Soren (they/them)

If you like privacy colada’s, and avoiding surveillance… if you aren’t into private companies tracking your car…

Link in case you’re not sure it’s true or you can’t read the image: www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/...

👁️‍🗨️ An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me by Scott Shambaugh "We, like many other open source projects, are dealing with a surge in low quality contributions enabled by coding agents." #AI #reputation #quality theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

This is why I remind anyone in the "time to buy a gun" crowd: the Second Amendment is not for you. American gun culture is not for you. You are not in on the con.

lmao fuck the NRA, phony little assholes

It’s hard to swallow that some conservatives in the US: Love a protest in January; unless it’s protests they don’t like Love the 2nd amendment; unless it’s someone they don’t like bearing arms Love freedom; but will celebrate the state assassinations of US citizens using their 1st Amendment right

Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology. https://bit.ly/49xT9Xl

I feel like #POTUS is overlooking that Washington DC is a sanctuary city. cis.org/Map-Sanctuar...

This is a good thread of ways to support, if you have the spoons for it. bsky.app/profile/naom...

You’ve heard of girl dinner and boy dinner, now get ready for “nonbinary dinner” which for me is just having AuDHD, forgetting to eat most meals until I’m starving, then eating a snack buffet while an enormous amount of food arrives. Or could just be buffet. Is there a vegetarian Golden Corral?

This makes a lot more sense wheb put like this. It’s also why it seems so ridiculous to millenials because we’ve never seen affordable housing. youtube.com/shorts/zyyKy...

The thing that’s getting me through this week is scrolling back in the house group chat and seeing all the messages about if the cats have been fed yet or the status of our wooden utensils in the sanding-oiling process.

Hey @figma.com. Figma Sites in its current state can put your customers at serious risk for accessibility lawsuits. #a11y #accessibility

There's not enough good nonbinary jokes out there so I wrote one: What kind of sandwich can you make with two slices of nonbinary bread? 🍞 Depends on what's enby-tween them! #nonbinary #enby #jokes #IfYouKnowYouKnow #LGBTQJokes #NonbinaryJokes

Anyone know of any good games or fun activities that I could use to train designers on using assistive tech? I was thinking like a web game where the commands are all keyboard, need to use the screenreader, etc #a11y #a11yGames #assistiveTechTraining #a11yTraining

The sheer volume of headlines, lawsuits, and commentary surrounding accessibility overlays can be overwhelming to fully grasp. We made a timeline to help anyone understand and share this rich and cursed saga in digital accessibility. overlaytimeline.com

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

Worth noting that there is absolutely no law against DEI practices.

Breaking from me and @mjsdc.bsky.social : Newly installed AG Pam Bondi sent out more than a dozen memos in a 15 minute period on Wednesday. One of them told staffers to come up with "proposals for criminal investigations" of large companies that have DEIA initiatives. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Saying something is fully accessible as a misnomer! Accessibility isn’t a finish line or guarantee. Yet we often see products labeled as “fully accessible“- why is this a misconception and what can we do to course correct without losing confidence? 
#A11y soren.medium.com/the-myth-of-...

Further, seeing interpreters in TV is common in many other countries. People in the US "annoyed" by seeing ASL on TV need to check their privilege -- know what's more annoying than seeing ASL on tv? Being locked out of the information BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HEAR.

🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊 It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally. ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags. Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.

Folks at MIT Sloan looked at multiple studies of return to office (RTO) mandates & found they are lose-lose-lose. No reward from Wall Street for “getting tough,” an actual decrease in productivity & revenue, and loss of top talent. youtu.be/4ec_yZCWOCY...

I’ve always found the quote attributed to Eleanore Roosevelt to be ableist so I adapted to choice of topic: Shallow conversations focus on what and where, average conversations on who and how, but great conversations are about why, affect, and the ever-evolving future.

My cat Michael stole and returned drone batteries. The Snap Inc Pixy was recalled and the pop-out batteries have to be locally recycled. I’ve confiscated them for her own safety but she plays with the silliest things sometimes. She has pulled tacks out of the wall and stolen ikea hardware. #sillyCat

I wonder if anyone can guess what my first knitting pattern is before it’s finished and blocked / tied off! Hint: you might use it every day and it’s completely symmetrical. I’m about 1/3 through the pattern here. I’m knitting it into a hat but you can add it into anything with a 48x48 open spot.

I don’t know, I felt like that brie was highly entertaining.

Its Monday, so how many times have I reheated my chai and oatmilk? Two/too many.

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full. Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Blind and low vision folks: the cup is full to where I stuck my finger in the glass

I appreciate that people want to be kind, but please remember if you are responding to a disabled person talking about their situation that they (read: me) receive dozens or hundreds of the similar messages over & over, inquiring about specifics of the illness and recommending treatments ♿

I’m starting to make my own knitting patterns now that I am getting into Faire isle and Intarsia designs! Get ready for some cute geek wear!

With the latest migrations to this app I have new followers so welcome! I cleaned out the timeline but I usually post about silly UX or #a11y stuff, fun stuff that isn't work, or community/industry things i’m working on.

In a dream, a partner & I were at a tech event and the owner of Xitter showed up and started calling things like a11y a “woke mind virus app” in dream, partner: “yeah I know about the woke mind app, the system alarm app I can’t uninstall from my phone.” Even in my dreams I hang with funny folks!

Breaking: A bug WIRED discovered in True the Vote's app exposed its user data -- and unearthed messages from an election worker discussing an illegal voter-suppression scheme.

Do you have a two sentence a11y horror story? #TwoSentenceHorror #A11yHorror #Halloween #a11yWeen

The screen reader abruptly stopped, leaving Alex lost in a maze of Unicode fonts and unlabeled fields. The social website that promised connection had morphed into a fortress of exclusion, threatening to erase their access with poor design choices. #TwoSentenceHorror #A11yHorror #Halloween #a11yWeen

Soren after dark! ✨