This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/re...
23.06.2025 11:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@arkayspark.bsky.social
Web accessibility champion, painter, librarian, teacher, climate change believer, progressive Christian
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/re...
23.06.2025 11:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Illustration of Gandalf from Lord of the Rings standing overlooking water. Text reads โ"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ringโ
14.06.2025 20:12 โ ๐ 1998 ๐ 495 ๐ฌ 38 ๐ 18In 2023, Minnesota lawmakers passed legislation authorizing religious institutions to provide permanent housing to chronically homeless or extremely low-income people. To date, two Twin Cities area churches have built nine tiny homes in what are called sacred settlements.
06.06.2025 12:00 โ ๐ 81 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Barnaby cockatoos on driveway natives
My front neighbour took a photo of Barnaby cockatoos feasting on native plants in our shared driveway
06.06.2025 10:45 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Person in wheelchair with graphic of an ear, an eye, and a speaker crossed off
The State of Digital Accessibility
Digital accessibility remains lacking across the tech industry, despite decades of progress and guidelines.
Learn More: https://f.mtr.cool/cueebkuooj
#DigitalAccessibility #IAAP #A11Y
Pride ~
โIt takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.โ
โ E.E. Cummings
#PrideMonth #Pride #Rainbow
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03.06.2025 13:58 โ ๐ 20 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Spread the love and acceptance #pridemonth
03.06.2025 12:35 โ ๐ 19874 ๐ 14851 ๐ฌ 368 ๐ 713My morning balcony view. A fiery red dawn. The changing of the night sky into the morning sky has provided a perfect mix over the city of Marseille.
โThere is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.โ
- Leonard Cohen.
#photography
Itโs Mary Anningโs birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.socialโs brilliant cartoon again.
21.05.2025 11:31 โ ๐ 18665 ๐ 4544 ๐ฌ 73 ๐ 92"Everything we have ever needed to do in Australia to fix the housing crisis has been done here in this country before."
"The only difference today is that we are a richer country than we've ever been, so we can do it again."
Maiy Azize on our new podcastโคต๏ธ
australiainstitute.org.au/news/categor...
Graphic with a stethoscope and a doctorโs arm, displaying the text 'CLINICAL CARE GUIDE Managing ME/CFS, Long COVID, & IACCs.' The Bateman Horne Center and MERC logos are at the bottom, with a background of a deep blue gradient.
The Clinical Care Guide for #MECFS, #LongCOVID & IACCs is here! Download, share, and use it to support better care. BHC's approach is now freely availableโdesigned to help providers manage complex conditions with clarity & compassion. Download it. Share it. Use it. bit.ly/432YdzF
09.05.2025 19:56 โ ๐ 155 ๐ 93 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 19I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isnโt some far-off problem โ itโs here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin
11.05.2025 00:04 โ ๐ 78 ๐ 61 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0Just hours after the Copyright Office released its report on AI trainingโstating the obvious, that much unlicensed commercial training of AI on copyright-protected material is unlikely to qualify as fair useโPresident Trump has fired the Register of Copyrights. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...
11.05.2025 01:12 โ ๐ 483 ๐ 325 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 31SO MUCH THIS
PUT THIS ON A BILLBOARD
A bright light that lit up the sky over parts of Western Australia was most likely from a small meteor not much bigger than a cricket ball, experts say.
11.05.2025 07:28 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yeah. In Australia the Liberal Party are very right wing. Fortunately they lost the recent election to the Labor party..,left leaning but centralist
11.05.2025 15:07 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A few days ago, Deque launched axe Assistant, an AI chatbot trained specifically for accessibility. I spent a few days playing with it and a wild Saturday night writing up my findings for anyone thatโs interested. www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/deque-a...
#ai #axeAssistant #accessibility #a11y
โI wish it need not have happened in my time,โ said Frodo. โSo do I,โ said Gandalf, โand so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.โ
#Tolkien
@tolkiensociety.org
#Art by Tom Jung
A 40,000-year-old collection of rock engravings is under threat of destruction from acid rain, caused by fossil fuel extraction.
One of the earliest tests of Albaneseโs re-elected Labor Government will be a decision on whether or not to extend the lease of the gas hub that is causing the damage.
Happy to be woke
07.05.2025 10:53 โ ๐ 87 ๐ 25 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โOn farms where soils were tilled infrequently, or not at all, and where farmers also practiced non-invasive management methods like cover cropping with grasses and legumes, the soil functionality was higher and therefore healthier.โ
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www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/05/the-...
Attenborough enters 100th year with plea our futures
www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.
They graded it.
Bwahahaha.
"We call on the Parliament of Australia to recognise that the integrity arm of government deserves independence, resourcing and recognition."
We've coordinated this open letter with Fairer Future, published in the Canberra Times โคต๏ธ