Erik Vorhes

@erikvorhes

Tengo amigos en todas partes. I love accessibility, bread, CSS, dead languages, inclusive design, literature, & type. MN Aurora FC fan & community owner; Loons & Lynx & Wolves & Werder Bremen fan. He / him / his.

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Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· 22d

They have a friend in Portugal:

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· 29d

RIP Sam Neill. I loved you in everything I’ve seen you in, but especially in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 12

Obligatory alt text, mostly because I’ve wanted to write it myself:

A picnic table carving that says “rest in piss, Mitch McConnell.”

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 7

Hell yes, Egypt!

Ernie from Sesame Street depicted as an Egyptian statue

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 7

Praise be to Ernie

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 7

Also, here’s the image with alt text (please use alt text, Senator):

WISBUSINESS

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is demanding the Trump administration "immediately reverse course" on cutting funding for preventing teen pregnancy, including $1.2 million in grant funding in Wisconsin.
Fifty-three of the program's 66 existing grants were cut, according to the letter. Baldwin's office says that includes $1.2 million in grant funding in Wisconsin, which aimed to prevent unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 7

These days I’m more interested in Maxxmaxxing.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 7

No need to apologize! I got this great pic out of it (and fortunately only had to pay $100 out of pocket for the experience).

My son in an exam chair with his stuffed dog, named “Sausage”; he looks excited about it all. His shirt has a skull and crossbones on it.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 6

More like (sorry for the bad sketch)

A badly drawn skeleton with missing ribs & shoulders, and with the arms coming out of the hips above the legs

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 5

With alt text:

The “Sunday Business” section of the New York Times, with this headline: “Revenge of the Philosophy Majors.”

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 5

This comment from someone on a Facebook post I wrote in 2013 — at the peak of STEM fever — has stuck with me, even more lately.

“I love it when older/non-traditional people go back to school and don’t study some bullshit, easy-breezy field (e.g., art history or sociology), but take on physics or computer science.”

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 4

With alt text:

RISKY SITUATION

He knew he would be taking a chance by signing the Declaration of Independence. But he signed anyway.

"Hey, what are you doing, that's the Declaration of Independence!" said the museum guard, chasing after him.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 3

bug feet train, quote with some bug feetsies

Some kind of millipede or centipede on a rock.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 3

Today’s image CDN outage on Bluesky is a good reminder why alt text is a good thing to do, even if you don’t care about giving context to blind people or even making your images more search-friendly.

A post that says “Go ogle America” with an empty image below. Also in the image: a post from the new Info Wars informing us that Alex Jones popped like a balloon.

The image isn’t loading from that first post, whose text said “Go ogle America.” But it has alt text, which reads: “Google's doodle showing the regular font but with an american flag background to the letters, divided poorly with blue and stars on Go and red and white stripes on ogle”

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 3

Was this the delivery truck?

A refrigerated truck, “Olsen Fish Company: Quality Herring & Lutefisk”

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 3

I’m late to this meme but now seems like a good time to use it:

Chris Matthews, the bust of Cristiano Ronaldo, and Tucker Carlson in a “Hardball” triptych.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 2

Mister Rogers looking through a window. The “sickos” word bubble is present, so he appears to be saying, “Yes … ha ha ha … YES!”

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jul 1

Ncuti Gatwa, as The Doctor. Look, I know he’s not from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but there aren’t many non-white actors to have played the Doctor, and he is also very fun in the role.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 28

Quote skeet with a circle!

A cappuccino with somewhat fern-like foam art. It’s served in a round cup on a round saucer.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 26

Also, hello, fellow Zohran.

88% woke, 12% chud
38% techbro, 62% neo-Luddite
59% hopepilled, 41% doomer
77% Davos, 23% Dubai

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 25

Cool cool cool, this will save me so much money (I have JS on and am not running an ad-blocker):

The heritage auctions site requires third-party cookies to work. Cool cool cool cool cool.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 16

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 15

Tagging in @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social — anything better than “Pillars of Society,” George Grosz (1926) for this? (I’m seeing parallels with the guy who has literal shit for brains.)

Pillars of Society, by George Grosz (1926)

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 13

Getting ready for summer.

Berries on our serviceberry tree, in various stages of ripening.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 11

Hoy es el último día de escuela primaria de Hazel. La inmersión en español ha sido una bendición para nosotros, especialmente este año, ya que nos hemos unido como comunidad y nos hemos enfrentado al miedo y la violencia.

Hazel sostiene su cartel frente a nuestra casa.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 11

It’s the last day of school for Abram!

Abram stands in front of our house, holding his last-day-of-school sign. Alfie and Nola look on, hoping they can join him on an adventure!

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 8

POV: a prescriptivist looks out the window after reacting to the misuse of “POV” —

A creepy man — in this case a descriptive linguist — wears a shirt that has “sickos” printed on it, peers through a window, and says, “Yes … ha ha ha … YES!”

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 7

The vile request from Bari Weiss, with alt text:

There are notes as always and we do rewrites as always. But this is on a very tight deadline. It's Sunday; we're going on the air that night. And in the case of stories that are, as we say, crashing, our deadline on Sunday is noon. So, we work on all of these things. We get the piece approved by everyone. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I'm paraphrasing. I don't have the quote, but that's what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee Good's car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 6

DID SOMEONE SAY CHIHUAHUA

Alfie (black & tan) and Nola (cream) on high alert. (Both are part chihuahua and usually very good doggos.)

Erik Vorhes@erikvorhes· Jun 5

Final score: 7–0. (We snuck out ahead of the big storm that rolled through.) Amazing that we haven’t allowed a goal this season. It was fun seeing the team play solid, cohesive soccer, and I think Madison is better than the scoreline indicates.