Mayana @Mayana@dragonscave.space

Recently, several users expressed a desire for a way to quickly check if the images in the toot they were about to boost were described. It would be nice if Mastodon itself offered warnings for that, as well as for forgetting to describe media in your own posts, but until then, this is actually one problem admins can fix on our own!
All you need to do is go into the site settings and add a bit of CSS code that will display a red border around any undescribed media. There are two examples available, depending on how subtle or noticeable you want the border to be; experiment and see what you like!
https://gist.github.com/FiXato/3de505b04efefd49a1e3568b70545234
Thanks to @IngaLovinde for thinking of the starting code and @FiXato for improving on it! They did all the work here; I am just sharing this along.
Open this post in a new tab and look at the image to see how this can look like. The example image is my avatar, described in another pinned post.
#MastoAdmin #MastoDev

A few weeks ago I was trying out plant milks. Today I'm super proud of the crispy bacon I managed to make. I've been able to lessen my meat intake, but clearly I don't yet have the discipline to go completely without. One day, perhaps ... but probably not. Instinct's stronger than morality.
It did turn out really well though! For the first try, that is. There are still things I need to improve -- cutting the bacon thinner, not cooking in clothes I intended to wear the next day as well because damn is that grease dangerous! -- but the resulting sandwich already disappeared far too quickly.
As per the recipe's advice, I have a jar of bacon drippings in my freezer now, awaiting re-use. Haven't decided what to do with them yet. Perhaps I'll use them tomorrow, wen I'll attempt to find out what these hash brouns are all about.

Well, since I'm just copying my uni notes onto Mastodon now so I can avoid having to think of new and original content, let's do the same for homework!
"For Home Assignment 1, find three interesting facts about #Nigeria using three different online sources (e.g. Wikipedia, blogs, homemade YouTube videos, general articles etc.). Each interesting fact should be checked in two academic sources (e.g. scholarly articles and books, academic/credible websites etc.)
Submit a report in which you detail the three interesting facts as well as all the sources used for each fact (give the full details for each source as in the course slides). Critically assess each interesting fact - is it true, 'fake news' or disputed/impossible to verify?"
(Hashtag, of course, added by me.)
Does anyone have any cool sources they'd like to share with me? I can and will look for them myself as well, but if I can make my life a little easier, why not?

"Sonets were written from a masculine point of view; the male was the speaker, the woman just an object of gaze (the cult of heteronormative patriarchical love). The woman is portrayed as being unobtainable in two senses; because of her being of a higher ran, and because of her exceptional beauty.
This is a subject of torment for the poet, yet he never expresses his love, merely observes from afar; the woman has no say in this, and indeed is often accused of being reserved and aloof. If she were not kept at a distance, after all, it might turn out the love was not unrequited at all.
The focus is on imaginary sufferings of the male lover. The poet seemingly talks about the lady in order to keep the focus on him, his emotions and his inner self. By keeping focus on himself like this he can then display his own skills and knowledge of the topic that is actually discussed in each sonet."
Fun class, huh?

OK Mayana, you can't just keep all your school notes in ever-increasing numbers of unsaved Notepad++ tabs. At least use this break in classes to organize Thursday's notes, will you?

And yet, even the most masculine of men use hammers. But blind people all have pride issues with using canes. All of *us*. Because I went through a phase when I didn't want to use it too, and I've been blind my whole life.
I was lucky. For some reason I sobered up when told that if I got run over by a car without using a cane, it would be considered my fault in the eyes of the law for not using the basic preventative measures available to me. But others have to face much more harm before they admit to themselves that navigating more easily matters more than appearances.
I wonder what it'll take for this one. I don't wonder whether us humans will ever stop being so stubborn; of course not.
3/3

It still never fails to be sad. Not only because it's not even reasonable; someone who wears sunglasses all the time to hide their eyes, bumps into things, is always seen holding onto someone's arm, well, they'll seem just as blind -- just even more helpless.
But also because these #disabled people are not using aids that help them overcome their disability just because they're so concerned about what others will think. It's like pounding the nail into the wall using a fist because otherwise you'd be admitting to yourself and the world that you are a weakling with thin skin and have to use the hammer.
2/3 (sorry)