Doug Schepers
@shepazu.bsky.social
Web developer, dataviz accessibility nerd. Running a startup that makes the most accessible charts anywhere. Fan of cats and metroidvanias.
😍 Douglas Alan Schepers @shepazu.bsky.social by the fire #w3c #a11y #politics #SVG audio only (for now) available on a multitude of podcast platforms for your listening pleasure rss.com/podcasts/fir...
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Doug Schepers has been involved in web standards for longer than I can remember, he worked at the W3C for 10 years, then turned to accessible data visualization via his company Fizz Studio Doug as alw...
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Episodes 1-25 Nov. 2025 – Sept. 2026 25 conversations with 24 people. Still to come: Aaron Gustafson, @wil.to , @shepazu.bsky.social, @shellelittle.bsky.social , Janina Sajka and @sarasoueidan.com, to name a few. #webStandards #nerdVana html5accessibility.com/stuff/2026/0...
One of our missile attacks on Iran struck a school, killing 170 people, most of them schoolgirls. This is on-brand for Trump, because he's known to target young girls.
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
To all the the End-Times #Rapture preppers: Good luck! Nobody wishes you’d be taken away from this Earth more fervently than I do! To each and every one of you: farewell! #ThanksGod
Kimmel needs to seek an immediate injunction against his suspension, then sue ABC/ Disney for wrongful termination, and the FCC/administration for 1st Amendment violation. ABC/ Disney needs to separately sue the FCC. This needs to be expedited through the courts to SCOTUS. Clear violation of 1A.
Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · last yr.Censorship never stops with just one book, one newspaper, one person. The end goal of censorship is always complete control. For Christ's sake, Kimmel just showed a video of the President's own words. Stop capitulating. It will never save you in the end.
Fox News host confuses "liking children" with "childlike". They mean very different things.
Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely. That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles. Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · last yr.The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
The whole idea here gets to something @shepazu.bsky.social has called "underlays." In accessibility, there is an awful trend to make things called "overlays." Let me explain these before "underlays:" Overlays take inaccessible software and try to add an accessible layer over them. They are awful.
When & where will be the first area to ban non-autonomous vehicles? Some city center, gated community, or something will ban vehicles driven by humans, not because autonomous vehicles are necessarily safer, but because mixing human and autonomous cars is less safe. For good or ill, it’ll happen.
"A lot of this infrastructure, billions of dollars of it, is being built just for a few customers and a few facilities and these happen to be the wealthiest companies in the world,” said Ari Peskoe, who directs the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University.
As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
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“It doesn’t mean upholding free speech after we win” is a really great summation of modern conservatism tbqh.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last yr.“The only good thing about this fascist moment we’re in is that you guys are so open about it.”
Just today in my business accelerator session, over half of the participants cited as risks: - dwindling grant opportunities - uncertain investment market - higher (and unknowable) cost due to tariffs. This is the most business-hostile federal administration I’ve ever seen.
🗣️“Using #OpenDataEditor has been incredibly beneficial in my data work” As part of the ODE pilot, the City of Zagreb’s Information Systems team used ODE to align with FAIR principles and adopt frictionless standards for consistent data quality 📖 Read their story: buff.ly/NF0jF4n #TheTechWeWant
How Open Data Editor helps us embrace FAIR data principles - Open Knowledge Blog
The senior advisor of the City of Zagreb reports on his experience piloting ODE: "It has been incredibly beneficial in my data work."
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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
The same Democrats who say we shouldn't make too much nationally of Mamdani's win are going out of their way to make him a national issue that will alienate voters nowhere near New York.
[Sees large Jewish turnout for a democratic socialist who advocates solidarity, denounces ethnic hatred, and resonates with NYC's vast Jewish socialist history] "This proves why Jews cannot survive outside a genocidal ethnostate."
The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.
Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
We have now passed a grand in the kickstarter for NO RACCOONS IN HELL. Thank you! A stretch goal has been met! The bonus pin-up zine will now be 20 pages! The next stretch goal is 24 pages at $1500! The more Val drawings you want, the more pledges we need! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wan...
NO endless wars. NO murdering civilians. NO using *our* tax dollars for illegal and immoral military action.
Trump bombed 3 sites in Iran, without Congressional oversight. If this isn’t grounds for immediate removal per the 25th Amendment and/or impeachment, I can’t imagine what is. #impeach47
The woman who shouted "people will die" at Joni Ernst, India May, is a nurse and a librarian who first got involved in politics by going to a town hall about bills aiming to defund libraries. Now she's running for state house. eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
