Ashlee
@ashleemboyer.com
deaf. multiply disabled. neurodivergent.
accessibility, disability, & software.
@semanticfish.com
Independent writing:
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Personal blog:
ashleemboyer.com
Independent research:
critical accessibility/disability studies.
accessibility, disability, & software.
@semanticfish.com
Independent writing:
@semanticfish.net
Personal blog:
ashleemboyer.com
Independent research:
critical accessibility/disability studies.
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Ashlee
@ashleemboyer.com
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2025: Year in Review | Semantic Fish Creative Group
This post gets personal about my experiences this year with grief, loss, health emergencies, and being disabled & working in accessibility in the US.
semanticfish.com
I've had an execeptionally tough year.
I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜
semanticfish.com/2025-year-in...
Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience.
Many more details in post!
I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜
semanticfish.com/2025-year-in...
Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience.
Many more details in post!
I really, really missed her extra today. My brain was quite cruel to replay my final moments with her a few times.
Thank you @edenroyce.bsky.social, your essay is so so so good.
Grandma showed me her death folders many times, the last time Feb 2023. She wore the sweater I knit the Christmas prior. This sweater & folder live in my home now. 😞
I hope to write about Grandma outside character limits one day.
Grandma showed me her death folders many times, the last time Feb 2023. She wore the sweater I knit the Christmas prior. This sweater & folder live in my home now. 😞
I hope to write about Grandma outside character limits one day.
January 13, 2026 at 6:42 AM
I really, really missed her extra today. My brain was quite cruel to replay my final moments with her a few times.
The “one of ours, all of yours” podium is real. Always check gettyimages.
Blatantly fascist and authoritarian. Look up the multiple historical contexts of the phrase.
Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-....
Blatantly fascist and authoritarian. Look up the multiple historical contexts of the phrase.
Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-....
January 13, 2026 at 6:36 AM
The “one of ours, all of yours” podium is real. Always check gettyimages.
Blatantly fascist and authoritarian. Look up the multiple historical contexts of the phrase.
Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-....
Blatantly fascist and authoritarian. Look up the multiple historical contexts of the phrase.
Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images: www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-....
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I mean this so seriously. Please don’t read it as “doomerism”.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I mean this so seriously. Please don’t read it as “doomerism”.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
This section is listed after “The New Pyramid”. If you read between the lines, these two sections together are pushing ALL burden on you. It doesn’t matter how expensive better foods are, you’re just personally irresponsible if you can’t afford or easily obtain them.
I mean this so seriously. Please don’t read it as “doomerism”.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
January 12, 2026 at 4:47 AM
This section is listed after “The New Pyramid”. If you read between the lines, these two sections together are pushing ALL burden on you. It doesn’t matter how expensive better foods are, you’re just personally irresponsible if you can’t afford or easily obtain them.
I mean this so seriously. Please don’t read it as “doomerism”.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
January 12, 2026 at 4:46 AM
This section is listed after “The New Pyramid”. If you read between the lines, these two sections together are pushing ALL burden on you. It doesn’t matter how expensive better foods are, you’re just personally irresponsible if you can’t afford or easily obtain them.
I mean this so seriously. Please don’t read it as “doomerism”.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
January 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I mean this so seriously. Please don’t read it as “doomerism”.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
The phrase “personal responsibility” is eugenic rhetoric.
This is exactly how eugenicists spoke 100+ years ago. AMERICAN ones.
Amos W Butler, Oscar C McCulloch, Charles B Davenport, Henry H Goddard, Harry Clay Sharp. To name a few.
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Minneapolis uterus havers: if you’re bleeding out of cycle and wondering why, it’s the tear gas. Really, it does that
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Minneapolis uterus havers: if you’re bleeding out of cycle and wondering why, it’s the tear gas. Really, it does that
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Abolish this
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
January 10, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Abolish this
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Please encourage the people with weapons, body armor, chemical weapons, and shields to be peaceful. Protest is not a tea party. It doesn’t need to be peaceful. It’s infuriating to constantly urge peace when protestors are not out here choking men for 9 minutes or shooting women in the face.
January 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Please encourage the people with weapons, body armor, chemical weapons, and shields to be peaceful. Protest is not a tea party. It doesn’t need to be peaceful. It’s infuriating to constantly urge peace when protestors are not out here choking men for 9 minutes or shooting women in the face.
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This, by the way, is one of the places the political push for "public syllabi" goes: Even more people who literally do not understand what they're trying to evaluate almost certainly using LLM's to ask "is this stuff transgender or DEI" & then making administrative decisions based on that output.
1. Texas A&M has banned a philosophy teacher from teaching Plato because it has "gender ideology" in it.
The banning stems from excerpts from Plato’s Aristophanes’ Myth of the Split Humans and Diotima’s Ladder of Love.
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The banning stems from excerpts from Plato’s Aristophanes’ Myth of the Split Humans and Diotima’s Ladder of Love.
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Texas A&M Bans Philosophy Prof. From Teaching Plato Because of "Gender Ideology"
“Silencing 2,500-year-old ideas from one of the world’s most influential thinkers betrays the mission of higher education.”
www.erininthemorning.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
This, by the way, is one of the places the political push for "public syllabi" goes: Even more people who literally do not understand what they're trying to evaluate almost certainly using LLM's to ask "is this stuff transgender or DEI" & then making administrative decisions based on that output.
Oops missed a word. I meant “I don’t think** Jesus”
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Oops missed a word. I meant “I don’t think** Jesus”
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a "nicer, kinder person"
January 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
a "nicer, kinder person"
I’m not a christian anymore so correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t Jesus would approve of shooting at an unarmed citizen 3 times, fatally, then calling her “fucking bitch” seconds later
a "nicer, kinder person"
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I’m not a christian anymore so correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t Jesus would approve of shooting at an unarmed citizen 3 times, fatally, then calling her “fucking bitch” seconds later
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There are layers to this. So many. One interesting one is to underscore the meaninglessness of the term "far left" on Twitter. The far left is now just people you don't like who are not rightwing. Also Twitter has cooked the brains of reporters.
January 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM
There are layers to this. So many. One interesting one is to underscore the meaninglessness of the term "far left" on Twitter. The far left is now just people you don't like who are not rightwing. Also Twitter has cooked the brains of reporters.
“But to throw in the towel and declare game over—that’s something else.”
Acknowledging that fascism is much further along than “sprouting” in the US is not anticipatory defeat.
It’s a mistake to use Nazi Germany as a benchmark when the right uses its downfall as a case study to evolve its methods.
Acknowledging that fascism is much further along than “sprouting” in the US is not anticipatory defeat.
It’s a mistake to use Nazi Germany as a benchmark when the right uses its downfall as a case study to evolve its methods.
The seeds of fascism and authoritarianism have always been present in America, and they are sprouting. But we also still have rights that people in 1930s Germany (or contemporary Russia or China) would have died for.
It’s time to use them.
It’s time to use them.
Hell no, it's not over
We still have rights. Time to use them.
www.motherjones.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:32 PM
“But to throw in the towel and declare game over—that’s something else.”
Acknowledging that fascism is much further along than “sprouting” in the US is not anticipatory defeat.
It’s a mistake to use Nazi Germany as a benchmark when the right uses its downfall as a case study to evolve its methods.
Acknowledging that fascism is much further along than “sprouting” in the US is not anticipatory defeat.
It’s a mistake to use Nazi Germany as a benchmark when the right uses its downfall as a case study to evolve its methods.
He shot at Renee 3 times and called her "fucking bitch" moments later, just before her car crashed
The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis has been identified as Jonathan Ross, the Star-Tribune reports
Live: ICE agent identified as state and federal officials clash over shooting investigation
The agent, Jonathan Ross, was dragged by a vehicle and injured during a June operation in the Twin Cities, court records show. State investigators said the FBI had ‘reversed course’ on a joint investi...
www.startribune.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:20 AM
He shot at Renee 3 times and called her "fucking bitch" moments later, just before her car crashed
I work independently and am debating so hard sending them cold pitch emails to work with them and fix this terrible system 😂
January 10, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I work independently and am debating so hard sending them cold pitch emails to work with them and fix this terrible system 😂
I can zoom in on just the text area in safari okay, but sometimes it loses my spot on a page if I switch apps or move too much while reading. Being able to run a little javascript from my bookmark bar to style an email with CSS is the lowest friction way for me! But I do use zoom frequently
January 10, 2026 at 12:39 AM
I can zoom in on just the text area in safari okay, but sometimes it loses my spot on a page if I switch apps or move too much while reading. Being able to run a little javascript from my bookmark bar to style an email with CSS is the lowest friction way for me! But I do use zoom frequently
Agreed!! This could be significantly flattened. What's pictured is actually the entire body of the email, with each section being in those 4 <tr>. It's a single column, only a few background colors set for each content section, not that complex of a design. The HTML is way more complex than needed!
January 9, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Agreed!! This could be significantly flattened. What's pictured is actually the entire body of the email, with each section being in those 4 <tr>. It's a single column, only a few background colors set for each content section, not that complex of a design. The HTML is way more complex than needed!
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Bookmarklet works now and is easy to copy/paste if I update it. No, I still haven't finished reading the email. 🤭
January 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Bookmarklet works now and is easy to copy/paste if I update it. No, I still haven't finished reading the email. 🤭
How long'd it take me to read 1 email?
Font was tiny so I started a bookmarklet to bump up the text size.
Gmail's HTML has a bunch of obscure attributes so I had to manually inspect it to build my CSS selectors.
Bookmarklet didn't work unminified, so I turned it into a Vite project.
Font was tiny so I started a bookmarklet to bump up the text size.
Gmail's HTML has a bunch of obscure attributes so I had to manually inspect it to build my CSS selectors.
Bookmarklet didn't work unminified, so I turned it into a Vite project.
January 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM
How long'd it take me to read 1 email?
Font was tiny so I started a bookmarklet to bump up the text size.
Gmail's HTML has a bunch of obscure attributes so I had to manually inspect it to build my CSS selectors.
Bookmarklet didn't work unminified, so I turned it into a Vite project.
Font was tiny so I started a bookmarklet to bump up the text size.
Gmail's HTML has a bunch of obscure attributes so I had to manually inspect it to build my CSS selectors.
Bookmarklet didn't work unminified, so I turned it into a Vite project.
For me I think it'd help me not fall down 3 hour rabbit holes! I've been reading one email all day lol
January 9, 2026 at 8:43 PM
For me I think it'd help me not fall down 3 hour rabbit holes! I've been reading one email all day lol
Update: script acquired
Update:
Husband drove me to the pharmacy this morning so I could figure out what the hell they needed to ask me.
Ready for it? I don't think you are.
"Do you have current insurance?"
That's it. Whole question. Apparently they couldn't fill the script in the meantime. Or let me answer digitally?
Husband drove me to the pharmacy this morning so I could figure out what the hell they needed to ask me.
Ready for it? I don't think you are.
"Do you have current insurance?"
That's it. Whole question. Apparently they couldn't fill the script in the meantime. Or let me answer digitally?
January 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM