LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

Scrolling through your Mastodon timeline is such a wild ride.

-Post about astrophysicist that has made a scientific breakthrough.
-Post complaining about cars.
-Six nature photos in a row.
-Post officially declaring war on cars. Apparently Mastodon has amassed an anti-car army. I enlist.
-Picture of a cartoon dragon with the caption "Hornyposting time!". To my dismay, I am seeing it because it was boosted by the previously mentioned astrophysicist.

Nothing but twists and turns at every turn.

Day 7, Dr. Shirley Jackson

Dr. Jackson is a physicist and was the first black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT & chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

She conducted groundbreaking scientific research that enabled the invention of portable fax, touch telephone, solar cells & fiber optic cablet to name a few

Drivers parking in a #BikeLane...check
Drivers speeding in a #SchoolZone...check
Drivers overtaking into on-coming traffic that includes a #SchoolBus...check

Just your average 5.7 seconds trying to get the kid to school alive without a car.

#VisionZero #SafeStreetsForAll #SafeRoutesToSchool #Meadowmont #ChapelHilNC #RashkisES #BikeTooter

My paternal grandmother was born in Berlin, Germany in 1900. She was, as was her whole family, Jewish. She was smart and driven. Had her own dressmaking shop by the time she was 25. But, the handwriting was on the wall, and she left home for New York in 1925. She learned English and worked as a dressmaker until she got married to an Italian immigrant she met in English language class. Some of her siblings stayed in Germany. Perished in the camps. Her youngest sister survived and came to America. But she was mentally damaged from that horror, attempted suicide at least once (had a scar around her neck) until she succeeded in drowning herself.

People talk about the horrors of fascism in the abstract. But for my family, it is very real. I think that we all need to speak about it.My generation, the grandchildren of the victims of the Nazis, is old now. I try to tell this story as often as I can.

I've talked about this in smaller contexts, but I haven't found any traction and time is getting short. When the Nazis passed the enabling laws for the book burning on April 8th, 1933 — exactly 90 years ago in 34 days — the first thing they burnt, the same day, were the archives of the largest trans and gay research institute in the world. When they say now that we didn't exist until after the war, the only reason they can get away with it is that they burned all the accumulated evidence.

https://assemblag.es/@hugo/109972631252644527

Today's cover slide doesn't really need a t-shirt.

yes to be fair we actually have a lot of really great people designing and building a lot of really great bike infrastructure in the US, and we'll cover that in class. But we also have a way too much of this, and it gets people killed 👇

#SafeStreetsForAll #Sharrow #CompleteStreets #VisionZero #BikeTooter

Trans
rights
are
human
rights

This is also why Black people get so upset when the police shoot someone and say "He was armed! His gun was found at the scene!"

Being armed is not supposed to be a crime in this gun obsessed country. If being stopped by police while armed got you shot, then white men would be shot at the highest rate. But that's not what we see. We see the opposite.

The second amendment is not a real right, because of the way our system of justice selectively enforces it. It's the *white* to bear arms.

People like to act like “this was all so long ago” and I’m just sitting here like…my Grandma is still with us and she’s 93. Some of us still have living relatives who lived through this nightmare.

Don’t let yourself think of it as some long, bygone era that could never happen again.

Hesitation, appeasement, and living in denial let it happen the first time.

Quoting @onthisday: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/109972742503879719

Best vibes toot 😍

📷 @boldberlin https://www.instagram.com/p/CpP9-fzqb6e/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Just rename it the State of Fascism.
(And BTW, WaPost, tenure is not a "perk".)

Florida bills would ban gender studies, transgender pronouns, tenure perks https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/05/florida-bills-would-ban-gender-studies-transgender-pronouns-tenure-perks/

Growing up, I had three sisters. One of them was a quiet child, often angry or sullen and sometimes cruel.

One day that person went away.

And then I had a brother.

He was cheerful and warm, finally comfortable in a body he'd wanted his entire life.

Conservatives want to eradicate my brother. I'm here to say that's not going to happen.

#transrightsarehumanrights

@marcoarment @stern @lorihc Apple's HIGs have always been on the top. Unfortunately, I gave my copy of the original Macintosh HIGs away to a fellow psychology student. It covered so many important basic concepts which never become irrelevant

Lawmakers seem to think it’s a lot worse for trans people to feel good about themselves than for kids to die from gun violence. That to me shows they don’t actually care about *any* of their constituents.

Loved the Apple HIG "Writing" guide: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/foundations/writing/

Via @stern: https://mastodon.social/@stern/109961894927064285

Anyone who writes text for UIs should read that.

And it linked to something even better, Apple's guide to inclusive writing, that *everyone* should read: https://support.apple.com/guide/applestyleguide/intro-apdcb2a65d68/web

The craft of making great apps depends SO MUCH on good writing.

If Elon Musk can afford to lose $1.9 billion in a single day, he can afford a wealth tax.

I absolutely love that @marcoarment added a little game to the @overcastfm Apple Watch app while you wait for an episode to transfer over to the watch. Heckin’ delightful!

In today's Design Diary I talk about my philosophy for building Accessibility into my apps. “Try, then Listen". It is sometimes difficult to know how best to build accommodations into our apps, so we try what we think best, then listen when users react...repeating as needed to get the best result.

Specifically I discuss how my mental model for why users would have their Dynamic Type size set to large was incomplete and thus I was overshooting in my reaction to it.

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2023/03/03/design-notes-29/