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Planting thought seeds 🌱🌹🥀 Bad at gardening, so I focus on UX research, product innovation, teaching, spoiling my dog, & eating lobster. You can hire me for advice on any of the above. View my own, typos too she/her
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International Women in Engineering Day www.electronicdesign.com/resources/in... Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day | Electronic Design

ICE ran out of water in less than a day when confronted by a peaceful protest in LA. The fascist threat from trump is paper thin and 100% dependent on people not pushing back on it.

Mother Gaia celebrating the beginning of Pride Month last night (hat tip to Angry Hoss)

Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

Maybe @harvard.edu can make their money back selling merch. I'd rock a shirt rn

hey @ccdpnc.bsky.social - any plans for a pittsboro event this weekend? Or can we?? My 97 year old grandmom there wants to come with me, and it would be significantly easier to show up there than drive her to durham or raleigh

SEE YOU SATURDAY AMERICA…Hands Off

Elon Musk trying to prove his worth to online teens gets destroyed by commenters as he live streamed Path of Exile 2 whispers. Commenters said “YOU HAVE NO REAL FRIENDS AND WILL DIE ALONE” & “DIE” as he frantically tried to hide them, then lost his hardcore permadeath character due to Starlink lag.

“We had literally 5-7 times as many people show up as RSVPs in most of the places where we held marches. What we were hearing throughout the day was the biggest problem that organizers of these marches were having…was that too many people were showing up.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social on #handsoff

I think we can celebrate The American Revolution's 250th anniversary by having another one

#HandsOff in Chicago

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

If a random dude starts going off about how awesome this shitshow will be for US manufacturing, just point to any item he owns and ask him to describe the process in detail, including material inputs and their sources, necessary machinery, labor, and the type and toxicity of byproducts generated.

Remember folks, if you're protesting and someone starts goading you to get violent, they're a cop. If you get arrested or detained in any way, ask, "Am I free to go?" If they say yes, walk away. No? Shut the fuck up. Don't say anything else without a lawyer. Good trouble, friends. Get busy.

North Carolina folks, check to see if that douchebag is trying to invalidate your vote. The citizen-created links are way easier. Because of course. Share with all your NC pals. If you know NC military overseas who voted by mail, they are highly affected.

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Well, they lied. Obviously.

Democratic House Rep. Jared Moskowitz using Pete Hegseth's emojis in his letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson to form a select committee to investigate the Signal group chat texts is hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Democratic House Rep. Ro Khanna: “GOP reps are attacking me for holding town halls in their districts. Maybe if they spent more time doing their job and talking to constituents, I wouldn't have to.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

"A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer." mastodon.social/deck/@jasong...

Listen, today is a really, really, really good day to call your reps and senators. I know the phone is scary. I don't like it. You can get the numbers and scripts from @5calls.org and in my experience, most of the cowards don't answer anyway so you can literally just read the script to a voicemail

Every time I'm a little bit surprised by how low things can go, I find a new way to be horrified. Torturing brand new parents and new borns is exactly the sort of shit I should expect from But also, don't fuck with Maine.

AND the cfp for @allthingsopen.bsky.social closes THIS Friday, so you should definitely apply!!

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

It's a fuckin effin birds day.

#Triangle #UX friends, tonight we're lucky to have Doug Powell sharing insight about the state of our profession at @Duke with Triangle UXPA! Will definitely be a great conversation, join us! www.triuxpa.org/event-6111328

Canada will remain free. #3E #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #Takebackthenorth

Tesla accounted for 21% of all U.S. recalls in the first three quarters of 2024, according to Bizzycar.

So much good work on the ground this week! Here's the new Indivisible Cumberland County ME holding a town hall today with 400-500 people for Susan Collins - who of course did not show. "Where's Susan?!?" Your GOP Senators and Reps can hide from you, but they can't hide from accountability.

Mark your calendars: The 2025 edition of Inclusive Design 24 ( #id24 ) will take place on the 25 September 2025! We've just opened our call for presentations (closing date 31 May 2025) - looking forward to your exciting submissions! inclusivedesign24.org/2025/ #a11y #accessibility

I KNEW he looked familiar…kennedys, are you ok??

“The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Did you know that science labs work like small business entrepreneurs? Faculty hired on strength of ideas, get some startup $ to last 3-4 yrs. After that is grants- grants pay all our + our trainees’ salaries + scientific work. Funding in this country is frozen. That means scientific work stops

Are you a NYC resident? Do you care about our public libraries? If yes, please sign up to testify in person or via Zoom for this Tuesday's hearing of NYC's Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and International Intergroup Relations. council.nyc.gov/testify/ - hearing is at 10am

Gum up the works at DOGE - so they get distracted from all the indiscriminate slashing & burning. Make a privacy request using this form created by @raskin.house.gov Takes just a few minutes to print & fill-out. I requested the information on paper or USB drive. jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

+1 on this: The US stands out relative to other country because of decades of big-time investment in scientific infrastructure. That is why the US won on science and attracting talent. Trump is dismantling that infrastructure now, but it has never existed in other countries to the same degree.

I just did the math and each book sold pays for one packet of Trader Joe's Chicken Chips, which are his favorite thing.

I'm having a hard time being motivated to care about work, what with the fall of democracy and all

I'm happy to announce I'll be talking at uxconvienna, in October this year! I've a nice talk on including edge cases, states, user preference, situation in the design process, to avoid issues, harm and assumptions.

friends, I have a bit of a scheduling emergency & I need your help: we’re filming Web Dev Challenge on Mar 25 in Salt Lake City & had a team drop out — need to book a new team FAST I need: - 2 devs (combined skills covering full stack dev/UX) - comfortable on camera - available Mar 23–26 in SLC

‘KKKardashian’: Frenzied Fans Dub Kim Kardashian a ‘Nazi’ For Pic Posing with Cyber Truck From Musk’s Tesla

hey friends, planning to send prez felon and vp donny a postcard tomorrow? make sure to put the flag stamp upside down! and thanks to whoever made this printable-at-home template 💙https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1j65ml0/post_cards_youre_fired/

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

@theverge.com catching on 👀 www.theverge.com/social/62707...