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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · 1d

How could you be so accurate in your prognosis? I’m wounded.

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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · 1d

It’s my liiiife
It’s Nerf or nothin’.

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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 7d

If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm!

libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Black Disability Politics Audiobook on Libro.fm

In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long...

libro.fm

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 12d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · 19d

Gotta love how quickly pull request best practices get abandoned the moment accessibility work is involved.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 24d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Sarah Barrett @documentalope.bsky.social · 25d

I think this is a common kind of scammy rhetorical construction that makes people mad, because it sets up a world in which the thing cannot fail, it can only be failed. I actually associate this most with diets, but it also appears a lot for Agile.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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melody | Stenography VTuber @melodywisp.bsky.social · 26d

when im captioning someone's words, i caption all of their words, aside from most speech disfluencies such as uhs and ums.

for example, i dont change "gonna" to "going to" or whatever else to "fix" their speech. it's racist, ableist, and classist to do so.

i side-eye captioners who do that.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · Oct 8

TIL: The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) runs AT surveys (kind of like WebAIM’s).
dragonscave.space/@Piciok/1153...

#accessibility #a11y

Paweł Masarczyk (@[email protected])

The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) is currently running their fifth annual survey on Assistive Technology usage preferences of users with visual impairments. As I discovered it only this year, nat...

dragonscave.space

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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · Sep 24

This gets me every time.

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · Sep 19

Tell me, why does Musk get to tell Microsoft how to manage employees?

Far right extremism isn’t just threatening media, it’s threatening every single one of us.

If we continue to bend to their demands we will all be forced into silence.

www.theverge.com/news/777664/...

Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk

Musk’s direct question to Nadella follows a broader censorship crackdown from Republicans following Kirk’s death.

www.theverge.com

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Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social · Sep 18

For anyone who pays attention to high contrast / forced colors mode styles:

I wrote up an explanation of why forced-color-adjust: none is nearly unavoidable and how it sets up your codebase for downstream bugs:
sarahmhigley.com/writing/forc...

forced-color-adjust: none is an unavoidable foot gun | Sarah Higley

A very long treatise on why text backplates were a bad idea. Most of the time.

sarahmhigley.com

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · Sep 17

> animated underlines? bullshit

oh_no.jpg

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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · Sep 17

Thanks, y'all! I'll pass this on best I can.

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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · Sep 17

Seems to work fine for me on Vivaldi for macOS. What browser are you using?

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Vale @vale.rocks · Sep 17

I heard a rumour that they're releasing HTML6 next week, which deprecates semantics and introduces 3 new types of div.

Can't wait!

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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · Sep 11

Using images with alt text to show code is not very helpful.

• A typical user would need to know about the alt text to copy it.

• A low-vis user cannot scale it, and it won’t honor text prefs.

• A blind user has to parse a wall of text they cannot pause.

Paste code. Maybe a URL to longer code.

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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · Aug 29

Time to submit comments to oppose a republic plan to rollback rules that help people with #disabilities get hired by federal contractors. Comments (they can be short!) due this Tuesday Sept. 2. All the info you need is here: www.lflegal.com/2025/08/comm... Thx @dredf.bsky.social

Comments Needed to Stop republican Attack on Section 503

Comments are due on September 2d to stop a republican attack on a longstanding rule in the United States called Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 503 helps disabled people get hired by fe...

www.lflegal.com

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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · Aug 28

My cat: *screaming*

Me: I understand

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Ben Myers @benmyers.dev · Aug 28

This is absolutely a mood. I'm hacking something like this with calc()s and custom properties on my site, but I'd really, really love to just have a more idiomatic way to do this from the get-go.

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · Aug 27

This was pushed out with a rushed security review, a coerced and unwilling engineering team, and in full opposition to our supposed company values.

If you don't want it, tell them. Social media and support forums. Leadership won't listen to employees. github.blog/changelog/20...

Grok Code Fast 1 is rolling out in public preview for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog

Grok Code Fast 1 will be available as an opt-in public preview for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans in Visual Studio Code. Rollout will be gradual —…

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · Aug 18

New on the blog:

“CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current”

www.sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scr...

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A short post about the new #CSS scroll-target-group property, how to use it with :target-current, and important #accessibility considerations to keep in mind. #a11y

CSS-only scrollspy effect using scroll-marker-group and :target-current

— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer

www.sarasoueidan.com

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