Really can’t believe they would cheapen the, uh, FIFA Peace Prize like this.

It’s Bandcamp Friday and if you want a rec, here’s a really special record that’s easily in my top 10 of the year. Think The Books or Dntel but more folk-forward joshuaburnside.bandcamp.com/album/teeth-...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

“Reliance.” A lot of us do tend to rely on vaccines so we don’t die. I guess that’s on us.

And when I say I believe USWDS will win, these are just some of the reasons bsky.app/profile/marg...

I need you to see the Reviewer 2 energy Bucky was giving when I put his new sweater on

"To put it plainly, the horrors that the federal government has been perpetrating in areas that don't have anything to do with me directly have nonetheless become impossible to shrug off and I don't want to have even a whiff of complicity with them."

DOGE would like you to know they’re still a thing. In a just world, these people would be ashamed to show their faces in public because of the literal body count and terrible human cost of their work. But they should also be ashamed of their shitty meme.

This piece is good, but omits a big source of Musk’s remaining influence in government: namely people given key appointments during the transition who were never officially part of DOGE and who are still in those positions doing DOGE-aligned work—people like my old boss at GSA who came from Tesla.

Courts aren’t going to save us but it’s damn cathartic to see these ghouls get their asses handed to them by judges who are empowered to say what we all know to be true.

From 18F alum @matthenry.fyi: "If [sites like America By Design] are any indication of what was coming down the pike as the future of government websites, it's a bad sign for the people who have to build and maintain those sites, it's a bad sign for USWDS, and it's a bad sign for you as a user ... "

“Think I’m bluffin’? Why don’t you ask the last guy who tried to argue that crime is a violation of the law and the state, rather’n a violation of people and relationships.”

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

X-Men ‘97 (2024)

That’s a wrap on my federal service. I wrote about my time in gov, and how it ended. matthenry.fyi/posts/moving... 1/

That’s a wrap on my federal service. I wrote about my time in gov, and how it ended. matthenry.fyi/posts/moving... 1/

I love seeing this. MD‘s and NJ‘s systems are both definitely based on USWDS. Not captured here, but there are municipal systems based on it too.

Cool to see this state-level design system tracker by @beeckcenter.bsky.social. Contrary to the beliefs of some—design is so much more than branding and beauty. And it looks like at least MD and NJ are using USWDS as a base (and maybe soon CO). digitalgovernmenthub.org/publications...

I don’t get why judges are asking prosecutors for a memo about this. Isn’t that what clerks are for?

YES! HA HA HA YES!

This isn't a surprise, but it's really. fucking. sad. DF was a high water mark in using technology to improve the public's experience of government. In a just world, there would be a huge team getting ready right now to expand it to even more filers.

*French hacker voice* Je suis entré

Timely (grim) new NBER working paper: Households screened out of SNAP "suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores." www.nber.org/papers/w34434

They wouldn't but by god they should

Tesla drivers remain undefeated for garbage behavior in the school dropoff queue

To be clear, this would be illegal even if he wasn‘t a citizen. SCOTUS seems fine with Kavanaugh stops, but they haven’t yet signed off on Kavanaugh shootings www.calonews.com/featured-top...

Having heard what it took for @nerdy.dev to get a new role (and what many of my former fed friends are still going through), I feel so lucky that my own search was merely exhausting and not the literal nightmare so many are experiencing. It's so bad out there.

gm to this bird who hung out on my barbell between sets

Well well well. Look at number two on this list of people who suck.

Everyone is focused on the fact that it's not an IQ test, but what about the fact that he went out there and said that a test meant to see if check for dementia was "very hard"?

The same care being put into the Epstein Ballroom that went into the drawer I can’t open all the way unless I open the oven first.

Bucky wants things

There are so few things in law school that really prepare students for legal practice (sorry, lawprofs 😅). Mock trials/trial advocacy classes where you get to watch real people deliberate over a case you put together is a huge one. This totally squanders that valuable experience.

🎵 I heard there was a sacred thread A SovCit for its return had pled But you aren’t in the proper venue Are you 🎶

There are so many overreaches that I care about more than a damn building, but this gives me literal chest-tightening anxiety. I’m genuinely surprised by my own reaction to it, but it’s a very salient reminder of how they will truly do whatever they feel like.

Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately. DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

Friction gets a bad rap. Distinct but related to this: one of the massive problems with DOGE and related projects is just that they fully ignore the institutional friction that is actually critically important to systems that can cause real harm.

By the way - all my posts are off the record

“robots.txt passed away in July 2025… from the consequences of systematic disregard by AI corporations. Cloudflare’s decision to block AI crawlers by default marked the moment when even the last major infrastructure provider abandoned faith in voluntary compliance & moved to technical enforcement”

As a furloughed fed, if I wrote “I can go back to work tomorrow,” it would have the same legal effect as this.

Omg this is *such a good idea*

CISA does great, important work. They don’t deserve this. None of us do.

I’d be all over this if I was a devops person.

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there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

“Proper” political messaging: partisan banners on federal government websites blaming dems for the shutdown Improper “political” messaging: a rainbow flag

Day 1 of furlough

Remember when it was outrageous partisan overreach to use a government website to say that voting is good and to tell people how to do it? www.politico.com/news/2024/06...

what a time to be alive (derogatory)