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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

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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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Nemo (the happy leftist) (@MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social) (kolektiva.social)
"Stop overusing the word Nazi" No, you stop facilitating Nazism by pretending it's a phenomenon unique to 1930s Germany. When you say shit like that you are downplaying the monstrous actions of Christofascists who are in power and copying directly from the Nazi playbook as we speak. You're basically saying "well sure they're bad but not as bad as Nazis." That's you giving yourself an excuse to do nothing. That's you letting Nazism fly under the radar because "it can't happen here." It is happening. And if you're waiting for people to be put in literal gas chambers before you are willing to call it what it is, you're gonna be way too late to stop it.
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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

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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

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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

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@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

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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

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I’m very happy that Freedom Scientific is considering establishing a presence on Mastodon. From the February FSOpenLine released on FSCast episode 227:

RYAN: And just to go back to your first comment about Mastodon, it’s actually something we’ve been in conversations on, looking at how we would get set up and how we would leverage that platform. So don’t have exact timeframe, but it’s definitely something we’re working on.

https://blog.freedomscientific.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FSOpenLineTranscript-February2023.html

—@DavidGoldfield

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The Blind Vintage Tech Community (BVTC) forum site is now live!
Are you blind/visually impaired? Are you a sucker for retro hardware and/or software? Do you hate to see icons of the past slip into the land of the forgotten? This is the site for you! This site aims to unite sightless nostalgia freaks and retrophiles the world over. Classic operating systems, old school screen readers, long lost and forgotten speech synthesizers… It’s all here!
Though this site is mainly targeted at the blind/visually impaired, sighted folks are allowed to join as well! It’s important that sighted people gain an insight (no pun intended) into how us V.I folk live our lives. Nothing about us without us, right? With all that said, remember to follow the rules and have a good time! 🙂
Check out the site and sign up for free at https://bvtc.epizy.com

—@seedy