Today’s album:
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Students at a high school in Dearborn will be evaluated by teachers before prom. If their dresses aren’t appropriate, they’ll be given a Modesty Poncho.
A new @monday. Yay! Hi @Sergio_101 👋
… Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus owners have a variety of ways to keep their content close.
– Justin Denison announcing new 128GB and 256GB Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus models
Giving your early adopters a kick in the teeth is an interesting strategy. Nice work, Samsung.
Testing the improvements.
The United States has accepted only 11 Syrian refugees this year.
– Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani outlines the US contribution to the murder of the Syrian populace
Rising property prices have made it harder for millions of people to buy a home and the number of households renting privately has reached a 30-year high, according to the English Housing Survey.
Grief is an unpredictable companion.
I can plug it directly into my MacBook Pro, no dongle.
– Colin Devroe reviews the Pixel 2
I agree with a lot of this and have found a number of other delightful features. This is Android at its best on a phone.
at the very least, there will be a chronological timeline
– Dom Hofmann is building the successor to Vine and there are open forums for it.
A resurgence of chronological feeds would be awesome.
adding gender pronouns as a top level profile feature to everything i work on moving forward.
Another move is happening, whilst one is close to completion. Seriously, we should have a Micro.blog Movers pin. 🙃
One of the goals for my work on the web is to make things as simple as possible as often as possible. This post on inessential is a great example of the spirit with which I am attempting to operate. Thanks, @brentsimmons!
I had no idea there was a (seemingly) robust open source, self-hosted URL shortener.
Many nerds like to shit on the official Twitter app for being an abomination, mainly due to the algorithmic timeline, but the truth is Twitter’s iOS client is worlds better than Tweetbot for accessibility.
This is the stuff I’ll miss about Twitter.
… revenues rose to $11.9bn in the first three months of the year, compared to $8bn previously.
The Pink Lady Food Photography competition has its winners and they are all just brilliant.
Google Tasks is a new to-do list app
The ramp up to I/O continues apace. It’s about time they released this as a stand-alone app, separate from Calendar. Although integration with email would be good, assuming it’s not included.
In the last few years, Google has also made emoji worker characters less gender specific and included a range of skin tone options. Some believe those changes, like the water pistol, were politically motivated.
A Google update centred around podcasts