Anyone else find it annoying that every senator has a different website design. Shouldn’t it be easy for me to find legislation you sponsored and your voting record easily? As an information architect this has me wondering what the benefit of everyone having g their own system is.
18.02.2025 18:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump administration firing FAA staff including safety workers despite recent crashes
President moves to cut Federal Aviation Administration workforce as critics say public safety could be endangered
Trump has dismantled the Aviation Security Advisory Committee. He has fired hundreds of FAA workers who did everything from maintenance and mechanics to aviation safety — and he’s threatening even more.
He is putting our safety at risk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
18.02.2025 15:27 — 👍 212 🔁 77 💬 14 📌 4
In my effort to contemplate the intersections of gardening, art, and information architecture, I’ve picked up this book Ed. By Laurie Cluitmans. Title: On The Necessity Of Gardening. Reflections to follow
06.02.2025 15:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of a multi‐column table listing several U.S. presidential Executive Orders relating to LGBTQ+ rights and antidiscrimination policies. Each row has columns for “Origin” (POTUS), “Number/Identifier” (e.g., EO 13988), “Title” (such as Preventing and Combating Discrimination…), “Action Type” (e.g., Broad Nondiscrimination, Military Nondiscrimination), “Summary” (key points of each order), and “Date Signed.” The listed orders span from early 2021 through early 2025, covering topics like preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, banning conversion therapy, rescinding prior harmful EOs, and restricting or expanding DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives.
A spreadsheet at the top shows columns tracking anti‐LGBTQ bills by status and year: total bills (334), 2025 bills (327), 2024 rollovers (7), how many passed committees (3), passed one chamber (5), passed both chambers (0), enacted (1), vetoed (0), failed (3), and carried forward (0). Below that, another header row lists different types of anti‐LGBTQ legislation (e.g., gender‐affirming care bans, pronoun bans, “Don’t Say Gay,” drag bans, bathroom bans) with the total count of each category (e.g., 55 for gender‐affirming care bans, 20 for pronoun bans, 14 for “Don’t Say Gay,” etc.). A color‐coded U.S. map spans the lower half, with states shaded from light orange to deep red according to how many anti‐LGBTQ bills they contain. Texas appears in the darkest red (46 bills), with lighter shades indicating fewer bills in other states. A note at the bottom right explains that the map shows total tracked bills per state, which does not necessarily reflect each bill’s likelihood of passage.
We've created a tracker that covers all executive orders affecting LGBTQ folks along with federal and state legislation.
We're at 334 anti-LGBTQ bills.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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@alli.gay
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29.01.2025 17:25 — 👍 4057 🔁 1674 💬 98 📌 83
YouTube video by Great Lakes Now
Too Many Geese and Not Enough Mussels | Episode Preview
Our first episode of 2025 is almost here 🌊
Take a look at efforts to manage Canada geese. Go underwater to see how divers are saving freshwater mussels. And learn about the Indigenous history of the #GreatLakes fur trade.
Premieres on Detroit PBS this Monday at 7:30 PM ET: youtu.be/b7gc71viG7I
24.01.2025 17:43 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
They also took down web accessibility guidelines :(
22.01.2025 22:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The line of question is pathetic. Each is leading him to answer a certain way.
14.01.2025 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is one of the first lessons I learned on date #2 with lawyer spouse: the law means whatever judges say it means. If the judges are full of shit, the law will be bullshit.
See how the 14th amendment, a law designed to protect Black people, was used to end affirmative action.
02.12.2024 02:38 — 👍 946 🔁 259 💬 14 📌 10
A purple landscape of a house taking inspiration from ido period art in Asia. The painting was recorded with a camera and mixed with slide projector images creating a glitched effect.
Starting her by returning some artwork I made in 2018.
14.11.2024 04:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
