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Cropped photo of my studio table, showing a piece of painted black wood, some coloured yarn held by staples, and some wood letter tiles... What could all this be?

All this AI jibberjabber is crackling my brain. Please excuse me while I go over here and make some art.
🔨🖌🌈🌌

Write witty skeet about how prompts will become a new format for jokes and general commentary. Make sure it's clear that the format being described is the one being used so that everyone thinks it's brilliant and it goes viral.

We don’t need accessibility testers. We need accessibility to be known by the people making things. That’s also the only way they can make the determination if “AI” has generated something accessible or not. We need to fix accessibility at the source, not as an afterthought.

A small prayer plant in a yellow pot sits atop a bookshelf. The pot features a very large hand-painted bumblebee in an anatomic drawing style, detailing all its glorious fuzziness. A dotted line suggesting a wandering flight path can be seen on either side and around the back (as seen in the reflection within a small mirror behind the pot).

Thrifted & upgraded. 🎨🖌🐝

Apparently we're not done with complex scrolljacking animations or the fawning adoration that follows.

Not to mention, this marquee example is a pile of images with no text alternatives. 😖

Please, PLEASE, for the love of neurodivergence, DO NOT put uncontrolled infinite animations on your website!
Don't make me go into dev tools and `display: none` this bullshit just so I can read your site in peace! Trust me, no one cares about yr logo marquee!

#a11y #accessibility #InclusiveDesign

Equine Air Quality Index - Check Smoke & Pollution Near You | Mad Barn Monitor air quality before you ride your horse with the Equine Air Quality Index. Get real-time updates for pollution and smoke levels to protect your horse.

#Equestrian folks wondering about air quality and whether it's safe to ride your horse? The folks at Madbarn have an #AirQuality chart to help you out AND you can look up the current air quality index where your horse lives!

madbarn.ca/equine-air-q...

+/× is too ambiguous: '+' can mean 'add', 'x' means 'close' or 'clear' or 'remove'. Triangles are more reserved for expand/collapse [and are the platform default, so... bonus for that].

Goodness! This is adorable just for what it is in the first place 💜, but also for this masterclass in inclusive design.

#UX #InclusiveDesign #Accessibility #a11y

Happy birthday!

I snort-laughed yesterday reading a story about someone who forgot their practiced pick-up line when approaching their crush, and instead nervously blurted: "Your face... I like that shit"

drawafish.com

Oh, that's tough. Bye, sweet Arabella. My best to you and your family. 💕🌈

I unplug my toaster and other countertop appliances.

Tan lab mix lying on her back on a teal velvet couch with a plush grey blanket. Her four paws in the air, head thrown back and ears flapping wide, she appears to be grinning at the sweet marvel of her current state of relaxation.

The life I want

Boop!

When the webinar registration requires a company and job title 🙄

Sounds like Chuck Norris skills

Conrad!!! 🦝

BSc. Majored in zoology, minored in psychology, expecting an academic life engrossed in ethology, animal behaviour and cognition, conservation, comparative psychology, etc. But those pixels on the screen, you know...

C, though slightly out of focus. Then A.

So you see, that's a lot of important work that can't just be replaced!

...volleyball it up and down the levels until it's ready for the senior executives, who give them 15 seconds to present it and wonder how we can move the numbers more and/or prepare to gush generalities about the org's success at the next All Hands.

No, they don't report it directly to corporate. They go up through various levels of other middle managers who collect the numbers, ask for a report, complain that the deck is too complex, ask for another report, ask too many questions that were answered already in the previous report, ...

Wait... all this time, I was thinking only owls were zygodactyl! Dang!

Gave my niece a riding lesson tonight. Preeeetty sure I fried her brain.

Every 🤬 year

Oh wait, today's Sunday, so I guess that makes it "last week".

A lugubriously translucent-white aquatic salamander faces the viewer, with its long, wide tail trailing to the right. Three of its little feet are visible, toes splayed on the underwater rock, it looks poised and attentive. It seems to look directly at you, external gills flowing in pink-and-dark-blue-frilled glory on either side of its head, smiling its adorable, iconic smile.

Good morning. It's raining buckets. Here's an axolotl I saw at Ripley's Aquarium this week.