We built a new website for a small, under-resourced global nonprofit, and the site launch is delayed because the U.S. state department flagged them for violation of the DEI executive order. They have to remove all "Diversity Equity and Inclusion" language from their site before we can launch it.
THE FASCISM IS REAL & BEING ACTIVELY ENFORCED
in case you weren't sure
A #poll for the #trans community here to satisfy my silly curiosity, feel free to tell me if this is insensitive or inappropriate. Do you feel that HRT has had an impact on your attractiveness to mosquitoes 🦟 (i.e. do mosquitoes bite you more/less/the same since you started HRT)?
(Poll limited by the 4-question limit on Mastodon so I can't include e.g. no-HRT or “just tell me the results” options, sorry).
And let's do this in English too.
New #challenge: list love songs that do not describe or imply a toxic relationships.
Level: extremely hard.
Nuova #sfida: elencare canzoni d'amore che non descrivano relazioni tossiche.
Livello: estremamente difficile.
Huh. Every day is a school day.
So my eldest tested me, asking what is wider, Australia or the Moon. I had understood that "the Moon is 1/4 the size of Earth", a relatively oft repeated fact. So I was like, the Moon must be.
So Australia is wider. By about 500km.
When they say, the Moon is 1/4 the "size" of Earth. They're talking about the diameter. It's 1/4 as wide. By volume, the Earth is around 49 times larger than the Moon! Much much much bigger!
I once knew that, maybe? Now I surely do.
“the MMAGA companies” — @robin #PubConf2026
we have a Forgejo instance at the Dutch government now and it's great!
A lot of the UI is actually smoother and faster than GitHub, there's no annoying upselling, no forced AI ('are you sure you don't want this reviewed by an agent?'), and the fact that we run rather than rent it seems optimal strategically.
Thanks @Gina and co for making it possible 👏
Font friends: what do you do when the variable font you bought comes with a weight axis that is totally non-standard? The one in question has normal at 90, bold at 135, and heavy at 215.
It's not like the font is actually super-light. The heavy weight really is heavy. But then any normal fallback font gets set to super-light weight.
lmao
You have a site that you want to build or redesign. Maybe you have a few core colors in mind, and you’re thinking about how to quickly implement a theme based on those colors. Baseline features can help!
https://www.oddbird.net/2026/05/14/baseline-in-action-color-theme/
In May OddNews https://mailchi.mp/oddbird/faster-color-theme-implementation
#CSS
The other day I got a comment on youtube: YWNBAW.
I had to look it up. You Will Never Be A Real Woman. And I thought: well first, you’re missing an R.
But then, yeah! What physical woman -- made of biology, pumping blood through veins -- could possibly achieve the Ideal Form of _Real Womanhood_? How could something physical ever capture the essence of a pure Idea!? We are all but shadows on the cave wall!
This commenter truly understands Platonic Realism.
I've been paying too much for an e-commerce app I don't love. They don't even support alt text on images! gross.
I might just integrate stripe checkout links on a static site? But the missing piece is a shipping estimate. Maybe a web component, if I can find a good API for it?
Anyone have experience or recommendations?
@matthiasott It's mind boggling. It's like blockchain all over again, some person has the idea of "let's use it for everything" except this time it made it to some stakeholder at Google and they're killing their flagship product for… sloppy results which won't drive any traffic to the very sources they slurped up? Eesh, count me out. (well I am already not using Google Search personally, but count me out twice then?)
I haven't looked in years, so not sure when it changed, but it seems Google search results have reverted to using my dead name for the info box.
Game changing the modern web.
Join me for the Pride Market on May 30 at Glazed Ceramics on West Colfax. If you don't need pots, just come hang out. I'll be there all day, and could use some company! #pottery
If you ignore the health, ethical, social, moral, financial, environmental, creative, cultural, privacy, quality, legal and geopolitical concerns, then this thing really has legs!!
Folks, you don't need AI to check color contrasts. You also don't need AI, to get suggestions for colors that pass the contrast ratio. It's pure, good, old math formula.
Not everything needs to be "AI".
Also, here are many, color contrast tools and more to help you build accessible color palettes:https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/color-accessibility-tools-resources-to-design-inclusive-products/
#Accessibility #AccessibilityColors
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/color-accessibility-tools-resources-to-design-inclusive-products/
One or more person or persons may or may not have spoken, and in a voice funneled through a person whose professional success explicitly hinges on demand for this feature, cried out: “eight.” That’s web standards, baby!