Ah, schadenfreude.
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Erica
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Rational romantic mystic cynical idealist.
Designer-who-codes focused on #Accessibility and #DesignSystems. #T1D Dia-badass & Wireless Cyborg™. Globetrotter. Larper/TRPGer/Gamer. Urban Witch. Cat Lady. Lover of the ampersand, the interrobang, and the em dash.
Raised in NYC 🗽, based in Berlin 🇩🇪, always exploring…
Peter GleickForgive me, but if your "industry" depends entirely on stealing someone else's work, it deserves to die.
"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter
James ScholesJust had a session with an app team who've developed with Flutter. On Windows they have a pretty basic landing screen: a language selector button, two columns of text, an input field and a submit button, and a link.
We spent 30 minutes just breaking down all the ways it is unusable with NVDA, and I do mean that in the truest sense of the word. Without object navigation, you can't reach most of the context and controls. Even when you manage to reach e.g. the submit button, pressing Space or Enter on it does nothing.
I feel bad for the team, but Google should feel worse. #accessibility
MandyThe disrespect for HTML feels …childish? If you can’t build your websites using HTML properly how can you call yourself a professional? It’s embarrassing. Folks going on about AI hallucinating and outputting shit code meanwhile they can’t even wrap a piece of text in a paragraph tag.
Ricky MondelloPlease note that Google folding on this critical privacy initiative makes it harder for any other web browser to provide this protection due to compatibility concerns. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/google-wont-ditch-third-party-cookies-in-chrome-after-all/
Anon OpinPeople like to think Asimov predicted the current technology known as "artificial intelligence". They are wrong. It was Douglas Adams when a computer spent untold resources just to return an answer which is both irrelevant and poses further questions.
Quinn 🌸🏳️⚧️When you find yourself in the middle of a complex human rights debate and you think it must be nuanced and how do you know which side is right anyway... Ask yourself this question:
Which side in this battle - any battle - is backed by major international human rights organisations you've heard of (e.g. Amnesty International, UN Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam) and which side is backed by a few celebrities with money to spend and a handful of organisations you'd probably never heard of until this week?
I know which side is likely to be right, in the long run.
Eric Eggert🏳️⚧️ Protect trans kids.
🦾 Protect autistic kids.
Trans rights and disability rights are human rights.
Andrea Junker 
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"I really don't know how to keep saying this so cis people understand.
The Nazis in 1933 came for trans people. They burned our libraries to the ground. They raided and bombed our hospitals. They declared our existence illegal. And then they put us in concentration camps and gassed us.
The Nazis in 2025 came for trans people. They're burning our books. They're raiding and bombing our hospitals. They're declaring our existence illegal. And they're building concentration camps.
There's no fucking nuance here. There's no metaphor to be found. There's no allegory. There's no need to draw "similarities" between the Nazis then and the Nazis now, because it's the same people doing the same shit for the same reasons. It's not "similar". It's the same fucking thing.
And if you can't see that, if you've had blinders on for the last 92+ years, I just don't know how to fucking help you with that. If you think the Nazi attacks on trans people are somehow "recent", blame a Nazi, because Nazis are the reason you think that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft
