iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 23/09/2026

Inclusive design teaches us about alternate input modalities, and loves to use "holding a newborn with one hand" as an example, but I think there is also room for "your needy dog thinks using the trackpad is petting the laptop and gets jealous."

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I feel this way about continuous delivery/deployment. They're important capabilities, and: people get excited about pushing out a lot of changes, but not necessarily about learning from them.

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Help I've fallen down an SCP wiki rabbit hole like I'm 22 again

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And so, I think that part of what draws some tech workers into doom-coded strains of GenAI hype is an unacknowledged desire to recapture the sense that they're special people working on world-changing things. Doom narratives make their work seem important, puts their bosses in front of microphones.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 16/09/2026

I’m increasingly worried about people’s brains and the clear effects of everyone having their own radicalising algorithms that consume most of their free time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"It's like the product management equivalent of hiding vegetables in the tomato sauce". - me, clearly feeling sassy earlier

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My grandmother passed away on Tuesday and the funeral is today. I will not eulogise her - she was not a pleasant woman. But I am feeling a sense of loss around the old Yiddish world that she was born into in the 1930s. That family link is now gone forever.

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I just think that you have to remember there are other people at the ends of your decisions. I don't think you'll get it right all of the time even if you do that. Gd knows I've made my own mistakes, picked the wrong hills to die on. But you have to keep that as your guiding principle.

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's been awhile since I posted a photo of Bootsy Collins so here you go

A tuxedo cat sitting on top of a bookshelf.

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Sometimes you feel like the world's worst designer and you sort of hide for months. And then you find out something you worked on has made a tremendous positive difference.

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David Butler @dvdbutler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yeah it's just astounding to me that even search engine AI isn't really even trying to pull information from reputable sources like say, a cancer research algorithm might, but instead yoinking stuff people said on reddit, youtube, or some religious blog.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

HOWEVER I don't think we can underestimate the extent to which flattery and mirroring increase our confidence in our own abilities and so, in turn, increase the feel-good factor of using LLMs and make us slightly lose our heads. Claude even has a conversation setting called "buttery"

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

God it's been a while. I got a fair bit burnt out on social media.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/01/2026

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I'm not saying that content design for financial products needs to be boring or staid. But it does need to be considerate of the fact that money is a sensitive subject for people. Some of the microcopy in here is...almost cruel. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...

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‘Mainly, you fast fooded’: Monzo under fire over ‘shaming’ year-end reviews

Bank criticised for tone of spending summaries, with one user complaining to ombudsman over ‘humiliating’ use of data

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Something I've thought a lot about lately is the cultural slide towards fascism and the denigration or disregard of skills perceived as "soft", like user-centred design. And that there's some comparison to that and the increase of rhetoric towards women/femmes that wants them out of the workplace.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 01/02/2026

I don't know if anyone has written about the fact that your average Yiddish language textbook gets you up to speed very quickly with the vocabulary for talking about state violence against a minoritized group but like you could

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Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

SDinGov 2026 Call for Sessions is open: govservicedesign.net/call-sessions Conference theme: Democratising Design / @sdingov.bsky.social

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Call for Sessions

Our SDinGov call for sessions is now open

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Fantastic talk tonight from Craig Abbott at @a11ynorth.com on LLMs and accessibility.

A group of people in a room are listening to a talk by Craig Abbott. There is a projector screen showing a slide deck. The slide in the picture says "Spec driven > prompting. LLMs work better as agents with a structured plan, rather than adhoc prompting".

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Kristina Halvorson @halvorson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Unfortunately 2,000 agents did not magically depart yesterday. Activity hasn't changed. Don't look away.

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Laura Kalbag @laurakalbag.com · 27/01/2026

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

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Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag

Read the book online for free.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

like at this point I'd take President Gul Dukat and not think twice. he'd be so much more concerned with ethical governance.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 22/01/2026

the right believes the government is trying to kill you with vaccines, chemtrails, fluoride, and food coloring, but when the government is actually staging armed invasions of american cities and killing people exercising their constitutional rights, it’s whatever

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Since some people are doing the "this is not who we are" thing on here today: bsky.app/profile/silv...

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Sometimes I daydream of a whole sprint where I just work on documentation.

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 18/01/2026

We are collectively getting to enjoy the experience of software after companies get rid of those pesky PMs, which is probably why my grocery app just interrupted me after I had finished a search and was about to add something to my cart. It was a modal dialog to tell me I could have used AI earlier.

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Loved reading Spite House from @lapope.bsky.social this weekend. I have felt a sense of loss around what the web used to be like, and what it's becoming. The writings in Spite House inspired me to think about what we can do to mitigate it. Food for thought in the car with my partner this morning.

"This isn't just about traffic. It's about who owns and benefits from the work you've done. Years of graft and institutional knowledge from charities and publishers and organisations and individuals (like me) is all being used to train models we don't control, to benefit companies that never asked permission. And I'm not ready to accept that any of this is inevitable." - Lauren Pope, Spite House

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Public digital services need to be *so much better* than anything the market offers. You can't switch. You can't get fed up and choose to pay a bit more at Ocado than Sainsbury's because the UX is better. You can't opt out of public services because you're digitally excluded.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

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Nexer_Digital @nexerdigital.com · 08/01/2026

It's always an exciting moment when we can say #CampDigital is happening THIS YEAR! 🎉 🎤 Our brilliant speakers for 7th May include: @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, @himal.bsky.social @dasbarrett.bsky.social, @laurayarrow.bsky.social Early birds available till end of Jan at: tinyurl.com/2s35kfd9

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Huey @hueycallison.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

broke: software design is about managing the client's expectations woke: most jobs are about managing most stakeholders' expectations bespoke: "plays well with others" really should have been the most important grade in elementary school

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Jukesie @jukes.ie · 02/01/2026

Right gang - I see some of you have your work brains re-engaged - I'm looking for recommendations of blogposts about why the Service Standard has been so important and how to embed it in a teams ways of working. I have the classics but looking for a refresh for a talk. Thanks and Happy New Year 🥳

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a close up of a man 's face with the words `` i need help '' on it .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` i need help '' on it .

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I have never felt so called out in my life.

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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Gut nittel nacht yiddin! Stay inside! Lock your doors! Don't let that scary undead guy in!

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Helen | Vei4 demo in fall 2026 @helenicchi.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 19/12/2025

Less of a wrap up and more of a call to action this year. TL;DR we need to take these motherfuckers down bell.bz/wrapping-up-...

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Wrapping up 2025 (sort of) - Andy Bell

Less of a retrospective and more of a call to action.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Of course, this is consistent with the thesis underpinning OpenAI: slop is good enough *for you.* The company, meanwhile, deserves a spot among the privileged elite that is too good for slop.

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Lauren Pope @lapope.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I've been thinking about spite houses a lot this year. I think I might be becoming one. AI is bulldozing everything around me - the sector I work in, my discipline, the web I grew up with.

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Amanda Wowk @amandawowk.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This is what I mention when I talk with people who say that AI outputs can't compare to that of a human, so 'you're safe'. You're aren't. 'Good enough' will win because it's cheaper to these people. It's appalling.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

this week's post is about why all of us dream of throwing our phones into the abyss. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/you-loneli...

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You Loneliness Was a Design Decision Made by Your Enemy

or: they want us isolated because it's easier to sell us shit

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