Vicky Teinaki
@vickytnz.bsky.social
Design (particularly of the digi-gov variety), books and brunch (usually from NE England). Brits think I sound Kiwi, Kiwis think I sound English. Links-a-plenty, views my own. https://vickyteinaki.com
Great policy resolving one of life's great headaches.
European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 2y agoIt’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need! #DigitalEU
'My So-Called Life' at 30 - like Freaks and Geeks, one of those shows that as much as anything showed how casting agents knew what they were doing(and that writers were sometimes just ever so slightly too far ahead of the curve) www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
'My So-Called Life' at 30: How a short-lived show became a ’90s pop culture touchstone
Thirty years after its short but memorable run on ABC, it is widely regarded as a miraculous one-season wonder that captures the era’s competing strains of irony and earnestness.
latimes.com
Clearing down my emails and have discovered the D*List - I love this for being about disabled peoples' experience in NZ but with the personality of a pop culture mag thedlist.co.nz
The D*List
The home of disability culture in Aotearoa. Replenishing, unapologetic stories told by disabled people, for disabled people.
thedlist.co.nz
Also, some fun diagrams about the spheres of civic design (though i'm twitching in that I think l-r axes switch from diagram 1 to 2). From raco.cat/index.php/Te... . Second diagram defo inspired by both liz sanders' research methods and dubblerly's play on it www.dubberly.com/articles/an-...
Some interesting models in this, though I always want to ask "how did this work with someone that wasn't a white abled dude" as I often wonder if these assume even power dynamics (could be wrong though) gustavorazzetti.substack.com/p/the-10-bes...
The 10 Best Canvas for Culture Design and Team Building
A collection of the most downloaded culture design canvas and teamwork tools for creating better workplaces.
gustavorazzetti.substack.com
The Mexican government is using AI to help prevent suicides restofworld.org/2024/mexico-...
Mexico is using an AI-powered app to prevent suicides
MeMind has connected 10,000 at-risk people with mental health treatment, contributing to a 9% drop in suicides.
restofworld.org
A Christmas present - gift article of the NYT best book covers of 2024 (there are some beauties here, ranging from excellent execution to running with excellent wordplay) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...
The Best Book Covers of 2024 (Gift Article)
A Book Review art director selects the book jackets that made a compelling impression.
nytimes.com
Inspired by the accessible forms workshop @cjforms.bsky.social and I did earlier this year, I dashed off a festive note for @lori-t.bsky.social’s accessibility advent accessibility-advent.lorithomson.co.uk/advent-calen...
Day 22: Making accessible forms
25 days of digital accessibility tips, starting from 1 December 2024. Curated by accessibility specialist Lori Thomson. Doors open based on your time zone.
accessibility-advent.lorithomson.co.uk
A man in board shorts is gingerly walking barefoot across a beach carpark on a hot day, wincing and muttering: "Shit. shit. shit. shit." under his breath with each step. His partner calls from their car: Do you want your jandals?* He replies stoically: Nah. I can take it. *flip flops (2)
Spotted while cafe writing and roaming in a small city in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (20s) in full 80s romantic goth regalia is strutting down the street in the sunshine, grooving to his own personal soundtrack as he pulls a folding shopping trolley full of vegetables behind him. (1)
He's making a list He's checking it twice He's put an image in the document oh heck
It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨
if I had billions of dollars I would do cool things like revive Wishbone and fund a Muppet film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express with Daniel Craig doing a silly Belgian accent
Congratulations to Microsoft NZ for launching their Cloud Region datacentre in Auckland giving more Māori Data Sovereignty opportunities, jobs, considerations to Papatūānuku etc. news.microsoft.com/en-nz/2024/1...
New Zealand’s First Hyperscale Cloud is Open for Business – New Zealand News CentreYour Privacy Choices Opt-Out Icon
news.microsoft.com
A look at my 10 favorite movie posters of 2024. Winding down at the end of the year... These are the posters that really stood out and stuck with me! Here's my list: onfs.net/3OKUDUi What are the other great posters from 2024? Any other favorites worth mentioning? #movieposters #cinema #bestof2024
Our 10 Favorite Movie Posters from 2024 - Universal Brutalist Sunset | FirstShowing.net
With the year winding down, it's time to look back and highlight some favorites from the world of movies. The past few years I've been putting together these collections of my favorite poster designs,...
onfs.net
The nurse was holding my hand as I opened my eyes. She leant in close. “The operation was a success,” she whispered. “You’ve got endometriosis, but we’ve removed the cells we found. They were in your pouch of Douglas." www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2024/my-pouc...
Something I have remembered about “tours of duty” - normally involve extensive training. Get techies on training of “public service for the digital age”, the public sector accessibility duty, devolution, ethics - then a 6-12 month uk gov tour of duty will be more productive.
Something I don’t love about self-published books is when it’s also meant no professional editor. Symptoms of this I have seen over the years include: - unreadable type (tho some small pubs are bad too) - questionable assertions - style guide mistakes (a name not being capitalised and so on)
On day 7 @tink.uk illustrates how good AI is at accessibility. #HTMHellAdventCalendar htmhell.dev/adventcalend...
HTMHAIL - HTMHell
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
htmhell.dev
Working on prototype kit guidance and getting exasperated with myself that the muscle memory is not quite there in correcting 'Github' to 'GitHub' (camel case arrgh things i've learned in the last month)
How should access to digital publications be provided once they enter the public domain? This new report sees a role for both dark archives and national libraries in moving beyond preservation to ensure widespread legal access. arcadiafund.org.uk/highlights/t...
The Preservation of Knowledge in the Digital Age - Arcadia
arcadiafund.org.uk
TIL what the Boys of Summer line “deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” meant, basically didn’t twig it was Deadhead as in the Grateful Dead www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/a...
‘You Can Never Look Back’: How ’70s Rockers Rebooted for the ’80s (Gift Article)
The year 1984 was a watershed in pop music. The stars who’d made it big the previous decade had to embrace new instruments and MTV or risk being left behind.
nytimes.com
EA just made a whole bunch of #accessibility patents open-source This means that other developers throughout the industry can use the technology at no cost. The news comes after EA made a pledge not to sue rival companies for co-opting these types of tools. www.engadget.com/gaming/ea-ju...
finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years
OK I take it back, I got one - did I manifest that? 😅
Vicky Teinaki@vickytnz.bsky.social · 2y agoI seem to be the only person in my internet friend groups that did *not* get a ticket in the govcamp lottery 🙃