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Apple’s regressive stance on sexual content being available on its largest platform is verging on a full on moral panic and it’s really gross. Entire businesses and communities have been crushed by it, and it often hurts queer and trans communities most.
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Waking up to news of another mass shooting targeting trans and queer people on Trans Day of Remembrance. Outrage, heartbreak, and sorrow don’t begin to describe it.
May the victims rest in power.
I cannot forgive those who spread hate and led us here.
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My therapist said Kavanaugh came up in every session she had this week and that people were in tears.
The senators who confirm him today are sending a clear message to Americans (especially women) that our stories and our rights don’t matter.
We will vote them out. We have to.
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When we dealt with this at Tumblr, it became my full time jobs for weeks to find incredibly complex ways to appease Apple’s censors. This happened every time they found a sexy blog they didn’t like. It’s absurd.
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If you’re a programmer using your skills to make women or any marginalized group of people feel less safe, kindly throw away your keyboard and forget how to code.
We have a responsibility to build things that help people, not hurt them.
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And no, I’m not filing a radar about this. But if you’re a pal of mine and you work at Apple, I hope you’ll do everything in your power to change minds on this issue internally.
Sex is not a bad thing and adults should be able to access legal conversations and media about it.
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🏳️⚧️ We did it fam. Pronouns field in Contacts in iOS 17 beta.
#WWDC23
📡 Spent some time re-filing this radar for Apple to add a pronouns field to Contacts/iMessage because I lost the original #. Next up: emailing the vcard mailing list.
🍎 Apple folks: applefeedback://FB9996377
👀 Curious onlookers:
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Tonight is a great night to put your pronouns in your bio or location field. Doesn’t matter if you’re cis and they feel obvious.
Help trans and nonbinary folks by sharing them anyway.
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Of course at the same time that Apple is pressuring companies to pull down sexual content they don’t like, they’re also directly profiting from subscription audio erotica apps like
@DipseaStories
.
It wouldn’t be a story about the App Store without capitalism and hypocrisy.
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Hey friends! I want to tell you something that’s both vulnerable and exciting. I’ve been thinking about my gender a lot lately. I figured out that…
I’m nonbinary.
I‘m using they/them pronouns, and I’d like you to use those for me too. I really appreciate your support. 💛💜🖤
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“Women are in charge of everything. Who do you think is gonna use these apps.” —
@MichelleObama
#WWDC17
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them: so wait you’re...?
me: yeah, I’m polyamorous. I date multiple people.
me:
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
don’t say it
them: oh, i could never do that
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@MichelleObama
: “I find myself for the first time taking in feelings and emotions that I just buried (in the White House).”
#WWDC17
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Will is right here. It trivial problem to solve technically, but Apple’s objections are moralistic and they are completely uninterested in technical solutions that protect freedom of expression for adults on iOS. They couch this in the idea of “safety”, but safety for whom?
@mb
This should be a solveable problem. If the device has parental controls active, there should be an API that lets the app know "hey, don't show stuff to accounts that have this level of content locked"
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I’m getting married today. 🥰
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👩💻 If you’re a 16-24 year old iOS dev and have an interest in a potential opportunity around WWDC, reply with a link to your website or GitHub, and I’ll share more details in DM.
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Money is a resource, time is a resource, oil is a resource. A software engineer is a person.
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I notice this every day in almost every app. The level of craft in modern software is at a much lower level than it was even 5 years ago, and significantly lower than it was 10 years ago across many categories.
Any of you older tech millennials notice apps got... worse somehow? Like the basic usability stuff: account logins not working, patterns that are incredibly unusual...?
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“As long as the systems that currently underpin platforms remain in place, they’re going to cater to more powerful platforms and business interests first—and users long after. Companies like Apple hold all the cards. Everyone else plays by their rules.”
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If you’re going to be in San Jose for WWDC / Layers / AltConf next week, like this tweet!
I wanna know which of your beautiful faces to look out for while I’m walking around. ❤️🔖
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When I was on the show in 2003, Alex came into the dressing room and met all the contestants and one of the the other kids was completely shocked to see him not in a suit. He said “What, did you think I was born in a suit?”
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Waiter: Do you have any questions about the menu?
Me: Yeah, what typeface is this?
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Taps ≠ Clicks
Screens ≠ Pages
Customers ≠ Uniques
Buttons ≠ Links
Interface Builder ≠ CSS
Apps ≠ Websites.
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🏳️⚧️ Today marks five years since I came out as trans on the internet. Time for a little ✨ gender update ✨.
💖 Check the release notes for all the details!
✌️Came out as nonbinary 4 years ago today!
🥰 Still finding new things that bring me euphoria constantly.
🏳️⚧️ It’s
#NonbinaryPeoplesDay
. Trans rights are under attack. Trans kids need our support.
⚧️ My DMs are always open if you’re trans or questioning. Fuck around & find out.
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RSS is so good. I’ve been reading RSS feeds daily for over 15 years and it’s consistently one of my best sources for new ideas and things I need to know.
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“while gender is a fuck, it’s also kind of fun. you can get kinda silly with it.” —
@_nyancrimew
on
@gendereveal
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This is precisely why I have a shortcut run at 12 AM every day to clean up Screenshots automatically and move them to a folder in iCloud.
When you work on a mobile app your camera roll effectively becomes a graveyard for screenshots
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Rather than reading the TERFy NYT op ed, go read this summary of
@CartaMonir
’s talk about how images of trans people’s bodies are portrayed in the media and frequently censored online just because they’re trans.
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Happy New Year. Also it’s cool and chill if you just realized you might be trans. So cool and chill.
“If you think you’re trans, you’re trans. If you want to be trans, you're trans. There’s no Real Trans People and Fake Trans People.” —
@tuckwoodstock
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🚩There’s much criticism of VC-funded “queer wellness” brand For Them’s acquisition of Autostaddle.
Especially their (retracted) claim that their gender-tracking app uses “biometric data”, whatever that means.
Let’s dig deeper and see what’s going on.
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📱 I use iOS’s Focus feaure for lots of things, but one of the coolest is my Travel focus mode.
📝 I wrote about why I made it, what to do to set it up, and how it can make your next trip to the airport a little less stressful.
🛫 Come fly with me!
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Apple is right that it has a perception problem with its software quality. But it’s the internal perception that’s the problem.
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Obviously just a clerical error, right?🤔
#BREAKING
:Jared Kushner Omitted Meeting With Russians on Security Clearance Forms
@nytimes
#trumprussia
#russiagate
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For just some of the reasons why this ends up harming queer communities, see eevee’s thread:
thinking about "cracking down on adult content harms queer communities the most"
there's rarely an explanation attached, and if there is, it's something that sounds like it could be solved, like that transition discussion or the word "lesbian" are mislabeled as porn
well,
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Did you know that in iOS 5 apps can now launch the Settings app with a special URL. Try openURL:[NSURL urlWithString:@"prefs:root=TWITTER"]
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Yeah sex is cool but have you ever had someone do exactly what they said they would do exactly when they said they would do it.
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Once you go Swift you never go…
I mean, you go right back to writing production Objective-C code because you like actually shipping apps.
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Special travel Home Screen and Focus Mode means I finally get to see my wife again today! ✈️
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It’s actually totally fine to start a company to make money.
You can figure out a business plan that uses your skills and maintain a work / life balance while building something you have equity in.
It doesn’t have to eat you alive. It’s not a waste of time. It’s not shameful.
If you want to start a company because it sounds like a nifty way to make money, you are wasting your time. Start a company because you have this idea that is just eating you alive inside and you have to get it out into the world for the pure satisfaction of making it happen.
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I came out as nonbinary a year ago today, and wow I’m glad I did.
Happy
#InternationalNonbinaryDay
friends! 💛🤍💜🖤
Hey friends! I want to tell you something that’s both vulnerable and exciting. I’ve been thinking about my gender a lot lately. I figured out that…
I’m nonbinary.
I‘m using they/them pronouns, and I’d like you to use those for me too. I really appreciate your support. 💛💜🖤
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📚🏳️⚧️ Book twitter, trans twitter, & trans book twitter:
What’s the best romance or other fun to read novel with a main character who uses they/them pronouns?
Asking for a cis ally who wants to read one to get better at using them in her life.
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If you’re a woman, nb, trans, or person of color and ever need career advice as an iOS engineer, eng manager, or PM, my DMs are always open.
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To the woman reading a copy of The New Yorker and sipping champagne alone at the bar inside the restaurant at MoMA.
You are peak New York.
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Next week I’ll be joining
@bcapps
full-time at
@lickability
to build great iOS apps for ourselves and our clients. I can’t wait.
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Every time I lose followers for tweeting queer and or trans stuff, I get more powerful. I don’t make the rules. 🥳
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Today marks 2 full years since I went full-time at
@lickability
.
I’ve never been happier to work on great things with even better people.
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I feel incredibly lucky every single day that
@girly_juice
agreed to marry me a year ago. Her talent, intelligence, and beauty continue to astound me. 💙
📸:
@roseglassphotos
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Software Sommelier 📱🍷
Here’s how it works:
Reply with a problem you’re trying to solve, and I’ll guide you towards software to help.
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We can prevent elections like this one in the future by enacting a national popular vote. 10 states have signed:
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Exactly a year ago today I married
@Girly_Juice
in the middle of a global pandemic in front of a few pals in Madison Square Park.
Kate is one of the smartest, strongest and most caring people I’ve ever met. I’m so grateful for her every day.
I love you and I’ve got you Kate 💙
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