COMING SOON: The Uninvited Author: AI, Intent, and the Future of Content Carlos Evia and I coauthored. Release date is, um, soon. Before the end of October. We are not *quite* taking preorders, but you can sign up for notifications on our website: www.scriptorium.com/the-uninvite...

Watch my new ad: No AI. No special effects. Just Michael Whatley in his own words.

This is the legacy you want to leave.

So Mayer@suchmayer.northsky.social · 3w ago

There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

Analysis | Seminarian James Talarico’s knowledge of the gospels and life of Jesus could leave him out of touch with Texas’s Evangelical Christians.

This is a good article, thank you. I'll add that alt text can also be a great place to inject color commentary and general snark. Maybe not in your MOST formal documents, though.

The Old Tech Writer@greenmtndocs.bsky.social · 4w ago

Accessibility is often treated as a compliance checkbox — WCAG guidelines exist, legal requirements exist, you need to meet them and move on. This is technically correct and practically misleading. stevearrants.substack.com/p/writing-fo...

Negotiations Continue To learn more about the creative process and philosophical thinking behind my work, and to see behind-the scenese sketches and videos, subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org

Exceptionally low water levels on the Danube have exposed parts of the foundations of the ancient ​Constantine Bridge, giving archaeologists a rare opportunity ‌to document what they describe as one of the Roman Empire's most impressive engineering achievements. www.reuters.com/business/env...

when in rome

Dear software devs: a video tutorial is not technical documentation. A pile of screenshots and the caption "you have many different options" is not technical documentation. You do not have the training to write tech docs. HIRE TECH WRITERS YOU FUCK UPS

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…

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“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

I finally got up the nerve to write an article based on my (surprisingly popular) talk about designing services for people living on low incomes, and with past experience of poverty. www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...

Designing services for people on low incomes

Income is another lens through which we can, and should, look at the services we design, because poverty can lock people out in unexpected ways. You might have encountered the phrase ‘poverty premium’...

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Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Dear Australians: This is the only remotely hostile thing I shall say prior to our World Cup match in an hour given that you folks are so kindly committed to anti-Trump chants during said match, for which I am especially grateful. (thread)

One of my favorite moments of the day. If you missed it, take a moment… 🤎 John Legend and Common performing “Glory.”

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

this is a beautiful thread.

J. Anderson Coats (she/her)@jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

Cue the tweet!

We are accustomed to seeing an emergent protest movement (Occupy, George Floyd uprisings, the MN resistance) and imagining that this very visible instance is the core of movement. When it withers or gets mowed down, we imagine the movement has vanished.

TWINS!! #birds bluebird dad and babies

Bluebird dad and baby #birds

Not a Hummingbird, an ongoing series #birds

I’ve been noodling with product management prioritisation frameworks like WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First), which is decent, and concluded that most orgs, in their heart of hearts, crave WLLWF (Weighted Loudest Latest Whinge First)

Saturday brunch #birds

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

I'm updating a presentation I have given several times and came across this note in it. I have said this every time I have had the chance to say it and I now get to update this section with HERE IS A STELLAR EXAMPLE OF HOW NOT DOING THIS COST PEOPLE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

Any baseball fans who like helping charity out there? @alycatphotos.bsky.social – the lady who donates her talents to the Bull City Foodraiser each year – is doing a Chicago Marathon fundraiser for the American Cancer Society 😄 Lots of baseball stuff! ⚾️🧢 Details: www.facebook.com/share/1DtNNi...

"Right now there is someone parking a Cybertruck on your street, believing that leaving his divorce where everyone can see it is somehow impressive." another banger from @monteiro.bsky.social and if you need a crocus of hope, go read this

Monteiro@monteiro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy May Day. This week’s newsletter is about smoking, which is a very stupid thing a lot of us used to do, as well as very stupid things we are currently doing, which we will someday look down on as well. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...