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Lately I've been digging into a bunch of unpaid efforts that I care about. Buuuut since I have to pay bills, please let me know if your org (or client!) could really use some UX strategy help! I'm doing discounted workshops, audits, and that sorta thing for small businesses and mission-driven orgs.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

quick update: the man makig dog noises outside my apt ended up being just a dog. to all Gorgeous women who DMed me asking if im ok—thank you

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments

discovered that Little Caesar’s has an Apple Watch app and it’s just this image that you can’t interact with in any way

submitted 6 days ago • 121 comments

The job market has never been better for shills, stooges, and toadies of all stripes. Linkedin absolutely buzzing if you're a sycophant, a flunky, or even an unctuous little worm

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

the #SNL50 Lonely Island medley was beautiful, thank u we needed that 🥲

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

the more I consider the best use of my professional time and skills, the more I return to where I started years ago: pushing for basic usability, understandability, safety, and inclusion. like, helping people? not "helping" stakeholders and shareholders by "innovating" new pointless things.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

🦊 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...

submitted 9 days ago • 76 comments

Ten years ago we had Bob Hope, Bob Jobs, Bob Cash, Bob Constitution, Bob Vaccines, Bob Air Traffic Controllers

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

Prius at 0:16 doing the ope let me sneak by you real quick

submitted 10 days ago • 1884 comments

on an already very impersonal platform, alllllll of those AI-written LinkedIn posts I see are truly a waste of time

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about IKEA (and more) this past week in my newsletter. 🤗 interrobangdesign.beehiiv.com/p/what-is-th...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 13 days ago • 274 comments

I just want you to know that when I opted for a fluoride treatment at the dentist this week it was a micro political statement

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I'm wholly against pop-ups anyway (plz leave people alone, we're all anxious enough) but I just got a pop-up to subscribe to a newsletter WHILE I was subscribing to a newsletter.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

We don’t hear much about the West Pole, where Cowboy Santa lives. Probably because of all the people he’s shot

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

while i support the right of canadians to humiliate us however see fit, nothing can humiliate us more than the italians already did when they named the drink after our hillbilly GIs who couldn't handle a proper espresso and wanted a simple cup of mud water after liberating them from the axis

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

submitted 18 days ago • 30 comments

made a couple of weird vegetable pot pies from what was in the fridge but let me tell you: chopped brocoli stalks work pretty well, unlike the florets which can really overpower the thing

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

submitted 21 days ago • 154 comments

Every time my phone notices I’ve left the house

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

"If cats could talk, to cops, they wouldn't" Seen in Sydney

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

submitted 24 days ago • 618 comments

at least it’s been a snowy winter. at least snow still exists.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

there’s a handy crowdsourced list of businesses around Albany to boycott AND those to support. ✌🏻🏳️‍🌈 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

never been able to get a straight answer on who showed gwen stefani fiddler on the roof

submitted 28 days ago • 36 comments

btw they haven’t taken this down yet if you need to order more Covid tests before we all get sent to Bobby Kennedy’s All Natural Organic Bear Meat Wellness Farm special.usps.com/testkits

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I get that we have to keep living and doing what we can but like… jesus christ.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I'm begging for tech to have fun with hardware design again. We need this kind of whimsy. We need to feel joy in our little homes with our little things. We need little gadgets that yearn to cruise through outer space

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

This is basically what C-3PO did in the original Star Wars movies and everyone was constantly telling him to shut the fuck up

submitted 32 days ago • 40 comments

Let me explain to you how business works. One day your kids sit down for dinner and you give them just water. "Isn't there anything else?" they ask. Of course, you say, if you'd like to subscribe to Dinner Premium

submitted 34 days ago • 34 comments

burnout level: I've been a professional researcher for an ungodly amount of time and a minute ago I COULD NOT figure out how to spell "research." I started with r-e-a and absolutely could not recover.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

submitted 36 days ago • 338 comments

resisting the urge to book a flight to just about anywhere far away

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

oh my god finally something that can handle reminders and to-dos, I've been waiting decades for something that can handle reminders and to-dos

submitted 44 days ago • 48 comments

hey, a reminder to US self-employed people whose brains also seem to filter out tax-related notifications: estimated taxes are due this week. ✨🙄

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

What I’ve realized about imposter syndrome is that realistically: a) if we feel this way, it’s often not really something we’re imagining, it’s based on how we’re actually treated b) I’m much less haunted by times I’ve felt like an imposter than times I’ve gotten too cocky

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

THEY'RE SAVING THE DOGS! THEY'RE SAVING THE CATS!

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

There is something so sweet about the human capacity for enthusiasm. For a few days everyone in LA has been glued to Watch Duty and getting in the weeds of how water drops work. Now there are people out here who honestly have a favorite water plane that they are following closely and rooting for.

submitted 47 days ago • 140 comments

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

submitted 49 days ago • 298 comments

Anytime I read any news headline or think about the future in any way, it feels like someone just dropped my heart down a garbage chute.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

It's 2025 and everything sucks and everyone is job hunting, please enjoy this slowly unfolding thread of tech jobs at places that aren't making the world worse. If you're hiring at not-evil (or even minimally evil) orgs, please reply w your tech jobs too?

submitted 52 days ago • 54 comments

wait why is everyone making chili today

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

What does the title #DesignEngineer mean to you? I'm putting together an article and I'd love to hear what your thoughts are, especially in relation to #DesignSystems. Boost for reach? 💜

submitted 55 days ago • 43 comments

It took like half an hour for it to even occur to me that someone could have done this on purpose because these cars just do that on their own so often.

submitted 57 days ago • 24 comments

New year, old me. (Accidentally backhanded the lamp on my nightstand so it toppled and shattered. 😎)

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

submitted 59 days ago • 120 comments