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Colin the Mathmo

PSA: To everyone who is #NewHere, and those who are not.

When you use hashtags it can help those using a #ScreenReader to use #CamelCase. Screen-readers can then find and pronounce the constituent words, rather than trying to pronounce the whole thing.

It's not essential, but it's one way we can make the Fediverse more welcoming.

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Robiscuit 🌈 :heart_sp_nb:

Yesterday I went to a really neat art workshop about drawing trees. Learnt some new techniques for masking with watercolours, and had a fun time playing around with mixed media. This one is a mix of watercolour, oil pastel, tissue paper and acrylic pen.

#MastoArt #MixedMedia #Trees

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Mulmbot

vincent.callebaut.org/category This architect is doing some of the wildest solarpunk shit I've seen in my life! I don't know what to think about this?! Everything seems completely impossible :D Lots of cool designs though! Especially I've been wishing for an airship comeback, for many reasons, but vertical ones?! wild

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Erik :disabled_heart:

I'm seeing a lot of proclamations that there should be no exceptions to describing your images or that there's no reason to interact with any that aren't described.

I know these mean well, but they are themselves ableist.

Disabled people know that access needs can clash. I benefit from described images, but I know some people struggle to write them because of their own disabilities.

And that's okay! The culture of image descriptions is great here but it should never be absolutist.

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Erik :disabled_heart:

I challenged someone on their hardline stance on this once, and it blew up into a tiny fedi drama, with the nice outcome of more social solutions.

That's around the time people started to CW undescribed images.

My instance developed an emoji :help_describe: to indicate you'd like a media description added.

There's a group you can tag, @imagecaptionspls, that people follow who are willing to add descriptions.

And there's @PleaseCaption to remind you if you forget.

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Erik :disabled_heart:

Please describe:

* your jokes/memes - it's no good saying "this is just silly, you're not missing anything"; let us be the judge of that! Also, being disabled isn't about being dull and worthy all the time.

* your artwork - I'm so sad when I see cool art I can't boost (and sometimes can't even discern :) )

* your gifs and videos - description isn't just for still images!

* your audio clips - yep, these can be described too!

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Russ Sharek

Tonight the Emperor Norton Coffee Hour returns to the #CircusInPlace video chat!

For the new kids, it's an hour where us clowns get to have a coffee with internet friends before diving into an entire night of circus skills training.

Join us starting at 7PM UTC-5, and hang around all night as I practice juggling, handstands, and other gravity defying nonsense.

meet.jit.si/circushomegym

As always, I'm incredibly grateful for the company.

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about the current harassment wave, boost for awareness 

the harassment instances such as poast, nicecrew, etc are currently going through the introductions hashtag to try and find any queer people they can find to harass, as well as spamming it with their own shit.

a lot of the harassment replies /untag/ the original poster so they might not realize those are replies are there but other people looking at the post will see them.

please defederate from any such instances to keep your users safe, they're very nasty.
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Terry Hancock

I have started using this metaphor when recommending friends to use it.

The metaphor extends to the available feeds:

'Home': chat w/ my friends circle, including neighbors and visitors you invited in.

'Local': building party, hang w/ neighbors.

'Federated': take a walk down the street, see weird stuff, chat w/ random strangers, but keep your guard up.

Of course, it's not a perfect match, but I think it quickly conveys the social experience and trade-offs between different instances.

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shitpostalotl ==> akko.unix.dog

how to gremlin
1) identify computer about to go to ewaste
2) :wide_s: :wide_n: :wide_a: :wide_t: :wide_c: :wide_h:
3) run linux on it

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Chris Wood

Reasonable Colors is an open-source colour system for making accessible colour palettes.

It uses an intuitive system of shades to help you select colours which meet the appropriate WCAG contrast rating, even if you're mixing and matching base colours:

reasonable.work/colors/

#opensource #design #ui #uidesign #color #colour #accessibility

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Hi uh, catarot is up and working, I guess. If you're into wireless receipt printers that look like cats printing out tarot readings.

git.cyberia.club/starless/cata

I haven't done much doc work for it, and likely won't. The original branch is github.com/rbaron/catprinter.

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L.J.'s victorious sword-dance

A common piece of advice about visual descriptions is to do them like you're describing for a friend on the phone with you. Well, by the time you've gone through the color of someone's hair, sweater, pants, and counted the number of their eyelashes, your poor friend has gone to sleep or hung up! Come on, is that what REALLY gives you the feels about someone you're looking at? How about the fact that they're wearing a torn shirt that reads "fuck the cops, and not in a fun way?" That they smell like the ocean and flowers? That they LOOK like they'd smell like the ocean and flowers, and fuck if you know what you mean by that but it's true in that moment so live with it? You'll make your friend laugh at your ridiculousness and love you all that more for the goof you are (or block your number, idk), isn't that so much more fun than blue sweaters and green pants?

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Women’s art

Friday, 15th April, 2022
Here are four talented artists you may want to follow.

@_crystal_dreams
mastodon.social/@_crystal_drea

@Larn_draws
mastodon.art/@Larn_draws/10808

@Redundantz
mastodon.art/@Redundantz/10808

@polterink
mastodon.art/@polterink/108062

#FF #FollowFriday #FediverseFriday

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Life update, work, mildly stressful things but fine 

New job and partner things are taking up a lot of brain space, so I haven't been on as much.

New job is going well. I just had the healthiest, most lively pr the other day and it really underscored how unhelpful the feedback I got at my last place was.

Partner is moving out from an unhealthy living situation this week and has a pretty major surgery next week. I'm helping out.

I'm stressed but okay. Things should settle a bit soon.

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s0 Traingirl Era

I think the most important thing I can say is:
If there are kids/teens close in your life that might be Having Gender Feelings, or have expressed that they're trans -- acceptance is good but not remotely enough. Don't just be 'cool' about it. You need to be actively loving and supportive. Because they are trying so so hard, and being met with casual acceptance may be less than they need even if they don't know it. They are dealing with grief, and fear, and confusion, and new joy, and so, so vulnerable. Talk about that with them.

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pretty fungi

the Vibes Difference between having christmas lights strung up around your workspace and having Gamer LEDs on things

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Vegetarian, non vegan food 

I put hoisin sauce on my egg and peppers hash this morning. It was a good idea.

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final boi (tj)

The Unicorn Express is a (U.S-based) community-supported effort established in response to the widespread banning of books that are written by LGBTQ+ authors, feature LGBTQ+ storylines, and/or discuss gender and sexuality. The Unicorn Express sends free LGBTQ+ titles by mail to LGBTQ+ youth living in states and/or districts where bans have been put in place.

Use the links below to request books or support our efforts.
xo, the unicorns

docs.google.com/document/d/1sc

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Food, gifts, children/babies, weird 

For the holidays a friend of mine was given a bag of tiny plastic babies. This bag of babies has now drifted amongst the bachelors for the last few months.

Today, they're discussing making pastries together and it took me a little while to realize that they're optimizing baked good recipes for hiding plastic babies in.

I love my friends.

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