Anne Petersen
@apetersen.bsky.social
Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead @ U.S. Web Design System / government / civic; past 18F, Penn State, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan.
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I miss when technology used to be fun.
November 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I miss when technology used to be fun.
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We continue rolling through 100 Tens to celebrate 10 years of Letterform Archive. This group includes contributions from:
James Goggin @practise.bsky.social
Jean-Benoit Levy
Jennifer Morla
John Stevens
Tezzo Suzuki
Juan Villanueva
Julien Priez @boogypaper.bsky.social
#100Tens
James Goggin @practise.bsky.social
Jean-Benoit Levy
Jennifer Morla
John Stevens
Tezzo Suzuki
Juan Villanueva
Julien Priez @boogypaper.bsky.social
#100Tens
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We continue rolling through 100 Tens to celebrate 10 years of Letterform Archive. This group includes contributions from:
James Goggin @practise.bsky.social
Jean-Benoit Levy
Jennifer Morla
John Stevens
Tezzo Suzuki
Juan Villanueva
Julien Priez @boogypaper.bsky.social
#100Tens
James Goggin @practise.bsky.social
Jean-Benoit Levy
Jennifer Morla
John Stevens
Tezzo Suzuki
Juan Villanueva
Julien Priez @boogypaper.bsky.social
#100Tens
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To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.
#LetterformArchive #100Tens
#LetterformArchive #100Tens
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.
#LetterformArchive #100Tens
#LetterformArchive #100Tens
This is a font joke.
September 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
This is a font joke.
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Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
September 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
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OK, fine, I'll allow it. It's too fortuitous.
"This is a case about Katz and dogs" -- opening line of a pending SCOTUS cert. petition about an allegedly unconstitutional search involving a police dog.
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
September 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
OK, fine, I'll allow it. It's too fortuitous.
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So popular all of a sudden, but I’ve been following the NDS for years. 👀
Netherland Design System (NDS): nldesignsystem.nl
(Yes, I know they use the acronym NLDS. That’s the joke, as they say.)
Netherland Design System (NDS): nldesignsystem.nl
(Yes, I know they use the acronym NLDS. That’s the joke, as they say.)
August 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
So popular all of a sudden, but I’ve been following the NDS for years. 👀
Netherland Design System (NDS): nldesignsystem.nl
(Yes, I know they use the acronym NLDS. That’s the joke, as they say.)
Netherland Design System (NDS): nldesignsystem.nl
(Yes, I know they use the acronym NLDS. That’s the joke, as they say.)
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This story is beautiful.
funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer
giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice
I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body
giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice
I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body
“men can’t express their feelings because they get taught as boys to toughen up if they cry”
*stares in Was In Ballet For Her Entire Childhood*
*stares in Was In Ballet For Her Entire Childhood*
August 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This story is beautiful.
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How has everyone forgotten their literal job title is "public servant"?
August 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
How has everyone forgotten their literal job title is "public servant"?
I don’t usually do this, but I recently answered a blatant scam call (in part to determine the schtick). And once I’d gotten what I wanted out of it, I found it was refreshing to say to someone:
“you know you’re bullshit, right?”
Kinda wish I could say that in more situations.
“you know you’re bullshit, right?”
Kinda wish I could say that in more situations.
August 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I don’t usually do this, but I recently answered a blatant scam call (in part to determine the schtick). And once I’d gotten what I wanted out of it, I found it was refreshing to say to someone:
“you know you’re bullshit, right?”
Kinda wish I could say that in more situations.
“you know you’re bullshit, right?”
Kinda wish I could say that in more situations.
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One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.
August 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
One of the things you learned at 18F and USDS is that government isn’t like a business: it has to serve everybody and not just specific market segments that are the most convenient.
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Line 1 Monbrutal
August 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Line 1 Monbrutal
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Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha.
That's how you can tell human authors from AI.
AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.
Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.
AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.
Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.
Em dashes, like anything, should be used in moderation. Check first with your editor if em dashes are right for you. 😉
#WriteSky #WritingTips
#WriteSky #WritingTips
August 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Every time someone tells me to use fewer em dashes ⸻ I bring out Big Bertha.
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i saw my life branching out before me like the linktree in her bio. from the tip of every branch, a future online persona beckoned and winked: substack essayist, graphic designer, tiktok creator, podcaster, cult favorite with a patreon
July 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
i saw my life branching out before me like the linktree in her bio. from the tip of every branch, a future online persona beckoned and winked: substack essayist, graphic designer, tiktok creator, podcaster, cult favorite with a patreon
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Wikipedia have changed the label on one of the buttons.
Something that strikes me is that the ticket was opened in 2016.
I’m also sure some people are pissed about this minor change
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132
Something that strikes me is that the ticket was opened in 2016.
I’m also sure some people are pissed about this minor change
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132
T131132 Re-label the "Save" button to be "Publish", to better indicate to users the outcomes of their action
From feedback we get repeatedly as a development team from interviews, user testing and other solicited and unsolicited avenues…
phabricator.wikimedia.org
August 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Wikipedia have changed the label on one of the buttons.
Something that strikes me is that the ticket was opened in 2016.
I’m also sure some people are pissed about this minor change
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132
Something that strikes me is that the ticket was opened in 2016.
I’m also sure some people are pissed about this minor change
phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132
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July 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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It's international nonbinary day. A plea to remember nonbinary means a lot of things. We have a very set idea culturally of what nonbinary looks like--white, thin, perhaps dandyish--and so many friends present that way! But many more don't, and aren't, those things. Free your mind of pigeonholes.
July 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It's international nonbinary day. A plea to remember nonbinary means a lot of things. We have a very set idea culturally of what nonbinary looks like--white, thin, perhaps dandyish--and so many friends present that way! But many more don't, and aren't, those things. Free your mind of pigeonholes.
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tbh what being nonbinary gets me is mostly just this shiftless feeling of not belonging anywhere, but also knowing without any doubt that that is where I belong. gender is a costume that I wear very well and that's about it haha
July 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
tbh what being nonbinary gets me is mostly just this shiftless feeling of not belonging anywhere, but also knowing without any doubt that that is where I belong. gender is a costume that I wear very well and that's about it haha
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beware the ides of july
July 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
beware the ides of july
A deep-rumble motorcycle just started up nearby. As it and its driver took off down the street, they absolutely blasted the neighborhood with the chorus of "Since You Been Gone."
Chef's kiss, truly.
Chef's kiss, truly.
July 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A deep-rumble motorcycle just started up nearby. As it and its driver took off down the street, they absolutely blasted the neighborhood with the chorus of "Since You Been Gone."
Chef's kiss, truly.
Chef's kiss, truly.
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happy non-binary people's day
send your non-binary friends money and/or love today we are not doing great
send your non-binary friends money and/or love today we are not doing great
July 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
happy non-binary people's day
send your non-binary friends money and/or love today we are not doing great
send your non-binary friends money and/or love today we are not doing great
That’s one way to describe accident detritus.
June 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
That’s one way to describe accident detritus.