Steve Portigal
@steveportigal.bsky.social
Superb user research consultant; author of Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books), Host Dollars To Donuts podcast
NBC headline frames it as if it's just something mysterious occurrence rather than the desired result of a murderous uncaring campaign by assholes and grifters.
Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · yesterday"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Super-confused by influx of pro-choice Texas content in the discourse today 😜
MLB officials toured Grand Teton this week scouting sites for a ballpark while the administration slashes park budgets and floats handing Yosemite land to developers. The White House claims it's not their priority, but their guy is out there measuring bear habitat for home plate.
Trump Goons Scout ‘Ludicrous’ Site for MLB Ballpark
The MLB has pitched the Trump administration on building a ballpark in Grand Teton National Park.
thedailybeast.com
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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When we win the majority, we’ll hold hearings to hold ICE, DHS, Miller, and the rest accountable for these crimes. For now, we’ll keep showing up to court-watch, to connect kids to lawyers, to support litigation, to object.
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council.’ www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city…
404media.co
Squamish man uses motion-activated zombie to scare bears away from garbage #CBC
Okay. Quick quiz: Who's playing bass? Hmm? No bass. That's right, the Doors had no bass. You see, the gypsies had no homes. Don't let that scare you, let that free you. Let that liberate you. 'Cause when you're free-flying with the Doors, man, you don't need no safety net
Jules. 🌈+ 🐕@julesclarke.bsky.social · 3d agoplayed with elvis presley, elvis costello, and that bass line is his in L.a.Woman, by the Doors
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
NEW: Two California Supreme Court wins over a GOP sheriff’s seizure of roughly 650k ballots have strengthened the hand of state officials. Attorney General Rob Bonta said the Golden State is now in a “stronger, clearer” position to stop any rogue law enforcement from upending the midterms.
‘You won't be seeing sheriffs unlawfully seizing ballots': California rulings shut down roadmap for rogue law enforcement to upend midterms
Those holdings could prove particularly important if rogue local officials attempt to use unsupported fraud allegations to interfere with ballot custody during this fall's elections -- the type of scenario California officials say they have been prepar...
democracydocket.com
Important update - found a Ted Drewes frozen custard vending machine at the St Louis airport so I got to try it right before departure. It’s fine. But happy to get it since we couldn’t make it to one of the stores.
NEW: Democratic Party leadership and national campaign organizations filed a lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully threatening to send armed federal agents to polling places in the November midterms buff.ly/bAsOgfy Complaint: buff.ly/mFNuyKJ
Watching this at an Ayana Evans retrospective at the St Louis Contemporary Art Museum and it’s fantastic. Very affecting.
You Better Be Good To Me
A new project directed remotely by Ayana Evans in collaboration with University of Michigan with the design course "Dressing Up and Down" led by Professor Rebekah Modrak. The costumes were designed by...
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“What’s a good name?” - Barista serving up improv game prompts
This iPad Gmail update with two differently working delete buttons - one for the previewed message and one for the list of messages is so broken. Like basic UX principles from 30 years ago are ignored. The previous muscle memory delete behavior now has unexpected negative consequences. #WTFUX
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d ago6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
What specifically is FinTwitter? Reposts from Twitter of…financial news? Curated or a bot? I don’t fully understand what it is.
