eye tests because glasses are trendy.

you remember how a bunch of those ai assistant startups turned out to just be people from poorer countries halfway around the world?

I love that we (the tech industry) have recreated the “everybody in every meeting“ problem by recording everything and then sending the links to the videos around instead of taking notes. I guess watching reruns of business meetings is what we are doing with all the surpluses of productivity.

Dylan M. Taylor, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Credit Genie, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu, & Arch. He collaborated with two Microsoft employees to merge it. Lennart Poettering then personally blocked the revert & allowed the PR through. The surveillance state runs on unpaid simps.

to the nerds claiming the FOSS community is attempting to somehow doxx a guy who used his professional credentials to submit code to a public FOSS repo under his full legal name:

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

This thread did numbers. The basic critiques boil down to: * Actually, it works fine for me. * Elon Musk is bad. * Not all Boomers. Which all miss the central point: the era of tapping little thoughts into a box is well and over. It's not being replaced by a different little thought box, ever.

Babe you sure you wanna wear shorts and a tank? Girl the SUN is out. I’ll never be cold again