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Storied experience designer on Gadigal land currently making organisations be better to their staff and consumers. Also known to shitpost examples of user abuse so hold your hats. He/him 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺
How is it I only discovered today that the W3C org has "Stories of Web Users" in "How People with Disabilities Use the Web"!! www.w3.org/WAI/people-u... If you need to build personas for your project, this is a good place to start so that at least one of your personas has a disability.
Stories of Web Users
Personas of people with disabilities using the Web that highlight the effect of accessibility barriers and the broader benefits of accessible digital technologies.
w3.org
I wish Ed Husic a speedy recovery. No good at all.
Loony Left Media ➡️ WOKE JUST MEANS U GIVE AF 🥰@loonyleftmedia.bsky.social · 3h agoTerrible news about Ed Husic but very relieved he’s let us know that he’s thankful he wasn’t more seriously injured. It still sounds very serious anyway…😕 Take care @edhusicmp.bsky.social 💜🩷❤️
It’s important to ensure icac remains well resourced but also to give the AEC real teeth.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 19h agoICAC told Jean-Claude Perrottet worked for right-wing Reformers while on the clock for Liberal MP
As an illustrator, I set myself a rule that I would not interact with any business or service that uses AI art. This is becoming increasingly difficult and even my daughter's school are using it for posters now. We truly live in hell
They can say summers have always been hot and we’ve always had wildfires and they can tell themselves all day that everything is the same as it always was but you know better They can gaslight themselves but not you. #ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli
Pauline Hanson has knocked another brick out of our creaky political system. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Pauline Hanson has knocked another brick out of our creaky political system. It’s not good for anybody | Peter Greste
By deciding who gets to ask questions and who is barred, the One Nation leader is upending the democratic role that journalists are supposed to occupy
theguardian.com
Today I learned that those motherfuckers over at the bird site still have my account open even though I SPECIFICALLY closed it. There’s the page right there - after I intentionally CLOSED it #furious
As fuck-that-Friday approaches I recon we can get this shit up to 4.2 at least, damn it!
Swearsky Index@swearsky.bagpuss.org · yesterday😖 The Swearsky Index is currently a bit higher than normal at 3.8%.
Cornyn & Tillis Cave on Slush Fund & Immunity #ABlueView🧵 "Donald Trump sued Donald Trump, and then Donald Trump settled with Donald Trump, and then Donald Trump dismissed the case against Donald Trump, and Donald Trump gave himself everything Donald Trump wanted." -- @glennkirschner.bsky.social
"I saw a TikTok video of something called the Vancouver Island Healthcare Infusion... Watching those TikToks, I thought, Maybe I could live there." #nanaimo #canada #cdnpoli ✅ READ THE FULL ARTICLE: macleans.ca/society/kell...
SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in cities, and the absolutely HUGE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by Not Just Bikes. Then share it as much as you can. youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.
Depends how you define “always”. Post Nixon? Definitely. All that has changed are the department heads are more loyal than competent. But they were always there even if not in positions of power as now.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d agoOne drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin
Park Service Finds Trump’s Arch Could Detract From Dozens of Historic Places www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u... Well DUH ! That’s the reason he is doing it and the reason all y’all should be marching in the streets in the tens of millions.
Park Service Finds Trump’s Arch Could Detract From Dozens of Historic Places
The 250-foot-tall edifice would alter views across Washington and Arlington Cemetery.
nytimes.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Never let facts and truth get in the way of three blokes without scruples in an unashamed circle-jerk.
It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon
What a vibrant marketplace of ideas
theguardian.com
🎥NEW: a federal court just blocked a USCIS policy that banned nonprofit organizations from registering new citizens to vote at naturalization ceremonies. Marc Elias breaks down the ruling, and what this win means for new Americans and the fight to protect voting rights ahead of the midterms.
BREAKING: Federal Court Blocks Trump's Voter Registration Ban
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtube.com
Hello, my name is [...] I am 9 years old. Can you help me get out of this jail? We are children, not criminals. We are 3 siblings, my mom and my dad. Please, a federal judge see this letter and help us. We have been here for 47 days [...] Leave us in your country, don’t deport us. ⛓️👧👦👧👩👨⛓️ FREEDOM
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2d ago🧊😲 KIDS IN CAMPS ⛓️👧🏻 What could drawings from children possible be evidence of?
Censured? How about charged? Why is he not charged with what would violate any employment laws?
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: A House panel recommended that a GOP lawmaker be censured after finding that he likely violated sexual harassment rules.
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