Amy B

@amyrhoda
5 Followers
24 Following
51 Posts
Your guess is a good as mine 
Writer, coach, editor
Thinking about climate, community, design, decolonization
LocationToronto
Pronounsshe/her
Amy BDec 22, 2023
Kip ManleyDec 22, 2023
Your job is not to defeat the Nazi in the marketplace of ideas. We already did that. Your job is not to persuade them, or convert them, that comes later, and is on their heads. Your job is to make them afraid. Afraid to be a Nazi in public. To speak Nazi. To do Nazi things. —Make Nazis afraid again.
Amy BDec 18, 2023
mhoyeDec 18, 2023

I'm old enough now that I've seen this cycle go around a couple of time, chronic afflictions described as character flaws and bad personal choices - even by doctors and public health authorities - right up until they can be diagnosed and treated. And then the conversation turns into "well, we spent thirty years telling you this was your fault as an indigent, malingering moral failure, but here, take this pill" and we wonder where the distrust and quackery comes from.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/18/1219710239/weightwatchers-oprah-ozempic-drugs-wegovy

Amy BDec 14, 2023
Zach WeinersmithDec 14, 2023
The inside of a pancake should be:
Cakey
75.5%
Custardy
4.4%
Something else
13.5%
[show results]
6.6%
Poll ended at .
Amy BDec 14, 2023
https://theconversation.com/canadian-scientists-are-still-being-muzzled-and-that-risks-undermining-climate-policy-216812
Canadian scientists are still being muzzled, and that risks undermining climate policy

If scientists cannot freely conduct and communicate their work, the gap between evidence and policy widens, and that means Canada gets less effective laws and policies.

The Conversation
Amy BDec 12, 2023

Re last share: tell me you don't know any teenage girls without telling me you don't know any teenage girls.

("Go piss girl" is absolutely a thing people say. Also if that was an error, it wouldn't be a typography error.)

Amy BDec 12, 2023
Mark A. RaynerDec 12, 2023

Typography: It matters!

#typography #graphicdesign #layout #humor #humour

Amy BDec 12, 2023
Julia EvansDec 12, 2023

just launched Wizard Zines Quarterly, a newsletter for sharing new stuff I've made recently!

you can read the first one here: https://newsletter.wizardzines.com/posts/welcome-to-wizard-zines-quarterly

or subscribe to it or my other newsletters here: https://wizardzines.com/newsletter/

welcome to Wizard Zines Quarterly!

Hello! I’ve been running this zine announcements list for a long time now, but I also make lots of things that are not zines (talks! tutorials! blog posts! interactive playgrounds! command line tools!). So this is a new feature with some of my favourite things that I’ve released in the last 3 months or so. All of it is free. a talk: Making Hard Things EasyI I gave a keynote at Strange Loop this year called Making Hard Things Easy. It’s about why I think some things are hard to learn and...

Amy BDec 7, 2023
WillDec 7, 2023
shel silverstein predicted llms
Amy BDec 1, 2023
AppleInsiderNov 30, 2023
A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/30/a-bride-to-be-discovers-a-reality-bending-mistake-in-apples-computational-photography?utm_medium=rss
A bride-to-be discovers a reality-bending mistake in Apple's computational photography

A U.K. woman was photographed standing in a mirror where her reflections didn't match, but not because of a glitch in the Matrix. Instead, it's a simple iPhone computational photography mistake.

AppleInsider
Amy BNov 30, 2023
Accessibility AwarenessNov 30, 2023
Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit and clean up captions before publishing.