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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 7h

This hotel gym is a joke. I'm itching to get back to EQX this weekend after a week of essentially sloth. 😕

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 9h

Phew! 😮‍💨😅

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Don[ny]ovan @dgschell.bsky.social · 10h

On a separate—while we focus on AI's creation involving intellectual theft, data centers harming the environment, potentially destroying countless jobs, etc—I don't think there's enough emphasis on the risks involved in concentrating info and reasoning into the hands of a few powerful people.

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 10h

Man, I love Nigella on GBBO! What a wonderful addition & I love how she pushes back on Paul! The cameraman or editor who either hates her or is creepily obsessed needs to lay off though. Why the insane zoom in on her mouth for nearly every bite of food? That wasn't a thing before. Fucking weird.

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 14h

I think there's a decent chance the new AI-pilled USWDS is going to be built on shadcn, and I don't think it's a good fit. I wrote a very little bit about why I think that but I could write a hell of a lot more. matthenry.fyi/posts/a-syst...

matthenry.fyi

Mischief & Craft - A design system is what it does

A comparison of how two design systems handle the humble text component

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Luke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 15h

Tech companies are trying to use the ELIZA effect and cute animation to sell you devices that will surveil you constantly, convince you they're your best and only friend, sap you of your cognitive capacities, and push your purchasing habits and opinions in whatever way they please. That's it.

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 21h

The goal of AI isn’t actually to make your job easier. It’s to extract your labor and our resources faster to increase their corporate and personal profits.

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dewbert @dewbert.social · 21h

Good morning, and happy last day of the Federal fiscal year to all those who celebrate!

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what if we gave Bonzi Buddy the power to ruin your life

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 29/09/2026

Several civic technologists, civil servants, and concerned citizens signed on to an open letter to GSA leadership and members of congress asking them to protect USWDS as a piece of critical digital infrastructure. I'm proud to be one of them. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...

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Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA

The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 29/09/2026

Hotel lighting and a good hair day making me feel unstoppable this morning. 💪🏼⚓️

A man smiling while taking a selfie in a mirror. He is wearing a dark navy button-up shirt covered in nautical flags.

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The editing on bakeoff is so weird Every single bite is Nigella. They show Paul eating literally zero times. It's weird. It's creepy

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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dewbert @dewbert.social · 25/09/2026

Brutal.

“No one’s been able to” automate accessibility testing, including large accessibility companies, one government technology employee told The Washington Sun. Changes made with “AI and the confidence of a coked-up teenager” could make the system — and websites that rely on it — less accessible, they said.

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Luke 🏳️‍🌈✈️ @lukeacl.com · 25/09/2026

Facebook really fucked the internet and created generations of morons hey. 🥲

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 24/09/2026

I much prefer waking up to the sound of my downstairs neighbors loudly fucking at 5am than them loudly fighting. This morning has been of the loudly fighting variety 🫠

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

See, I refuse to let them make me say I hate technology. Because it’s not true! I LOVE technology. I don’t like weird mean dudes demanding we pour all of earths resources into a project that *they advertise* as world destroying. Because that is incredibly stupid, on its face.

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Jon Aldric @viennabeef.social · 23/09/2026

The internet is going to cannibalize itself in slop and agents and irritating dark patterns and the world is just going to go back to living in our communities because there will be so little joy left of this once beautiful wild system we let a dozen companies ruin.

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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Celebrate Bisexuality Day! 🩷💜💙

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes us bi people can put a gloss on it ("The trash takes itself out!") but jesus fucking christ the way even people who claim to be "allies" will just immediately vomit out hateful stereotypes of us at the drop of a hat is so profoundly distressing.

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 22/09/2026

66% of straight women are unwilling to date a bisexual man, our study finds ahead of #BiVisibility Day % unwilling to date bi men Straight women 66% Bi men 15% Gay men 11% Bi women 10% % unwilling to date bi women Straight men 35% Lesbian women 20% Bi men 9% Bi women 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Willingness to date a bisexual man:
Straight women: 19% willing, 66% unwilling.
Bisexual women: 82% willing, 10% unwilling.
Bisexual men: 78% willing, 15% unwilling.
Gay men: 83% willing, 11% unwilling.

Willingness to date a bisexual woman:
Bisexual women: 89% willing, 3% unwilling.
Lesbian women: 73% willing, 20% unwilling.
Straight men: 53% willing, 35% unwilling.
Bisexual men: 85% willing, 9% unwilling.

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 22/09/2026

Already dreading what an aggravating day tomorrow promises to be on a couple of fronts. 😞

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 21/09/2026

I wonder what's going on that my street is just filled with vehicle from the "Republic of Korea Official Media Delegation"?

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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"AI" products are surveillance products

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 20/09/2026

I feel like I might be getting sick. I slept for 14 hours. All of my skin hurts… like I can feel every follicle of body hair waaay more than I should. And have a bit of a headache.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/09/2026

“Why is Trump in such a huge hurry to turn the White House and Washington DC into a fortress optimized for murdering people in the vicinity?” is one of those questions that answers itself with just the briefest moment of reflection.

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 19/09/2026

Going to bed at 5:30am and waking up at like 8:30/9? I need a nap 😴

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NICU babies are the most vulnerable a human can be, and it seems almost quaint to say it now, but we are supposed to build societies where the most vulnerable can count on others to not let this happen

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18/09/2026

This important archival work is a good occasion to point out why this matters. USWDS isn't just component code. The system includes general guidance about how to make good websites that work for everyone. It includes patterns of how best to use (or not use!) particular components for particular uses

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Randy Hart @randyhart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

concerning stuff happening right now at USWDS: -removing open-source contributors, -losing institutional knowledge, -departing from principles, -security risks through an “agentic-first” approach, and -making changes without sufficient human accessibility and usability testing.

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 18/09/2026

**Fucking brilliant!** This is kinda up there with Drop Dead Gorgeous for me, even with just one viewing. It's like if the sensibilities of DDG and Camp (2003) had a love child. I haven't laughed that hard in a movie theater ever. Literally snorted twice 😂

Theatrical release poster for “The Musical” (2026) starring Will Brill, Gillian Jacobs, and Rob Lowe.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 17/09/2026

It's only when you realize just how much contemporary AI discourse is a house built on sand that you start to appreciate how wildly and insanely fucked the AI boom is. And focusing on Aella's silly birthday gangbang really fails to emphasize that part.

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Yoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

USWDS was created and maintained by people who genuinely care about making government websites work as well as possible for as many people as possible. It was an amazing thing to watch on its own. But then to see the adoption and contribution by teams all over the world - that was incredible.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 17/09/2026

“Aella is fighting gyges about if ai safety is just a sex cult” You bolt awake. You are not online. It is 1415. You are Charles d’albret, and you have seen the future. It cannot come to pass. The English army must be destroyed.

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🥸 @sondheimslut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

dynamic pricing has ruined theater

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 17/09/2026

10 years as a devoted fAAg 🤪 *Would be so much longer if they actually took into account my merged US Airways history - that would be like ~2005 (or 01?)* In good company with @epcot.gay and @ohnonotgenagen.bsky.social, while the rest of you are Stockholmed by Delta 😘

10 year anniversary of my American Airlines AAdvantage account.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 17/09/2026

Well they finally did it. DOGE got rid of my friend Anne, the only remaining person at the web design system for the entire US government. The replacement appears to be AI-generated code with no dedicated human oversight.

nextgov.com

GSA’s web design system head replaced with Treasury AI engineer

The U.S. Web Design System is intended to help the federal government build accessible and mobile-friendly websites.

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 17/09/2026

I was designing something tonight that could have really used a a flourish watercolor stroke behind a small bit of text to highlight it slightly, and I think it would have worked well… but I couldn't bring myself to use it because it kinda looked like those ever-present AI swooshes 😫

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 16/09/2026

Maybe my religious studies degree can be put to good use!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.

"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life," she said.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One: A group of rich people, scared shitless, creating the very thing they fear. Two: A group of rich people, hating labor, boosting it for greed. Three: A fuck ton of grifters, boosting signal for profit.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i don’t hate AI art because it’s ugly, tho right now it’s ugly for some of the reasons i hate it (carelessly ripping off everything til you’re left w an anodyne creepy average of all art). but they will eventually fix the current ugliness without fixing the underlying evil and i will still hate it

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David Jones @davidjones.nyc · 15/09/2026

Going with very basic and boring for the concert.

A mirror selfie of a white guy wearing dark grey jeans, a near-black t-shirt, and an olive green jacket.

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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026

There are people who care deeply about delivering good government services working on figuring out what to do next, but you should know that this is happening. You should know how this administration is trying to make it harder for you to access the services and information to which you're entitled.

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