Ariel Norling

Some quotes are too good to cut
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not to be a cliche but learning carpentry has changed my life and now the idea of doing all of my work on the computer makes me so sad

this makes so much sense.
👀 do they need an assistant

i’m dying to know how the millwork shop uses Apple Vision Pro 👀

Is Your House Too Clean? with Sarah Archer You're Wrong About · Episode

I don’t think I fully wrapped my head around the absurdity of modern living until I heard Sarah Marshall quip “I have to avoid all plastics and also sleep with my retainer in somehow” and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.

nature is healing, but it legitimately is nature healing

I can't think of a higher compliment for a designer than being remembered for "how radical and uncompromising so many of his ideas were, but also how he was able to compromise, taking into account other people’s ideas, or just practical considerations. And yet the park never feels compromised."

"The US government hate both rail and you personally" is a bar

Toni Morrison on why I still watch Love is Blind.

Important note about this breakthrough:

Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing.

Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

18F and USDS were always bucket list tech jobs for me, and this piece shows why.

Ethan also does a brilliant job summarizing why the administration is putting agencies under fire.

it also makes no sense because there are like no workers in that office? why would anyone at ziprecruiter approve this???

I will forgive and forget January 6th when I’m dead.

"We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy." Martin Luther King, Jr.

#MLKDay2025

I mean I also thank him for saying so, but for the entirely opposite reason because now there’s a list of people showing their whole ass and I will never forget who they are.

Dann Petty thanked him too.

Trump on Elon Musk: "He knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

yeah but I don’t plan on going back unless it is owned and operated by someone that isn’t in trump’s circle. I don’t know what Chew is doing and I don’t trust it yet.

this is so cute and such a sweet goodbye to it

When an Oakland Hills Home Caught Fire Near Closed Station, the Response Was Slow | KQED Firefighters took over 10 minutes to arrive at the house fire near shutted Station 28, underscoring fire officials’ concern about the closures amid Oakland’s budget crisis.

I woke up around 3am to explosion sounds and a fire had broken out a few hundred feet from my house. As waves of neighbors called 911 they complained the fire department was “taking its sweet time.” Now I know why www.kqed.org/news/1202242...

I can’t believe i’ve watched my last tiktok

spending my last minutes frantically downloading and ugly crying hbu

Just a few years ago she was wearing over the top designer clothes, boss babe-ing, and claiming that she had never cooked and wouldn’t like to

Christine’s move to Texas and rebrand as a woman who bakes (with the wooden kitchenaid mixer no less) and wears turtlenecks has made me more nervous for our shifting cultural climate than just about anything else

sure designers being neutral sponges that can be dropped into new environments and quickly sus out the core problems through endless user interviews sounds good in theory but have you ever tried being a niche domain expert fueled rage and hope?