Kim‽ @kimpegasus@awoo.space

No unionist majority in Northern Ireland for the first time ever; Sinn Féin the largest party in Ireland for the first time ever.

Some bits have gotten better (the new input style = good improvement), some bits remain pretty bad (FABs = terrible UX), and I know the system is intended as a themeable baseline—my complaint is mainly with how Google themselves have implemented it.

Potentially controversial opinion: I think Google's Material Design is a bit crap.

Like, the thought underpinning it is (mostly) sound, but I find the most recent version of it just kinda aesthetically bleh and surprisingly hard to parse in my limited experience as a user.

Star Trek memes is having a fun time.

Microsoft seem keen to position themselves as better and more hip and happening with good design and practices, but good god some of the code they put out is still utter bollocks.

Honestly how the ever-loving fuck did Microsoft manage to make a “customisable” SSO solution where the login, registration, and forgotten password pages all use totally different HTML to output the exact same fields????!!!!

Well shit eBay why don’t you tell us who won then, jeez.

Well, it's a lot cheaper than the real thing.

Draft of govt’s replacement to the Common Agricultural Policy falls well short of EU’s environmental and wildlife protection standards. Quelle surprise.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/03/loss-of-eu-protections-could-imperil-uk-hedgehogs-report-says-aoe

Fun fact: There have only been five Catholic popes named Sixtus.

This causes me physical pain.

UUURREGGGGGHJHHHHHHHH

Don’t the Brexiteers setting off fireworks know that they were invented by FOREIGNERS???

Basically.

Artist: https://www.willmcphail.com/

(This tweet meant in jest at my noticing that today was Gorilla Suit Day… mostly.)

Appropriate that today is National Gorilla Suit Day given brexiteers are a bunch of overgrown monkeys.

The weirdest part of this dream was how vividly I remember the layout and appearance of the apartment. I could probably build the whole thing in the Sims from memory right now.

And the worst part is that exact thing is happening to millions of people right now. How incredibly miserable.

I straight up had a nightmare about Brexit last night. I had moved to France, got a nice job, got a bloody lovely apartment, muddled along with the language but everything was nice.

And then Britain left the EU and the entire life I had built fell apart.