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Ava’s pa. OG blogger/web designer. Automattician. Author, “Designing With Web Standards,” “Taking Your Talent to the Web,” more. Founder, @alistapart.com, zeldman.com. Formerly abookapart.com, happycog.com, An Event Apart, SVA MFA IXD faculty, more.
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Good morning, Bluesky. With deep thanks to veterans and their families, past and present. #VeteransDay
In the background, in soft focus, an American flag. In the foreground, on a six-sided badge, the words: "Thank you, veterans. Honoring all who served." Three gold stars appear below these words.
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Good morning, Bluesky!

Maurizio Cattelan: Page from The 11th Commandment, 2024, ℅ Museum of Modern Art Collection.
Painting: an refrigerator door reveals a man sitting inside the unit. Is he using it as a home? Has he lost his mind? He looks calm enough. His face is thoughtful. He appears to be around 30 years old. (Maurizio Cattelan: Page from The 11th Commandment, 2024, from the MoMA Collection.)
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Fool’s Gold.
Fool’s gold: the U.S. Oval Office in August 2025, as Trump meets with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP, ℅ The Guardian.
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky!

Haven’t read the novel, just digging the cover art and design.

Hat tip: @literaryhub.bsky.social.
Book cover: L.A. Women by Ella Berman – a novel. Poppy orange tanned flesh, supersaturated blue sky, deep green plants against a creamy pink. Part of a woman’s face (smiling with perfect teeth). A blonde woman lying dreamily in yellow grass, seemingly naked under a towel. (Or is it a bathing suit? A dress?) Alas, could not find info on the cover artist and designer. Please share in the comments if you know this information.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it,…

https://zeldman.com/2025/10/25/receipts-a-brief-list-of-prominent-articles-proclaiming-the-death-of-the-web/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Great news—even if The Times, annoyingly, still tries to spin it as an improbable surprise. I suppose to them it was.
Zohran wins!
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Good morning, Bluesky!
Press photo of Zohran Mamdani, a generational political talent who will almost certainly be New York’s next mayor.
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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That “food poisoning” I got last Monday is some kind of virus. I can’t even digest rice. Heading back to bed as soon as my workday ends.
A cute dog stands beside a toilet bowl, as if waiting for the viewer to vomit into it. Or maybe the dog herself needs to vomit. What do I know? I should stop writing about this. I should stop looking at this picture. Nausea is the worst.
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Good morning and happy Monday, Bluesky!
On “South Park,” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr lies in a hospital bed after losing his power of free speech. His broken arm (the result of an earlier injury in the same episode) is held aloft in an unmistakable visual reference to a Fascist salute.
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Good morning, Bluesky!
Scatman Crothers in the cab of a rented truck, racing to rescue Mrs Torrance’s son during an apocalyptic snowstorm in Stanley Kubrick’s film of Steven King’s “The Shining.”
November 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Just like Lincoln’s.
The bathroom from Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” Taken in combination with the post text, it comments on the horror of Trump’s gaudy White House Lincoln bathroom remodeling while one in eight Americans goes hungry by his choice.
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Friends don’t let friends Grokipedia.
Screenshot: I asked Google for "zeldman on grokipedia.com." It responded by asking if I meant "zeldman on wikipedia."
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky! 🎃
“Here’s ... Johnny!” Jack Nicholson grimaces through the hole he just chopped with an axe in the locked bathroom door separating him from his terrified wife, played by Shelly Duval, in Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic, “The Shining” – based, but not slavishly, on the Steven King novel.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky!
The Bride of Frankenstein meets her groom: Elsa Lanchester as the newly created bride, apparently in shock, extends her hand to her delighted mate: Boris Karloff, looking rather sweet for the moment, as Frankenstein's monster.
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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More relevant now than when first posted in December of 2017: New Yorker magazine cover illustration by Barry Blitt depicts America’s most grotesque president as Scrooge.
New Yorker cover cartoon by Barry Blitt: Trump as Scrooge scowls in the foreground, ignoring a pathetic Bob Crachit who, despite his dire circumstances, humbly sings Christmas carols.
October 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky!
A light-skinned hand, its wrist covered in suiting materials (shirt sleeve peeking out beneath edge of blue blazer) holds a folded letter that reads, "Keep your aunt away from room! Will dry by then!" This appears to be a message about a room having been freshly painted. A beautifully hand-rendered title slug reads: "The letter!" The whole thing is pictured in an iris set against darkness.
October 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Screenshot demonstrating thread conversation lines in Bluesky when you’ve set your preferences to show them. It helps!
Screenshot demonstrating thread conversation lines in Bluesky when you’ve set your preferences to show them. Sorry for the redundancy, but there is no additional information required for this ALT text.
October 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Screenshot.

My Bluesky post commending a post on Andy Budd’s website to your attention. My post includes the URL. The first reply—also written by me—adds detail and points directly upward to the previous post, which contains the link.
Screenshot: My Bluesky post commending a post on Andy Budd’s website to your attention. My post includes the URL. The first reply—also written by me—adds detail and points up to the previous post, which contains the link.
October 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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“Female spies are waging ‘sex warfare’ to steal Silicon Valley secrets”

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/silicon-valley-spy-china-russia-2v03676kl
“Slow Horses” star Christopher Chung as Roddy Ho, the MI5 hacker known for his braggadocio, poor people skills, and spectacularly bad romantic luck. No spoilers, but if you’re watching Season 5, you know.
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Good morning, Bluesky!

The Man in the Office Across the Street: taken in my old studio in NoMad NYC on June 15, 2016.
In the window of a fairly nondescript Manhattan office building, a man wearing a blue shirt talks to someone on a mobile phone. What does the man see? Is he conscious of me watching him?
October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Good morning, Bluesky!

Rehearsal photo on location on a Manhattan rooftop: from left, Frank Sinatra as Chip, director Stanley Donen, and Gene Kelly as Gabey. More info in the ALT text.
From the MGM musical “On the Town” (music by Leonard Bernstein): Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, dressed in their sailor character outfits, rehearse a song-and-dance sequence on location atop a Manhattan rooftop. Between them, also singing and rehearsing, stands film director Stanley Donen.
October 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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“Town Hall” my Great Aunt Hanna. If you wonder what gems of insightful conversation you miss out on by no longer using ye olde hellsite, I took a look for you and immediately found this.

Now excuse me while I wash my eyes out.
Racist Anti-Semite says what? Jesse Nickles counts the Jewish executives at a web hosting company. Like the rest of the racist bullshit that now passes for dialog in this country, it’s creepy and dangerous. The icing: the racist poster cites Grok as “proof” of a Jewish conspiracy.
October 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Years ago I saw a documentary about the actor and film star Gregory Peck.

When an interviewer asked how he wished to be remembered, Peck said, “Hopefully as a good father.”

Same, sir. Same.
Color photo of screen star Gregory Peck. Looks to have been taken anywhere between the 1940s and mid-1960s.
October 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky.

A view from a room at the Plaza Hotel, looking down a few stories into foggy Central Park. Taken 12 January 2005. The night in the Plaza was a birthday gift from my ex, who remembered I'd stayed there as a boy for my uncle’s wedding and marvelled at the place.
Window view onto Central Park, shrouded in fog and mist on January 12, 2005.
October 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Good morning, Bluesky!

A view from my rooftop, showing the crowns of two Madison Square Park-adjacent skyscrapers. At left, the two Metropolitan Life buildings: a cubist-inspired art deco composition adjoining a Venetian clock tower. Middle right, the golden crown of New York Life. I ❤️ NY.
A variety of classically inspired, art deco, modernist, postmodern glass, and plain old brick towers surround Madison Square Park in New York City. Photographed from the roof of a building one to two miles away.
October 15, 2025 at 10:42 AM