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In my long history of sharing trivial fact … this is one of the more fascinating to people.

submitted 36 minutes ago • 1 comment

A near perfect satirical essay on the absurdity of working in big tech in 2025.

submitted 36 minutes ago • 3 comments

At our hospital every department has a daily scramble to figure out who in their department, or somewhere else in the hospital, has a government purchase card with a high enough limit to buy vital medical supplies.

submitted 52 minutes ago • 1 comment

119 days streak and counting on Duolingo for Spanish.

submitted 29 minutes ago • 0 comments

Just for the record, I'm a former dishwasher, busgirl, and waitress with a GED.

submitted 4 hours ago • 35 comments

The wealthiest man in the world has fully purchased the federal government of the United States. This is one of the most extraordinary crises in the history of this country and you need to ask whether your elected representatives are acting like it.

submitted 1 day ago • 487 comments

Fascinating look at how deeply surveilled we all are and how dogged law enforcement can follow the tiniest bread crumbs to capture perpetrators they prioritize. In other news, the person who planted pipe bombs in Washington DC ahead of January 6th is still unidentified.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Sometimes, when choosing a font, there are fun coincidences that transition the choice into decision. I've worked on a graphic to summate a project I'm working on for the Space Force. Browsed for context aligned options. Enter Space Grotesk and Space Mono. Lo, and behold: the perfect fit.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

When you removed populations from the category of human rights, are you removing them from the category of human?

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

This week, I've been doing some good, old-fashioned graphic design. It's been great fun to work on something that is one dimensional, has no interaction, and is consumed/used at one size(-ish). Spent the last couple hours kerning type. And damn, is it rough to kern on a circle in Figma.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Here's a thread with some of our recent trans rights protest coverage. You won't see this stuff on NYT: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

US-based conferences should probably prepare to offer e.g. presentation and comms devices for on-site use by international travelers who are motivated enough to attend but who can't safely bring their devices across the border.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

“This case should be a wake up call. Our client has been disappeared and locked up solely based on his tattoos. It is naive to think this kind of incarceration with no chance to refute the charges against you will be limited to asylum seekers. If this goes unchallenged, who could be next?” 🧵

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." Stephen Jay Gould, 1941 - 2002

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

After a year of trying to figure out my DNS issues, my hosting provider finally investigated properly and fixed it! So, transitioned my handle to @jonathanstephens.us ! I've had this domain since 2008, when I built my first website with CSS for Dummies, Notepad, and one of my first tax refunds.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The cognitive dissonance of ALL THE THINGS right is heavy. From work to daily life things. One hitting particularly weirdly after a bad night's sleep of few hours and scrolling in the very wee hours of my day— —mowing the fucking lawn. Else...HOA could fine for non-compliance w/ "standards."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We've got 1 in-person and 2 online tickets for State of the Browser available from our @set.studio sponsorship to give away. I was planning on getting down there, but I'm not gonna be available with the rail replacement situation and timing. First come, first served! 2025.stateofthebrowser.com

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Clear, concise, accurate. Must read. ⬇️ "No matter how deeply avant-garde art has engaged in shock and putative nihilism, no artist, to my knowledge, has ever made art with the sole aim of harming the already vulnerable...Those are the goals of AI art, and that is why it resonates with the right."

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

A reminder that the Dictionary of Irish Biography has just completed four years on open access at dib.ie 11,000+ lives are waiting for you. Each one written by an expert in their field. Initially paywalled, now free courtesy of government support.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

You don’t have to look outside yourself for every answer. So many of us were taught that we can’t trust our instincts – that our needs, our feelings, our way of being is wrong. But we were never the problem. The world just wasn’t built with us in mind.

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My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner | A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana. inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

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IT'S OFFICIAL. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! 🤯 #TheDoubleTax unpacks the cost of being a woman, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and how closing the gaps moves us ALL forward. #blacksky #booksky #econsky PRE-ORDER NOW: tinyurl.com/doubletax-or... Get Involved: tinyurl.com/doubletax-join

submitted 10 days ago • 55 comments

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

submitted 3 days ago • 319 comments

This Recycling Day, let’s talk about our favorite way to reduce waste: repair. Recycling is inefficient + complex. It should be the last step in a long line of alternatives. While Reduce and Reuse are the best options, we think the third R should be Repair. Why? 👉 www.ifixit.com/Right-to-Rep...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

After 4-ish months without my ADHD med—had "planned" to schedule my next session to get refilled, but got distracted, then the holidays and travel disrupted routine even more until...last week—and phew, what a difference. Extended release, 25mg. It's like trying meds for the first time, again.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to support independent trans news outlets, look no further! Please check out @assignedmedia.org and @whatthetrans.com joint fundraiser 💗 This will also directly support me as I will be redesigning the WTT website 🫡 #TransSky

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Chilling details from a lawsuit against DOGE by USADF about how much of a lie DOGE's "IT modernization" is (the best way to describe it is if someone comes from the cable company and then says because he's in your house, he's allowed to do a home invasion) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Nope. AI (broadly construed) does not understand or have experience in the relevant ways necessary to empathize or express empathy. It could parrot an empathetic response, but it has no understanding/experience of what it is doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

We're bad at sharing work. Mostly because we literally can't a lot of the time, but we're really proud of this refresh.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

LOL wow a dude just argued in the EU courts that misgendering is a GDPR violation and he won. www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refu...

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

That the origin of a lot of these gangs is with refugees from US-backed dirty wars in Central America, who picked up gang culture/adopted it for protection in the US makes the portrayal of many of these gangs as foreign/alien/outsider a lie or a denial.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

There are simply no quick fixes for anything. It's all just persistent, focused and ongoing work.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 5 days ago • 1130 comments

So. Anyone hiring in the Netherlands that'll support a knowledge worker visa?

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Imagine your life gets expensive as hell, inflation or disaster or medical crisis etc. Suddenly it costs $1,000 a day to not die. 28% of Americans have less than that in savings. They'd die in 1 day. A millionaire could last 2.73 years. A billionaire could survive that for 2,730 years.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

It’s time for Bluesky to allow private accounts www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Consider how, up til now, if you couldn't find a book, you just didn't have that book. It was not available to you. Now, if you search for a book, odds are you'll get a thousand shitty genAI regurgitations of that book, weird sketchy print on demand listings, that book remixed and digested.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement. Psychological safety REQUIRES: * disagreement and debate * setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them * telling people things they don't want to hear * courage, from the bottom up * humility, from the top down

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

submitted 267 days ago • 69 comments