Over at The Conversation, Dexter—an 11 year old from Las Vegas—asked Who was the first transgender person? The answer, by Ky Merkley PhD and Nick Winters PhD, is well worth a read. Storied Colors, via Jeremy. The site’s design is lovely, including the design of its URLs (e.g....

farpotshket (yi: פאַרפּאָשקע), adj.: completely ruined as a result of attempts to fix a minor imperfec­tion. (Jewish English Lexicon) This word doesn't just describe something that is broken, but some­thing that is broken specifically because someone else tried to fix it, making it worse. It is used most commonly...

Forty nine people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, were murdered ten years ago today in what was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in American history. It was Latin Night at Pulse; most of the victims were gay Latino men. The deadliest act of homophobia in my lifetime. Two weeks later I marched in the...

Sometimes people refer to the web that you surf in your browser as the drive-by web, to contrast it with software that uses web technology but in which the SOP or the rest of the web’s security model either don’t apply, or only apply in some weakened form (IWAs, say, or MiniApps). Putting aside the obvious issue...

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point, by Danika Ellis. Colorado Gov. Polis Signs New Conversion Therapy Ban, Defying Supreme Court, by Erin Reed. Also by Erin: Latest Gallup Poll Shows Republicans Will Not Stop With Transgender People. Qucocoma Philippe Samyn ?, par Lionel Dricot. La mue du serpent, par...

The inhabitants of this town be­ing called together on the reco­mmenda­tion of our General As­sem­bly, to signify our minds on the great point of independence on Great Britain, think fit to in­struct you on that head. The Mi­nistry of that kingdom having formed a design of sub­jecting the Colonies to a distant,...

Today is Brooke Vibber Day, which makes it the perfect day to express solidarity with her, the Community Tech team, and the rest of Wikipedia’s workforce by signing the Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity page.

W3C today announced that Seth Dobbs is stepping down as CEO of the organization. — W3C leadership transition. When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break, by Dave Rupert. Understanding age assurance accuracy, by ekr. The average quality of documentation available for most tech is abysmal. — Iris Meredith...

After dinner with Eryn at El Farolito tonight, Laurel, Andy, Erin, and I went to The Fox to catch The Last Dinner Party on their From the Pyre Tour. The show was great! They played a bunch of stuff off of their new album. #from-the-pyre #music #oakland #thelastdinnerparty ∎

#recology at #carnaval#carnaval

#recology at #carnaval#carnaval

EJ and I caught some of San Francisco’s Carnaval parade this Sunday. It’s a wonderful annual celebration of the vibrant Latin American, Carribean, and African communities in the Mission District, in San Francisco, and in the rest of the Bay Area. BARTy the BARTmobile appears in pretty much every SF parade, decorated...