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#Debirdify has been suspended by Twitter without warning or explanation. Apparently it violated ‘Twitter rules and policies’, but that is all they told us.

We contacted Twitter support about the situation, but we are not particularly optimistic.

We always knew this could happen; it happened to other services in the past, so we are neither particularly surprised nor sad about it.

In the mean time, Fedifinder still works: https://fedifinder.social

Use it while you still can!

—@debirdify

It appears comments aren’t being moderated anymore on CSS-Tricks. If you’re looking to build an accessible calendar, don’t reference the post currently featured on the homepage.

—@eric

What’s classy if you’re rich, but trashy if you’re poor?

Getting money from the government.

—@dgar

The narrative of “kids are depressed because of phones/screentime” is so enticing for adults because it lets us off the hook for our myriad failures: the environment, creating a socual safety net, gun violence, racism, sexism, hate directed at LGBTQIA people, etc, etc.

Youth are rational actors. They see the mess we are creating, and know they have no choice but to live in it.

And: adults have also failed to create a humane and ethical tech industry!

But sure – blame kids for phone use.

—@funnymonkey

Philip Bump at WaPo has an entire article on what the right “means” when they call someone or something “Soros-backed.”

As if it has ever meant anything other than “this is Jews! Jewy Jewy Jews trying to put their Jewy taint on your life! Jeeeeews! Yucky!”

I’m getting tired of deep analysis that tries to give some rational basis to the blatant bigotry of American fascists.

—@amaditalks

Yesterday, the oldest grandson spent a second day helping out. My husband has been keeping Summer in a medium crate next to him on his bed at night. They both want to be close.
It was time for Summer’s upgrade to a giant crate with a fancy mattress. She now sleeps at the end of his bed with her new friend, the bear.
Thank you, grandson, for wrestling and assembly of said crate.
One step closer to ready for tomorrow’s surgery.
Summer loves her new digs.
#DogsOfMastodon

—@norcalgrandma

We’re going to court TOMORROW to defend the digital rights of all libraries! Library Futures will be hosting a live blog during oral argument and a live discussion afterwards. Here’s how to participate: http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/

—@internetarchive

I know my phone has more computing power than what got us to the moon. But, if autocorrect was piloting that spacecraft, there’d be three corpses halfway to Alpha Centauri right now.

—@the_etrain

If anyone is looking for an instance that caters to #EmergencyManagement #PublicSafety #HamRadio or #GMRS, fediverse.krohsnest.com is open. Registration needs approval, but if you list what agency you are with and what position you hold (for Emergency Management and Public Safety), or your callsign (For Ham Radio or GMRS), I’ll get your registration approved as quickly as possible.

—@lckrohjr

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

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

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

As usual, read this from @pluralistic and get pissed. No, I mean really pissed. This is extra pissed times.

“Listen: people aren’t pissed off about the bailout because they want startups to fail. They’re pissed off because they are living in the century of “socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor””

Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank’s apologists (15 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/#ceci-nes-pas-une-bailout

—@jdarnold

Friendly reminder that using those ‘fancy text’ generators to make your name or the text in your posts all pretty makes them inaccessible to screen reader users. They can also be a pain to read visually.
to you, they’re just cute lettering you can just skip over. For a screen reader user like me, depending on various things, they could come out as
‘mathematical small bold k mathematical small bold a mathematical small bold r mathematical small bold a’,
‘letter 126b letter 17dj letter 13y7dwiz’
or nothing at all.
I’m not sure off the top of my head how they appear on a Braille display but it’s bound to be a right mess.
I don’t particularly call any of those pretty, do you?
Plain boring text that is accessible to everyone is the new pretty.
#a11y #accessibility

—@KaraLG84

Two things going on that may be related:

1) Mastodon new user count is up to about 1000 per hour for the last day. This is way up from the recent low hundreds.

2) Reddit r/Twitter is full of complaints that Twitter feeds are now not showing followed accounts, replaced by right wing politics and even porn.

Getting tweets… from people that i dont follow and dont know at all >>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/11stqha/getting_tweets_on_the_timeline_from_people_that_i/

Did twitter change its algorithm completely? >>> https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/11suqxl/did_twitter_change_its_algorithm_completely_no/

#twittermigration

—@mastodonmigration

@HistoPol That’s because mainstream media in Europe and even tech media in Europe haven’t heard yet that there are also other projects in the #Fediverse than #Mastodon. They think that Mastodon = the Fediverse, and the Fediverse = only Mastodon.

And I’ve got the impression that 90% of @Fediverse News still thinks the same in spite of the other 10% trying to tell them otherwise.

Mastodon alone won’t be a social network unless it manages to become so incompatible to the rest of the Fediverse that it becomes a walled garden with no connections to the outside world anymore.

In the meantime, that “social network” also consists of dozens of other projects next to Mastodon.

#MastodonIsNotTheFediverse

—@jupiter_rowland

Wow, this year marks the 20th anniversary of WordPress-it’s wild that I’ve been using it for 15 of those 20 years.

WordPress just posted a downloadable commemorative logo pack (and source files) for their #WP20 celebrations and they’ll continue to announce things for the next couple months up to the actual anniversary date (May 23).

https://wp20.wordpress.net/download-the-wp20-commemorative-logos

#WordPress

—@jake4480

Give a person a program, frustrate them for a day.

Teach a person to program, frustrate them for a lifetime.

—@bennie