school, intergenerational bullshit, counter
“Well, i never! What /are/ they teaching the youths in school these days?”
Um, the same things they've always taught in school—the only things they've /ever/ taught in school? Obedience, deference to authority, yielding to social hierarchy, and accepting overwork without complaint?
@joepie91 i hope that at least the "cool" overpriced TLD that the UK leeched off of will die
or that at very least it will be more widely known why it was a problem
health, body
It's moments like these that are just so baffling I can only really respond with amusement; I do way too little exercise, and I'm suffering from kidney failure and am a few weeks away from a transplantation; and due to some mysterious property of my body that nobody's been able to figure out yet, I just... accidentally bent a fork. What. 😂
some plans for accessibility testing
For a social media project I'm working on (no, not another Twitter clone, don't worry), I have some improved accessibility testing plans, on top of the 'obvious' (Firefox accessibility issue tester, WAVE evaluation):
1. Enable Firefox devtools' color-blind mode during normal usage of the site myself; switching between different simulation modes every few days or so. Then see if anything annoys me.
2. Do the same thing but with JS disabled. See if everything keeps working as expected (some things may not work because they actually cannot be made to work without JS, like real-time chat things).
3. Probably eventually doing the same thing but with a screenreader. This is a bigger endeavour due to my own auditory processing issues and the somewhat flaky state of screenreaders on Linux, so I may not *actually* be able to do this one myself.
If you have other ideas or feedback, feel free to suggest them! Support for mobile (or more accurately, small-screen) devices is out of scope to begin with, but that will change over time and I *am* doing my best not to paint myself into a corner on that.
Heads-up: I see quite a few folks complaining that the latest #Mastodon update significantly worsens readability and/or contrast. Please consider and test carefully before choosing to upgrade!
Pour le festin du dragon, j'ai voulu évoquer les points rouges que l'on retrouve souvent sur les enluminures qui servent à décorer. J'ai donc tout brodé au fil vert foncé sauf les petites croix rouges. Le résultat est plus diffus et inquiétant
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I dislike the increasing prevalence of automatic AI transcription tools.
They all have really shitty privacy policies, and force you to either consent to shipping off your voice for use doing whatever, or not being able to do your job by not joining meetings if anyone wants to use them (bc the general attitude towards this stuff means that nobody cares about consent or privacy).
I hate discord so much, it’s an user-hostile for-profit company, with terrible software, which can ban you for any or no reason, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s like building entire communities on top of an active volcano. But the volcano isn’t just indifferent, it is sucking your blood AND hates you.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.