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Jan Maarten
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Inclusive designer, privacy advocate, writer, and future hermit. (he/him)

Please don’t add me to your starter packs.

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If you're confused about all the recent component discourse, consider:

This, uh, appliance is just as appropriate (and accessible) for doing what should otherwise be one simple job

as a toast notification is on anything other than a native mobile platform.
An allegedly-smart toaster with four slices of bread sticking out of the top of it. The entire front of the appliance looks like an ipad screen with two iOS-like interfaces for each pair of gluten-warming slots, complete with a timer and icons with no labels which depict various degrees of toasted bread. Many of them have numbers on them for some reason, which fail color contrast requirements. There's also a few icons which DO have labels for some reason, for types of bread or pastries or waffles, or an En Muffin. Or Gluten free, which also gets its own setting because it's fancy. And then there's also a snowflake icon? Your guess is as good as mine.
November 29, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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I always wanted to dual-wield. Now we just need @ianhamilton.bsky.social
Twitter screenshot of Ian Hamilton dying over a message that reads: I once had a senior dev ask me the quickest way I could make him care about game accessibility. I told him I could break his hands.
November 15, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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An orange tabby cat in a blue business suit reading the morning paper. It says: i can’t believe she fuckin buttered jorts
November 14, 2024 at 7:55 AM
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How “am” I??
Rust Cohle from True Detective taking a drag from a cigarette in his right hand and staring with existential dread into the middle distance as intensely as one can Rust Cohle from True Detective taking a drag from a bundle of two dozen cigarettes held in both hands and staring with existential dread into the middle distance as intensely as one can. There are extra cigarettes between each finger as well. Rust Cohle from True Detective taking a drag from a bundle of two dozen cigarettes held in both hands and staring with existential dread into the middle distance as intensely as one can. There are extra cigarettes between each finger, and one coming out of each ear. All of them are emitting so much smoke that you can barely see poor Rust.
November 6, 2024 at 2:38 AM
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Fox knows what's up
A parody of the laughable Fox News slide that originated the 'attack and dethrone god' Final Fantasy memes. The card title says: WP Engine’s Final Fantasy Strategy. There are 6 bullet points, which read: Get Automattic to give us series A funding. Make Matt Mullenweg’s aging mother think we are actually WordPress. Be bad at what we do, but not as bad as him. Organize the blogger class. Get all our customers thrown under the bus of an illegal sign-in checkbox. Attack and dethrone WordPress.
October 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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Grateful you're being loud about this. People need to see it.

I'm about to publish a piece critical of Google, Meta, et al. Naively used GDocs to work with others on edits. When final draft was ready, they hit me with the same thing.
A Google Docs error page stating, "We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service."
April 6, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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doing what with your planner??
Councilman Jamm from Parks & Rec
September 27, 2023 at 6:49 PM
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at long last, something I can reply to with the most inexplicable thing in mine
Two thinking emoji faces form the breasts on a large yellow torso. A truly cursed reaction image.
August 29, 2023 at 5:45 PM
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A four panel meme of a cat under some covers. First panel is a cat's head peeking out from under a blanket. The caption says, "Is it still capitalism outside?" Second panel, same cat with eyes half closed, fading fast. The caption says, "y'all need to fix that" Third panel, same cat under the blanket with eyes closed, its two front paws draped over the blanket now. The caption says, "do a revolution or something" Fourth panel. The caption says "damn". The cat is turned slightly away from the camera, trying to relax and just be, asleep and comfortable. Because presumably there's less capitalism in its dreams.
July 5, 2023 at 11:34 PM