“When creating content, ask yourself: is this the lowest-emissions format that has the most value for my audience?”
www.buttonconf.com/blog/designi...
www.buttonconf.com/blog/designi...
Button blog: Designing sustainable content
Calculate the carbon impact of your content and make smarter content design decisions for your users and the planet.
www.buttonconf.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“When creating content, ask yourself: is this the lowest-emissions format that has the most value for my audience?”
www.buttonconf.com/blog/designi...
www.buttonconf.com/blog/designi...
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Don’t become bitter. We have enough bitter people.
Become sweet. Become so sweet that when they squeeze you the sweetness gets all over them.
Let’s get fucking sticky.
Become sweet. Become so sweet that when they squeeze you the sweetness gets all over them.
Let’s get fucking sticky.
January 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Don’t become bitter. We have enough bitter people.
Become sweet. Become so sweet that when they squeeze you the sweetness gets all over them.
Let’s get fucking sticky.
Become sweet. Become so sweet that when they squeeze you the sweetness gets all over them.
Let’s get fucking sticky.
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If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”
My Co-founder Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized.
January 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”
If I could get paid to read books all day with a purring cat on my lap and a latte in my hand, I would quit my job right now.
January 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If I could get paid to read books all day with a purring cat on my lap and a latte in my hand, I would quit my job right now.
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“Fully committed to aligning our existing resources with key growth areas in a way that ensures sustainable development and long-term impact.” Wish I could say I’ve never heard that uttered in a meeting. Lols 😂
"I will foster so many meaningful partnerships, you’ll think I’m Tinder. And my targeted outreach is gonna look like tactical drone strikes. I’ll be blowing up emerging challenges like they’re goddamn terrorists."
I Am a Passionate Mid-Level University Administrator, and I’m Gonna Administrate the Shit Out of This Place
Look, this place needs to be administrated, and I’m the guy to do it. I know you’ve been doing your best, but you’ve been held back. You haven’t be...
buff.ly
January 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“Fully committed to aligning our existing resources with key growth areas in a way that ensures sustainable development and long-term impact.” Wish I could say I’ve never heard that uttered in a meeting. Lols 😂
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♛ A classic for your reading pleasure. By the great @halvorson.bsky.social. Illustration by the amazing @kevincornell.bsky.social. Thanks for the memories, @alistapart.bsky.social!
“Yeah, yeah. We know how to write for online readers. We know bullet lists pwn. But who among us is asking the scary, important questions about content, such as ‘What’s the point?’ or ‘Who cares?’”
The Discipline of #ContentStrategy by @halvorson.bsky.social
alistapart.com/article/thed... #OldGold
The Discipline of #ContentStrategy by @halvorson.bsky.social
alistapart.com/article/thed... #OldGold
The Discipline of Content Strategy
It’s time to stop pretending content is somebody else’s problem. If content strategy is all that stands between us and the next fix-it-later copy draft or beautifully polished but meani…
alistapart.com
December 19, 2024 at 12:25 PM
♛ A classic for your reading pleasure. By the great @halvorson.bsky.social. Illustration by the amazing @kevincornell.bsky.social. Thanks for the memories, @alistapart.bsky.social!
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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM
"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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Chef's kiss is the "you're" instead of "your" in the screenshot.
September 2, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Chef's kiss is the "you're" instead of "your" in the screenshot.
17. Picking up your kid’s deflated floatie water-chair.
1. Reaching for your wallet at a farmers market.
2. Waving to your neighbor on your way to yoga.
3. Gesturing wildly during an argument with your spouse over which Property Brother is which.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/16-...
2. Waving to your neighbor on your way to yoga.
3. Gesturing wildly during an argument with your spouse over which Property Brother is which.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/16-...
16 Surprising Ways to Injure Yourself When You’re Over 40
1. Reaching for your wallet at a farmers market.
2. Waving to your neighbor on your way to yoga.
3. Gesturing wildly during an argument with your s...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 8, 2024 at 5:47 PM
17. Picking up your kid’s deflated floatie water-chair.
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probably the most embarrassing thing on earth is having to answer questions from an electrician. “Where’s your emergency disconnect?” sir all i know is somehow we have put lightning inside the wires
August 14, 2024 at 3:21 PM
probably the most embarrassing thing on earth is having to answer questions from an electrician. “Where’s your emergency disconnect?” sir all i know is somehow we have put lightning inside the wires
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Me watching an Olympic sport I’ve never seen before: “The fuck is this?”
Me 5 minutes later: “Oh my, that little wobble is really gonna cost him with the judges, I’ll tell you.”
Me 5 minutes later: “Oh my, that little wobble is really gonna cost him with the judges, I’ll tell you.”
July 28, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Me watching an Olympic sport I’ve never seen before: “The fuck is this?”
Me 5 minutes later: “Oh my, that little wobble is really gonna cost him with the judges, I’ll tell you.”
Me 5 minutes later: “Oh my, that little wobble is really gonna cost him with the judges, I’ll tell you.”
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And the Nobel prize goes to:
We should rebrand vaccines as microdosing diseases to get people intrigued.
March 14, 2024 at 2:23 AM
And the Nobel prize goes to:
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"You don't see the link? It's right there on the bottom of the Slack thread from yesterday about which shared drive folders link to Dropbox folders that contain all the shared PDFs."
My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack
Thanks for sending this along. I left my comments in the Google Doc.
You don’t see my comments? You’re looking at the old document. I copied your G...
www.mcsweeneys.net
February 6, 2024 at 7:50 PM
"You don't see the link? It's right there on the bottom of the Slack thread from yesterday about which shared drive folders link to Dropbox folders that contain all the shared PDFs."
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Me : invents a device to talk to cats
Cat : oh god finally you understand whenever I meow for hours it’s because i want wet food I know this was so opaque for you
Me : no no I knew u want wet food the whole time but you can’t have it whenever u want
Cat :
Me :
Cat : first of all fuck you
Cat : oh god finally you understand whenever I meow for hours it’s because i want wet food I know this was so opaque for you
Me : no no I knew u want wet food the whole time but you can’t have it whenever u want
Cat :
Me :
Cat : first of all fuck you
September 24, 2023 at 7:50 PM
Me : invents a device to talk to cats
Cat : oh god finally you understand whenever I meow for hours it’s because i want wet food I know this was so opaque for you
Me : no no I knew u want wet food the whole time but you can’t have it whenever u want
Cat :
Me :
Cat : first of all fuck you
Cat : oh god finally you understand whenever I meow for hours it’s because i want wet food I know this was so opaque for you
Me : no no I knew u want wet food the whole time but you can’t have it whenever u want
Cat :
Me :
Cat : first of all fuck you
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From today's counter-protest in Vancouver.
September 21, 2023 at 1:18 AM
From today's counter-protest in Vancouver.
Same
I have many unused notebooks. I don't need another notebook. ... But what if *this* notebook is the notebook that finally inspires me to write in a notebook?!?
September 20, 2023 at 11:41 PM
Same
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I kinda love how the three microblogging platforms have conveniently sorted themselves by the three main factions of Online: fascists, trans people, and brands
September 19, 2023 at 10:58 AM
I kinda love how the three microblogging platforms have conveniently sorted themselves by the three main factions of Online: fascists, trans people, and brands
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I HATE NEW SLACK SO MUCH
September 13, 2023 at 9:53 PM
I HATE NEW SLACK SO MUCH
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look at this Fucking Guy
August 23, 2023 at 10:00 PM
look at this Fucking Guy
“Scott-Heron's tone was sly, ironic, wickedly playful and clinically precise.”
The Last Poets and Watts Prophets: The radical hip-hop pioneers 'written out of history'
Largely remembered as forerunners of hip-hop, the Last Poets, Watts Prophets and Gil Scott-Heron were radical artists who deserve recognition in their own right, writes Dorian Lynskey.
www.bbc.com
August 10, 2023 at 4:14 AM
“Scott-Heron's tone was sly, ironic, wickedly playful and clinically precise.”
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Brilliant novelist Madeline Miller writing about her experience with long covid—and the increasingly stigmatized fight to avoid reinfection. Real heart-smasher.
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i
August 9, 2023 at 4:38 PM
Brilliant novelist Madeline Miller writing about her experience with long covid—and the increasingly stigmatized fight to avoid reinfection. Real heart-smasher.
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i
https://wapo.st/3s1vP2i
How in the actual fuck are we all just going about our daily grinds when there are Primordial Black Holes everywhere? Why am I learning about these just now? 🤯
https://radiolab.org/podcast/little-black-holes-everywhere
https://radiolab.org/podcast/little-black-holes-everywhere
Little Black Holes Everywhere
Today, one of the strangest things ever to hit planet Earth. Maybe.
radiolab.org
August 5, 2023 at 6:04 PM
How in the actual fuck are we all just going about our daily grinds when there are Primordial Black Holes everywhere? Why am I learning about these just now? 🤯
https://radiolab.org/podcast/little-black-holes-everywhere
https://radiolab.org/podcast/little-black-holes-everywhere
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A lot of people talk a big game about data and evidence, but really big consequential shit *often* comes down to very personal subjective perspectives.
August 5, 2023 at 5:45 PM
A lot of people talk a big game about data and evidence, but really big consequential shit *often* comes down to very personal subjective perspectives.