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The Smallest Word on the Shirt Is the Whole Argument: Reading the Lowercase ‘meh.’

By Rick Carter 10/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The native garment preview shows a dark shirt with very small, centered lowercase lettering: meh. No animal. No slogan. No exclamation point. The period is there, and the scale is the first thing you notice—or rather, the first thing you almost...
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The Dashed Circle at the Top of the Ramp: Reading the ‘I Had Potential’ Shirt

By Rick Carter 08/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
At the upper left of the graphic, a dashed circle sits on a ledge. It is not filled. It is not a ball. It is the outline of one, the place where a ball would be if it had stayed put....
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The Period After ‘meh’: Reading the Loudest Small Word on a Dark Shirt

By Rick Carter 08/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The native garment preview shows four lowercase letters and a period: meh. They are set in a heavy, bold white sans-serif against a dark shirt, and they occupy the chest like a headline. There is no animal, no mascot, no secondary...
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The Smiling Root Vegetables Are the Argument: Reading the ‘Let’s Root For Each Other’ Shirt

By Rick Carter 07/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The shirt reads, in full, LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. The words wrap around four smiling root vegetables — a carrot, a radish, a beet, and an onion — each drawn with its roots visible in...
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The Crossed-Out Hand Is the Point: Reading ‘Not Friendly Do Not Touch’

By Rick Carter 06/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The shirt reads NOT FRIENDLY DO NOT TOUCH in the flat, capitalized register of a hazard placard. Above or beside the words sits a yellow caution triangle, and inside that triangle a hand is crossed out. The palette is the one...
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The Selfie at the Gate: ID.me, Unemployment Claims, and the Accountability Gap in Identity-Proofing Procurement

By Rick Carter 05/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The gate is a contract, not just an algorithm When an unemployed worker files a claim online, the first thing they may encounter is not a caseworker or a benefits portal but a request: upload a photo of your driver’s license,...
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The Period After ‘meh’: Reading the Loudest Small Word on a Dark Shirt

By Rick Carter 05/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The native garment preview shows a dark shirt with very small, centered lowercase lettering: meh. No animal. No slogan. No illustration. The word sits in the middle of the chest at a scale that requires a second look, and the period...
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The Dashed Circle at the Top of the Ramp: Reading the ‘I Had Potential’ Shirt

By Rick Carter 04/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The shirt shows a diagram before it shows a joke. In white capitals across the chest: I HAD POTENTIAL. Beneath the words, a curved ramp descends from an upper-left ledge to a lower-right flat. At the top, a dashed empty circle....
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The Period After ‘meh’: Reading the Loudest Small Word on a Dark Shirt

By Rick Carter 03/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The native garment preview shows four letters and a period: meh. Lowercase, bold, white against a dark shirt. No illustration, no secondary slogan, no animal mascot. The word is set large enough to be read across a room, and the period...
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The Smiling Root Vegetables Are the Argument: Reading the ‘Let’s Root For Each Other’ Shirt

By Rick Carter 02/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The first thing the shirt asks you to notice is not the sentence. It is the soil. Four root vegetables—carrot, radish, beet, onion—sit in a row with their roots drawn down into the dirt, and every one of them is smiling....
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The Audit Record on Login.gov: One Open Recommendation, One Missing Escalation Clock

By Rick Carter 01/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The Audit Record on Login.gov: One Open Recommendation, One Missing Escalation Clock If you have read that Login.gov’s identity proofing “failed its audit,” read the audit record first. The most recent Government Accountability Office statement on Login.gov, delivered as testimony to...
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The Crossed-Out Hand Is the Point: Reading ‘Not Friendly Do Not Touch’

By Rick Carter 01/11/2026 My Blog 0 Comments
The first thing I notice is the hand. Not the words, though they are set in the blocky, condensed capitals of a hazard placard, and not the yellow triangle, which borrows the caution sign’s authority without asking permission. It is the...
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