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Anne Petersen

@apetersen.bsky.social

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Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead @ U.S. Web Design System / government / civic; past 18F, Penn State, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan.

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 12d

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.

#LetterformArchive #100Tens

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Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Sep 22

But do you find it grotesque? Or comic? Impact-ful, perhaps?

Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Sep 22

Sans…

Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Sep 20

This is a font joke.

Screenshot of @john_attridge’s tweet (in a sans-serif font) saying “It’s nice but do you have any sans-seraph fonts?” with a photo of a winged angel kneeling, supporting a basin

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Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Sep 16

Or the Great Knit-Off (it’s Danish): youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Great Knit-Off (Big Knitting Contest) (Danish w/EN+DK Subs) - YouTube

After nearly 10 years, English speakers and those who need subs in Dansk or English can finally enjoy ALL(?) 25 episodes of this show!* Subs not embedded in ...

youtube.com

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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · Sep 16

Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)

Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you

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jasper! @ the amazing digital dyke @jaspectre.etheirys.social · Sep 11

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · Sep 11

OK, fine, I'll allow it. It's too fortuitous.

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · Sep 11

"This is a case about Katz and dogs" -- opening line of a pending SCOTUS cert. petition about an allegedly unconstitutional search involving a police dog.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Sep 11

# hi

Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Sep 11

Might’ve tagged me incorrectly?

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · Sep 7

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Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Sep 6

# hi

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Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Aug 28

So popular all of a sudden, but I’ve been following the NDS for years. 👀

Netherland Design System (NDS): nldesignsystem.nl

(Yes, I know they use the acronym NLDS. That’s the joke, as they say.)

Simpsons character Rainier Wolfcastle in a spotlight on stage, saying “that’s the joke” into a microphone

Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Aug 20

My voice dropped, so I’m going to say I count for this.

“Give Me One Reason” by Tracy Chapman

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Kallastra @kallastra.bsky.social · Aug 15

This story is beautiful.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Aug 14

funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer

giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice

I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · Aug 14

“men can’t express their feelings because they get taught as boys to toughen up if they cry”

*stares in Was In Ballet For Her Entire Childhood*

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · Aug 18

How has everyone forgotten their literal job title is "public servant"?

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Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Aug 20

I don’t usually do this, but I recently answered a blatant scam call (in part to determine the schtick). And once I’d gotten what I wanted out of it, I found it was refreshing to say to someone:

“you know you’re bullshit, right?”

Kinda wish I could say that in more situations.

Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social · Aug 20

A thinking-pose classical statue in neon with the text “philosophers only want one thing and it’s fucking discussing”

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · Aug 20

One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.

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Your Brutal Boo @jmings.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · Aug 4

Line 1, Montreal r/brutalism

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Aug 3

Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha.

Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · Aug 1

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · Aug 1

Em dashes, like anything, should be used in moderation. Check first with your editor if em dashes are right for you. 😉

#WriteSky #WritingTips

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ysé kerneis @eezay.bsky.social · Jul 26

i saw my life branching out before me like the linktree in her bio. from the tip of every branch, a future online persona beckoned and winked: substack essayist, graphic designer, tiktok creator, podcaster, cult favorite with a patreon

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Rosenqvist 🌹 @amalgam.bsky.social · Aug 3

Wikipedia have changed the label on one of the buttons.

Something that strikes me is that the ticket was opened in 2016.

I’m also sure some people are pissed about this minor change

phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132

T131132 Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action

From feedback we get repeatedly as a development team from interviews, user testing and other solicited and unsolicited avenues…

phabricator.wikimedia.org

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Marshall Julius 🚀 @marshalljulius.bsky.social · Jul 28

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖
#Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · Jul 14

It's international nonbinary day. A plea to remember nonbinary means a lot of things. We have a very set idea culturally of what nonbinary looks like--white, thin, perhaps dandyish--and so many friends present that way! But many more don't, and aren't, those things. Free your mind of pigeonholes.

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