I'm *thrilled*, my Pebble finally arrived! I'm playing Final Fantasy Tactics, I have a watch from 2015. It's retro city over here. @ericmigi.com

"What should poor people be allowed to eat?" seems to be a burning question for those who aren't poor, have never been poor, and can afford to eat what they like, but want to keep poor people from eating anything that tastes really good. "No fresh meat," said Iowa, a few years ago.

This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kittens-and-cats-a-first-reader-1911-cats-and-captions-before-the-internet-age #InternationalCatDay

It’s a great day to pick out a bunch of THINGS for your loved ones! Here’s Johnny with his THINGS print. Maybe I should add “excellent beard” to the THINGS database. Www.lucyknisley.com/things

like it feels to me that the longer we have to live with bots eating through all of the trash that was never important in the first place, it just becomes ever clearer that real, deep writing about human experience has always been a profound and *extraordinary* gift

sure wilhelm screamed but did he laugh — did he cry — did he love

Cats are just so good.

When did Deviantart become just a pile of AI slop? Whatta shame.

"Again and again, accessibility as a topic in web standards is treated as simultaneously too trivial for specialists' technical opinions to be given weight, but also too difficult to get right without a specialist volunteering to tackle the tricky details." alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-t...

Fall at last! I've updated my code editor and terminal theme for the season 🍂🍂🍂

I returned my first car to the dealership today! It was a lease, we had four months left on it, but our insurance is sky high, my partner is going back to school, and that extra money goes a long way. I almost never drove it myself, but it's a little sad! Thanks for the adventures, Gladys.

About a year ago I bought a tiny, cheap little linux box with the intention of setting up a local web server, Just For Fun. I finally got it working! I won't share the link, the page is just a doodle, but still. It's such a small thing, but it's so cool this site lives 1' away from me in meat space.

I finally finished McKenzie Wark's book "Raving" this morning. What a great read. So visceral. She really captured so many things I've felt but couldn't say. I'm diving back into raves/dance in a more intentional way after many years of bopping at Gay Boy Parties, /1 www.dukeupress.edu/raving

TIL about responsive viewport units! Also this is, like, the fourth time I've seen something cool about/on the internet posted somewhere else, and saw that it was done by this delightful human. If you haven't seen lyra.horse/antonymph/ yet, do - it's my favourite piece of web-art.

Hats off to the etsy witches!

Every single person who thinks a trans person should just pipe down until we restore democracy is, in my view, an enemy of democracy. I’m not doing it.

If something's beyond two lines, align left that shit.

Using craigslist for the first time in a long time, and I'm just so thrilled at how *fast* everything is. Turns out not having tonnes of ads, javascript, and f e a t u r e s results in a site that just works, and works very well.

Sure I'm really proud of the a11y work I do, but this? Getting people to call buttons buttons instead of always CTAs? This is my real impact, my pride and joy.

I wrote a blog post about this: benjie.ca/blog/2025/05... Inspired by some similar thoughts by Clayton Ramsey: claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/

I just published a complete redesign of my website! It's still a bit of a work in progress... I was tempted to find a geocities style "Under Construction" gif to slap on it. I've been working on it very slowly for a bit, and figured it was best to just push up what I have now, and keep iterating!

I've been in so many meetings today, I only just signed into github for the first time 😬

She needs six eggs. Skill issue.

Beyond underwear overdoses, bar eavesdropping drama, and incredible academic paper titles, the best reason to follow @swilua.bsky.social is to rememeber to Never Forget the Fae. Doing so unlocked a wellspring of inspiration for The Novel that's been tugging on my neurons for two years.

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

I'm working on my own website again as part of this trend... But it also feels like a very siloed phenomenon. Most of my friends are not Tech People, and they have no interest in just rolling their own site - they're looking at how to give up the web as much as possible instead.

chrome needs to update on its return, my tabs: gone smile, free from their weight

And (I say this as a hardcore meditator) endless stark meditation retreats and EEG headsets are not a substitute for real spiritual practice, which is always based in community, and insufficient as supports for the psychedelic experience.

at the summit of bold visions www.noncanon.com/comics/2025-...

I went snowbell huntin' yesterday. It's sprung, y'all #photography #fujifilm #naturephotography

[throws open window] "you there! Boy! What day is it?" Boy: "why, it's the Ides of March, sir!" Me: "I haven't missed it! The spirits did it all in one night!" B: "..." M: "Go to the butcher's and buy the biggest knife you can find!" [Tosses my wallet down]

Oh how fun: I've decided to do a listening project focused on all the symphonies for a given composer, and I'm starting with Beethoven. I just found this podcast that has a whole series on his symphs (special lingo for those in the know). stickynotespodcast.libsyn.com/size/5/?sear...

The designers on my team have started marking up their figma files with alt text and notes for screen reader UX and I couldn't be more proud 😭😭😭

They're still called Skeets, btw

Friendly reminder that I shared *an extensive* guide to ARIA live regions so you can learn more about: - what they are - what to use them for - how to use them - what *not* to use them for (!important) Part 1: www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/accessi... Part 2: www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/accessi... #a11y

Accessibility is anti-fascist. You can do a lot by literally just adding alt text.

Praise be!!! Finally there's an easier way to get into Reading Mode in Chrome!!!

I was thinking about AI for, say writing, or coding. I was trying to answer, "why not use AI?" and it has to do with what learning a skill does to you. When we learn a skill, we create new pathways in our brain, reinforcing them repeatedly until, with mastery, the skill becomes effortless.

My brain is just absolutely buzzing as I finish up this presentation I'm doing on how screen reader users experience the web. I'm learning things I didn't know before, and I'm so excited to share it.

I feel like the more senior I get the more time I spend on tiny little things I used to think were just bike shedding... because I have more experience making decisions that turned out to be Bad Ideas later

Neat little article about youtube's new core brand colour! design.google/library/yout...

Just some short thoughts on how people get defensive when talking about accessibility (in blog form, instead of a thread! go me!) heather-buchel.com/blog/2025/02...

I love learning about new (to me) #a11y things. Today's deep dive was the roles `tab`, `tablist`, and `tabpanel`. So interesting! I might do a little blog post writeup about them.

The only topic of conversation in the office today is this insane trade war. Such a shame that these times are happening when I'm otherwise the happiest I've ever been.

If I have a good, or even passable, exchange with a customer service person, darn-tootin' I'm doing that satisfaction survey. I absolutely want my glowing comments brought up in their performance review. Almost never when I have a bad experience. Feels like solidarity. ✊

I did an intro workshop at a zen centre in town, and I really liked it. It was a great space, very clean, pristine, and had the warm but reverential vibe I loved at the insight meditation society. I just wish they were closer - they're on the other side of downtown from me.

(Tiny Tim voice) God bless us, everyone. defector.com/the-2024-hat...