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we are taking it very seriously, everyone I know is not buying American products and shoring up for recession or worse

We know half of you didn't vote for him and that you have enough of your own shitstorm to deal with domestically atm. We'll be ok, Canadians are united and figuring out our own leadership. We're over here pulling things off shelves, cancelling starlink contracts and planning our summer gardens 🇨🇦

Curious Canadian question, is it broadly known in the US that we think big T literally wants to annex us? I've heard that is being censored by US media. Here in Canada it's full on trade war mentality... like most Canadians are boycotting all American products atm

Hey buddy, yep just over here fighting off tariffs 🇨🇦 by divesting from American goods and transitioning careers at 41 👵

I started teacher's college in Sept and I swear the timing is coincidental... but I'm grateful to be en route to something else instead of stressing about booking freelance a11y work in this climate. Alarming how fast things are changing.

Yeah I just had a change of heart during mat leave and wanted to make the change. Career transitions are a lot of work, but I'm excited. The kids give me hope and I want to help them.

I'm so sorry to hear this. I started my transition out of tech and have been in teacher's college since the fall. Hearing all the news this week has me thinking about all the accessibility pals and what the changes will mean for access 😥

even better - raise your sons not to devalue and abuse women

Within minutes of Trump's inauguration, four lawsuits were filed challenging DOGE's requirement with federal transparency rules.

That's a start, cheers

please tell us what you know about Meta's involvement 👀

So, is this the good place? I deleted IG recently and Twitter a while ago. LinkedIn about 4-5 years ago. Facebook 11 years ago. I really like tiktok but whatever just happened there was... weird.

I put chili crisp on cheesy scrambled eggs most days 🤤

It’s always been one of my favs

Apprentice Accessibility Specialist - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UK Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service

When I was Head of Accessibility at DWP, I dreamed of being able to take on accessibility apprentices, but we didn’t have enough support in place at the time. Proud of Nicki and the team for getting this over the line and offering 4 opportunities!

www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Another senior accessibility specialist job opportunity here at Home Office.
It's not in my team but I'm sure we'd work closely together and you'd be part of the community we're building here. (Revised link)
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Hey BlueSky accessibility pals. I’m coming off mat leave in a couple of months, what’s new and exciting in the field? Obviously WCAG 2.2 coming to fruition, but what else?

I was just listening to the Hard Fork podcast and a new job has popped up in the field called prompt engineer, which trains LLMs to be better and less harmful. It reminded me of Eric Bailey’s talk, ‘be the villain’. I think accessibility engineers would be very good at it.

More of the trust and safety team at Twitter fired and political ads will be allowed again. Looking good for election disinformation season. Cool stuff.

I used to be in denial about my Leslie Knopery but I love waffles, jamming on my planner, have many organized binders for life stuff and applied to school one day before applications technically opened. Also my partner has a very cute butt. I am what I am.

I hope the bubble of getting away with badly coded websites bursts when the dust settles on all the changes happening in tech. I hope developers are expected to know web standards to build products that hit the market. I hope AI will program well and force people to be better

In light of the anti-trans school protests across Canada today I’ve gone ahead and applied for teachers college 2024. These kids need more support since a lot of them face hatred or erasure at home. #NoSpace4Hate

Ooo yeah that’s a good one

And yes, I am Canadian

What’s a name for feeling sorry but without regret? For example cooking a great meal using every dish in the kitchen that someone else is cleaning. Like sorry I used all those dishes, but no regrets because it made a killer meal, that kinda thing

Who knows yeah I’m curious and happy to see familiar faces

I was excited to see yours too 😊

I keep forgetting I have this account and then remembering but not understanding how to engage here in a place that looks just like twitter but isn't twitter, you know? Just me?

Alex wearing a red hoodie with the text ‘little miss finds no alt text’ and a purple circular shaped character who’s arms are folded and is frowning in the style of the little miss children’s books

Little Miss Finds No Alt Text hoodie by @toddl.dev

Blue Skies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB-xqDZbEVQ