Building tools in the OTF ecosystem? When conditions are risky, usability becomes essential. That’s why we support teams through the UXD Lab. Interested in having us as a thought partner? Reach out! 📩 [email protected] www.opentech.fund/labs/uxd-lab/ #DigitalRights #OpenSource #CivicTech

Who wants 3D printed whistles to give out in their community? Let’s connect people with 3D printers and people who need whistles in this thread.

I was so behind in posting #jobs to my mailing list that 84 of the links had expired!! I'm caught up now, but phew!

Rep. Roger Williams: "People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil."

The Nostr Community Survey is now LIVE! We’re gathering input from devs, builders, users & anyone curious about decentralised social networks. Your feedback helps shape Nostr’s future, from ecosystem support to global community growth. Take the survey now👇 survey.superbloom.design/878514

This #GivingTuesday, help us to keep changing who tech serves. Your donation to Superbloom supports our fellowships, resources, and global design community. Every dollar goes directly to our nonprofit mission via Every.org. 💚 Donate here: www.every.org/superbloom #CivicTech #Design4Good

A new 3-state Replicase challenge has been launched on Eterna and will only be open for two weeks before sequences are collected for experimental testing at the Das Lab. Will Eterna players be able to improve the catalytic activity of the RNA polymerase? eternagame.org/labs/14183416

Attending #MozFest in Barcelona this week? @georgiamoon.social will help facilitate Internet Exchange’s "Encryption and Feminism: Reimagining Child Safety Without Surveillance", happening today at 1:30 pm CET. Secure your spot here and add it to your calendar: mzf.st/160

🚀 Up to €158K in funding for open-source software in the public interest! The Prototype Fund backs solo devs & small teams (max 4 ppl) working on civic tech, infrastructure, or infosec. 🗓️ Apply by Nov 30, 2025 🔓 Must be open source 🌍 EU-based teams welcome

📣 Thurs, Oct 2 @ 10am PT -> Let’s talk about UX design at our Knowledge Exchange! We will be joined by Anh Lê of @superbloom.design, an org committed to changing who technology serves. No design experience required – just an interest in the topic! Register to receive a Zoom link: bit.ly/4gDQvm2

Are you a researcher developing scientific software & interested in better incorporating UX into your development process? We’re hosting office hours as part of the STRUDEL science project! Join us Wednesday, Sept 24 @ 10amPT/1pmET to ask any burning questions & get direct support on your projects.

Are you at #GlobalGathering25 in Portugal? Come find Abhishek Sharma or me to chat, catch up and see if there are things we can do together, @superbloom.design + you!

Water bottles have been my travel nemesis this year. I'm down 2 so far this year, and today the delay almost made me miss a flight 🤦🏼‍♀️. I'm just trying to stay hydrated!

#Voting where I can: - union - local school council elections - boards - shareholders - primaries Remember you have lots of types of #power!

I'm seeing a lot of misuse of the phrase "common sense".

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Two busy weekends in a row... From #ATmosphereConf to #8JahrePrototypeFund Love being around amazing #OpenSource projects, even on a Saturday 🤣

reading: www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/the-fut... by @older.bsky.social and @blairglencorse.bsky.social

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat? ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details) smh - Secret Message Hahahaha tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat) gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

Are there tools that help me check and migrate my other social media accounts to BlueSky? I'm thinking about some content that keeps me engaged on different platforms, and wondering how to find what's here in a less manual way

Notes & cites are up for my #ATmosphereconf talk, thanks again to everyone who beamed my head in when I couldn't travel! I'm so bummed to miss the hallway track, but I'm around on here and working at www.wrecka.ge, let's talk <3 erinkissane.com/atconf

[An observation about bridging / something to consider is that it facilitates context collapse. Networks that started in/as separate spaces have different community expectations and, well, vibes. This isn't to say bridging is bad. It's a side-effect.]

“You can’t scare people in to using something, you need to attract them with joy.” @rudyfraser.com

Super great talk by the epic @rudyfraser.com about horseless carriages and skeuomorphisms in building new things. #ATmosphereconference

What if you watched a full day really quickly.

Day 2 at #AtmosphereConf and super excited for Erin Kissane's kickoff which should be a barnstormer if it's anything like her talk at #XOXOFest last year.

@kissane.bsky.social’s speech at #atmosphereconf includes a definition of Vernacular vs. Monumental Institutions. Emergent and Highly Local, these include things like free medical clinics in Greece. Vernacular Institutions are “More useful than that are Legible”

Cyd 1.1.2 released! This version fixes a few small issues docs.cyd.social/blog/cyd-1.1.2

“Losing section 230 keeps me up at night” is such a mood @ngerakines.me

“We had to explain DNS to Flava Flav this one time.” Quote of the Conference will be hard to top from @pfrazee.com! #ATmosphereConf.

"The company is a future adversary" @pfrazee.com #ATmosphereConf

This is important when we design systems. Understand that systems are all designed to serve a specific purpose. www.anildash.com/2024/05/29/s...

Love how much conversation about #ux and #usability there's _already_ been at #ATmosphereConf

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/atprotocol.dev ATmosphereConf 2025 - Where did we come from; where will we go - Paul Frazee

Case closed! 🤩💥🚀. In settling my case, Meta has agreed to stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes. In non-legalese, that means I will no longer be shown surveillance-ads on Facebook. www.thetimes.com/article/ae70...

Headed to Berlin next week for a short, but overdue trip. But first Seattle, because apparently I love timezones.

Upping my game a bit for #ATmosphereConf and finally added my domain to my profile 💁🏼‍♀️ who'll be in #Seattle?

Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.

Interrupting your Oscars viewing with an important announcement. The Umoya Fellowship is an initiative by @lmaepa.bsky.social to support Blackskyers in attending the ATmosphere Conf in Seattle, WA, on March 22-23, 2025 This fellowship will award two community members /w 💸 to attend the conference

So excited that for this trip to Taiwan, I can walk! #rightscon2025

The Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org is fighting for the digital rights of everyone in the USA. We demand accountability for this unconscionable collection and sharing of private data happening right now.

Re-listening to INSIDE by Bo Burnham. Interested to hear what's on people 2025 playlists.

Sabotage and subterfuge. Malicious compliance. You can stay in place as long as possible, throwing sand in the gears and slowing them down, making it hard for them at every turn. Seeding frustration and infighting.

Mutual aid. Helping out your neighbor. Feeding a striker. Sheltering an activist on your couch. Sending money for rent. Taking someone to the doctor. Visiting and sitting around a table in physical solidarity. Creating a small network that can be activated to other things when the time comes.

Labor. Where you direct your effort. Where you withhold it. Organized labor--unions--and their nearly singular ability to create strength and advance working and middle class interests regardless of the laws or power structure in place. (Join a union!)

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Pest Control Company: Do you have any animals? Me: No, just toddlers.

ALL DAY UX + Science Hackathon at MIT – Monday, JANUARY 27, 2025! Do you develop software for research purposes and/or are you interested in applying UX principles to transform research tools?

There's so much going on right now, always. But I wanted to document somewhere - we are 2 weeks into January 2025 and I've lost 2 friends this year. One adds to a really, too long list of cancer deaths in my life. Both had young kids. It's heavy and distant in a way that's hard to explain.