Instagram keeps pushing this ad at me, and it’s super annoying since it’s promoting an app to make video captions more aesthetically engaging. As a reminder, captions and subtitles are for accessibility. They shouldn’t be overly designed or animated because it can make them harder to read.

“I’m a snake. I’m a snakeeee. I’m a slithery little snake,” I mutter to myself as I peel whitening strips off my teeth like I’m shedding a layer of skin. 😅

Anyone else ever have the urge to scream I WANT TO BE NEEDED LESS into the void? No? Just me? Okay, never mind then.

No but for real, stop using generative AI. It is killing our planet. More than 50,000 people in Lake Tahoe are about to be abandoned by their energy provider so it can supply power exclusively to a server farm (data center)! Utah is going to build a server farm bigger than Manhattan! Stop this shit.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail without an in-person appointment with a clinician while a lawsuit plays out.

Trump has publicly championed the U.S. steel industry, and yet, the White House just secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for Trump's $400 million ballroom project.

This is President Trump's envoy to Greenland, the man tasked with convincing them to join America and enjoy its deep commitment to democracy

I don’t watch the Wheel of Fortune very consistently, but my mother has caught every episode since before I was born. This is the first time in my life that I’ve managed to witness all three contestants MATCHING their positions around the wheel, and it made me absurdly happy. 😅

Sometimes my intrusive thoughts make me consider shutting down Accessible Social. The site takes a lot for me to maintain. So when I get emails like this, it really reaffirms why I created the site and the impact it's had. They keep me going, and I make sure to save them for hard days. 🥹

I think everyone pushing the "learn AI or get left behind" mentality is actually afraid that THEY will be the ones left behind if a majority of people don't start actively using AI on a regular basis.

If your vote didn't matter, then southern conservatives wouldn't jump at the opportunity to redistrict Black representation out of existence in their states...which is exactly what they're doing right now, and it's disgraceful.

An excellent article by @mariefollayttar.bsky.social in the Portland Press Herald yesterday about the importance of making digital communications and content accessible. I want to throw this piece at every elected official and candidate running for office. Accessible content reaches more people!

I'm going to scream. For whatever reason, Meta has apparently removed the ability to schedule Facebook and Instagram posts with alt text in Meta Business Suite. That's incredibly frustrating, especially for smaller content creators who can't afford third-party management tools. #Accessibility

Oh thank goodness, this is just a limited edition thing for America 250. My passport doesn't expire for another three years, but I was seriously considering renewing it if this was going to become the norm. I'd be mortified to enter another country with his decrepit face on my passport!

Just in case any of my friends in the Chicagoland area are looking to book a photographer for their future wedding. Don’t book this one. 😬

The Secret Service, oddly enough, made JD Vance the security priority during the initial evacuation. A visibly terrified Vance was ushered away to safety. Trump tripped while trying to tell the Secret Service about his Ball Room.

Karoline Leavitt said the first honest thing in her career right before the WHCD shooting incident. “THERE WILL BE SOME SHOTS FIRED TONIGHT IN THE ROOM. EVERYONE SHOULD TUNE IN. IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY GREAT.”

This shit is so embarrassing. Anyone who goes to the WHCD fucking sucks. Fuck the pocket squares and other performative shit.

Not only is @apnews.com attending the White House correspondents dinner, they invited one of the Trump staffers who kicked them out of the press pool as their guest. This is all so wrong. apnews.com/article/whit...

When life imitates art. 🚽

Today was the day that state and local governments that serve 50,000+ people were supposed to be compliant with digital accessibility rules. But the deadline was extended for another year, forcing people with disabilities to wait even longer. The ADA was signed into law in 1990, for crying out loud.

What the—and I cannot stress this next part enough—actual FUCK?!

"Every year of delay is another year that a person who is blind cannot apply for the benefits they’re owed, that a person with an intellectual or developmental disability cannot navigate a local agency’s website, that a deaf constituent cannot access critical public safety information." #Disability

"Disability advocates have argued, however, that the rule was under consideration for more than a decade before it was finalized and that delaying its implementation will harm the very individuals who it is intended to help." #Disability #Accessibility #WebCompliance #DigitalAccessibility

I've been waiting for this FOR YEARS.

Thanks to Julia for her thoughtful piece on the end of SELF Magazine, with its longform, conversational articles about women's health. Here's why it's such a shame to see it go: 🧵

I honestly love when people post shit on LinkedIn that's positioned as employee motivation or inspiration when it's really just employee abuse or micromanaging. Makes it really easy to find people I should block and never work for.

If all the social platforms could STOP MAKING UPDATES while I'm recording this video, that would be awesome. Because WTF do you mean the alt text badge on X doesn't show up on the main feed on mobile OR web unless you select a post? Before, this was only a thing on mobile. Infuriating.

Dem candidates for 2026, take note

I'm 100% unsurprised that the DOJ extended the web compliance deadline by a full year for everyone. They probably have zero ideas about how to move forward with auditing all the websites they'll need to check. #Accessibility #WebCompliance

Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust. And another one gone, and another one gone. Another one bites the dust yeahhhhhhh.

"You'll be left behind if you don't start actively using AI!" Honey, we're all going to be left behind if you keep using AI because it's causing a water crisis and turning folks into brainless losers. Use your brain like everyone else. PS: your AI-generated flyer looks like shit.

And people wonder why there’s a “male loneliness epidemic.” Because a lot of you are sick monsters like this, THAT’S WHY.

Allbirds shifting from shoes to AI just confirms that most C-suites are suffering from AI psychosis at this point.

JD Vance: generational political anti-talent

Being a woman in 2026 should not be this exhausting. And I'm white, so it's undoubtedly 50 times worse for women of color. Fucking exhausting.

It took about 18 days from rumors on social media to mainstream outlets reporting — www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/u...

Multiple staffers resigned from Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign ahead of the SF Chronicle's report out today with a former staffer who says the candidate and member of Congress sexually assaulted her, she told her boyfriend at the time, and got a medical exam: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Eric Swalwell looks like if Temu asked ChatGPT to create a clone of Alan Ritchson, and that's as close as it could get.

This is my father's old station. He's so proud. 🥹

The Iran deal makes Donald Trump look less like The Apprentice and more like the Biggest Loser.

Threatening the Vatican feels like a bad move, and I say that as an atheist. 😬

He's threatening to annihilate a country of millions of people tonight. Someone fucking do something before he starts nuclear warfare. God, I hope he comes down with a severe case of TACO before tonight.

God, we're going to see so much AI slop today, aren't we?

We're having the walls and ceiling of the basement painted today. The painters have music playing while they work, so apologies to any of my coworkers if I start singing along under my breath during meetings. Like it's actually impossible not to sing along to Drowning Pool's "Bodies."

Every time I open HBO Max now, I get to see current Noah Wyle because of The Pitt and younger Noah Wyle because the ER face card in the app was changed to him. Smart move, HBO. 😂

Watching Christian MAGA supporters jump ship is kind of hilarious. Like the Bible literally warns against idolatry, and y’all couldn’t even manage that.

"Looksmaxxing" just sounds like a trendy way to say "body dysmorphia."

Turns out gabapentin is no match for my cat's pissy attitude or her hatred of the vet. 🫠

I recently saw Nikson Mathews say about Idaho’s bathroom bill that, “every single day, when I am out in public, I have to ask myself, do I feel like going to jail, or do I feel like being attacked?” So I asked him to write about it for @advocate.com. www.advocate.com/opinion/niks...