@flyosity.bsky.social Happy birthday, old bean! :) May the year ahead be filled with health, love, and joy.

“This is how I ended up creating Elena, a library that I’m open sourcing today. Elena starts from HTML and CSS, and stays grounded in web standards and what the web platform natively provides.” arielsalminen.com/2026/progres... #WebComponents #OpenSource #Elena #DesignSystems #resources

AOC: Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly the data and privacy of the American people—keeping track of everything that they say and do. And sending it to a militarized government. 

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

I worry that Delta closing its special services for those in Congress will make it more difficult for Ted Cruz to abandon his constituents in a crisis.

I use this and it really is cool. I’d love it even if I didn’t work for the company. Jetpack Social Just Got a Major Upgrade: Create, Customize, Preview, and Share with Confidence. wordpress.com/blog/2026/03...

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

“If you want a surprisingly useful autism reference for workplace and educational inclusion… Rewatch Daria 📺.”—Shamus Hart www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

“This is how I ended up creating Elena, a library that I’m open sourcing today. Elena starts from HTML and CSS, and stays grounded in web standards and what the web platform natively provides.” arielsalminen.com/2026/progres... #WebComponents #OpenSource #Elena #DesignSystems #resources

As someone who learned to use the em dash while writing for the WordPress.com blog in my freelance days, this post especially resonates with me. (Warning: NSFW language) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The technical standard that makes user-controlled digital credentials possible – including the kind stored in mobile wallets – has reached a new milestone at the W3C, signaling that the foundation for decentralized mobile identity is maturing. mobileidworld.com/w3c-advances...

“With em dashes, Emily’s poem is a meditation. Without em dashes, her work becomes a book report summary.” annhandley.com/em-dash/ h/t Tess Needham

A special place in Hell… ICE officials said “she overstayed her visa,” though her husband provided the paper with a copy of a US “employment authorization” card issued to his wife last year, and it had an expiry date of 8 June 2030. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The greatest bass player of all time turns 91 today Carol Kaye 🥃

The lies defining this moment in America: -The 2020 election was stolen -There’s massive voter fraud -There’s an epidemic of noncitizens voting -We’ve been “invaded” by millions of criminals -Only an authoritarian government can fix these problems -Jesus agrees with all of this

Ladies, convicted felons aren’t allowed to vote. So why was Trump allowed to vote. Right there is voter fraud committed by the big orange idiot!

Insider trading by the President would not be an official act, therefore he'd have no immunity if charged.

The golden age of corruption. nymag.com/intelligence...

Every few years some press genius discovers that a few problem drinkers can cut back on their alcohol intake. And instantly a million alcoholics start kidding themselves. These news stories are the equivalent of medical advice from RFK Jr.

"Meta's smart glasses make it easy to secretly film people. It's mostly women bearing the fallout" www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

Ultimately, the best defense is to write well. Write humanly. The closer you make it to that aim, the fewer the folks who will worry about the AI-or-human provenance of your words. Saved here: zeldman.com/2026/03/24/d...

“With em dashes, Emily’s poem is a meditation. Without em dashes, her work becomes a book report summary.” annhandley.com/em-dash/ h/t Tess Needham

Don’t post on an empty stomach. It’s hard to be as cordial as I’d like to be in Slack when I’ve skipped a meal or two. My apologies to anyone I’ve interacted with during the past 30 minutes.

Convenience for me but not for thee. Story: bit.ly/41njmUP

Abandon the em-dash in your human writing? The irony—and it’s a big irony—is that real writers use em-dash frequently, and for reasons. As a written signifier of verbal speech pauses, it means something different than what commas and semi-colons mean. It connects while separating. 1/4

For sale: diaper genie, never used.

This is why I have never talked like a consultant, and don’t trust folks who do. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

(1) try as hard as possible to kill alternatives to fossil fuels; (2) start a war that spikes global oil prices; (3) have your people declare it an "energy triumph."

♛ Brilliant. Kyle Van Deusen’s two-layer approach to managing color on your project solves problems you might not even know you have yet. theadminbar.com/semantics-an...  #ProductDesign #ProductDevelopment #webdevelopment #designsystems #color #palettes #primitives

Good morning, Bluesky!

Abandon the em-dash in your human writing? The irony—and it’s a big irony—is that real writers use em-dash frequently, and for reasons. As a written signifier of verbal speech pauses, it means something different than what commas and semi-colons mean. It connects while separating. 1/4

Guess in which third world dictatorship this photo was taken.

Good morning, Bluesky!

A gorilla gets a banana 1x hr.Females next to him get 1x 4hrs.Then someone gives the females a banana every 2 hrs instead.The gorilla flips out.He's still getting his every hour,but it feels like a loss bc his advantage shrank.That's the threat of fairness for women: not as justice,but as theft.

This is why I have never talked like a consultant, and don’t trust folks who do. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

♛ Brilliant. Kyle Van Deusen’s two-layer approach to managing color on your project solves problems you might not even know you have yet. theadminbar.com/semantics-an...  #ProductDesign #ProductDevelopment #webdevelopment #designsystems #color #palettes #primitives

How Google Survives Enshittification macmanx.com/2026/03/19/h...

If you go anywhere in Queens and stand still you are now in line for LaGuardia. The line has reached Jackson Heights. Everybody is talking samosas. The line between LGA and JFK is also going strong

Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?

stealing from New Yorkers to build fossil fuel bullshit in Texas and further poison the Gulf of Mexico

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand (via Bill Madden) 😂🤣👇

NEW: According to Punchbowl News, Senate Majority Leader John Thune cut a deal with Democrats to fund everything but ICE, including TSA, but TRUMP BLOCKED IT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g727...

In Walmart test, traditional online shopping beat agentic commerce bigtime.

“Good” is not a design outcome. A design is successful, or unsuccessful, relative to its goals. alistapart.com/blog/post/su...

TV in Radio Times: On AI and the Designer Role iamarino.com/tv-in-radio-...

In Walmart test, traditional online shopping beat agentic commerce bigtime.

@simonwillison.net remains one of our smartest voices on using AI coding, not to replace skilled developers, but to multiply their output and amplify their expertise. simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/21/...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes