This is a font joke.

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know) Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

OK, fine, I'll allow it. It's too fortuitous.

# hi

So popular all of a sudden, but I’ve been following the NDS for years. 👀 Netherland Design System (NDS): nldesignsystem.nl (Yes, I know they use the acronym NLDS. That’s the joke, as they say.)

This story is beautiful.

How has everyone forgotten their literal job title is "public servant"?

I don’t usually do this, but I recently answered a blatant scam call (in part to determine the schtick). And once I’d gotten what I wanted out of it, I found it was refreshing to say to someone: “you know you’re bullshit, right?” Kinda wish I could say that in more situations.

One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.

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Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha.

i saw my life branching out before me like the linktree in her bio. from the tip of every branch, a future online persona beckoned and winked: substack essayist, graphic designer, tiktok creator, podcaster, cult favorite with a patreon

Wikipedia have changed the label on one of the buttons. Something that strikes me is that the ticket was opened in 2016. I’m also sure some people are pissed about this minor change phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖 #Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

It's international nonbinary day. A plea to remember nonbinary means a lot of things. We have a very set idea culturally of what nonbinary looks like--white, thin, perhaps dandyish--and so many friends present that way! But many more don't, and aren't, those things. Free your mind of pigeonholes.

tbh what being nonbinary gets me is mostly just this shiftless feeling of not belonging anywhere, but also knowing without any doubt that that is where I belong. gender is a costume that I wear very well and that's about it haha

beware the ides of july

A deep-rumble motorcycle just started up nearby. As it and its driver took off down the street, they absolutely blasted the neighborhood with the chorus of "Since You Been Gone." Chef's kiss, truly.

happy non-binary people's day send your non-binary friends money and/or love today we are not doing great

That’s one way to describe accident detritus.

Software paid for by tax dollars should be open source. Period.

@johndonmoyer.com you came up in conversation today, btw hello! 👋

Stepped out during the Chicago dust storm to make sure nothing around our place turned into a projectile (some things had) and witnessed: 1. A tree limb fall on a parked SUV 2. A bird get blown out of control

btwn 10am Thursday and now (7pm Friday), Chicago/Cook County has been issued: - fire weather watch - tornado watch - severe thunderstorm warning - wind advisory - dust storm warning I have received: - 9 texts from AlertCook - 6 from NotifyChicago (+2 re: Beyonce) - 4 from ChiLake - 5 from ChiBiz

Aww, hot off the presses 🥹 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._We...

18F was eliminated outright, so we aren’t in a position to ask ourselves #whywestay. But many of our colleagues and project partners are—and in the face of chaos, they’re still doing everything they can to serve the American people. To all our fellow public servants, #weseeyou.

I love fashion so much. This is art.

Don’t wait until you think you’re “good enough” to try to be in a gallery show, apply for a grant, put yourself out there for client work, etc You will always change and grow and in ways you will always be worried you are not good enough yet, so start moving towards your goals now

some local indie bookstores that are close to my heart include Women & Children First and Call & Response Books!

agree, in general! as a different example of why it’s hated: in my field (type design) there’s a large canon of historical facts about what typefaces happened when and why, which are simply not easy to find often chat will simply lie confidently about facts

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

The ‘Piracy. It’s a Crime’ campaign used pirated music, *and* as it turns out, also used pirated fonts. Incredible.

100000% WOULD WATCH

Mods are asleep, post lakes.

THIS. Fill your life with things that give you joy, that sustain your hope, that remind you who you have chosen to be. Protect your fuel so you can share your fire. Love and hugs, friends 💙

learn to goad

If you don't know any intersex people, yes you do. It is none of your business, after all.

Also true for digital transformations that are going to crater 💥 Me: "this will fail for these reasons..." Them: "We have no plans to change our approach " 💀

Most people don't realize that they rely on a slew of government services they don't even know exist. We take uncontaminated food, basic infrastructure, safe buildings, & more largely for granted. By the time things break so badly that people notice, it will take a decade or more to fix.

A mountain bluebird, making a rare visit to Chicago. Photographed April 20, 2025, in Humboldt Park.

keeping their heads down and not calling attention to the important role they (and the depts they work for) play in our society. People don't know what their govt does and so are eager to embrace the theory that it does nothing - that it's a worthless bureaucracy filled with lazy employees.

it’s all little stuff but like ….. trans and nonbinary people existing and being visible and challenging entrenched definitions of What It Means To Be a Woman™️ (or a man, or neither) have done so much more to make my life as a woman more safe and free than the “protect women” assholes attacking them

Yo, here’s the thing. Federal employees are, by and large, rewarded for keeping their heads down and doing the work and not taking credit for anything. It’s not about us. It’s about the people we serve in our work. That’s literally what taxpayers fund our salaries for. This does not help us.

Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye (photo by me)

Why does everything keep breaking at the same time?

Why does everything keep breaking at the same time?

Since I said this elsewhere and it bears repeating: Binaries are fake.