LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org

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/

Cyclists are now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in London, according to a new report.

They represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.

Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.

#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/

🌟 Near my house, there's an apartment building with a courtyard. Big deal, right? But if you walk up the steps a little bit, there's something about this courtyard that you might find really truly wonderful… https://cabel.com/2023/02/25/the-courtyard/

“All the bicyclists are booing [Brown] and he is really pissed. You could tell he's really pissed. And he walks off the little stage they have and apparently he tells the cops, ‘Shut it down.’ And so they tried and they couldn't because there was just too many cyclists and everybody just went in every direction” https://www.kqed.org/news/11941576/the-night-that-changed-san-francisco-cycling-forever

My almost 13 year old daughter had a good idea. We’ve been talking about doing a podcast together - mostly for us to have.

Her idea was reviewing books that are being taken out of school libraries - discussing the content, reviewing the actual literature but also the reasons it was banned and our thoughts there as well.

This is something I think that we will do, soon.

#BookBanning #Books #Podcasts

The Mormon Church is being fined 5 million because it hid a 32 billion dollar investment fund. This was not accidental. The SEC proved that both the investment firm and church went to great lengths to knowingly hide these assets. For the folks playing along at home, that’s a fine of 0.016% on the investment. Imagine lying on your taxes and you hid an extra $100K offshore and the IRS said “No sweat, pay us $15.63.” If there are no other repercussions, that’s not a fine, that’s encouragement.

This will upset some, but it needs to be said.

People keep asking when the right will wake up and denounce their worst reactionaries.

It’s not same scale, but progressives have a similar challenge. When will we stop letting our most reactive, anonymous people define us?

I’m a progressive. So much so, I ran for congress on universal health care, working class economics, addressing structural racism, and legalized marijuana and sex work.

The difference isn’t in our ideals, it’s in our behavior

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules

Public transport isn't supposed to make money. It's not even supposed to break even. It's supposed to lose money and to be financed and extended from general taxes because it gives back way more than mere money.

And all the politicians know this because they keep building and maintaining streets for free