I've been taking a low dose of Vyvanse for a week now. Seems to be working for me. I like it! I'm finishing tasks and reading long-form stuff. Side-effects are manageable. It'd be fun to have a hot take on ADHD meds but I genuinely feel just... nice.

Last night I went to a great Friends of Figma meetup. Curtis shared about Designing with Dyslexia, and we heard about highlights of ConFig. www.instagram.com/p/DbChPfNzbU...

🎺🎺🎺 Big news on two fronts 🎺🎺🎺 #DDDAdelaide 2026 Call for Papers is officially open from now until the 6th of September 🎉 #DDDAdelaide 2026 Early Bird Tickets are now available until the 28th of August 🍾 We look forward to seeing all of your exciting submissions for the CFP! dddadelaide.com

Yep. Also applies to Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce in Australia. They only have the first 2 goals, and much less power. But otherwise it's the same process.

Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 2w ago

this is a good post

BTW the definition of robotics researcher is very broad. "Robotics adjacent" or "robotics aspiring" or "robotics curious" may also apply. "I'm a little botcurious"

Rua M. Williams@fractalecho.bsky.social · 3w ago

The 2026-27 cohort of Disability-led Robotics is now open! I am recruiting robotics researchers at all levels for participation in a virtual learning series on disability-centered research design in human-robot interaction. forms.cloud.microsoft/r/dfy1pz3v4w

If you're new to captioning videos for your content, you might feel as if you don't know what you don't know. Meryl Evans' "Does Your Video Make These 6 Common Caption Mistakes?" is a great resource to help make your captions better. meryl.net/common-capti...

6 Common Caption Mistakes: Is Your Video Guilty of Any?

Your captioned video has standard captions that are accurate and in sync with the audio. It could be making one of these six mistakes.

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The state of print news competition in Australia is dire, and local and regional news is slowly dying. In a growing and diverse country, this may have horrible consequences for Australian democracy. Read the full report ⤵️ https://theaus.in/4plao5Q

technical advisory group for new NDIS access tool is out - overwhelmingly medical with focus on children. little disability expertise, or assessment knowledge, or expertise about adult support needs. yay. www.health.gov.au/ministers/th...

DoHDA sneakily altered data, which now suggests that the number of NDIS participants who will be impacted by the proposed 50% cut to SCCP funding is far more than they admitted to when the bill was first put to parliament www.healthservicesdaily.com.au/exclusive-do...

Exclusive: DoHDA ‘sneakily’ updates NDIS reforms impact analysis with substantive changes | Health Services Daily

The quietly published updated analysis shows far more participants will be impacted by cuts to the social capacity and capability program and that far fewer providers are a fraud risk than first sugge...

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Alcoa's looming WA alumina monopoly could threaten world's only jarrah forests, environmentalists say

What Alcoa's looming alumina monopoly could mean for WA's jarrah forests

Alcoa's $8 billion purchase of South32 could be key to unlocking untouched areas of WA's northern jarrah forest for bauxite mining, raising the concern of environmentalists.

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Australia: still the #2 exporter of coal www.energyinst.org/statistical-...

Miriam is a world’s leading expert in CSS and works on many specs! Highly recommended to check out her new course:

Mia [data-css=poetic]@miriam.codes · last mo.

My "Poetic CSS" course goes live on Wednesday, with an Early Bird discount for the month of July! Here's another "side quest" on using shorthand properties: youtu.be/LNZQmOk3hKk Sign up for email updates (and a drawing for a handmade @OddBird mug): courses.oddbird.net/poetic-css/#... #css

Web developers, designers, and engineers: what Layout and Rendering features do you need from Safari? Bugs count too, I want to hear what you need?

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · last mo.

I resent the video-fication of podcasting. That's just a TV show. Podcasts aren't supposed to be for hot people. They have everything else

I would really love to stop paying for Grammarly. Spelling and grammar often jumble themselves in my head. Does anyone have some good recommendations on alternatives? I never need it on my phone. People I care enough about to text can suck it, lol. I only use it in browsers and apps when I write.

Working on my wife's portfolio website and solved a design problem by using CSS round(). This is a less used yet very useful function! Here is my article about it, and will update it soon with a new use case: ishadeed.com/article/css-...

Better fluid sizing with round()

Using the round() function to get a more predictable fluid sizing.

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Day 2 of YOW Tech Leaders in Brisbane - looking forward to chatting about accessibility with you all!

Today I’m at YOW Tech Leaders in Melbourne today - #YOWTLS26 Really enjoying the talks!

@virginaustralia.bsky.social in case no-one's mentioned it yet, the modal "Send boarding pass" isn't working. I can select a passenger and SMS or Email, but I can't enter a mobile number or email address. No error message or anything, just that typing does nothing.

I'll be there, sharing the ways you can move beyond basic accessibility compliance and really embed it in your workplace

YOW! Conferences@yowconf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you’re leading people, systems or change - #YOWTLS26 is for you. MELBOURNE 📅 Tue 16 June 🎫 yowcon.com/tech-leaders... BRISBANE 📅 Wed 17 Jun 🎫 yowcon.com/tech-leaders...

bloody hell, villamanta legal talking about what happens when essential NDIS supports are cut - disabled people end up in hospital and die. says this bill will make this much worse www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCOn...

Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee | Melbourne, VIC | 09/06/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Last week, researchers identified code in Meta AI's smart glasses app that could convert faces into unique biometric signatures to identify strangers in public. Just as quietly as they embedded this code, the app’s 6/5 update appears to have quietly removed them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

VICTORY: Meta Strips Facial Recognition Code From Smart Glasses App

Just days after a damning WIRED report exposed that Meta had quietly embedded facial recognition technology (FRT) code into millions of phones, the tech giant has quietly acquiesced in demands to

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Just donated to Bush Heritage to buy some of the last untouched eucalyptus forest in the South-West biodiversity hotspot. The area would create a link between private and publicly owned protected lands. www.bushheritage.org.au/get-involved...

Thank you!

As a not-for-profit funded by generous donations, we’re very grateful for your support.

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Hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, Albanese government admits www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hundreds of thousands of Centrelink payments cancelled illegally, Albanese government admits

Senate estimates hearing told issues caused by a glitch in the automated system that runs the controversial mutual obligations scheme

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all the work disabled people do to try and stop harm - people with an intellectual disability die decades younger than other Australians, and they know how to change this - and yet programs get cut www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Stopping avoidable disability deaths

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...

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for anyone putting NDIS Bill submissions in today, keep trying if you hit glitches with the website, and email it in to community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au if you can't get through it's a public holiday today in Canberra, so committee staff won't be there till tomorrow www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

Committee: Community Affairs Legislation Committee Date referred: 14 May 2026 Submissions close: 29 May 2026 Reporting date: 16 June 2026 On 14 May 2026 the Senate referred the National Disabilit...

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“When support is withdrawn, need does not disappear. Australia learned this during deinstitutionalisation. Governments reduced direct institutional expenditure while underestimating the downstream social and economic consequences of unsupported lives." Muriel Cummins thepoint.com.au/news/260521-...

“Need does not disappear”: Advocates warn NDIS overhaul risks repeating past mistakes

Advocates have warned the Albanese government’s planned overhaul of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) risks repeating the very policy failures that led to the system’s creation in the fi...

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Someone more poetic than me should write a blog post that's a eulogy for the open web, which is also a stealth call to action with suggestions for what we can do to save it. I'd read the hell out of that.

The same image can be used in multiple contexts and need to have different alt text in each instance. As Sheri Byrne-Haber points out in this blog post, context is a critical aspect of alt text that many people miss. www.sheribyrnehaber.com/context-is-t...

Context is the most critical aspect of alt-text everyone seems to miss - Sheri Byrne-Haber's Blog

This is the article I SWORE I would never write. But I have a different perspective on alt-text than most accessibility managers, so I decided to share it.

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