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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 1d

Yes this is sarcasm. Replace “React” with “AI” and it’s a cringey tweet I just came across. 🙃

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 1d

Hearing from a lot of good founders that React tools are writing most of their code now. Software engineers orchestrate the React.

They are also finding it extremely hard to hire because most experienced engineers have their heads in the sand and refuse to learn the latest tools.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 2d

GAH YOU’RE RIGHT

Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 2d

I haven't kept up — is a on every work a sign of using Figma Sites?

This is the America by Design home page; an official US govn't website and created through an August 21, 2025 executive order.

#a11y #accessibility

Side by side of the America by Design home page and it's HTML. It shows that teach word is a <span> element with several inline CSS properties applied using the "style" attribute.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 2d

So what it tells me is that there's a 90% chance their design system components are capabale of rendering actual links inside of actual buttons

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 2d

Does National Design Studio know you're not supposed to put link elements inside button elements

#a11y #accessibility

Side by side of the National Design Studio home page and it's HTML. In focus is the Submit button for an email subscription form. It's a type=submit HTML button with an HTML anchor element inside (it does not have an href attribute).

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 3d

She always told me not to wish my life away, that it goes so so fast.

In this moment, as I dread the arrival of my first birthday without her, I know she’s right.

But I wonder if grief like this is what she was talking about. Or was it joy? Smelling crisp fall air? Reading? Naps with windows open?

Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · Aug 16

She is my first and last thoughts every single day. Every single day, such heavy thoughts. I love to picture her smile and laugh, even though those images quickly remind me of the cold permanence of her absence.

A casket splay full of red roses, atop the end of a white casket, with two ribbons peeking out with sparkling, gold lettering: Mother, Grandmother.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 3d

First day back to taking adhd meds in the morning and HOOBOY was my brain quiet today

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 5d

Beautifully chilly day in Indy.

I wore one of my Grandma’s 25+ year old jackets. I could recognize its pattern anywhere.

It made a comforting pillow when I needed to cry. And I thought, “I don’t want to be able to wear this,” on the way home.

But it all was still like carrying a hug from Grandma.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 5d

Some grief/loss cliches are so true, despite being cliches. “Life is short” is one I think about often.

But almost always with the suffix: “to not…” find joy, bring others joy, brighten someone’s day, create art, engage with art that truly moves you, do the things that feel SO silly bring joy

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 7d

Some context: bsky.app/profile/miri...

Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 8d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 7d

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · 8d

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 7d

Wtaf

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 7d

I think of Łink’s mutual aid threads

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 8d

Łink’s the reason I learned what alt text is and why it matters.

He helped shape Bluesky’s early culture of accessibility.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7d

Łink made so much of this place what it is, and how interesting it is that Jay and co find it so easy to ban poc, trans folk and Palestinians while fighting tooth and claw to protect transphobes

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 8d

Łink’s the reason I learned what alt text is and why it matters.

He helped shape Bluesky’s early culture of accessibility.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 7d

Re: deep grief

Is there a name for when you feel like you don’t know how to act in public anymore?

Similar to “I don’t know what to do with my hands” but like my entire body.

Similar to anxiety about being perceived, but not exactly that.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 7d

The way I could hear this in my head 😂

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 7d

My nervous system can’t take these kinds of posts or the constant barrage of rage baiting fake screenshots

Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 7d

sports fans, it would make the rest of us really happy if you could thread your OH MY FUCKING GOD jump scare posts so the rest of us could mute the thread or at least understand the context of what you’re referring to

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 7d

“Of course, writing novels about the future doesn’t give me any special ability to foretell the future. But it does encourage me to use our past and present behaviors as guides to the kind of world we seem to be creating” — Octavia Butler

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 7d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 7d

Absolutely crushing when you can feel it in your body, so deeply, that it wants this to be a bad dream but your mind knows otherwise

Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · Aug 16

She is my first and last thoughts every single day. Every single day, such heavy thoughts. I love to picture her smile and laugh, even though those images quickly remind me of the cold permanence of her absence.

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 9d

Genuine question, if anyone has seen it answered — Why isn’t this a website which can be bookmarked and saved to home screens?

404 Media @404media.co · 11d

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Ashlee @ashleemboyer.com · 9d

“illusory certainty” 🔥