Steve Portigal
@steveportigal.bsky.social
Superb user research consultant; author of Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books), Host Dollars To Donuts podcast
TIL a group of hippos is called a 'bloat' [I learned this from the IG feed from the Cincinatti Zoo who I do not follow but the algorithm keeps serving me very cute videos of hippos devouring watermelon etc.]
A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to lift its freeze on reviewing proposed onshore wind projects, handing a defeat to President Donald Trump, who has long disdained wind power.
US judge orders Pentagon to lift wind project freeze
A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Pentagon to lift its freeze on reviewing proposed onshore wind projects, handing a defeat to President Donald Trump, who has long disdained wind power.
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❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://accessibility.gov Action taken by the nan (General Services Administration) at or around 2026-08-06 08:40:55.
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Federal US website delisted. URL is not valid.
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the Cow Palace board voted to suspend consideration of the proposed data center
I donated a little bit to this...
Robert Stribley@stribs.bsky.social · 3d agoAs you might guess, each of these steps typically requires a payment—often of some large figures. Generating income can be very difficult for transgender people, so we created a GoFundMe to raise funding for her for this project. gofund.me/09d89848d
Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
A few seconds of hope to encourage you today.
BREAKING: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issues order terminating U.S. President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization fund' to compensate supporters after weeks of negotiations with two GOP senators who were blocking his nomination.
Blanche rescinds fund for Trump supporters after GOP senators threaten to block his AG bid
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has issued a formal order terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund to compensate his political allies.
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Beavers are the best. The music added to this reel makes it even better.
Crews will begin removing the 40 Flock Safety cameras installed in the city between July 30 and Aug. 18, the department said.
Flock cameras to come down in El Cerrito
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Does anybody I know have a tattoo that they got for a band they love and would be interested in writing a couple of sentences about why you got it and what it means to you for a zine article for @nothingsoundsgood.bsky.social?
Montreal police investigating suspicious fire at kosher restaurant Police are investigating a suspicious fire that broke out overnight at a kosher restaurant in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. #cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada
Notable that Alaska Airlines "handed out prayer cards" for 30 years, until 2012 (I think I only encountered this as a bible verse under the grapes or something subtle...but it was a while ago)
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 6d ago“…the airline said in a statement[:] ‘For the foreseeable future, the guest will not be permitted to travel on our flights.’” … “She said she wants to contact an attorney and intends to continue preaching on planes.” www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2026/...
BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit
Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...
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I'm joining the Hands Off Our Vote movement. Trump is trying to sabotage the midterms and we can't let him succeed. We need all hands on deck. Use this link to sign up and join us. share.indvs.org/s/p45u2rm2
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the Guardian newsletter today: ‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe? and Biohacker Bryan Johnson is keeping his girlfriend’s menstrual blood in his freezer
ICE releases Johns Hopkins researcher detained while boarding flight
Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody
A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody across...
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Hmmm. Today my local Olyns machine was full and I opened the app to see that every single machine within 30 miles or so was full. It made me wonder if this company isn't viable, if they can't keep paying people to empty them.
Starcade@starcade.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe Olyns recycling machines in my area have been full all week. Today at 10am, when they "open" one of them was partially empty, while the rest were showing as full. Wonder if they're artificially saying they're full when theyr'e not. Returned 72 items today, when I normally have 50 #Olyns
BREAKING: Pirro has dismissed the case against Davey Hearn for vandalizing the reflecting pool, saying that there's no way vandals could have caused the damage.
Today in #microcopy - Google Maps lets you specify your vehicle under a setting called "Your vehicles" but even though it's plural you can't have more than one vehicle. That stupid header wasted 5 minutes of my life trying to figure out how to add a second vehicle, which I can't.
I've seen outrage but I haven't seen anything we might do to support Aangad. I don't mean money via a GFM, but some way to let all the angry posters direct their energy into something positive. I don't want us to Craig Shergold him but could we do something?
Home of the Brave@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · last wk."An academic competition is supposed to be different. It’s supposed to be a clear meritocracy. For Aangad, it wasn’t. And ironically, that’s fundamentally un-American." Read our latest on the Presidential 1776 Award, authored by Chloe Levine:
In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.
Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town
Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.
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