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Hey!

Absolutely will do in the future. Our apologies.

For the record, the photo in the prior post shows Jeri, a lady with red hair and wearing a T-shirt, holding one of her inventions: a retro-looking game console, with an embedded hi-res 5 inch screen.

Dragonborn paladin!

(yes I still have to take properly-lit pictures because every fabric involved is iridescent in a different way 😩)

"Cause why would I need a lover when I've got myself a gun?"
This song came up today and I realized just how amazing it is that even though most of it is full of sexual jokes, there's also an #asexual perspective, just as valid as the straight, bisexual and lesbian ones before it. And presumably, this is based on the real ladies' experiences, so there is an asexual singer in one of the naughtiest a cappella groups.
Idk about the other aces out there, but I think that's the kind of representation I want.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JAvWu6pILKk
#music #shanty

Back in 2019, the US billion-dollar clothes brand GAP told the Aboriginal-owned social enterprise Clothing the Gap they couldn't use the word "gap" in their name, because they own it.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0042/7740/3718/files/Aboriginal_Firm_denied_right_to_use_flag_Australian_Article.pdf

Boycott the hell out of GAP. Name and shame them, and send them complaints. They made it incredibly more difficult for an Aboriginal-owned social enterprise run by a majority of women.

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Clothing the Gaps (they had to add the "S") now have 42 days to sell their stock of clothes that have the word "gap" on them.

Support them - I own a shirt and it's excellent stuff.

https://www.clothingthegaps.com.au/collections/sale

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our ideas of what bicycles looked like when they roamed the earth are based on an outdated understanding of their skeletons… when they were alive they were probably mostly feathers and meat

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

When the jaws open wide
And there's more jaws inside
That's a moray

when an agender person comes out, should they host a gender repeal party?

glad that scheduling and getting my first shot was simple enough, but mildly unenthused that being a Moderna recipient means that once I die I will become a servant to a Pfizer vaccine receiver in the afterlife.

brb i am imagining a scenario where only one spell from fantasy tabletop games becomes available in real life -- but it's detect magic.

so the only application is periodically checking if anyone around you is using detect magic.

"You are beautiful."
"I bet you say that to everyone."
"I do. And I mean it, every time."
"Is that how you cope with the job?"
"No. If anything, it makes it harder. But then, nobody promised me it would be easy." Death grinned. "Shall we go?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

How can I easily tell (on a phone) if an image has alt text or not on Mastodon. Would be great if Mastodon visibly flagged images that don’t have alt text with a warning in the interface so we know not to boost posts that don’t have it.

#accessibility #a11y

Saw a thing that reminded me of this... I took business studies in college (calm down Americans, I'm not rich, college cost a hundred quid a year where I grew up) and they taught us there that accessibility considerations weren't just for people with disabilities, they were for anyone who'd find them useful. Wide aisles in a shop are just as useful for parents with prams as they are for people in wheelchairs. When I went to work at a DIY superstore (Focus at the time), during the training... 1/

...they'd point out all the different methods of help we could give to the customer, and alongside customers with disabilities they talked a lot about customers who are injured, because if you break an arm or a leg and have to take a few weeks off work you're gonna go stir crazy and decide to paint the living room.

This all helped to hammer home that accessibility features are for everyone. It was like, "Hey, you really think you're gonna get through your whole life without breaking a bone?"

Anyway I really don't get the same feeling, over here in America, that people might look at a ramp or a handrail or whatever and think "That's gonna be really handy when I drop a paving slab on my toes." I think people over here think of these sorts of physical accessibility helpers as things for Other People, not for Future You Who Lost An Argument With A Ladder.