Blogged: CodeMash 2026 Recap davidedmiston.com/post/2026/co...

Deaf Kids Code is coming to Cleveland!! My friend Destiny O'Connor has set up a Cleveland branch of Deaf Kids Code. If you're interested (for yourself or your organization) fill out the form below learn more and set up sessions. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Accessibility Nutrition Labels come to the App Store! 😱 #a11y www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Blogged - My review of Windows Live Captions as part of the Auto Captions Project: davidedmiston.com/post/2025/wi... #livecaptioning #autocaptioning #autocaptionsproject

Blogged: The Auto-Captions Project returns with a review of Be My Ears for the Mac: davidedmiston.com/post/2025/be...

"I'm in this photo and I don't like it."

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 2y ago

People: What productivity software do you use? Me:

Strong opinion Saturday: Instagram and TikTok have both led the enshittification of video captions on online platforms. I actually made a on Tiktok last year talking about some of the issues I've come across. M

We ran a lovely feature about the experience of getting hearing aids last month: slate.com/technology/2...

Millions of Americans Could Improve Their Lives With a Simple, Miraculous Device. What’s Stopping Them?

More people should use hearing aids.

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Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2y ago

In case it is useful to anybody who over Thanksgiving will be trying to talk a relative into getting a hearing aid, here are observations from one of my loved ones after getting a hearing aid: "I can hear the leaves crunch again when I walk in the woods" and "People stopped mumbling!"

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Tolkien: but they were all deceived, for another cup was made.

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2y ago

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Charles Dickens: It was the best of cups, it was the worst of cups, it was the cup of wisdom, it was the cup of foolishness, it was the mug of Light, it was the beer stein of Darkness

Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur." I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

Also, new folks, please know that when it comes to trolls, jerks, chuds and other undesirables here in the sky, we subscribe to the idea of “Don’t Engage, Just Block.” The block function is superpowered and expunges them entirely from your timeline. They hate it! Block with wild abandon! Don’t wait!

I have fond memories of going with my mom as a kid when she voted; back when they still used the cool mechnical voting machines with the curtain, the levers you'd flip to make your selections, and then the big lever you'd pull to record the ballot. ... voted 1st time on those same machines in '96.

space jew@jewish.bsky.social · 2y ago

After turning 18 two decades ago, my mother marched me to the polling place to cast a midterm election vote, and I have missed one election since. Vote by example.

TIL: rice cookers know when rice is done because water boils at a constant temperature, so an increase in temp means the rice is done. This will be my contribution to all small talk this week; better than talking about the weather :-) (Feel free to share a better-than-small-talk fact in return)

when JD Vance whines about being called weird this is what he thinks is normal

I was just remembering that whole M&M kerfuffle the other day - I don't even know what brought it to mind - and was thinking "you know, that was pretty weird."

an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube@jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2y ago

republicans have been the party of normalcy my entire life, like when they spent days mad because the green m&m stopped wearing heels

Ohio folks: Today's the day! Don't forget to disappoint the conservative politicians who want to take away your rights and scheduled a vote on a traditionally low-participation date to sneak it by you! In other words:

we can win this: “The number of companies that require employees to be in the office full time has actually declined to 42%, from 49% three months ago” https://archive.is/RbIXh

The Return to the Office Has Stalled - WSJ

archived 16 May 2023 09:43:59 UTC

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A group of crows is called a murder, but only if there is probable caws

So this whole Bluesky thing is interesting, I’m surprised how quickly I was able to rebuild a substantial chunk of my network here. Not sure about this “skeets” thing though, I feel like calling them skytales would’ve been cooler and still could be abbreviated as “skeets” 😂