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Joe Miller @joemillerjr.ft.com · 24/05/2025

Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

Ariel Norling @arielnorling.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

not to be a cliche but learning carpentry has changed my life and now the idea of doing all of my work on the computer makes me so sad

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Ariel Norling @arielnorling.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I don’t think I fully wrapped my head around the absurdity of modern living until I heard Sarah Marshall quip “I have to avoid all plastics and also sleep with my retainer in somehow” and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.

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Is Your House Too Clean? with Sarah Archer

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Ariel Norling @arielnorling.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I can't think of a higher compliment for a designer than being remembered for "how radical and uncompromising so many of his ideas were, but also how he was able to compromise, taking into account other people’s ideas, or just practical considerations. And yet the park never feels compromised."

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Adriane Quinlan @adrianequinlan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Toni Morrison on why I still watch Love is Blind.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

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Ariel Norling @arielnorling.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

18F and USDS were always bucket list tech jobs for me, and this piece shows why. Ethan also does a brilliant job summarizing why the administration is putting agencies under fire.

If the American government is slow-moving, it’s because rapid change is deadly when you’re talking about healthcare, social security checks, market regulations, food safety, or any of the other countless critical functions it performs. Those federal agencies are, quite simply, infrastructure. And as Deb Chachra showed in her excellent book, infrastructure is how a society invests in its future: in its ongoing economic, societal, and political stability.

In government, that infrastructure is built by laws, policies, and regulations. But regulations alone do not infrastructure make. Regulations require workers to become infrastructure: those workers who labor to understand new policies, how best to enact them, and then work to make them legible and understandable to the American public — and, yes, to enforce them. Without those federal workers, and their labor, these systems fall apart. And the architects of this assault on the federal workforce are keenly aware of that fact.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I will forgive and forget January 6th when I’m dead.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2025

Trump on Elon Musk: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

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Ariel Norling @arielnorling.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I woke up around 3am to explosion sounds and a fire had broken out a few hundred feet from my house. As waves of neighbors called 911 they complained the fire department was “taking its sweet time.” Now I know why www.kqed.org/news/1202242...

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When an Oakland Hills Home Caught Fire Near Closed Station, the Response Was Slow | KQED

Firefighters took over 10 minutes to arrive at the house fire near shutted Station 28, underscoring fire officials’ concern about the closures amid Oakland’s budget crisis.

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Ariel Norling @arielnorling.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I can’t believe i’ve watched my last tiktok

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Ariel Norling @arielnorling.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

spending my last minutes frantically downloading and ugly crying hbu

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Ariel Norling @arielnorling.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Christine’s move to Texas and rebrand as a woman who bakes (with the wooden kitchenaid mixer no less) and wears turtlenecks has made me more nervous for our shifting cultural climate than just about anything else

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parker gibbons @parker.mov · 12/12/2024

sure designers being neutral sponges that can be dropped into new environments and quickly sus out the core problems through endless user interviews sounds good in theory but have you ever tried being a niche domain expert fueled rage and hope?

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