The word "kakistocracy" makes me think of government by persimmons. Which seems eerily appropriate…

I love @normeisen.bsky.social. He just said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that the orange felon "has all the follow-through of a tsetse fly." 😆😆😆

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The "release the files" bill is the one that really deserves the name "One Big Beautiful Bill".

Hope to see you at Nexer Digital's Camp Digital 2026!

I prefer Italo Treno to @trenitalia.bsky.social because they give me an over-60s discount without requiring me to sign up for a membership or prove that I live in Italy (I don't). Their service is good as well, so why not?

If you were recently terminated as part of the layoff, please reach out to www.centerforemploymentjustice.com. Terminating federal employees for purely political reasons is illegal.

Survey asked why I hadn't used Airbnb lately. I said: "Joe Gebbia supports DOGE and Project 2025. I won't use Airbnb again as long as he is there. The Government already had a brilliant design team at 18F and did NOT need to replace it with someone who cares nothing for usability or accessibility."

@raskin.house.gov Thank you so much for your email about how the shutdown is likely to affect government services. How do I contact your web team to alert them to accessibility problems with your emails?

Inspectorate. #BritishWordsILove #RemindsMeOfExpectorate #TheseHashTagsAreTooLightForTheWhiteBackground

I wrote a blog post about the most common accessibility issue in digital design. Those of you who know me won't be at all surprised to learn what that is. 😉 #a11y #design #acessibility #wcag

I just nominated Musica Secreta for a charity award. My choir sing very similar music (some of the exact same, in fact), and Laurie's work enriches my life.

Trump is heading to Scotland this weekend and wants the next Open held at his Turnberry course. I just signed a petition: DO NOT give it to him. Will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Dear @ncstate.bsky.social — About the recent email from your Gift Planning department — I was aghast to see that you had bought into the current regime's name for the omnibus bill. It is BY NO MEANS beautiful, and if you continue to use that misleading name I will remove you from my will. Thanks.

#PremierInn have changed their mattresses sometime in the last couple of years. The new ones are nowhere near as comfortable as the Hypnos ones they used to use. 😢

@tumshie.me Great talk!

For shame, senators! You value tax cuts for the rich more than you value the very lives of the poor and the middle class. Shame on you! #BigEvilBill

I'd just like to say that all three people I've spoken to at #DVLA customer service have been warm, friendly, helpful, and informative. Thank you, DVLA!

“DEI” wth a hard R

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Pleased to be included in @nexerdigital.com's "I Matter Too" video about the importance of considering people with special access needs from technology.

Join us this Thursday (5/15/25) to hear from @ebuie.bsky.social at our monthly SPIRITED Collective meeting for her talkn on transcendent user experiences. 📩 If you'd like to join our growing community, please send an email to [email protected] for the meeting invite!

"Inspectorate". #BritishWordsThatAmuseMe

I learned some important things from this post alone. 💙💙💙

Really interesting article via @ebuie.bsky.social: "Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests" I believe it - especially with the time being lost detecting AI use in education, exams & job apps, or searching for info that isn't generated slop. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/t...

@threeeggomelette.bsky.social I was tempted to follow you back, until you got to Tar Heels basketball. I was a senior at NCSU in 1974. 😁🐺

If you use "2" for "to" and "4" for "for", I'm not going to follow you. 🙄

I wrote a thing for the company's blog. www.nexerdigital.com/news-and-tho...

Me: Hey Siri, notifications. Siri: Here are your 44 from WhatsApp. Me: Jesus! Siri: Jesus, known as Jesus Christ… Me: Hey Siri, stop! LMAO

Proposition: The phrase "subjective experience" is a tautology.

Dear Microsoft: what do you mean, "the custom dictionary is full"? You have just sentenced me to seeing "Csikszentmihályi" underlined in red forever. 🙄 (Looks for a way to edit the dictionary and remove terms that are no longer needed…)

My dentist told me yesterday that I'd probably have to live another 200 years before I would lose any teeth to gum disease. 😁

I waited tables and worked at JCPenney while I was in undergraduate school. Does that invalidate my BS, MS, MA, and PhD?

Something special is happening! Bless these people!

They're terrorizing our federal employees in real ways and the impact is devastating for all of us. I spoke to a VA employee and FBI Agent about what they're experiencing and it will shock you. This is the most important thing I've written. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Virtually every Cybertruck — those freaky Tesla vehicles made to look like aggression incarnate – has been recalled, because, literally, they come unglued. What a metaphor for this regime: a weak vehicle trying to look tough, a victim of its own cheapness, an ugly toy falling apart.

@raskin.house.gov I sent my FOIA request to DOGE today (THANKS for that!!), but I couldn't make a note of it on your site because the link doesn't work. Also, I wanted to alert your web team to an accessibility problem, but I couldn't find a Contact Us link. How can I get in touch with them? Thx

My neighbourhood (Romsey Town, in Cambridge UK) seems pretty dead since the PTBs closed the Mill Road Bridge to private motor vehicles. It's lost the liveliness for which I chose it as a place to live. The Councils seem intent on "driving" me away. Sad, but I hold out hope. (PTBs = Powers that Be)

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks… “The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government. 🧵

Trump just revoked my security clearance… one small problem: I haven’t had one in years. 😂 This isn’t about security—it’s about his fragile ego and petty revenge. My latest piece on Trump’s obsession with punishing his critics adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/trumps-lat...

I've just learned a new word: mytheme. Makes perfect sense.

Dear Maganoramuses: Do you know what "dei" means? It's Latin for "gods".

Next thing you know, the Orange Felon will ban words such as transportation, transparent, transubstantiation, transcutaneous… 🙄

@washingtonpost.com I subscribed from 1977 until you yanked the Harris endorsement. I hoped you'd return to your former quality. But this week's announcement destroys the credibility that the Post used to have. Bezos has betrayed the integrity shown by Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee. Shame on you.

So sad. The WaPo was my local paper for many years, and it was a thing to be proud of. Its decline has been evident for a while, but alas, its integrity has finally died. So sad.

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Pleased to see ACM reaffirm its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a core value. ACM emailed members acknowledging concerns about "possible harms to our work on inclusion for a strong and diverse technology workforce" … [see next in thread]

I know I'm having a good day when I get to use "methinks" twice in 30 minutes. 😁

I do hope they are referring only to NSA web content. Which would be bad enough, but still. Also, are they not aware that research and reports can be biased? Are they planning to eliminate those mentions as well? Probably so, because they are clueless.

"Institutes", but never mind. :-)