Torrey Podmajersky

A person near me at the coffeeshop is making unconscious yummy sounds with his first bites of breakfast sandwich. So sincere, so wholesome.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Genius

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Torrey Podmajersky: language and meaning in complex systems Torrey Podmajersky is a UX writer and content designer and an expert on aligning semantics and language in the design complex systems.

Super-fun to chat with @torreybird.bsky.social about her childhood family dinner-table conversations about semantics, her work aligning stakeholders on language and meaning in big digital projects, and how to close "semantic gaps" in complex organizations.

knowledgegraphinsights.com/torrey/

So much fun to talk with you - and what a great topic. Thank you @larry.bsky.social!

They’re bringing limes, they’re bringing grapes… and some, I assume, are gourd people.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Remember, birding is there for you.

the small, quiet sparkle of PNWers noticing signs of Autumn 💖

Washington state ferry Walla Walla departs a foggy Edmonds WA under a coral-colored sun.

PNW mood. ⛴️ @wsdot

Torrey Podmajersky, Kim Mats Mats, and Maya Joseph-Goteiner are pictured with the book covers for Strategic Writing for UX Second Edition and UX Skills for Business Strategy.

The online book launch for the 2nd edition of Strategic Writing for UX was a career highlight. Thanks so much for sharing it with me!

The state of America: Cyndi Lauper changes the lyrics to Girls Just Want to Have Fun to Girls Just Want Fundamental Rights.....

Look, the actual causes of the Revolutionary War are oft misunderstood, but to be clear: this is bullshit

It was a dispute about the nature of the British empire, & specifically whether the American colonies had the same standing relative to the king as Great Britain did, or, rather...

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Is Mailchimp borked for anybody else? I'm in the middle of newsletter writing 😅

It’s 6:14 p.m. at the D.C. parade, and it is *quiet* on Constitution Avenue between 20th and 21st streets.

a photo grid of dolls with protest t-shirts and signs.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

Senators are ELECTED to be a VOICE for their constituents. What happens when that voice is stifled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed like Senator Padilla was?

We have a democracy, but we can lose that democracy.

I took to the Senate floor to speak out—I hope you'll join me.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

If Nazi Germany, they sent political prisoners to the camps before they sent the Jews. If a fascist state has a way to disappear a person, then nobody is safe.

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Small stuff vs human rights violations, but BS.

Perfect. No notes.

Vivian Wilson on the cover of Teen Vogue, with the headline “Introducing Vivian Wilson”. It’s a close up shot of her looking at the camera in a black suit jacket and blue button down

Teen Vogue presents: Introducing Vivian Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social

In her 2nd-ever interview, the 20-year-old tells @ellayurman.bsky.social about going viral, protecting trans youth, her “pathetic man-child” estranged dad Elon Musk, and more @teenvogue.com
www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

Quite a fun moment when the security contractors who had been terminated by the USIP but had switched their allegiances to DOGE entered the property with an unconfiscated key and headed immediately to the gun safe.

in 2010 if you said "this Citizens United decision will end up with one single person buying the House of Representives like a pound of cheese, so as to impeach judges who rule against his coup attempt" you'd have been dismissed as a hysteric

This picture speaks for itself. Donald Trump and Elon Musk don’t care but we MUST.

Now might be a good time to remind everyone that I was just following orders was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg trails

Protesters in red occupying a building

Jews for Palestinian freedom, No Muslim Ban ever

Protesters in red occupying a building

Jewish Voice for Peace is occupying Trump tower to demand Mahmoud Khalil’s release, no muslim ban ever and to stop arming Israel

www.instagram.com/p/DHJWluoAV1v

How many of you could put your hands on a passport, birth or naturalization certificate, and marriage record within say an hour? Because NH now requires all that to vote, and it's messing with women who changed their names after marriage. Project 2025 wants this to be a Federal law, the SAVE Act.