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Pete Wendel

@petewendel.bsky.social
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Human Centered Design & Research Leader; husband, father, caregiver; mental & intergenerational health advocate; Bikes, books, coffee, and beer.

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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Helping out at #DigitalFutures at Institute of Design in Chicago today. Surrounded by people who care!
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
hand it to the people that made it politically impossible for her not to be there
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Minnesota is the best of us.
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Free family of hyperlegible® fonts designed to improve legibility and readability for people with low vision. H/t @fredgatesdesign.bsky.social. www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
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Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
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1312 Press @1312press.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
the horrors persist, and so do we
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Is it agentic or is it Memorex? (IYKYK)
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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
People my age and older were taught the brain literally stops making new cells in adulthood. The last 20+ years of brain plasticity research have flipped that entirely.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options." fortune.com/2025/07/16/d...
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Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket
The airline touted a partnership with an AI-enabled revenue system as a step on the road to fully personalized ticket pricing, part of its goal to raise profit margins long-term.
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
An ER trip for my wife, then stomach flu, a couple days then & my step mom passed away, and moved my dad into assisted living. What day is it? Phrase of the day: cognitive dissonance.
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
An interesting meditation for what might be possible tommulhern-31349.medium.com/conserving-a...
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Conserving America
Another prayer in the form of a TV speech.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My favorite rural telecom fun fact is that in the early 20th century, Bell didn't want to invest in rural phone infrastructure so ranchers used their barbed wire fences to carry a telephone signal. loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a....
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a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
At The Beautiful Minds Conference for #neurodiversity and #mentalhealth at U of Mich today. Amazing people and stories!
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“Why a Department of Education closure is concern for students with disabilities” www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n... Interview with the mother of a son with Down syndrome.
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Why a Department of Education closure is concern for students with disabilities
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Kristy Hedler, mother of a son with Down syndrome, about what eliminating the Department of Education would mean for kids who receive special education services.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/02/2025
Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? “If we cannot organize beyond the bounds of our comfort zones, we will never build movements large enough to combat the forces that would destroy us.” (via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) [bostonreview.net]
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How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth? - Boston Review
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Want to read this asap!
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
this OPM career civil servant is risking a lot to share her situation slate.com/news-and-pol...
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I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This thread on impact to NIH funded research at universities from slashing overhead rate. 👇🏽 Helpful, and alarming, thread. thanks for sharing this @carlbergstrom.com !
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
8. It is difficult to overstate what a catastrophe this will be for the US research and education systems, particular in biomedical fields. It is deliberate and wanton devastation entirely out of scale with any concern about DEI activities on campuses. The goal is destroy US universities.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This article gives an excellent overview of the impact on universities and US research will be if the announced cuts to NIH indirect cost rates hold. Not good www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...
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New NIH ‘Indirect Costs’ Funding Cuts Threaten Universities, Science
On Friday, the National Institutes of Health announced major cuts to funding of indirect costs for Universities, etc. Here's the potential impact on science and society.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The Musk-Trump administration announced a drop in indirect cost rates for NIH grants to universities to 15%. Immediately. What does that mean? Consider Ohio State, home of the National Football Champion Buckeyes. OSU got $252M in NIH grants last year. The immediate cut is $68M. A lot ! 1/3
From https://www.jobsohio.com/blog/ohio-reaches-1-billion-in-nih-funding

"Leading the way for NIH-funded research for the state, The Ohio State University claimed an impressive $252 million."
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Feeling this on multiple levels.
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
if you haven't seen it in these terms, here it is if you've been thinking about this all week, is this the first software/systems coup? (I'm assuming not) ... & what does that mean for software practice later? we've got to stop this, & also to think about how we got here
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L. M. Davis @lmdaviswrites.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I have been doing some accessibility training recently, and I am just...agog...that these f*ckers want to roll back accessibility initiatives too. Every American in some way benefits from progressive changes to accessibility. Every single one.
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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Huh. I wonder how they can even think of abandoning so many children. Oh, wait. endhomelessness.org/resource/rac...
Most minority groups in the United States experience homelessness at higher rates than Whites, and therefore make up a disproportionate share of the homeless population. African Americans make up 13 percent of the general population, but more than 40 percent of the homeless population. Similarly, American Indians/Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, and people who identify as two or more races make up a disproportionate share of the homeless population. Hispanics make up a share of the homeless population approximately equal to their share of the general population, while Whites and Asians are significantly underrepresented.
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Message worth amplifying. Ive always said the role of #leadership is not to guarantee certainty. It’s to provide clarity. Thank you for amplifying @peiferlabunc.bsky.social 👊🏽 #sciencesky #academicsky #medsky
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
House Resolution 899 introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie is set to dismantle the Department of Education. Contact your representative to demand they push back on this harmful legislation! actionnetwork.org/letters/prot...
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Protect the Department of Education - National Letter Campaign
Right now, there’s a critical threat to the future of education in America. House Resolution 899, introduced by Representative Thomas Massie, proposes abolishing the U.S. Department of Education. This...
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Mindfulness game for car culture people? Gotta try this www.carthrottle.com/news/over-hi...
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Over The Hill Is The Cosy Off-Road Game We Never Knew We Needed
Funselektor’s newest minimalist title trades hardcore motorsport for laid-back, free-roam off-roading
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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So straightforward, so good. An ALT text decision tree. www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial... #a11y
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An alt Decision Tree
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you see this post, post or repost a bridge from your photography or artwork.
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
via Gus Higuera and the work he’s doing: ——— Saw this post about Ha Phan asking to see if anyone can build an Executive Order tracker. Built this prototype executive-order-tracker.lovable.app In the Lovable app and hooked it up to www.federalregister.gov. —— Thank you Gus!
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 22/01/2025
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens, i.e. “choosing what to ignore, learning how to resist low-quality and misleading but cognitively attractive information, and deciding where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities”. [journals.sagepub.com]
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This quote is well-known but what's often forgotten is that this playwright, who in 1989 helped overthrow an authoritarian regime and became its first president afterward, wrote this in 1985 when it would have seemed more likely he'd go back to prison than forward to revolution and the presidency.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
#Hope is a discipline.
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
the vintage web comes into focus (honestly I’m curious if we can just make these mobile-responsive *and no other post-2010 advances* & have a better life?)
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
😳😥
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The letter signed by >15,000 physicians re: RFK Jr www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Danah Boyd’s recent take is spot on www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...
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The Ministry of Empowerment | danah boyd | apophenia
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year! We are the people we’ve been waiting for! ❤️🎉💫🗽
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/12/2024
Absolutely brilliant interactive explainer on everything about the Moon: how it moves, how it formed, what causes tides, solar eclipses, etc. So fun to play with all the gravity widgets in this. [ciechanow.ski]
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Moon – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article about the Moon
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Caregiving is done by young and old alike. Good story here & thank also to Caregiver Action Network. www.npr.org/2024/12/23/n...
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For young adults, caregiving isn't just hard. It can shape you for life
Caregiving responsibilities can cut young people off from peers and interrupt their emerging life story. And there's been little research or support directed at this group. That's starting to change.
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Good perspective on Tragic Optimism. Longer form but well done frame for hope. youtu.be/LBUHBfFSa4I?...
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The Tragic Optimist's Guide to Surviving Capitalistic Nihilism
YouTube video by Dasia Sade
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/12/2024
Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips theonion.com/clarence-tho...
Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Trips

-The Onion
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The tech industry’s incentives no longer align with the user. Good read: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
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Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Sunset on a warm December eve
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Pete Wendel @petewendel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Sharing for visibility servicedesignchallenge.com
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2025 student service design challenge - design a service that promotes equality and inclusivity
The Student Service Design Challenge is a global design contest that aims to celebrate, encourage & inspire the next generation of designers.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I’m curious how much federal funding he thinks the ACLU receives (it’s none).
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