Having a kid with a disability means you have to shadow their class trips (or someone has to). This is one of those rare inconveniences that is practically a perk. (Photo: Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, near Dabelow)

Would be cool if the big LLMs introduced a homepage button saying "Summarize Pope" so that they didn't have to process and distill this text hundreds of thousands of separate times. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Hey #bookstodon, I built something and now need your help. Do you also struggle to share a link to a book? Don’t want to link to a specific store? This might be the solution: https://bookpile.org/b/9780356508191 A site that lists the reasonable places where to get the book, including […]

Guide to UX for Small Projects - @simulo nails it as usual. Bookmark this one. https://www.fordes.de/posts/TipsUXSmallProjects.html #ux #foss #design

Me meeting new people

The #rp26 gem that I am most excited to share with you: https://wahlheymat.de/ It's small team who explains how Berlin government works, in English and in German. They have a newsletter, they publish in the @morgenpost, and they hold monthly events with politicians. They want to draw attention […]

The ease with which an AI podcast CEO categorizes knitting as an unimportant, slop-ready topic is chilling. Encouraging us to vibe on the creation process instead of doing the work is bad enough, but this targets people who WANT to do the work […]

“Last year at @republica I went to both a talk by Friedrich Merz and a kissing workshop.” “I hope they were far apart from each other!” “No wait, it’d be even better if they were at the same time. Merz should be learning about consent and boundaries.”

Honestly I'd like to just listen to @alineblankertz for a few hours straight, thanks. #rp26 "We don't want to hang out in a digital supermarket. We don't want to hang out in a digital Nazi bar. But those are the spaces flush with money. So let's undermine them, all while we are building […]

Karl Lauterbach explaining why he is still on X is, somehow, peak re:publica. #rp26 https://re-publica.com/en/node/11200

X – Should I stay or should I go? | re:publica

Die re:publica Berlin ist das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft und die größte Konferenz ihrer Art in Europa. Die Teilnehmer*innen der re:publica bilden einen Querschnitt unserer (digitalen) Gesellschaft.

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Aha. No wonder I have been confused. There are THREE DIFFERENT INITIATIVES CALLED EUROSTACK. https://eurostack.eu/ https://www.euro-stack.info/ https://euro-stack.com/ #eurostack #rp26

I'm at #rp26. The mood here is dire. As it should be, frankly. So I'm looking for the people who have made something, done something, can give me some little hints of something that might work. The time for principles is past - let's see the prototypes.

A neat map showing how many streets are named after men and women in larger cities in Europe, and their percentage: https://mappingdiversity.eu/ @europeanspodcast #map #diversity #feminism #streets #europe

Mapping Diversity

Mapping Diversity is a platform for discovering key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe.

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Conversation at our #osxp #Paris booth. Customer: “I’m looking for someone from OpenProject.” Me: “Hi, I’m Rosanna from OpenProject. How can I help you?” Customer: “Oh, but I have a technical question.” I’m wondering what made the gentleman hesitant to share his technical question with me… […]

This is such ragebait but I'm a designer so FINE I'll bite. If what we're doing now is taking accessibility guidelines and doing the other thing: do we have to use lower contrast now? Screenshots of red text on a blue background? Make America squint again? […]

This is really exciting news for LGBTQ+ rights in Europe! My enthusiasm was tempered a little when @europeanspodcast explained that it miiight still prohibit marriage tourism – depending on the implementation, it might restrict marriage to people who actually reside in the country where they're […]

I think my mom whatsapp groups are all mildly shocked by the degree to which I let my children control our home's aesthetic. "This looks like a four-year-old decorated it!" Well actually

Fantastic news for activists and technologists all over the world! DC District Court says that USAGM has to disburse $19m of funds, and Open Tech Fund @opentechfund can accept proposals again. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69765042/62/open-technology-fund-v-lake/

Sunday night is the Friday afternoon for parents

1684: Leibniz “Novo methodus” 1687: Newton “Principia” But can we solve the calculus discovery controversy with a cookie tiebreaker? 1891: Leibniz cookies invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks 1891: Fig Newtons invented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtons_(cookie) Unbelievable […]

"This chatbot could have been a questionnaire" is the new "this meeting could have been an email"

Vibe coding has come to civic tech. And the problem isn't bad code: it's the assumptions that your average vibe coder is making. Read on @civictech https://mailchi.mp/civictech/vibes

So. My friend has made a product that any LEGO-loving family needs YESTERDAY. And you can buy one! The Brick Hero Case is a lightweight travel case for Legos. Great details like a no-spill mesh pocket, an integrated baseplate, a 2-way zipper. Seriously, this […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

#introduction hello! I’m Molly (she/her) in #berlin, #deutschland. I’m a #ux designer and educator at Superbloom (http://superbloom.design) using #design as a lever to make tech serve the people, not the other way around. #accessibility #nonprofittech #civictech #opensource #opensourcedesign […]