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poems, pictures, programs ♥️ @chromato.graphics 📸 glass.photo/mbbischoff 👅 @lickability.com lives in bushwick brooklyn avatar by jäger nachreiner banner by the @object.cv

Alignment guides are a powerful but often underused part of SwiftUI's layout system. They let us describe relationships between views using meaningful points in their content, without frame measurements or fixed offsets. I wrote a post explaining them in detail: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Alignme...

Alignment guides in SwiftUI

Learn how alignment guides position views in SwiftUI, how to override a built-in guide, and how to define a custom alignment for views in nested containers.

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i did not know that being trans was a possibility until my late teens. we have informed consent now instead of RLE. we can prevent HIV. mental health treatment has come leaps and bounds. there are a million medical improvements, period

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian

@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

It's nice every art form has the same paradox where good work can be made on any equipment, but the work is noticeably better when made with better equipment

this is an example of the thing i talk about in that it sucks how trans people are constantly forced to be diplomats to cis people because there's a good chance you might be one of the only trans people they've consciously met, but precisely for that reason there's an outsized humanizing effect imo.

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief@katie.bzky.team · 5d ago

just had a 7:45 am random quest on my way to getting a coffee. a couple of older tourists were standing around with exclamation marks over their heads who were lost about the transit connections. local hero, katie tightpussy, to the rescue.

oh, you’re still worried about meeting your metamours? that’s funny, i’ve moved on to being worried about what my metamers will be like.

talking to a few cis women who spent most of their lives embedded in heterosexuality recently helped me understand the liberatory potential of lesbianism no girl, most women who love women won't endlessly critique you for not fitting the male gaze, you phenomenal and glowing goddess