Joel @cincodenada@cybre.space

Another quick question for people who speak and write in languages other than English: Do you get upset when people use translation software to reply to your posts if they are not native speakers/writers? Why or why not?

If y'all could boost this post so that I can get more responses from people who speak/write English and at least one other language, that would be great! #CommunityDevelopment

The speaker asks "Can everyone hear me okay?"
Someone responds "Yes!"
The speaker starts their presentation.

The people who can not hear of course never respond.

#a11y #accessibility

4 new unionized Starbucks in Portland: https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2022/05/four-starbucks-locations-are-first-in-portland-to-vote-for-union.html

Reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy for all.

I wanted a design that was inclusive of trans, nonbinary, and intersex people, so I made one.

#MyBodyMyChoice #AbortionIsHealthCare #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransArtist #ProtestArt

Someone carved the alphabet into a tree and let it deform for five years and made a font out of it: https://bjoernkarmann.dk/occlusion-grotesque

I really want to emphasize again that technologies like banner exchanges, webrings, blogrolls and links pages didn't die off because people just stopped using them - they were, and are, a good idea and a great, low- or no-cost way for small hobby websites and communities to find each other and form connections.

They didn't fall out of favour because of changing times. They were deliberately hobbled or bought up and killed off by power-seeking corporations, because they were hard to monetize.

Do you shut the toilet lid before flushing? (To be clear, I’m talking about the *lid*, not the seat.)

Plz retoot for science

Jupiter

How do you pronounce FAQ?

Howling.

https://williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/2022/05/03/in-defence-of-the-single-page-application/

#tw

tbh i kinda hope mastodon and the fediverse stays a place where autistic and neurodivergent weirdoes run wild and it never attracts the attention of the mainstream

no ads, no fucking VCs, just bizarre people who meow at cats and make weird art with thinking rocks

If you're willing to trade your email and are in the US and Canada, until tomorrow (end-of-day Eastern Time on May 6), you can trade your email at ebookclub.tor.com/ for a ebook collection that includes this novella. If you bounced off of Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, this is a great way to give Becky Chambers a second try, which I encourage folks to do! I've read all of her books, and Long Way is by far my least favorite.

This book is a totally new series set on some sort of future-Earth-analog, and the hopeful eco-solarpunk warm-cup-of-tea post-apocalypse world is a perspective I didn't know I was missing until I read it. Highly recommended, and if you hate it, hey, it's only 160 pages.

And speaking generally: I find Chambers' writing (especially after Long Way) to be hopeful and optimistic without being cloying or insubstantial, which is a hard balance to strike. In Wayfarers, her non-human societies/creatures (and there are a lot!) are fascinating on a personal level in a way that is missing from a lot that I read, and do an good job of not just being "humans with antennae".

And other than Long Way, Wayfarers are all totally independent, so you can pick up whichever strikes your fancy and pick up the others in whatever order you like. And you don't even have to read Long Way first - just avoid Closed and Common Orbit if you don't want a big character spoiler for Long Way, everything else is pretty loosely coupled.

(comment on "A Psalm for the Wild-Built")