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Steve Portigal

@steveportigal.bsky.social

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Superb user research consultant; author of Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books), Host Dollars To Donuts podcast

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 10d

And now some personal news! My book Occupied Minds is for sale on Amazon!

I hope you’ll check it out. It’s only $2.99!

www.amazon.com/Occupied-Min...

A book cover depicting a nighttime scene with a man in green field under a blue sky with a mysterious light swirl. The cover reads Occupied Minds and Steve Portigal.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 6h

Diane Keaton has died but that fuckface is still alive.

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 11h

Holeeeeee - that is just amazing and a nice accompaniment to Howard Jones's emoting face-jailed companion

There wasn't much context, I came across that video which I had definitely never seen and thought it was so of the moment and yet awful that it needed sharing.

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 12h

the New York Times effect on man

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 12h

or

I can tell by the way you use your walker

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 12h

I can tell by the way you use your walk

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 13h

I used this text and @resist.bot to contact my reps and you can as well

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 13h

I used this text and @resist.bot to contact my reps and you can as well

Don’t destroy the CDC

Text SIGN PXHKPE to 50409 to send this to your officials.

resist.bot

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 14h

One example

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Stephanie Rewis @stefsull.bsky.social · 1d

This is mind blowing. I can not even tell you the amount of trainings we had to go through each year. DEI, equality, accessibility, etc. He pretended he was totally with us. He came to the Women’s March. We had gay parade floats.

I mean, I was a Sr Director and my mouth is on the floor. Grotesque!!

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 14h

Because he has cosplayed as one of the good ones.

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 14h

I liked Pete Townshend's work in The Who much better

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 14h

It's not quite "context collapse" is it?

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 15h

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 2d

We're not just resisting, we're rising! Locate a #NoKings event on Oct 18 and join the fight for our rights, our communities, and our future! app.sosha.ai/s/ytEKFC2T

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 15h

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 2d

We're not just resisting, we're rising! Locate a #NoKings event on Oct 18 and join the fight for our rights, our communities, and our future! app.sosha.ai/s/ytEKFC2T

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 15h

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 2d

We're not just resisting, we're rising! Locate a #NoKings event on Oct 18 and join the fight for our rights, our communities, and our future! app.sosha.ai/s/ytEKFC2T

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 23h

Wow that was great!

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 1d

the fiyah-doo-doo-doooo song that I remember well because we all used to talk about it

Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 1d

Please enjoy a mime

Howard Jones - New song 1983

YouTube video by fritz51335

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't investigated at all but I kinda imagined they were already part of it and just their appearance got more noteworthy once the Blue Angels were taken off the program.