EJ Mason
@codeability.bsky.social
Someone asked me if I've ever used ChatGPT to write, so I wrote some prose about it. Content warning: discussion of death, suicide.
www.ejmason.com/writing/mean...
www.ejmason.com/writing/mean...
Meaning-making machine | EJ Mason
Things happen all the time that have nothing to do with anything else.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Someone asked me if I've ever used ChatGPT to write, so I wrote some prose about it. Content warning: discussion of death, suicide.
www.ejmason.com/writing/mean...
www.ejmason.com/writing/mean...
Free horror film idea:
A developer named Fred, who may or may not also be a murderer, meets his greatest opponent yet: wrangling thousands of lines of API data on a tight deadline.
Freddy vs. JSON
A developer named Fred, who may or may not also be a murderer, meets his greatest opponent yet: wrangling thousands of lines of API data on a tight deadline.
Freddy vs. JSON
October 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Free horror film idea:
A developer named Fred, who may or may not also be a murderer, meets his greatest opponent yet: wrangling thousands of lines of API data on a tight deadline.
Freddy vs. JSON
A developer named Fred, who may or may not also be a murderer, meets his greatest opponent yet: wrangling thousands of lines of API data on a tight deadline.
Freddy vs. JSON
hey. chronic illness and chronic pain <expletive> suck. shout out to all my chronically ill baddies. we are here. we are (possibly) queer. our joint pain is moderate to severe.
August 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
hey. chronic illness and chronic pain <expletive> suck. shout out to all my chronically ill baddies. we are here. we are (possibly) queer. our joint pain is moderate to severe.
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A lot of fonts for every taste. Perfect to support your local type designers.
🔤 typefoundry.directory
🔤 typefoundry.directory
August 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Today is a great day to unionize
August 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Today is a great day to unionize
Two 100% unrelated things for your consideration:
- People keep telling me that so-called AI will help us make the web accessible.
- We once had "ugly laws" in the U.S. because non-Disabled people couldn't bear to look at or speak to or even think about the Disabled people in their communities.
- People keep telling me that so-called AI will help us make the web accessible.
- We once had "ugly laws" in the U.S. because non-Disabled people couldn't bear to look at or speak to or even think about the Disabled people in their communities.
August 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Two 100% unrelated things for your consideration:
- People keep telling me that so-called AI will help us make the web accessible.
- We once had "ugly laws" in the U.S. because non-Disabled people couldn't bear to look at or speak to or even think about the Disabled people in their communities.
- People keep telling me that so-called AI will help us make the web accessible.
- We once had "ugly laws" in the U.S. because non-Disabled people couldn't bear to look at or speak to or even think about the Disabled people in their communities.
Been thinking about this poem by Maggie Smith lately.
"This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful."
"This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful."
May 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Been thinking about this poem by Maggie Smith lately.
"This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful."
"This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful."
I held an accessibility office hours session at work today. Someone told me that they always enjoy attending these sessions when they can because they “always learn something”
It’s nice to be appreciated, and to know that people respond to my teaching style, as much as I can be said to have one.
It’s nice to be appreciated, and to know that people respond to my teaching style, as much as I can be said to have one.
May 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I held an accessibility office hours session at work today. Someone told me that they always enjoy attending these sessions when they can because they “always learn something”
It’s nice to be appreciated, and to know that people respond to my teaching style, as much as I can be said to have one.
It’s nice to be appreciated, and to know that people respond to my teaching style, as much as I can be said to have one.
is anybody in my network hiring entry-level and/or apprentice engineers? i've got a friend looking for work, and they would be so good on your team. yes, yours.
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
is anybody in my network hiring entry-level and/or apprentice engineers? i've got a friend looking for work, and they would be so good on your team. yes, yours.
time once again for my favorite song:
"hey, web accessibility professional, how do we build [this thing] accessibly?"
"thanks for asking! here are my suggestions"
"cool! we will not be doing that because it's slightly different than our original plans. bye now!"
"hey, web accessibility professional, how do we build [this thing] accessibly?"
"thanks for asking! here are my suggestions"
"cool! we will not be doing that because it's slightly different than our original plans. bye now!"
March 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
time once again for my favorite song:
"hey, web accessibility professional, how do we build [this thing] accessibly?"
"thanks for asking! here are my suggestions"
"cool! we will not be doing that because it's slightly different than our original plans. bye now!"
"hey, web accessibility professional, how do we build [this thing] accessibly?"
"thanks for asking! here are my suggestions"
"cool! we will not be doing that because it's slightly different than our original plans. bye now!"
Today is both my birthday and the first day of National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Please observe this month by remaining Aware of Me at all times, thank you.
I'm gonna talk about my own experience with cerebral palsy in this thread, so read on if you care to. 1/?
I'm gonna talk about my own experience with cerebral palsy in this thread, so read on if you care to. 1/?
March 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Today is both my birthday and the first day of National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Please observe this month by remaining Aware of Me at all times, thank you.
I'm gonna talk about my own experience with cerebral palsy in this thread, so read on if you care to. 1/?
I'm gonna talk about my own experience with cerebral palsy in this thread, so read on if you care to. 1/?
Please remember that ableism isn't just foul language, as bad as that is. It's hatred for Disabled people. It's the belief that, if a person's body isn't "typical" and "correct", they do not deserve to be cared for – do not deserve to be alive. It is violent. Respond to it accordingly.
January 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Please remember that ableism isn't just foul language, as bad as that is. It's hatred for Disabled people. It's the belief that, if a person's body isn't "typical" and "correct", they do not deserve to be cared for – do not deserve to be alive. It is violent. Respond to it accordingly.
Hey, Internet, I have a problem I am hoping you can help me solve. I want to share drafts of my writing with others
- without the finality of publishing it on my website,
- outside of a git-based system if possible†, and
- while writing in markdown and retaining ownership of my content
1/2
- without the finality of publishing it on my website,
- outside of a git-based system if possible†, and
- while writing in markdown and retaining ownership of my content
1/2
December 27, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Hey, Internet, I have a problem I am hoping you can help me solve. I want to share drafts of my writing with others
- without the finality of publishing it on my website,
- outside of a git-based system if possible†, and
- while writing in markdown and retaining ownership of my content
1/2
- without the finality of publishing it on my website,
- outside of a git-based system if possible†, and
- while writing in markdown and retaining ownership of my content
1/2
I’m going to use a napkin to touch your hand when I
say this: putting people in starter packs without their permission can cause harm. Collecting minoritized people in one list could enable targeted actions against them. You could list a person beside someone who’s done them direct harm.
1/3
say this: putting people in starter packs without their permission can cause harm. Collecting minoritized people in one list could enable targeted actions against them. You could list a person beside someone who’s done them direct harm.
1/3
December 9, 2024 at 5:46 AM
I’m going to use a napkin to touch your hand when I
say this: putting people in starter packs without their permission can cause harm. Collecting minoritized people in one list could enable targeted actions against them. You could list a person beside someone who’s done them direct harm.
1/3
say this: putting people in starter packs without their permission can cause harm. Collecting minoritized people in one list could enable targeted actions against them. You could list a person beside someone who’s done them direct harm.
1/3
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part of the growing pains of every community, social media, etc is "what do we do with people who are pretending to be kind, saying the right things, and technically not doing anything wrong right now but are still ontologically evil" and the answer is "stop playing their game and ban them"
to anyone complaining Singal didn’t technically do anything wrong on bluesky yet:
Jesse Singal has a long history of attacking children, pediatricians, & healthcare providers.
Example: He once disappeared from Twitter for a couple weeks after “accidentally” leaking a minor’s medical records.
Jesse Singal has a long history of attacking children, pediatricians, & healthcare providers.
Example: He once disappeared from Twitter for a couple weeks after “accidentally” leaking a minor’s medical records.
December 7, 2024 at 4:46 PM
part of the growing pains of every community, social media, etc is "what do we do with people who are pretending to be kind, saying the right things, and technically not doing anything wrong right now but are still ontologically evil" and the answer is "stop playing their game and ban them"
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The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu@jpeg)
December 5, 2024 at 4:42 AM
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
hello. i am (very) slowly rebuilding my web site. it even has an RSS feed you can subscribe to, if you like gay fiction writing and soon maybe even technical writing about web development
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Home | EJ Mason
EJ Mason is a web developer, web accessibility specialist, ux designer, writer, and speaker.
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December 6, 2024 at 6:38 PM
hello. i am (very) slowly rebuilding my web site. it even has an RSS feed you can subscribe to, if you like gay fiction writing and soon maybe even technical writing about web development
www.ejmason.com
www.ejmason.com
Me, writing the CSS `grid-template-columns: 1fr`: “One for real, please”
December 6, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Me, writing the CSS `grid-template-columns: 1fr`: “One for real, please”
[takes the world's longest drag from a prop cigarette] i am so tired
As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely.
GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.
Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.
Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.
Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.
Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
November 30, 2024 at 5:28 PM
[takes the world's longest drag from a prop cigarette] i am so tired
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November 23, 2024 at 12:26 AM
can we talk about how Circe is a grown woman but she is still so small
November 22, 2024 at 11:20 PM
can we talk about how Circe is a grown woman but she is still so small
I literally just joined this butterfly web site and already I am seeing people talk about being "temporarily non-disabled". No you are not. If you care about the experiences of Disabled people, then advocate for them. You don't need to crush disability into a marketable soundbite to do that.
November 22, 2024 at 9:39 PM
I literally just joined this butterfly web site and already I am seeing people talk about being "temporarily non-disabled". No you are not. If you care about the experiences of Disabled people, then advocate for them. You don't need to crush disability into a marketable soundbite to do that.
I feel like making my first post about ableism would be too on brand, so here is a buffer post that is not about ableism and is instead a tribute to what that other might have been
November 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
I feel like making my first post about ableism would be too on brand, so here is a buffer post that is not about ableism and is instead a tribute to what that other might have been