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yay, new WCAG 2.2 editor’s draft out https://w3c.github.io/wcag/guidelines/22/ … including the updated understanding for 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) with the spacing exception based on circles (and lots of fresh new illustrations/diagrams I made for it) https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3103#event-9202338934 https://w3c.github.io/wcag/understanding/target-size-minimum.html #a11y #accessibility #wcag

—@patrick_h_lauke

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Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I’ve ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from *all* of the same problems as Mastodon.

Your server goes down? Sorry, all of your followers are lost. Account portability is no better than Mastodon. ‘DIDs’ serve literally no purpose. And none of the API code that Bluesky uses in their own app validates ANY of the crypto they’re doing on the server. NONE OF IT.

—@sam

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I know people are anti-birdsite, but with Elmo taking down accounts with no activity, it makes me sad for all the people where someone died, and their account is a type of online memorial.

Twitter has no official policy on what happens to someone’s account when they die. There is no legacy transfer to a family member or friend, only the option to delete.

Unless you arranged with someone to access the account post death, it sits there or gets deleted.

P.S. You can transfer your FB, Insta, and Google to a family member in many instances; If you set it up before you pass.

#birdsite #death #tech #infosec

—@Lockdownyourlife

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Anyone who still thinks that Elon Musk is “just” a spoiled rich white boy tech bro whose political views are, as New York Times tries to tell us, “complicated,” needs to read Popular Information’s outstanding commentary on his blatant attempt to spread white supremacist disinformation following the choking of Jordan Neely by Daniel Penny on a train in New York.

Musk is a crude out & out white supremacist. And his platform makes him dangerous.

#ElonMusk #WhiteSupremacy

https://popular.info/p/elon-musks-obsession-with-anti-white

—@wdlindsy

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Elon Musk's obsession with anti-white bias
On May 1, Jordan Neely, an unhoused subway busker and Michael Jackson impersonator with a history of mental illness, was killed on the F train in New York City. At about 2:30 in the afternoon, Neely entered a subway car and began screaming that he was hungry and thirsty. "I don’t care if I go to jail and get locked up," Neely said, according to a witness. "I’m ready to die."
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If you’re around a person who is struggling with mental health, the worst thing you can tell them to do is to just feel better or stop being negative. It’s not a choice. Nobody chose to struggle with mental health. The people you’re around most likely don’t intend to be negative or bring you down. They’re hurting. They’re struggling with things that you don’t understand. Telling them to stop being negative, or to get over it, or to feel better, or telling them that they’re fine and to stop faking it is the worst thing you can do, and it shouldn’t be hard to see why. These statements make any given person’s struggles so many times worse. Not only are you minimizing them, you’re also showing that you really don’t give a shit what they’re going through. Support them. Understand them. Listen to them. Do what you can for them. You could honestly save their life by just being there and supporting them when they need you most.

—@Kaliah