Laura Whitehead

Merry Christmas to all

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024, organized by Rhodri Marsden Unbelievably, it's the 14th year of this thing. What is it? Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2024

I was a bit worried that #Duvetknowitschristmas wouldn't make much money this year but the move to Bluesky seems to have been a huge success.

Please donate if you can www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

And a big thanks to @rhodri.biz for this wonderful Christmas eve tradition.

For the darkest day

Brilliant! 👏👏👏

Own Your Digital Identity Everywhere With New Free Domains And Bluesky Integration Gravatar adds new free domain options and Bluesky integration. Users can claim custom domains for online expression and use them as Bluesky handles.

Want to use your domain as your @bsky.app handle? Not comfortable mucking around with server settings?@gravatar.bsky.social has you covered:

1. Claim your free domain on Gravatar
2. Connect your Bluesky account
3. Use your domain as your Bluesky handle

blog.gravatar.com/2024/12/03/n...

Of Books and Conferences Past Of books and conferences past: A maker apart looks back on things well-made but no longer with us.

“We wanted the Good Times to roll on forever.”

zeldman.com/2024/12/05/o... @alistapart.bsky.social #aBookApart #anEventApart #bootstrapped #indie #InMemorium #LookingBack

for me going the way finland's education system embeds critical thinking and disinformation awareness throughout its curriculum, teaching students from early stages to systematically analyze media and spot false information. #disinformation

LimeWire Wrapped 1. sistem_of_a_dowm_Zelda_song.flac 2. Nirvana - Glycerine.flv 3. track_8_(1)_(1)c.mp3 4. weird_al_Bert_and_Big_Bird_smoking_weed_FUNNY(parody).wav 5. jay-z_the-blueprint_FULL ALBUM_REAL.mp3.exe

finally finished downloading my limewire wrapped after 20 years

A humorous cartoon by War and Peas depicts a therapy session. A patient lies on a couch, looking puzzled, while the therapist, sitting nearby with a clipboard, says, "Let’s talk about that. But first a word from our sponsor Hello Fresh." The cartoon uses satire to poke fun at advertising in unexpected places.

*Lose The Very* is a free online tool that helps you do it. h/t Jarosław Morawski. (2/2)

www.losethevery.com

#writing #ux #copywriting #automattic #skills #cheatcodes #Quickwins

Soft frosted glass style design over a festive background. A grid of numbered squares fills the layout

Sweet #CSS advent calendar

cssadventcalendar.dev

AI and the future of service delivery How are charities currently using AI in service delivery and what are their future plans?

Interested in how charities are using AI for service delivery? In my latest Charity Digital article I speak with RNIB & Citizens Advice about how they’re saving time and scaling up their services, using AI.

charitydigital.org.uk/topics/ai-an...

To all the awesome people using #AltText on their images, I love you. You make me feel included. Thanks.

One other quick tip. capitalize the first letter of each word in your hashtags.
#Blind #VisuallyImpaired #ScreenReader #FuckTrump

Please don’t rely on automated tools to write alt text!

Sure, AI is getting better at being able to recognise what’s in an image, but its context that matters!

See my example, where the same image, in two places, needs different alt text: www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/how-to-...

#accessibility #a11y

Meet Andre: a music producer and blind screen reader user - TetraLogical Meet Andre, a music producer and blind screen reader user who is not afraid to take his custom elsewhere if your site is not accessible. Andre shares his experience using the web including his love of...

"Andre shares his experience using the web including his love of headings and consistent design to help him navigate, and his dislike of accessibility overlays and poorly implemented page updates using live regions."

#accessibility #disability #life

tetralogical.com/blog/2024/11...

Wikipedia needs photos of many buildings and places around the world. Here are the requests, sorted by location.

Can you help?

Keir Starmer Dismisses Petition Demanding General Election As More Than 2 Million Sign It The prime minister said he was "not surprised" that lots of people are unhappy with his government.

I for one am amazed that Keir Starmer, five months after winning a 170 seat majority, has not called a fresh election after acceding to a random petition. Shameful stuff. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/keir-s...

View of the light snowfall on the ground at Findhorn Bay Local Nature Reserve, Scotland

Just a little, Findhorn, Scotland

Clear evidence the hard-right are using farmers' protests to push their own agenda.

Lee Anderson finishes his PMQ with a bizarre nod to the Rachel Reeves CV 'truther' nonsense.

And deeply misogynistic to call the Chancellor 'Rachel from Accounts' - especially on Equal Pay Day.

Important context here:

● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)

● "a big farm" is 217 acres.

Now let's see who's angry:

● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

Wonderful!

You know who hasn't had this degree of media support for their financial interests? Disabled people, poor people with more than two kids, public sector workers (after all that clapping for the NHS). I'm not usually a 'blame the media' person but seriously - this is mad

Facebook post from Abingdon Traditional Morris Dancers: Due to the demise of Twitter. We shall have a new site on the very popular #bluesky very soon. Our new handle will appear soon It has 3 likes

Musk's lost the Morris dancers. It's Over.

In light of the recent attacks on the @archive.org, the political importance of the @waybackmachine.bsky.social has never been more apparent.
www.npr.org/2024/10/20/n...

I'm teaching a workshop at York University today to give first-year students an introduction to the Wayback Machine.

Looking out over the Findhorn Bay Local Nature Reserve in Scotland at dusk with the colours in the sky ranging from a deep orange to an electric blue. Photo taken today.

Not news or politics but instead a photo of the wonderful colourful sky this evening at dusk at Findhorn Bay in Scotland.

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