Jonobie

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

Me, as I’m nonchalantly parking at a tech company lot that I know they don’t tow from, singing in my head to the tune “Walk Like an Egyptian”:

“Walk Like a Tech Bro”. 🤣😂

This article might also be useful!

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/polls-about-alt-text-on-social-media/

#AltText #ImageDescriptions #accessibility #WorldSightDay

A chart showing the percentage of the last 35,957 images posted with alt text from various fediverse servers: beige.party - 100% jorts.horse - 95% mastodon.art - 83% aus.social - 78% chaos.social - 75% meow.social - 68% troet.cafe - 68% c.im - 67% hachyderm.io - 67% mastodonapp.uk - 63% kolektiva.social - 57% norden.social - 56% mamot.fr - 54% mathstodon.xyz - 54% piaille.fr - 51% infosec.exchange - 46% mastodon.online - 45%

Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day!

How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game!

Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important.

#AltText #ImageDescriptions #accessibility #WorldSightDay

The Seattle school board just voted down a cops-in-schools "School Resource Officer" pilot as the debate was going on.

@dkub I feel like Facebook and insta really trained brands that this is okay. Would have been completely inconceivable back in the early days of the internet.

Weird question, but does anyone have the Win95/98-era icon for *.cab files handy? I've tried, but have had poor luck trying to find that very specific icon.

It was definitely right to put the sign on the #WeeFreeCommunityLibrary, as the school bus crowd this morning trickled over to take a look. Exactly as I’d hoped for placement! Except I was hoping it would be fully operational. I did see one kid trying to make out what was behind the sign, so […]

"We believe that these kinds of user-generated, curated collections could help people to find their tribe more quickly when they join the Fediverse.

At the same time, envisioning a similar feature that prioritises user consent, and works across a constellation of independent servers, is no […]

Today I made this braised leek dish and then put it in an omelet with cheese and tarragon. Delicious.

Use Those Leek Tops Stop tossing out your leek tops! They make a beautiful braised vegetable dish.

One of my favorite recipes recently -- using the TOPS of leeks: https://www.thechoppingblock.com/blog/use-those-leek-tops

Honestly, more flavorful (but slower) than the rest of them!

The same little library as the prior post, with a note taped on the front saying “Still under construction! (Need to reinforce post.) Be patient - open soon!”

This feels safer for now given how wiggly it is. My fear right now is it will wiggle enough to make people anxious opening it, so they won’t open it at all in the future.

A orange little library labelled “the wee free community library”.

The same library, open, showing multiple books for people of different ages.

It LOOKS good. I just suspect that if people try to use it they’ll get a little scared off and stop from the wiggle. #WeeFreeCommunityLibrary

Bleargh, construction is really annoying. I had an EZSpike for the #WeeFreeCommunityLibrary, and tried to get it in with @Wham this weekend. We actually bent the spike trying to get it into the ground here (full of rocks).

We shifted to a bracket in a concrete block, which seemed like it was […]

Two trays of vegetables, one with poblanos, onions, and cilantro. The other with a variety of tomatoes and two limes.

A finished soup, with a yellowish soup base, a generous pile of cilantro, some sliced radishes, and a dollop of sour cream.

How it started, and how it’s going.

Bay Area desis: any recommendations for weekday south-Indian breakfast and filter-coffee in Santa Clara / Sunnyvale / Mountain View that are open on Thursday mornings?

I'll be without a car so places walkable from transit are especially appreciated! Thanks!

#BayArea

"At the end of your life, looking back, whatever compelled your attention from moment to moment is simply what your life will have been." (*)

Slowing down with someone is one way of giving attention and of giving life to them.

(*) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Morals" by Oliver Burkeman

I also now wonder if "pluot" and "radish" would have been better and funnier, rather than the plural, though again, less parallel to the original.

I don't think I could ever be a poet. WAY too freaking hard.

Also, if your brain likes these sorts of noodlings, you should absolutely read "Le Ton […]

When I studied this poem in high school, I had no idea the depth of its comedic potential! Now my brain is off and running about other ways I could have written various parts. For such a short little thing, there's a lot packed in there.

For example, as second stanza, I could have said:

and […]

This Is Just to Say
I have received
your Instacart order
that was meant
for you

and which
contained the pluots
soft with blush
and fragrant

Forgive me
they’re still in the bag
but you have my radishes

Common experience while working:

Client says they want to work on X. X is something I don't know about or am nervous about.

My brain: OH NO, let's ask A LOT OF QUESTIONS while we see if we can think of something.

Client's answers reveal a core issue that's a different problem. That I know […]

@rehana Yeah, I have enough tablets to last me ... for a VERY long time. 🤣 Plus side, sensitive is less important for me now that I've had my goofed up tooth pulled. So I think it'll be okay either way.

So far, the dresses have been the hardest part. When I was smaller and going during warmer months, it was easy to take sleeveless dresses, a jacket, leggings, and boots and sandals. Finding a sleeved version that dries fast, has pockets, and doesn't make me sad when I look in the mirror has been […]

I really like traveling with a pretty small backpack that I know, with certainty, I can always wrangle and move on my own through metro stations and up twisty stairs. So I'm planning lots of laundry with no driers, and taking basically 3 days worth of clothes. Still trying to decide whether to […]

I'm in that final run up to an international trip, which I haven't done in 6 years now, and it's like starting completely from scratch. My body is a different shape and harder to dress than it was back then. So my laundry room has underwear and leggings hanging all over it to see how quickly […]

Weirdly, this morning none of the images are loading for me in the fedi. I’m especially appreciative of alt text today!

OK, the last two portable batteries I've gotten for my phones have subsequently been recalled. 😡

Fedi, help! What charger should I get that you like, is small enough to fit in a pocket or purse, and [BONUS!] could be gotten from somewhere other than Amazon?

I'll take the first 2 of those if […]

For honesty's sake: I borked something in spreadsheet data, so after fixing that and re-calculating gave a more modest (but still weirdly big) 1.20 for cohen's d.

Poking at it a bit more, the pooled cohen's D (more conservative number) comes out at 1.66, which is still massive. I'm still suspicious. 🤔

I'm not really planning on stopping my deliberate practice or other work to improve, so it's mostly an academic exercise. And I'm curious how it will […]

Anyhow, thanks for attending my morning ramble as I look over data and ponder what's going on here. I'm also thinking about how my 30 year old stats class that I barely remember is probably rolling around in its grave.

I wish there were more ready-use tools for this type of stuff. But tracking […]