Come learn so much more about color than you thought anyone knew or cared about 😅😂

OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

Japan has just opened its first osmotic power plant 🌊⚡ This works by mixing fresh & salt water across a membrane, creating pressure that drives a turbine to make electricity. This site will generate 880,000 kWh a year...while helping run a desalination plant providing fresh water to the city 👏

I listened to a podcast this morning where they repeatedly said “you can’t think without writing” and just to nip that one in the bud… That’s wrong (there are many illiterate people and they all think) and also dumb (Socrates was famously both illiterate and had thoughts.)

So many folks I know have arrived at this book recently to reclaim attention and re-examine their relationship to creativity and play. Super excited to finally dig in with the support of a community space. Join us!

I just got off the phone with @bobabria.bsky.social and she informed me that the bean having butt cheeks was my idea. This was news to me, but also I am very proud to have been responsible for such a ground-breaking feature.

I'm excited to speak at @xoruby.com in New Orleans on Sept. 20. I've had to learn The Dark Arts of designing for dark mode, and let me tell you: even as a seasoned designer and certified color nerd, it can be surprisingly unintuitive. Come learn all my secrets! 🎟️ xoruby.com/event/new-orleans/

In your opinion, what are the surprising advantages of attending a conference in-person that people might not realize until they’ve actually gone?

🚨There is a secret episode of Game Changer out now on Dropout -- the one @samreich.bsky.social doesn't want you to see! Go watch it now before he demands it needs to be taken down! It's the one we've all been waiting for!!! #GameChanger

turning this message from my friend into a reaction image

Road trip alert! 🚗 Our own Jim and Val are driving to Philadelphia for RailsConf 2025 (July 8-10) - we're wheely excited about sponsoring this amazing Ruby on Rails conference! See you there, Jim and Val! #RailsConf2025 #RoadTrip

An old favourite for Friday. The Portuguese Fish Tin Museum is an amazing source of typography www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/n...

I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal

Just had a great first week of The @xoruby.com Design Book Club. A solid mix of Designers, Developers, and welcoming people. Next Meeting: Chapters 3 & 4 of The Design of Everyday Things, Monday June 2. www.xoruby.com/blog/the-des... Kudos to @glynnisritchie.bsky.social for leading this effort.

Book club starts on Monday 5/19! You don't actually need to read the book to join us for interesting discussion. See you there? 🤞🤞

Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend! A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.

Join me for book club in a few weeks! I'll be hosting conversation on The Design of Everyday Things with design pals—non-designers welcome!

I'm hosting a design book club/readalong this May and June! Some of my best design buds will be there and I think discussion is going to be thoughtful and fun. Join us! Design-curious folks welcome.

I built a Playstacean!

hey #accessibility minded folks -- Deque AxeCon is a three day long worldwide virtual conference that's going on right now. Tammy Duckworth is going to be speaking in a few hours too. Did I mention it's free to register and attend? www.deque.com/axe-con/

I hate everything.

I think of this meme almost every day

Men: Ugh I struggle to even finish a book anymore my attention span is so cooked Women: It's called A Field of Fury & Roses and it's the prequel to A Palace of Thorns which I enjoyed almost as much as its sequel, A Maze of Mist & Fire. Each book is 800 pages of inter-species elven smut

🦊 Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave. Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

In case this page gets taken down, make sure to download this CDC vaccine schedule for adults (and separate schedules for young kids, older kids, + pregnant women linked to from page, if relevant to your household) + then make sure you are up to date on all of them! www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz...

Had a great conversation with @bjessbrown.com and @jeremysmith.co on the @indierails.com podcast! Listened to this on the way home and I'm happy they pulled the takeaway up front. 😅

the purchasings of new domain names will continue until morale improves

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

Links are encouraged on Bsky. Below are the top 10 domains we've sent traffic to the last 30 days. tldr we're driving traffic to news sites: 1. theguardian.com 2. nytimes.com 3. open.substack.com 4. youtube.com 5. rawstory.com 6. comicsands.com 7. x.com 8. washingtonpost.com 9. cnn.com 10. npr.com

New - Elon Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Right now I’m just a dozen coping mechanisms in a trench coat

logging on

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

Hey, Apple users: if you install the latest iOS, iPadOS, or macOS updates, you’ll be automatically opted into “Apple Intelligence”. If you don’t want that running on your devices, you have to disable it in Settings. (this is far from the most pressing thing happening today, but just a heads-up)

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

NOW WHY DID THIS MAKE ME CRY

Hey friends! If you want to follow my pottery work and art things, go give my separate ceramics account a follow: @rocket-fish.bsky.social

Hank has a great video about his experience sharing links. Anecdotally, it is my most liked post in bluesky. Still getting likes after a month, at 3K now. So, double-biased confirmation: it is a post about how much bluesky loves links, and it links to @hankgreen.bsky.social's video in the top post.

For all my #BookSky friends that are trying to move away from the Bezos infrastructure, just a reminder that Goodreads is owned by him through Nash Holdings. Clicks are currency friends @thestorygraph.com is a Black Woman founded company www.womenwhocode.com/blog/world-b...

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

This interpretation of Marx from a 2012 interview with Tony Kushner is really interesting to think about with regards to the state of AI right now, or even social media altogether

the "esc" key on a keyboard is a holdover from early-'90s personal computers. on some models it would dispense a can of escargot out of one of the unused drive bays. they put it in the corner so you wouldn't press it by accident because you only got three of them. i pushed it once and got grounded

📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm excited to announce that we're launching a new online course called Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOD2... This deep-dive course will teach you all you need to master design tokens. Learn more and preorder here: designtokenscourse.com

I hate the direction lab equipment design has gone in recent years. I don't want touchscreens, I don't want wifi integration, I don't want centrifuges demanding to know what time zone they're in. I just want reliable instruments - with physical buttons - that do the one task they were made for.

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

I read a book today—one I bought over 5 years ago. Books don’t have deadlines—they wait for you, patiently, until the moment is right.