I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
It is now *seven* years since #Microsoft started shipping #curl as part of the Windows operating system.
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
Originally posted by @karlykingsley.bsky.social and updated with alt text:
Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
During the night, a Russian drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the protective sarcophagus covering Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Fortunately, radiation levels inside and outside the facility remain normal and stable, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The sarcophagus was originally constructed to contain radioactive contamination following the catastrophic 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
Here's a #MicroscopyMonday segmentation of some neurons from the optic lobe, or visual processing area of the #Drosophila fruit fly's brain. The #connectome for the full optic lobe was released in 2024 by #HHMIJanelia, Google, and the University of Cambridge, with support from the Wellcome Trust.
How reporting would sound like about the USA over the last two weeks if it was a banana republic and not the USA:
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-junta-establishes-him-as-head-of-government