Beth Soderberg

because your total number of life experiences was less and your sense of time was colored by that ratio; it's also less of a unique experience now - unique experiences feel more expansive in terms of time. brains are so weird.

ALL THIS <3

Artist Amy Sherald cancels major Smithsonian exhibition, citing censorship | CNN The artist Amy Sherald has canceled a major exhibition of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, citing censorship over one of her paintings depicting the Statue of Liberty modeled a...

This makes me love Amy Sherald even more: www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/s...

bowser from super mario bros is standing on a checkered floor in a video game . Alt: bowser from super mario bros is standing on a checkered floor in a video game .

Kid is almost crying: “I can’t talk in Bowser language because I forget.”
Me: “oh no! Maybe you ou can listen to Bowser more and learn more”
Kid: “okkkkkkkk”

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Slides for "My Process for Building a Custom WordPress Theme in 2025" at @wcmontclair.bsky.social bethsoderberg.com/slides/2025/...

Kid explaining his rationale for the Father’s Day present he picked out: “by my standards he doesn’t have a lot of toys.”

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y

We Should Free All WordPress Plugins and Themes - Half-Elf on Tech What if we democratized everything in WordPress, and not just publishing? What if we freed all themes and plugins? How far could we fly?

Thoughts on #WordPress Plugins, #FAIRPM, and risk.

halfelf.org/2025/we-shou...

All the time 🤣

lol blame my toddler

There’s nothing like the feeling of… mushy banana… between your toes first thing in the morning.

Looking for somebody to sponsor in WordPress? Rian Rietveld is looking for sponsorship to work on Accessibility documentation, and we need her! rianrietveld.com/2025/05/19/w... #WordPress #a11y

Sometimes they count it!

I’m apparently the worst parent in the world because I won’t let my toddler eat… marbles….

It’s raining, it’s kinda cool, and my kid is insisting that slurpees make him warm.

I’ve turned my children into warriors against ants (just in our house). And by that I mean: I just got them to clean up their playroom, sweep, mop, and now they are building an ant trap out of knex. 🐜 🐜 🐜 🪤

Child’s drawing of mom

Had my portrait drawn this morning.

Super proud that we’re at a place to really share what we’ve been up to ❤️

There’s Never Been a Pope From the U.S. Could This Cardinal Change That?

Additional concern with new Pope:

Opposed a plan to add lessons on gender in schools in Peru, tellinglocal media: "The promotion of gender ideology is confusing, because it seeks to create genders that don’t exist."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/w...

There’s Never Been a Pope From the U.S. Could This Cardinal Change That?

Concerns with new Pope: has spoken publicy re: concerns "at odds with the gospel", citing the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/w...

Pope Leo XIV profile: Robert Prevost, from Peru missionary to first American pontiff US Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. After serving as missionary and archbishop in Peru, Prevost presided over…

Had to go down five news sources to find out what I wanted to know: what we know about Leo XIV's politics
www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
(I mean, I don't care who or where they're from, I care what they're going to do with the church lol)

WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation — Smashing Magazine WCAG is evolving. Since 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines have defined accessibility in binary terms: either a success criterion is met or not. But real user experience is rarely that sim...

WCAG 3.0 upends conventional accessibility evaluation: "Its new outcome-based model introduces a flexible scoring system that prioritizes usability over compliance, shifting focus toward the quality of access rather than the mere presence of features."

www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/wcag...

Last night I dreamt that I was living in a three-person room in a dorm and the government banned all organizing attachments to bunk beds, resulting in utter chaos.

It’s funny what can feel “brainless”, right?

I cried the entire time too

1) Rae did a phenomenal job with some tough interviews

2) Rae's writeup below beautifully captures the spirit of the event

3) Totally agree that @miriamschwab.bsky.social is a badass

#PressConf

"An independent journalist" who won't remain nameless Too many legacy outlets still refuse to credit indie journos. Enough is enough.

I got mad.