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Chris Ford

@riotmaam.com

I was a flannel and Docs-wearing baby dyke getting teargassed at queer events in the 90s. Doing the same goddamn things in my 50s but w/ gray hair and orthopedic inserts. Member of the Cult of Pilates. Obsessed with Americana music. Lover of asshole dogs

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Chris Ford@riotmaam.com · 4d ago

"Bitter people don’t start stealing furniture from work when upcoming layoffs are announced. Petty people do." When I was in design school I was working on a CD-ROM project and found I wasn't getting paid. And that's the story of how I got my first shoebox sized 1 gig hard drive. Viva la petty! ✊

Monteiro@monteiro.bsky.social · 4d ago

Here is your Saturday read: “Bitterness is a weight made up, not of all the times people told you you couldn’t do something—but of all the times you believed them.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 5d ago

Public domain work exists. Fair use exists. Creative commons exists. Stock art exists. Making a fucked up little sketch in any app with drawing tools exists. No reason to be gleefully complicit in exploitation for a muddy cartoon.

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · last mo.

This is Penny. She came up with her own trick. Really hopes you like it, and will repeat it as many times as necessary until you acknowledge that you do. 14/10 (IG: pennycorgipoo)

Alt18F@alt18f.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Where USDS and 18F prioritized function, accessibility, and the needs of underserved populations, the studio’s mandate emphasizes beauty, delight, and the visual language of consumer technology. The distinction is not trivial ... "

Peter Arnell, designer behind Pepsi and Tropicana rebrand failures, named first US chief brand architect for 27,000 government websites

Peter Arnell is now America's first chief brand architect, tasked with unifying 27,000 federal websites by July 4. The studio has already failed accessibility audits.

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Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 4mo ago

People are asking ChatGPT things I would normally just ask a friend, parent, mentor, therapist or medical professional for or about. It takes work to build and maintain those relationships, and figure out who is the right person to ask, but the alternative is a digital tool known for lying to users.

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...