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look at me tweaking screen reader intonation :p quite interesting how much a bit of visually hidden punctuation can help

also fucked up little detail I found while testing with TalkBack (android screenreader) is the Mastodon toot's info line goes "May 4th, middle dot, (the privacy icon, nothing is said), middle dot, 0 (link), middle dot, 0 (link), middle dot, 0 (link), middle dot, Open in web (link)

(at least on 3.5.3)

wii shop bossa nova cover has been playing in my ear for 30mins now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37cE20pFwwQ

pixie.town has been invite-based with only the most quality posters for years now, where is all our FOMO-fuelled hype, and massive investments

PSA: not CW-ing shocking messages because "people need to be aware of this" gets you blocked.

i wish a hot girl would kidnap me so i dont have to review merge requests anymore

"nature calls" i say, excusing myself to the bathroom only to receive the tragic announcement that they will be denying all my submissions going forward without so much as a cursory reading, and that, were I to try, I'd also have to submit said papers as evidence in court

A lot of people on here dunk on Signal a lot but checkout this blog post

signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-

It sounds like they did a lot of user research with users around the world so maybe check your cultural assumptions when you criticise things like Stories and Stickers.

in other news im considering designing my own 2s quadcopter lipo charger 🤔 🤔

like this emax one is decent, but it only has 2 ports, and the other 2 ports are for 1s so i never use them. so a nice 4 port multi-charger with a similar design would be great, probably usb type-c too

hollywood adaptation of The Dispossessed

the studio execs are on board but they insist on making a few changes. nothing too severe!

really minor things, you'll hardly notice most of them. the main one is instead of the main character being Shevek, instead he's Shrek

I had big issues introducing profile fields to the existing design, just nothing looked quite right. So after lots of pondering and experimenting I tried out this layout on a whim (it's similar to mastodon 3.x profiles) and actually quite like what I ended up at

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