LoriHC @lorihc@qoto.org

This is also why Black people get so upset when the police shoot someone and say "He was armed! His gun was found at the scene!"

Being armed is not supposed to be a crime in this gun obsessed country. If being stopped by police while armed got you shot, then white men would be shot at the highest rate. But that's not what we see. We see the opposite.

The second amendment is not a real right, because of the way our system of justice selectively enforces it. It's the *white* to bear arms.

People like to act like “this was all so long ago” and I’m just sitting here like…my Grandma is still with us and she’s 93. Some of us still have living relatives who lived through this nightmare.

Don’t let yourself think of it as some long, bygone era that could never happen again.

Hesitation, appeasement, and living in denial let it happen the first time.

Quoting @onthisday: https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/109972742503879719

Best vibes toot 😍

📷 @boldberlin https://www.instagram.com/p/CpP9-fzqb6e/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

Just rename it the State of Fascism.
(And BTW, WaPost, tenure is not a "perk".)

Florida bills would ban gender studies, transgender pronouns, tenure perks https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/03/05/florida-bills-would-ban-gender-studies-transgender-pronouns-tenure-perks/

Growing up, I had three sisters. One of them was a quiet child, often angry or sullen and sometimes cruel.

One day that person went away.

And then I had a brother.

He was cheerful and warm, finally comfortable in a body he'd wanted his entire life.

Conservatives want to eradicate my brother. I'm here to say that's not going to happen.

#transrightsarehumanrights

@marcoarment @stern @lorihc Apple's HIGs have always been on the top. Unfortunately, I gave my copy of the original Macintosh HIGs away to a fellow psychology student. It covered so many important basic concepts which never become irrelevant

Lawmakers seem to think it’s a lot worse for trans people to feel good about themselves than for kids to die from gun violence. That to me shows they don’t actually care about *any* of their constituents.

Loved the Apple HIG "Writing" guide: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/foundations/writing/

Via @stern: https://mastodon.social/@stern/109961894927064285

Anyone who writes text for UIs should read that.

And it linked to something even better, Apple's guide to inclusive writing, that *everyone* should read: https://support.apple.com/guide/applestyleguide/intro-apdcb2a65d68/web

The craft of making great apps depends SO MUCH on good writing.

If Elon Musk can afford to lose $1.9 billion in a single day, he can afford a wealth tax.

I absolutely love that @marcoarment added a little game to the @overcastfm Apple Watch app while you wait for an episode to transfer over to the watch. Heckin’ delightful!

In today's Design Diary I talk about my philosophy for building Accessibility into my apps. “Try, then Listen". It is sometimes difficult to know how best to build accommodations into our apps, so we try what we think best, then listen when users react...repeating as needed to get the best result.

Specifically I discuss how my mental model for why users would have their Dynamic Type size set to large was incomplete and thus I was overshooting in my reaction to it.

https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2023/03/03/design-notes-29/

Cyclists are now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in London, according to a new report.

They represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.

Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.

#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2023/03/01/cyclists-now-outnumber-motorists-in-city-of-london/

🌟 Near my house, there's an apartment building with a courtyard. Big deal, right? But if you walk up the steps a little bit, there's something about this courtyard that you might find really truly wonderful… https://cabel.com/2023/02/25/the-courtyard/

“All the bicyclists are booing [Brown] and he is really pissed. You could tell he's really pissed. And he walks off the little stage they have and apparently he tells the cops, ‘Shut it down.’ And so they tried and they couldn't because there was just too many cyclists and everybody just went in every direction” https://www.kqed.org/news/11941576/the-night-that-changed-san-francisco-cycling-forever