The thing about positioning your brand as a more ethical alternative to your mainstream competitor is that the core audience you’ll attract are the exact kind of people who will hold your feet to the fire if you ever try to move the goalposts, even via inaction. You don’t get it both ways.

Beautiful DJR microsite. I’ve found Megazoid to be particularly incredible for reaction emoji djr.com/megazoid

color-mix(in srgb, currentColor, transparent 90%) modern css is amazing

I’m learning about all kinds of cool new deployment platforms this week

We all have a choice. The Internet is ours.

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

`@bluwy/giget-core` is now back to a small 90kB install size thanks to @ayuhito.com's `modern-tar` package! Perf is also slightly faster.

✨ New article ✨ Are we at the start of a new era? Chrome 140 introduced CSS Typed Arithmetic. It might seem like a minor change, but I believe it's huge as it opens the door to countless new possibilities and a whole new era of Computational CSS. What do you think? css-tricks.com/css-typed-ar...

pronouns officially added to atproto 🎉

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

The way the NYT covers this, while they helped to create a similar moral panic that preceded Skrmetti, might be the thing that drives me mad.

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

These are extremely solid! Great list of general purpose best practices for designing UI.

Well, yes, that’s what authoritarians pretty much always do - declare an Outsider to focus the forces of the State upon. It’s up to everyone who considers themselves “normal” to recognize that *they’re* also eventually on that list, and we’ll save a lot of lives if we fight now rather than later.

"In the name of 'fighting antisemitism', the Trump administration is publicly making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish public intellectual in the country today."

IDs and passports don't even need to have gender markers on them. you could remove them entirely and nothing of consequence would be lost

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

I am an unabashed EventTarget stan. The component model and event-based architecture often make a great pair. In many cases, I find events much cleaner and easier to reason about than scoped callbacks. They are the foundation of the web and extremely worth learning.

Today in every accusation is a confession… Trans people are not nihilists, we are absurdists. Life has no meaning except what we provide it. We create joy through self-expression. Totalitarianism is for nihilists-in-denial, so afraid that life has no meaning that they need a strongman to rule all

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

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It just dawned on me that 95% of the market for AI is people problems that look like technology problems from a great distance. Unfortunately, *from a great distance* is where decisions are usually made.

Reddit having a normal one

"Do the simplest thing that could possibly work." – some sound engineering advice and better than whatever an MVP is. www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Welp, I hit my first dependency that is written exclusively for Bun today! 😭 This future sucks, y'all.

Meant to share this link to help Gretchen and the lost revenue from losing her book.

are y'all insane

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...

What an expertly called shot

Hi cis friends - trans folk of all ages could have our health care entirely defunded by this bill. If you can call your reps, it would mean a lot. Contact info in the thread.

Is ICE about to go buck wild using cell site simulators? Good thing EFF has a project to help you detect them: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

Wrote a little essay about Chicago and some other things. Shout out to Philly 😎 Rest of it is here: open.substack.com/pub/sarajben...

NEWS: The full Eleventh Circuit, in an 8-5 vote, held that an insurance policy excluding transgender gender-affirming surgical care does not facially violate Title VII b/c — following SCOTUS's Skrmetti reasoning — "it does not treat anyone differently based on a protected characteristic."

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

i'm at the civil war i'm at the great depression i'm at the combination civil war great depression

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The Dropout crew has better opsec for a prank episode of Game Changer than Pete Hegseth does when planning airstrikes in Yemen

remember, you can also sponsor me over at github. these sponsorships help me out a lot 🙏

wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work

Hey gang let's all just learn html 1.0 and remake the internet from scratch

what an absolute and utter shambles this is, in just about every way americabydesign.gov

corporate memphis 😒👎🚫🚮 medieval hobgoblins 👈😏💥💗

So, I'm putting it out there: I'm hoping someone might be able to point me toward open opportunities. My tech experience is primarily in docs and front-end, but I also have a background in healthcare if that sparks any ideas. I'm genuinely flexible on roles right now, so any leads are appreciated