, Tess collected
Several links for your perusal
James: The web is both wide and small. The web is full of potential. The web is wonderful.
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Technical Architecture Group. Congratulations to Matthew, Jeffrey, Christian Liebel, and 郁森！
Lauber, Emily. Investigating Motivational Drivers of Participation in W3C’s Web Standards Development Process. MIT (2025). https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/162519
La complainte du technopunk ringard, by Lionel Dricot.
Exploring Ephemera, the official blog of the Ephemera Society, via Language Hat.
ColorPalette Pro, by Ryan Feigenbaum, via Bastian Allgeier. How fun!
Stonking News, a link aggregator built on top of the Bluesky firehose, via Andy Baio. It bears a more-than-passing resemblance, visually, to the orange hellsite.
Kang, David C., Wong, Jackie S. H., Chan, Zenobia T.. What Does China Want? International Security (2025) 50 (1): 46–81. https://doi.org/10.1162/ISEC.a.5, via The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America, by Lydia Polgreen.
Trump’s New Ukraine Peace Plan Is a Nonstarter, by Ian Bremmer.
The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse, by Dr. Timothy Snyder.
The Saudification of America is under way, by Karen Attiah, via Kottke.
St. John’s University drops the HOPE conference in an example of cowardly compliance-in-advance with Trump, by Aram.
Court blocks Texas redistricting, finding it likely unconstitutional, with DOJ largely to blame, by Chris Geidner.
Revaluating Sarah McBride, by Katelyn Burns.
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of Charlotte’s Web — warned us about, also by Chris. See also The Pugilist at Rest, by Dan Sinker.
Awesome — we’ve now reached the ‘execute Democrats’ phase of Mad King Fuckwit’s reign, by Jeff Tiedrich.
Friday night massacre: 5 judges fired from S.F. immigration court today, by Sage Ríos Mace and Margaret Kadifa.
Al Letson interviews Dr. Jason Stanley: I Study Fascism. I’ve Already Fled America.
Ernesto Londoño profiles Robyn McCutcheon: As Rights Are Taken Away, a Transgender Trailblazer Seeks Refuge Abroad.
New Passport Rule Sends Blunt and Sweeping Message to Trans Americans, by Amy Harmon.
[I]t shall be unlawful for any citizen of the United States to depart from or enter, or attempt to depart from or enter, the United States unless he bears a valid United States passport.
Erin Reed: Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports, then, three days later, State Department Reverses Course, Says Trans Passports Will Be Valid Until They Expire, which later got updated to say that The State Department now once again has changed the wording to say that passports will be valid
I would like to get off of this roller coaster, please.until they are invalidated pursuant to federal regulations.
Liceat unicuique decetero exire de regno nostro, et redire, salvo et secure[.]
[I]t shall be lawful for any man to leave and return to our kingdom unharmed and without fear[.]
Trump’s ICE Deported Trans Woman Improperly After Court Warned She Could Be Killed, by Samantha Riedel.
Transgender Patrons Shaken After Pellet Gun Attack Outside San Diego Bar, by Dan Tracer.
Also by Dan: Catholic Church Bans All Gender-Affirming Care At Its Vast Hospital Network.
Trans people are waiting 25 years to get access to HRT on the NHS: It took me 5 hours, by Helen, via Debbie.
Also by Erin:
- NZ Right-Wing Government Bans Puberty Blockers: “Sacrificing A Generation Of Trans Youth”;
- The People I Remember On This Trans Day Of Remembrance.
The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. [The Clinic] Fought Back, by Garnet Henderson.
Messing with bots, by Herman Martinus, via Eric Bailey. More fodder for Alex’s Butlerian Jihad.
If you’re not gonna bother writing it yourself, I ain’t gonna bother reading it myself, by Geoff Graham, also via Eric.