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I don’t know what it is about my eyes not working that makes people think I can’t speak.
My wife and I were just out for a walk round the local reservoir and this bloke asked her, probably looking at me, “does she like dogs?”
I said “Yes I do and you could’ve asked me you know.”
I’ve had it up to here long ago with politely just putting up with it in case I hurt peoples feelings. If that’s letting the side down and shitting on the blind community then I’m proud to do so, and want that on a t-shirt.
Anyway I met a cute old Jack Russell, and the walk was lovely if a bit windy. Also I’m knackered now.

—@KaraLG84

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Another rainy day in Humboldt.
I am positive our neighbors wonder about why I was out throwing tennis balls in the rain.
It worked, though. Summer was worn out enough for a low-key house game of fetch.
She has learned to catch the ball mid-air in the house and gets lots of good girl feedback from her pal.
We are a fun-loving party til you drop sort of family for sure.
#DogsOfMastodon

—@norcalgrandma

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Hi all: research from our latest #TwitterMigration informed this interview I did with @mattontech for the IEEE Spectrum Magazine. This is one of the largest tech and software engineering trade mags, and they also shared it to their Twitter following of about 150,000+ developers…

here is the article:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/mastodon-social-media

And here is the Tweet, any help retweeting this would be most welcome: https://twitter.com/IEEESpectrum/status/1637091726387978243

cc: @spreadmastodon
@fediversenews

—@tchambers

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In reply to @mektastic.

@mektastic @dotsonapage Bookwyrm is a decentralized Goodreads alternative that can communicate with Mastodon both ways. In other words, you can follow and interact with Bookwyrm accounts from your Mastodon instance and vice versa. Several people host Bookwyrm servers, usually for free, and you can import your books from Goodreads to get started.

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In reply to @KaraLG84.

@KaraLG84 @mektastic Not gonna lie, those are the people who make me wish that, when making web things accessible, I could have a selecter to target "blind people who loudly proclaim to the rest of us that we are not entitled to accessibility" so I could ensure they don't get to benefit from the accessibility stuff being implemented. Spoiler alert: I can't do this, and honestly I shouldn't be able to have the ability to do this.