Julia Racsko

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

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On truth and bullshit in images, part 2 Did you miss part 1? It’s here! When I was still in high school, preparing for the design school admissions exam, I started to keep a sketchbook to draw...

I wrote about this by examining personal drawings and generated images! buttondown.com/juliarodraws...

What people think polyglots do: have lively conversations in several languages.
What actually happens: 'Einmal single espresso, s'il-vous plaît!'

Az utolsó pillanatban döntenek a fővárosi képviselők, hogy költségvetés nélkül hagyják-e Budapestet Hétfőn estére rendkívüli ülésre hívta össze a Fővárosi Közgyűlést Karácsony Gergely. A múlt héten nem sikerült dönteni több fontos kérdésről, így a költségvetésről sem, ami nélkül keddtől bizonytalan ...

This day was also Independence Day from the USSR, which is why the mayor could hold a 'freedom and pride march' without getting the legislatively blocked police permit. Just something to remember in case Budapest's budget for the rest of 2025 doesn't get approved this week. telex.hu/belfold/2025...

Rekord-Pride in Budapest: „Es geht um die Freiheit“ Ungarns Regierung wollte die Pride mit einem queerfeindlichen Gesetz verhindern und Menschen einschüchtern. Der Plan schlägt fehlt. Stattdessen ziehen Hunderttausende gemeinsam durch Budapest – für di...

Apparently it was closer to 200K, so over 2% of the whole country. That will take a while for the police to process with the facial recognition software netzpolitik.org/2025/rekord-...

Be akarták tiltani, minden idők legnagyobb hazai Pride-ja lett belőle Budapesti Büszkeség néven tartották meg a 30. Budapest Pride-ot. Karácsony Gergely szerint a tömeg nem úgy nézett ki, mint amit betiltottak. Amikor a menet eleje a Műegyetem előtti színpadhoz ért, a v...

And thanks to the counter-protesters, the march continued on the widest bridge instead of the originally planned route, providing these amazing photos telex.hu/belfold/2025...

Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban

For context: 100K attendees is over 1% of the entire nation www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

I don't think they can put this many people in prison

Julia’s sketchnote of a talk by Sjors Timmer at UXCamp Europe 2025 on Conversational Thinking with AI

@stimmer.bsky.social presenting at #uxce25

A large paper box filled with vegetable plants in pots, traveling on the Berlin metro

Tired: Kleinangarten
Wired: U-Bahngarten

Photo of a teeny tiny green tomato on the vine next to some tomato flowers among the leaves of the plant

We can take comfort in the fact that despite everything, biology still works as expected and intended on my balcony

Using a paintbrush instead of a touchscreen keyboard seems almost charming.

I miss the quaint times of 2017 when Simicska still had to get up at 5AM to paint signs on his own advertising space, because the 'Orban is a gangster' billboards just didn't cut it anymore, but the police politely asked him to stop after the 5th sign.

Today marks 6 years in Berlin for me, the longest I've been in one place in my adult life

I mostly leave the house while wfh to pet other people's dogs

Get more from bird.makeup on Patreon Creating a bridge from twitter to the fediverse

This is possible on the Fediverse: www.patreon.com/birddotmakeup

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Folks, we have until May 17 to support a petition to ask for a ban on conversion practices in the European Union.
It takes 2 minutes to sign, so please take those, they might end up saving lives.

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Yay, there's an initiative for banning conversion therapy that's collecting signatures! EU citizens, you know what to do. eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Does anyone have a good security analysis of Apple accessibility features? Are there for example security mechanisms which ensure that speech transcribed for accessibility reasons is instantly deleted or processed via a Secure Enclave?

Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234 Video: AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done

I feel for all the cybersecurity folks like @lukasz.bsky.social these days. They prepare for everything, and then have to watch people add journalists to groupchats and leave passwords as 1234 www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/u...

A walking path surrounded by blossoming Japanese cherry trees. There's a person in the front whose hair color matches the pink of the cherry blossoms. Location: Berlin

A walking path surrounded by blossoming Japanese cherry trees. People are sitting on the grass nearby, a man and a woman are walking away from the camera. Location: Berlin

A walking path surrounded by blossoming Japanese cherry trees. Some motorcycles are under a tree, a person is taking photos with a big camera, there are bikers and someone in an elaborate princess-furry costume getting photographed. Location: Berlin

Berlin, you show-off

SZIA

I wanted to avoid buying new plants for the balcony, but then the magnetic pull of the garden center got me. Good luck to me and the baby tomatoes

Opinion | Women’s Unpaid Labor is Worth $10,900,000,000,000 (Gift Article) That’s more than the combined revenue of Apple, Amazon and Walmart. Way more.

Now that's what I call a trade deficit. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

So I just got an email with the line 'we'd love to keep in touch' sent from noreply@ and no signature, and I'm not sure if they realise how funny that is

Who's coming to #uxcampeurope? First time I got a ticket, yay!

me too!

Although I really like the term 'imaginary friends' here, it shows the level of delusion much better than personas, which sounds deceptively neutral and consultant-y

Imagine how fast an LLM can churn out personas without the pesky task of talking to humans