Steve Portigal

Steve Portigal

@steveportigal.bsky.social

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Superb user research consultant; author of Doorbells, Danger and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books), Host
Dollars To Donuts podcast

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Lest we forget www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8oa... #SarahCooper #PersonWomanManCameraTV

How to person woman man camera tvwww.youtube.com hello again or hello for the first time! preorder my memoir FOOLISH: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation here: https://amzn.to/3rAzPX4

Problemista was really great!

From Patriot Front to perimeter of joy "This June, things went differently. Instead of Patriot Front protesters, the First Street bridge was awash with a rainbow of umbrellas, held by allies and volunteers." #GoodNews rivertonranger.com/news/fremont...

From Patriot Front to perimeter of joyrivertonranger.com During last June’s Wind River Pride Drag Show, a group of people who appeared to be affiliated with the Patriot Front showed up on Lander’s First Street bridge, chanting, shouting,

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Steve Bannon loses his last bid to stay out of prison.

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b-boy bouiebaisse

Rational brain says the Trump sound bites will be the lasting legacy here, lizard brain says we’re in deep trouble Need to shut lizard brain up

Heather Cox Richardson is always good to read. Today is especially good/useful/important heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-20...

June 27, 2024heathercoxrichardson.substack.com Tonight was the first debate between President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and by far the most striking thing about the debate was the overwhelming focus am...

Ezra Levin, from Indivisible "When voters focus on the personalities, we struggle. When voters focus on the stakes, we win. And what all the data so far tells us is that many, many voters do not yet understand the stakes. "

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Canelo is here if you need a hug.

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BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court just undid decades of regulatory law, making it far more difficult for federal agencies to issue rules and regulations that carry out broad mandates enacted by Congress.

Supreme Court whacks the so-called 'administrative state'www.npr.org The decision overturned Chevron v. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a 1984 decision that was not particularly controversial when it was announced 40 years ago.

"I switched out the halloumi for bacon and it was delicious!" ???

"goop Marin" sounds like the French name for some kind of horrifying earth mother creature (pronounced goo-Marahn)

When my Music News feed contains headlines like "Diplo accused of revenge porn" it's going to be an enjoyable Friday #sigh

Anyone else hosting Wordpress at Flywheel having weird problems this morning (503 on my wp-admin page, weird code appearing on my site, and their chat - the only way to get help - is broken)?

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For those asking, including @petersagal.bsky.social, I'm not convinced that has been done. The short version is get something serious to the 11th C and ask for a recusal. Thus far, however, Cannon is preventing this by never making any decisions at all, instead just ordering hearing after hearing

Since I'm sure it's been done, can anyone point me to the accurate discussion of whether, and how, Judge Cannon could be removed from the documents case?

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NEW: Former Uvalde (Texas) schools police chief Pete Arredondo has been indicted on child-endangerment charges

Former school police chief indicted in Robb Elementary massacrewww.expressnews.com Pedro 'Pete' Arredondo and a former school police officer were charged with child endangerment by a Uvalde County grand jury.

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"Slow Horses," featuring our flatulent hero Jackson Lamb, will be back Sept. 4. www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

“Slow Horses,” starring Gary Oldman, returns for season four on September 4www.apple.com Apple TV+ unveiled a first look at the fourth season of its BAFTA Award-winning series “Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman.

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Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)

RIP Kinky Friedman

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There’s no upside of LinkedIn

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Just FYI we’re entering a summer Covid wave right now (especially western regions in the US); you can see it in the CDC wastewater plot here (and anecdotally a bunch of my friends are suddenly testing positive). www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

Wastewater COVID-19 National and Regional Trendswww.cdc.gov CDC’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, U.S. National trends

Japanese scientists have found a way to attach living skin to robot faces. The researchers say it paves the way to making convincingly realistic, moving humanoids with self-healing skin that will not easily rip or tear. (oh man those pictures don't look don't look)

Faces made of living skin make robots smilewww.bbc.com Scientists find a way to attach living skin to robot faces for more realistic smiles and expressions.

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david bowie had a whole song about it

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Dawn Xiana Moon

From June 2022: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... “We should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergfell." - Clarence Thomas

Same-Sex Marriage and Contraception Should Be Next on Chopping Block: Clarence Thomaswww.rollingstone.com Clarence Thomas wrote that the Supreme Court should reconsidering same-sex marriage and contraception after striking down Roe v. Wade.

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hello, sharing this one more time. I do really love this one and would love for you to read it. substack.com/home/post/p-...

hi pals, I wrote a newsletter today and it's one I've wanted to write for a while, so I hope you'll read and share and subscribe and all that jazz. leahreich.substack.com/p/sobbing-on...

Sobbing on the Subwayleahreich.substack.com On teaching yourself to see the world in a new way

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The Washington Post

So, the double standard here is Biden needs to do one armed push ups and Trump needs to not take a dump on stage while screeching the n-word?

No way to tell from the Mailchimp RSS documentation if I add a backdated post to my blog, does that count as "new" content that will go out in an email? I assume not and I don't want it to, but I can't believe I have to create a test post and see what happens to find out for sure :(

Are there Tar-level fan-theories that explain just what the hell was going on in "All of us Strangers" ?

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I'm just a simple country political scientist but I'm pretty sure if any other major presidential candidate said this it'd be covered none stop for weeks and everyone would agree that their campaign was over

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Mom put her kid in the car after a day at the zoo. Then the doors wouldn’t open because the battery died. Sealing the 20-month-old inside in the middle of a national Heat Dome in the Arizona desert. Because Teslas are fucking dumb death traps.

Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183439/tesla-model-y-arizona-toddler-trapped-rescued

Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead batterywww.theverge.com Firefighters had to use an axe to smash through the window.

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I guess I’ve become sort of a science-hype debunker so as far as this goes, let me just say: it’s real. Really really real. You could soon get a shot every six months that would basically eliminate your chance of getting HIV. Taken a step further: we have the tools to eliminate HIV in our lifetime.

Gilead’s twice-yearly shot to prevent HIV succeeds in late-stage trialwww.cnbc.com Gilead's experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.