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Ava’s pa. OG blogger/designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards” &c. Founder, alistapart.com, happycog.com (emeritus), zeldman.com. R.I.P: webstandards.org, abookapart.com, An Event Apart. Former SVA MFA IXD faculty. zeldman.link

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‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Opinion | Detention Doesn’t Begin to Describe It

“Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

14.02.2026 17:32 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.
How did I do it?

Blacked out lines

CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP.
There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

14.02.2026 14:26 — 👍 22057    🔁 4559    💬 221    📌 168
19th Century romance. A seated woman and a kneeling man embrace and kiss in a middle-class location, as indicated by well-made furniture, discreet wallpaper, potted houseplants, and a modesty screen for dressing or other private functions. The woman wears a long and very loose gown. Her hair is up. The man wears 19th century business attire. It’s a daguerreotype, so they probably had to hold the pose for several minutes, but the photographer was able to capture a feeling of passionate spontaneity despite the limitations of early picture-taking technology.

19th Century romance. A seated woman and a kneeling man embrace and kiss in a middle-class location, as indicated by well-made furniture, discreet wallpaper, potted houseplants, and a modesty screen for dressing or other private functions. The woman wears a long and very loose gown. Her hair is up. The man wears 19th century business attire. It’s a daguerreotype, so they probably had to hold the pose for several minutes, but the photographer was able to capture a feeling of passionate spontaneity despite the limitations of early picture-taking technology.

Happy Valentine’s day to all the single ladies and gentlemen. Don’t let the rom coms get you down.

14.02.2026 16:20 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Indeed he is.

14.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

14.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

But that’s kind of you to say!

14.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean it said I wrote “Don’t Make Me Think” (Steve wrote that) and started the W3C (Tim, obviously). It was flattering but way wrong.

14.02.2026 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Don’t underestimate Apple Intelligence. I asked it who Jeffrey Zeldman is and it credited me with the accomplishments of Steve Krug, Jakob Nielsen, and Tim Berners-Lee.

14.02.2026 12:11 — 👍 27    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

14.02.2026 01:50 — 👍 24411    🔁 2834    💬 1060    📌 492
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👇👇👇👇

14.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 12357    🔁 5215    💬 388    📌 241
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Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

13.02.2026 20:20 — 👍 18264    🔁 5778    💬 497    📌 242
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Reminder: “The SAVE America Act” is not saving us from anything real — and was born out of the lies of a malignant narcissist who incited an insurrection. 🇺🇸

Thank you for coming to our TED Talk.

www.brennancenter.org/topics/votin...

13.02.2026 15:54 — 👍 1597    🔁 760    💬 71    📌 23

Not tired of winning.🥳

13.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 5065    🔁 1127    💬 123    📌 34
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The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.

13.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 5207    🔁 2313    💬 259    📌 150
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Using chaos to communicate order How we communicate at Automattic

How 1,500 people spread across dozens of time zones manage to stay connected, collaborate, and make decisions together—without ever sharing the same office.

ttl.blog/using-chaos-... #automattic

13.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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Feb 12, 2026
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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

13.02.2026 05:44 — 👍 12385    🔁 6164    💬 439    📌 775
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Happy 30th Anniversary to the Fugees’ second & final studio album ‘The Score’ originally released February 13, 1996 | Listen to the album + read our tribute here: album.ink/FugeesTS

13.02.2026 12:00 — 👍 38    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 6

I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks

11.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 5486    🔁 815    💬 82    📌 58
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Dresden, Teilansicht des zerstörten Stadtzentrums über die Elbe nach der Neustadt. In der Bildmitte der Neumarkt und die Ruine der Frauenkirche.

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Dresden, Teilansicht des zerstörten Stadtzentrums über die Elbe nach der Neustadt. In der Bildmitte der Neumarkt und die Ruine der Frauenkirche.

81 years ago, on the 13th of February, a joint British and American bombing of the city of Dresden began. In four raids between the 13th and 15th, up to 25.000 people were killed. It is one of the most controversial Allied acts of the second World War. #otd #history 🗃️

13.02.2026 08:15 — 👍 79    🔁 15    💬 6    📌 1

Too many spoons today.

13.02.2026 11:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

12.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 17883    🔁 7098    💬 617    📌 358
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

12.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 27162    🔁 11570    💬 2065    📌 1000

None of us are standard-issue but many of us waste our lives pretending to be.

11.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 1
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Bree Devanagari now on TypeTogether Premier /// 7 weights, 1 delicious family. Our friendly Devanagari font features a poised rhythm and a big-hearted extrabold. The catch: it’s only for Premier programme members for now.

Sign up: premier.type-together.com/

#Typography #Fonts #Devanagari #fontsky

12.02.2026 09:56 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

12.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 7399    🔁 1930    💬 174    📌 75

Nothing describes the soul of the Republican Party more than Pam Bondi citing the stock markets as her excuse for not going after pedophile billionaires.

12.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 3561    🔁 1068    💬 137    📌 34

idk how to rebuild society for this but i don't think people should be allowed to talk like this without it going very poorly for them

12.02.2026 14:41 — 👍 5013    🔁 806    💬 90    📌 30

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

11.02.2026 01:46 — 👍 20174    🔁 4513    💬 110    📌 67
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

11.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 40399    🔁 13798    💬 1375    📌 896

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