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art+code, short stories, singer-songwriter, band member for decades. Web standards and accessibility, core web language advocate. Ruby and Nanoc. Lightweight glue, strength of weak ties.
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Why do I always see things coming from the distant horizon, go on about it into the void while people share their dinner pics, then just suffer from fatigue when it all finally arrives and everyone's going "oh this, ah, this!"?

Protect elephants: keep the global ivory ban action.eko.org/a/keep-globa...

freedom of speech… as long as you don't say the wrong thing… www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

blackbird, Germany

Protect OpenAI's public mission - stop its transition to a for-profit. action.eko.org/a/protect-op...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that it isn’t racism, it’s just “anti-DEI”.

delighted to see that the "build-free-process" is gaining traction. allways taught student the 3 core languages as fundamental skills before (if ever) flying off into fashionable complexities gomakethings.com/bye-bye-buil...

Sometimes, new music actually sends shivers and exites. BIG SPECIAL! youtu.be/Qz789gGHFDA...

Turn off toxic algorithms action.eko.org/a/turn-off-t...

One of my favourite developers Ada Rose Canon on Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) ada.is/progressive-...

before I cleaned it up, I used my decision-maker lol… it's here (for now) if you want to give me feedback daveeveritt.github.io/decision-mak...

not as active as I still am on FB but hey,

https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/02/12/gop-jostles-for-power-while-devising-more-ways-to-punish-migrants/ “This state is not in trouble because of undocumented human beings who give their all to society, it is because politicians who ignore the real needs and crises, in favor of political stunts,”

Gold or a bio-diverse habitat? Help buy land to add to an existing nature reserve and prevent a mining company from buying it instead. https://action.eko.org/a/buy-and-protect-the-most-species-rich-place-on-earth

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/27/trump-speech-no-need-to-vote-future

UK responses to 47-related crackdowns can be reported here https://goodlawproject.org/trump-edi-attack/

Send all those "only 2 genders" to this. But they wouldn't "believe" (as if it's about "belief") the facts anyway. https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/04/croonian-lecture/

Protoweb is putting up archives of sites that modern browsers don't handle, or that have long since disappeared. Useful for web history research. This is Zeldman's, who ypu'll know if you know ypur web decelopment history! https://protoweb.org/2025/02/18/www-zeldman-com-jeffrey-zeldman-presents/

Elon Musk is running Tesla into the ground, yet trying to rewrite the law to get the highest payday of any CEO in history. Tesla said NO. The court said NO. It's time Delaware lawmakers say NO to Musk’s $56 billion bailout. Vote NO on Musk's SB 21 bill action.eko.org/a/no-elon-mu...

His lawyers have literally written a bill that, if passed, would give CEOs like him free rein to run companies into the ground, steal from shareholders and retirement funds, and be protected from consequences under Musk’s law. https://action.eko.org/a/no-elon-musk-bailout

"There ain't no asylum round here…" https://youtu.be/t7SvtikTkrM?feature=shared

Nice Spring day around here!

A whole week of Max Richter! You might need to scroll. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006tnxf?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Move aside Hollywood (and Ghibli?) - thoughtful Latvian animation with Blender is here! https://youtu.be/YkncKAGzFH8

now *this* is what AI-generated video is for! https://youtu.be/g_W-Bbe8iCk?feature=shared

I spent so long on the various social medias today taking in the storm I "literally" had to go out and do this.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

head around this shitness

parking here in case I get a secondary cancer

Whole week of Max Richter! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006tnxf?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Love this channel! What's the intellectual dark web (OFC you already know) and how did it inform what's happening now? Start here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LqZdkkBDas