Month: 22 Heshvan 5783 (November 2022)

I am just sitting here slack-jawed at the latest news coming out from Elon Musk’s Twitter, where employees are being forced to sign a “pledge” by the end of the day tomorrow, or else they be let go with 3 months’ severance. This is rapidly becoming a cult.

I think we here on Mastodon should start up a betting pool as to the exact date when Elon Musk actually kills Twitter. I honestly can’t see how the company survives 365 days under these circumstances.

—@ryanschultz

It’s only an algorithm if it comes from the algorithm region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling conditionals.

—@Brunty

/me goes to check a new self-described accessible design system library thing.

/me sees it is a Figma file embedded in a web page.

/me cannot put focus on anything to navigate it or use it in any way.

/me closes tab.

I am not its audience, so ok.

—@aardrian

Now they you know Elon Musk exists, you are never allowed to have imposter syndrome again.

You are healed. I have healed you

—@MoBlack

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon’s trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

—@roxiqt

hey are you working on an #activitypub project, or thinking about #decentralized computing post bird flu? I’d love to chat with you about what you’re up to, how you find working with the spec, and gotchas that might come from annoying, in the trenches work for a potential zine or website resource for folks starting out along the path (and to give me something to write about to motivate my own exploration)

—@thock

Blind and Low Vision Screen-Reader Users needed for Research Study – $100 Honorarium

http://www.equipmentlink.org/blog/?p=5235

—@davidGoldfield

The #Ethiopian #Jewish holiday of Sigd, which begins with a fast and ends with feasts and dancing, begins Tuesday. Celebrate with our look at the incredible culinary heritage of the Beta Israel community. https://momentmag.com/talk-of-the-table-ethiopian-food/

#Food #Africa #Judaism

—@momentmag

Another reminder to describe your images please!

If you’re on the web interface you might see images with red borders, that means they don’t have a description!

If you’re not sure how to write image descriptions, check out my guide.

https://m0yng.uk/Image-descriptions-on-the-Fediverse/

—@M0YNG

RT @mikeyil@twitter.com

I am a former engineer at Twitter and I can say for sure that Elon Musk does not know how to use semantic HTML. He uses divs for everything with click events. I tried to tell him he could use anchors and hrefs or button elements during code review and he called it “bloatware”.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mikeyil/status/1593068166489735168

—@SteveFaulkner