Kind: Reposts

Mastodon intros be like*:

Hi! I’m * ENTER NAME HERE * a non-binary, astrophysicist, shaman, dula, and master cross stitcher. My hobbies include crushing capitalism, ping pong, playing a theremin, and event planning. I am in a throuple with a ghost, a leprechaun, and my boyfriend Chad. Let’s be friends!

*and I fucking love it

—@sporedrive

Success is Not a Destination, it’s a Journey filled with Awkward Dance Moves and Questionable Fashion Choices. #Motivation #Humor #SuccessTips

—@mikecarter

I’m so modern that rather than walking into a room and forgetting why I went there, I open Google and forget what I was looking for.

—@dgar

Jerry Springer: *opens envelope* God….you…ARE Jesus’s father!

Joseph: *throws chair*

—@the_etrain

Accessibility isn’t something you add to your product. It is your product.

I think 90% of my job is trying to convey this. If the button isn’t labeled, if the text cannot be seen, if the action cannot be performed, then it may as well not be there for some subset of people. #accessibility #a11y

—@sommer

Loaves and Fishes

It just occurred to me, if Jesus was a TV evangelist, or a “Christian politician” he would have eaten all the fish and bread and told the people to go home, fix themselves some food and bring him 10% of it tomorrow…

—@Mastopoet

I’m hosting the networking lounge from 2-3 pm Eastern over at https://summit.atarim.io/ if anyone wants to hop on and discuss #accessibility or #WordPress in #HigherEd.

—@rachelcherry

Hey there folks! I get to make a really, really, really big announcement today. I can finally, fianlly announce that, for the past 2 years, I have been working on total blind accessibility for Forza Motorsport. Here’s the audio described version of a video we made detailing these systems and how they work together to make Forza totally blind accessible. https://youtu.be/SwWn1EZTSSY

—@superblindman

If you have a little bit of extra money and want to do a good deed today, consider donating a few dollars towards my friend/roomie’s GoFundMe. She’s had a run of bad luck and needs help to avoid more crushing debt! Any little bit helps. She’s a good person and deserves a break. And I know she will pay it forward when she’s back on her feet, she is always volunteering for community service! https://gofund.me/6ea4ed3b
If you can’t donate, boosting is also a big help!
#MutualAid #gofundme #HelpNeeded

—@Yotenotes

Calista went out in the rain earlier and I dried her off with a towel, and then she went down for a nap. When she woke up she had the messiest curliest bed head I have ever seen on a dog, I am not sure if this picture captures it but the curls are a little bit out of control

—@Pawpower

I have no problem with Bluesky if it actually does what it sets out to do: federates over multiple nodes, and provides nomadic identity.

But one node and one identity key generator means that’s not happening.

Until they actually decentralize, this is another walled garden.

—@atomicpoet

People with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are all around us—they’re integrated in schools and the workforce. But for many of us, all we know about ASD are the news stories speculating about a diagnosis for a violent mass shooter or a savant with remarkable skills.

We rarely hear directly from people with autism. In today’s The Big Picture, we change that. Read more at #TheBigPicture: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/autism-spectrum-disorder-adult-life

—@georgetakei

“Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.” https://truthout.org/articles/ableism-enables-all-forms-of-inequity-and-hampers-all-liberation-efforts/

—@thea11yproject

I wrote a little code snippet to help you inline SVGs in #WordPress this morning and shot off a little blog post about it. It uses the fantastic new HTML Tag Processor in WordPress 6.2. https://aurooba.com/inline-svgs-in-your-wordpress-code-with-this-helper-function/

—@aurooba

Hello Mastodon!!! We are officially fediverse participants! 🎉 In honor and celebration of this milestone, we are sharing our interview with Dr. Johnathan Flowers (@shengokai) about the pros/cons of Twitter vs. Mastodon, and the 101 of the fediverse. Give it a listen!

https://www.radicalai.org/twitter-vs-mastodon

—@radicalaipod

I’ve never met a 10X engineer who got paid a 10X salary. 2X is probably the best I’ve seen. Seems like a pretty shitty deal, no? You’re probably better off joining us 1X plebs and spend your remaining 9X elsewhere.

—@anderseknert

Thank you for your continued support! Mona will be globally available on App Store starting May 1, 2023. You will be able to install the app and use many features for free. You can also purchase a Mona Pro or Mona Pro Max to activate extra capabilities. For customers of Spring and Spring mini, Mona Pro Max can be purchased with a great discount.
* USD prices listed on the picture are only valid until May 31, 2023. Prices may vary in different regions.

—@MonaApp

TIL: lace cards

It’s a computer punch card with every possible spot punched out, so what remains is a flimsy filamentous net of paper that instantly tears and jams up the card reader.

Old-school denial of service attack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card

—@debcha

Randomly noting: if you’re in the US, in April of 2024, the US will have a solar eclipse pass over a bunch of states for the first time in 7 years, and for the last time in *decades*.

It is an indescribably wonderful experience to be in the zone of totality. This article kinda covers it:. If you’re not sure if you’ve seen one, you haven’t. It’s the most bizarre thing where it feels like someone flips a light switch and turns off the sky. https://www.space.com/37791-go-see-the-solar-eclipse-in-person.html

—@mmasnick

In the TestFlight app, if you saw a message says ”the developer removed you from the test program.” that’s a bug of TestFlight. I did not remove anyone from the test program of Mona Beta.

To continue using Mona Beta, please tap “Stop Testing” on TestFlight’s Mona Beta page, then use this invitation link to re-enter our test group: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xNdgUbh6

—@MonaApp