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mandy

@mandynicole.com

designer/developer in pdx/pnw [she/her]

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Xavier Salazar@xsalazar.bsky.social · 4d ago

The year is 2045. PBOT just finished their seventh public outreach survey about painting sharrows to a residential street that’s been in the works since 1995. I get hit while biking across a high-crash intersection. My insurance claim is denied because of a Bluesky post I made two decades ago.

Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 4d ago

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.
king lola 👑@lolaodelola.bsky.social · last wk.

📣 I’m looking for work! I’m open to taking on clients and full time remote positions. If you need someone to help you implement or navigate web standards, check out my CV: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

[Q1] Lola Odelola CV 2026

Lola Odelola lolaslab.co | lola@lolaslab.co | github.com/lolaodelola Technical Leader & Strategist I’m Co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, the body responsible for the architectural int...

docs.google.com

Chris Kerr@kerrblimey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here are some photos (provided by the CWA) from the 'Save Our Devs' rallies that took place yesterday at Microsoft studios across the United States and Canada in protest of the mass layoffs at Xbox. I'm sure you'll notice some very choice words on the placards carried by those in attendance.

mandy@mandynicole.com · 3w ago

I'd sooner hand in my resignation than tell people I think a stadium is more important than teachers, transit, affordable housing, mental health, et al, especially if the sole reason I was council president was due to the racism and conservatism of the people I voted with to screw over taxpayers.

mandy@mandynicole.com · 2mo ago

NYC just announced the creation of five "Public Interest Technology [PIT] Crews"—teams that will work with city agencies to build meaningful, "user-first" civic technology—and they rode in on karts, bro. 😭 Wilson and his loser roster could never. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcbU...

A photo of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani standing behind OTI (Office of Technology and Innovation) Commissioner and Chief Technology Officer Lisa Gelobter, who is at a podium with a blue sign that reads "Pit Crew" in white letters. Lisa is wearing a bright red-orange three-quarter sleeve top and pair of dark, possibly tortoise-shell, Wayfarer-like sunglasses. Mamdani is wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and dark gray tie with white polka dots, and the cuntiest little rectangular sunglasses.A somewhat blurry NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani coming out of a sharp right turn on an orange go-kart with a huge smile on his face.
Grant Stoner@supercrip1994.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm currently writing this report for @aftermath.site. If any member of any accessibility team was impacted by the layoffs, please reach out through email, messages, or my signal –4129804478.

Grant Stoner@supercrip1994.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm seeing direct confirmation that members of the Xbox accessibility team were also impacted today. If you would like to speak about your experience, please send me a message or email. I'll be happy to give you my signal, as well

mandy@mandynicole.com · 2mo ago

Hearing about this stuff as a survivor is compounding. Traumatic that it is so pervasive, traumatic that no one cares. This is the upteenth story about this loser that has me shaking and feeling ill. And that isn't because of him, but because of the sheer amount of his "progressive" defenders.

starring red as computer bronson@likethecolour.red · 2mo ago

it needs to start becoming clear that many, many of the best people in the industry are being so affected by the bin fire that ravenous corporations have turned the internet into that they’re leaving it behind it’s bad, and it’s worse without them

⭑ salma@whitep4nth3r.com · 2mo ago

Hi, friends. The last 6 years have been a blast, but I just don't like being on The Internet anymore. I'm leaving DevRel, and I wrote a little bit about why. Look after yourselves, and each other. Love, Salma

mandy@mandynicole.com · 3mo ago

Replace Supernatural with Petz and design, but all the same; the internet was essential to my physical and mental health, and to understand the world around me. I was finding ways to bypass AOL age restrictions when I was 13 just to talk to friends.

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When I was 15 I was using social media to learn about abortion rights, LGBTQ identity and history, and of course blog up to 8 hours a day about Supernatural. I demand the next generation have the same rights I did

FRENDEN@frenden.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I've been running a social-club-third-space centered around gaming for going on four years. Whenever I see people post about the sorts of spaces we need, societally, I mentally check all the requisites we hit. It's gone really well, we're not going anywhere. It's tiring work, but rewarding.

mandy@mandynicole.com · 3mo ago

Recently, a script topped rhythm game leaderboards by using ML to train on thousands of hours of real player keystrokes—good and bad—allowing it to mimic human error & progress undetected. If someone really wanted to bypass tools like Emboss, it's trivial. For real writers it flags, it's not.

Top 20 worldwide with social-engineering and a cheat that's still undetected

how we used math, reinforcement learning, and social engineering to build a universal rhythm game cheat, climb to top 20 worldwide, and get banned without ever being detected.

ud2.rip

Ellipsus@ellipsus.com · 3mo ago

Emboss Emboss is our AI-free proof-of-work layer for human writing. Instead of relying on unreliable “AI-powered” “verifiers”, share your writing journey, with authorship metrics that inspire trust. Or, show how your work evolved with snapshots of your version history. Fully opt-in.

An image of the writing journey showing the “Story behind this work” in the Ellipsus reader. “Share the human process behind your work with writing metrics and human authorship badges.” An Emboss badge reads: "Support Human Writers."
Orangetronic@orangetronic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

mandy@mandynicole.com · 4mo ago

Ope, did someone see my post. 👀 Seems they're hiring for this, but it's on-site in Salem: www.tylertech.com/careers/job-... (Would love to see the contract for this work go to an agency that is actually fully based and staffed in Oregon, but alas. 🤷‍♀️)

mandy@mandynicole.com · 4mo ago

Love to see text-decoration: none; overrides and a reset :focus outline for links on government sites; you can never tell if it's a disdain for the public or just your average disdain for accessibility and the front-end. In the 4th image, I reset and resized them so you can see where they all are.