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Altijd toegankelijk ontwerpen voor mensen met een beperking is lastig hè, geloof me. Het is een nobel streven wat moeilijk is om perfect te doen. Maar dit voelt echt als actively hostile at this point. Fully able bodied en ik word helemaal gek 🥲

En als je echt de ergste schending wilt zien, ga even langs Wildeweide.nl (van Wildeburg). Animaties die niet pauzeren en zelfs versnellen met scrollen. Muziek die ongevraagd begint te spelen. Een hoofdnavigatie waar je hoofdpijn van krijgt. Cursor overgenomen door een quirky uil. WTF my dudes.

Er moet me toch iets van het hart. Hoe komt het dat in de tijden waarbij digitale toegankelijkheid vanuit de EU gepusht wordt, zoiets stoms als NL festivalwebsites met het jaar minder bruikbaar worden? De nieuwe Lowlands homepagina is onleesbaar. Een quirky identiteit gaat niet boven bruikbaarheid.

Americans: If you have the space, expand your reading beyond Project 2025 and read up on The Butterfly Revolution. There are two forces at play: Evangelical Extremism, yes, but also tech-bro post-capitalist autocracy. The collapsing of the system is the goal, not a side effect.

Divide the work and divide the care, organize, take turns fighting, take care of your (internet) neighbors. Avoid the Bad Places (X, Meta). Find joy not because of what’s going on, but in spite of it. They will flood your senses with news and executive orders. Resist. Resist. Resist.

The balance between being politically engaged and politically burnt out is on a razors edge — and that is by design. You cannot fight the good fight if you allow yourself get mired in their “slinging shit at the wall” tactics. Pick topics you care about and pursue them, leave the rest for another. 🧵

New Years Resolution: Avoid Meta(services) as much as humanly possible. Use the block button liberally on TikTok. I don't think 'echochamber' is a dirty word anymore, not when most of the global social media all but pledged allegiance to Trump. It is not a badge of honor to stay on the Bad Places.

Just 40 more minutes and then it’s happy #WindandTruth release day for my fellow Europeans! Sadly, I must wait two more days, as a little birdie told me Sinterklaas is currently queueing for the release and is visiting us on Sunday. He better deliver or the old man will catch these hands.

Ah, the old adage “it rhymes, so it’s true”.

It’s been a while, I’ve been busy! How are you all doing, what’s going on in your life?

Helaas zelf ook nog niet zoveel tegengekomen, blijft toch moeilijk om organisch mensen op bsky te vinden, vind ik.

“Gaming the algorithm” is exactly right. I have had so many discussions in prev jobs that adding keyword addled copy everywhere that no one will read is not the answer to making the platform better. Wrong focus. Frustrating too.

Viel mij ook op idd!

Oh, almost exclusively. But here’s one, my Naruto tattoo of Kurama:

Understandable! I like the sector I work in so it’s fun to engage with likeminded professionals, but for myself I’m most of all kinda paranoid because I am Just A Person and I don’t speak for a brand, ya know?

So how do we deal with the balance of interacting in a work-related sphere & (not) publicizing your employer? Maybe it’s the chronically online millennial in me that is naturally suspicious of everyone 👀 (not that this info isn’t findable on Google). Why do/don’t you show your employer on Bsky?

Signal boost!

👋🏻 Product design hier!

Why is it easier to get shit done when I imagine myself as someone who cosplays responsible adulthood? It’s like a role I assume, but it works, I swear.

The way I did it: Stormlight 1+2, Edgedancer, Warbreaker, Stormlight 3, Dawnshard, Stormlight 4. I am happy with my choices. I did feel that WB enhanced my experience! But my husband never read Warbreaker and he’s still obsessed with Stormlight Archive so, it’s not that important overall.

I don’t enjoy cooking that much when I’m alone, but my husband is out for dinner and instead of doing Girl Dinner I actually cooked! Very pleased with myself.

So… What are we DIYing for Crafty Christmas though? 🧶 #craftsky

Sinterklaas as an adult is just making increasingly elaborate art projects that double as gag gifts and poems that are just roasts. Anyway I’m making some smut books for my friend, still in progress & two more to go. In needs of more smut puns, if ya got any. #DutchCulture

NO WAY! I started my new save yesterday and I totally didn’t know this either! Such bad luck :(

#promosky Lookin’ for moots/mutuals 25’ish and up!

✨ 30 • she/her
🇳🇱 Netherlands
💻 Product Designer (UX)

🎮 Gaming, most obsessed with Steamdeck atm
📚 Reading, primarily fantasy
🧶 Allround craft girlie
🍄 Bad at gardening, but I do it anyway
🌙 Big on the Cosmere

LOVE Warbreaker, but found Elantris really hard to get into, put it away one day and didn’t pick it back up. Worth trying again, you think?

Hard agree — and while we’re at it: can we also not port the worst of LinkedIn over? I follow a workfield-related feed and I’ve already seen many threads rife with emojis and lukewarm and baity takes. “⚡️10 Tips For Using AI To Stop Coding FOREVER - FOLLOW for more AI TIPS”

In any normal climate: no. With Trump and his previous strong words about NATO: no way to say. But probably not? Most importantly, the ICC warrant is symbolic/condemning at most. Both Israel and US have not ratified the agreement, bear no responsibility to the court. ICC will not hunt N. down…

Totally agree. If I were to devise a metric on it, it would be related to process and continuous improvement. Being 100% compliant feels impossible, the success is in working towards the ideal. For now, at least. But regulation on a govt level is a different story. I’m curious to see where it goes.

Laundry is done! Here’s a tip I once heard: don’t spend too much time on planning your to-do lists. It can actually trick your brain in giving off dopamine for *making the list* instead of *doing the task*. This is probably why I get stuck in limbo after planning out my day.