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In reply to @inherentlee.

@inherentlee The only one of these that would be indicated by screen readers in almost all cases is the asterisks option. Underscores would depend on screen reader verbosity settings, and capital letters are also somewhat dependent on verbosity settings. Would not use the latter to try to indicate text emphasis, possibly asterisks. Hope this helps, I couldn't get the pole to let me vote.

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In Central European countries, there’s a centuries-old practice, which is called Blaudruck (blue-dyeing) in Austria and Germany. It involves printing a paste called Papp onto cloth before dyeing over it with indigo, and was so significant to German culture that it’s influenced idioms (apparently the phrase “blue Monday” can be traced back to it). The craft almost disappeared in the 1980s. Here’s how a new generation revived it.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230420-blaudruck-europes-secret-dyeing-formula

#Fashion #Textiles #Art #Culture

—@CultureDesk

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Lots of crypto spam coming from numbered mastodon.social spambot accounts right now.

They’re tagging people directly in their posts.

I’m not quite how to best handle these as the admin beyond blocking the accounts, which seems ineffective.

Individual people can add filters for the following keywords, through: moonxtrade dot com, PINTER-23 without the dash. (Or B-T-C without the dashes, really, why would you want buttcoin in your feed?)

#fediblock

—@nikodemus

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So, this guy solicited nude videos from an undercover police officer he believed to be a minor in 2018. It took nearly five years to convict him and (apologies but I’m going to use all caps here) HE REMAINED AN ACTIVE DUTY NYPD OFFICER UP TO HIS CONVICTION THIS WEEK. In the press release, the NYPD goes on and on about how he betrayed his oath but they don’t seem bothered with letting him keep his badge for years after he did.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/nypd-officer-convicted-possession-and-attempted-receipt-child-pornography-and-sexual

#nyc #NYPD #policing #hypocrisy #law #EricAdams

—@neilcar

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If you received unwanted direct messages this morning, one way to mitigate this is by disallowing direct messages from accounts you aren’t following.

Navigate to Preferences, Settings, Notifications, and check the box labelled “Block direct messages from people you don’t follow”

—@admin