Notices by Cecilia Mjausson Huster (mjausson@mastodon.design)

@skinnylatte @Littlebobbytables That's a big difference between European and Asian food culture.

There's a reason why the most-widely spread Christian prayer includes the line "Give us this day our daily bread.."

I love having a cold sandwich lunch. Prawns with rocket on wholegrain bread. 😋

My South Asian friends are not nearly as keen. They want it at the very least to be heated. So many panini lunches. 😂

@ai6yr Does that include his own companies? 🤔

@ai6yr I wonder how that will go down with the White House. My impression is that Trump approves of grift, but only if you don't get caught.

@ai6yr A friend of mine lives in the Florida Panhandle. She reported 6" earlier today! Surreal!

@pluralistic I hope you're wearing a good quality face mask. Urban fire smoke is no joke.

@wordshaper @mekkaokereke It seems crazy, but it really isn't. We see this over and over as genocidal movements rise to power. It's not because the intended victims are measurably different from other populations.

In fact you can see the same discussions sped up to hours rather than years when a devastating weather system is forecast to hit a populated area. Normalcy bias and survivor bias both play a role.

@cstross I wonder what their selection criteria are when even the long list is all male. 🤔

@farah @pluralistic https://amzn.to/3ZHEeEZ

@evan Yes, and political contributions should be limited to physical humans. Corporations and organizations don't get a vote.

Nitpick: Currently permanent residents are allowed to make political contributions as well as citizens.

@evan It just so happens that my modest monthly contribution to my instance went through today.

@evan When collaborating with people, you have to meet them where they are. So if you have coworkers who are neurodiverse, that's something you need to take into account. But that's not unique to designers.

@evan As a product designer, I vote strong yes. Considering neurodiversity means e.g. providing ways of turning off animations and providing context cues. Ideally you also test at least key flows with neurodiverse end users in their habituated environment.

@phaedral @ai6yr It's like enterprise software. 😂

Cat food has food color in it even though cats don't see colors.

@W6KME @phaedral @ai6yr Are you explaining my own point to me? 🤔

@evan How do you define a chat app? I'd count Signal, Facebook Messenger and Discord for sure. But I'm not so sure about Basecamp, LinkedIn and Mastodon.

#ICYMI Another @teamspellbinders card brought to you by the need to update my #affiliate links.

The person I gave this card to didn't like it. 😂 But I do. Creating it was quite the journey and in the end I loved the results. It uses the Large Die of the Month for November '23. This was the first time I used @sarahrenaeclark Color Catalog, but certainly not the last. It's a great tool!
📝 https://www.valleyoakpaper.com/post/color-catalog-amp-towering-blooms

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Historic hotel in Germany collapses, trapping holiday makers. This is interesting mostly because it's a pretty rare occurrence.

The hotel was built in the 17thC and the second story was added in the 1980s. It would appear that the older structure collapsed from the weight of the new part.

I wonder if they did building wor recently or if it was just entropy. 🤔

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4xd89yev0o

@evan What would that even look like? How can you possibly nationalize a software technology? It's all abstract.

@ai6yr They probably expect you to kill 1/3 or more of the plants. That may well be realistic for people who don't install automatic irrigation.

I know people who spend an hour every evening hose watering their garden. Then they go on holiday and come back to dead plants. Big surprise! 🤦🏼♀️

When I tell them that they should install irrigation, they act like I'm inviting them to my Satanist church. 😂 Year, after year...

@ai6yr With an established native garden you don't need it. But realistically it's going to take most people at least 3-5 years to get to that stage. If they lose lots of plants every time they take a vacation, it takes even longer. Automatic systems save time, money and heartache.