Notices by Ben Bloodworth (benbloodworth@mstdn.party)

MAGA crying foul over JD Vance being protested against in Vermont…

… like, dude, I hate your guts, but there are so many red states you could have gone to and been treated like a king. Such a self-own, honestly.

#USpolitics #USpol #politics

@FlashMobOfOne @emarktaylor I remember making a Cleveland Browns joke on Twitter and having their entire fanbase come after me because they were “good again”.

Let's see how that turned out:
2020: 11-5 (lost div. playoff)
2021: 8-9 (3rd Place AFC North)
2022: 7-10 (4th Place AFC North)
2023: 11-6 (lost wildcard)

Congrats to the Browns for being thoroughly mid.

@FlashMobOfOne @anelki @tom @emarktaylor @cfb y’all should have beaten us (Auburn) 2 years ago…

SEC starting out 5-0 against some pretty decent opponents (Clemson, VA Tech).

Very possible that Florida might be the only loss this week.

#SEC #cfb #NCAAFB #collegefootball #football #sports

I don't understand how the generation that literally watched CFCs in aerosols wreck our ozone layer (and the rebound it had when those CFCs were banned) can sit back and deny that manmade climate change is real.
#climateChange

Really looking forward to the next thinkpiece that tells us (yet again) to stop calling people “users”.

They’re always so brave and inspiring.

#ux #uxdesign #design #productdesign

I saw a Medium post once that boldly declared that this enlightened designer would be calling his product’s users “humans” from now on.

I mean, if you want to sound like a space alien, more power to you.

#ux #uxdesign #design #productdesign

Point being, the only people who find “user” to be condescending or dehumanizing are the types of people who make think-piece articles about it so they can declare themselves “thought leaders”.

“User” literally means “one who is using”. To try to inject some drug dealer metaphor or god complex meaning into the use of the term is simply asinine.

#ux #uxdesign #design #productdesign

“Hey Siri, how many weeks are left in this year?”

“It was 40 weeks and 5 days ago.”

“What was?”

“Here’s what I found.”

Shows Google search result for “what was?”

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Siri is the most useless assistant on the planet, and I don’t understand how Apple is okay with that.

#Apple #Siri #iOS #iPhone #VoiceAssistant

@thomasfuchs @SloanStudio @qlp Meanwhile SpaceX is slapping touchscreens all over space vehicles. Only a matter of time before a fat-finger catasrophe.