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Why do people want 'more access'?

Yes, it's another THREAD! 🧵

This time about ancient monuments and how and why to get our grubby hands on them.

So this queer bookshop has a 'Pay it Forward' scheme where you can buy someone else a book they might need but can't afford. A nice thing to do for Christmas.

thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...

Hey look! A list of shops to avoid.

adult themes such as having a favorite kitchen appliance and back pain

A brief thread on alt-text.

Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7

I don't remember the specific conversation but probably, yes! It's one of my favourite Discworld books and I reckon it's quite accessible without having read others in the series

The fact that 'Worcester' is pronounced 'Wooster' is wild.

But have you ever seen the five-syllable Old English name it stems from?

'Weogornaċeaster'.

It meant "fortified settlement of the Weogoran (a Saxon tribe)".

Click to hear a reconstruction of its pronunciation:

Go for it!

Ooh hello. I've been playing in a weekly D&D game that's been online for the last year (and have GM'd a couple of one shots online myself). We mostly use Zoom calls plus Roll20 for maps if that helps?

Book, change, or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online Book, change or cancel a COVID-19 vaccination appointment online.

Booking for Covid vaccines is now open for those that are eligible

www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...

we're living through a fast-paced technological revolution around green energy and it's getting about 1% of the attention it should. In a month, no one's gonna be burning coal in the UK for the first time since the steam engine was invented.

Packing list for camping at a festival

My list looks something like this

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Looks like this is the source www.energydashboard.co.uk/live Really interesting to see!

My favourite line on reviews ever is GK Chesterton:

“Most reviews say, in effect, ‘this is a very fine plum pudding but there is no taste of salmon’.”

How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Again Off-target search results are getting more and more common, and we can only lay part of the blame on the results being cluttered with AI-generated junk and human-generated SEO-bait. I don’t have a fix...

Google apparently had to release a "verbatim" setting so that you can get decent search results. I tested it and it does seem to help
lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-...

I think before we get too caught up in what Bluesky should or shouldn’t be we should soberly acknowledge what it is: a retirement home for 2000s forum millennials

men are hitting on my scheduling bot because it has a woman's name A reader writes: I have sort of a strange situation. I provide consulting services for (mostly) small business owners. This generally involves scheduling

this letter from a person who has male clients hitting on her (female-named) scheduling bot is just killing me: www.askamanager.org/2024/01/men-...

Bright green lasers

Lit candles on a theatre set

A theatre programme page that reads "The Legend of Joy in the Ground". A painted image of a bear casts a large shadow.

Two actors surrounded by glowing arches.

The Gifting in Leeds

Looks like the video is set to private?

Variety post reading “AI-Generated Jimmy Stewart Narrates Bedtime Story For Calm App (EXCLUSIVE)”

Nothing helps me sleep better than dead people whispering to me from the grave

under the heading "will sinus inflammation go away?" the answer is "most of the time, a swollen penis will resolve itself"

i don't know why people have been saying google is broken. it's working completely fine actually

"Still punk rock," I whisper as I lower myself gingerly into a hot bath full of epsom salts.

Trauma, by Ezra Furman

Gutted to be missing Light Night this year. Leeds folks, please have an extra good time on my behalf 🙏

A screenshot of the old AIM away message UI

I think Bluesky should bring back away messages and the ability to use obnoxious text colors and fonts.

Pumpkin hoop

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

Just a casual day trip to Cornwall