Blau :therian:

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Mario 64 any% is my favorite type of speedrun. Bowser creates all these elaborate worlds only for Mario to come barreling in and clobber him multiple times within a few minutes. How does Mario do it? Jumping backwards and literally traveling to a parallel universe by going so fast that he breaks […]

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me
#accessibility #AltText #blind

hello dear fedi! a new month is upon us and i must once more ask for assistance covering two of my bills

0/62 (Oct 8)
0/125 (Oct 13)

background: I'm my mom's caretaker. she beat leukemia only to end up with nerve problems from multiple vitamin deficiencies, as well as, we suspect, POTS. she's […]

Digital illustration done in a sketchy style featuring a dinosaur character. The text around it reads "I'm gonna become the best version of myself".

Digital illustration done in a sketchy style featuring an anthropomorphic lynx character. The text around it reads "My weirdness only exists in other people's eyes".

🌌 #art #furry

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

To the people coming from bluesky to wafrn: Import your account, dont lose anything*
https://app.wafrn.net/profile/migrate-bluesky

to the few "I don't want bluesky people here they're toxic and bad" voices I see floating around:

please don't get me wrong, but please realize how toxic and bad (and honestly kinda bigoted/prejudiced) saying something like that that makes you look ..

I understand it's scary to see a community […]

a dell latitude being thrown out of an open window

dell altitude

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND CLICK SAVE

Make it a habit to press Ctrl+S all the time when working on anything on your computer. Do it so often it becomes a reflex.

"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 […]

a friend is coming from bsky to the fediverse (hi chris!) and he has a question:

he runs oblivion loading screens. he currently manually schedules them to post.

what would be the best way to do this? i don't _think_ mastodon has scheduled posts by default

also, is there a specific _server_ […]

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

Migrate to wafrn from bluesky, do it!

Twitter, Mastodon and now Bluesky are a constant reminder that you can’t just add layers of abstractions to avoid dealing with the fact that someone is running the thing you use. Layers are only pushing the can down the road.

HEY #retrocomputing folks

You know that retro ISP thing me and like, 20 others have been working on for LITERALLY A YEAR?

Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net (CGHMN) is now IN OPEN BETA!

Bring out your Windows, your Macs, your UNIX boxes and let's get them networked and running services and games […]

My friend @fjbh, who is not active on Mastodon, made a cool tool to find PBS sites that need funding the most called Keep Media Public (keepmediapublic.org) 1/2

Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. **Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their […]

I am once again out of grocery money because my life is a disaster. I would appreciate some spending money but there are probably people who need it more - I'm facing the danger of debt, not death - so only if you're sure.
https://ko-fi.com/millie55148

[Fedi meta]

I've seen literally ∞× more people complaining about people on the fediverse potentially being mean (like 15) than people on the fediverse actually being mean (0).

Maybe it's just a sign that y'all got to curate your spaces better.

hello internet. i love you

i can now yell EXTRA BIG (my public posts are now bridged to bsky)

hello dear fedi! a new month is upon us and i must once more ask for assistance covering two of my bills

0/62 (Oct 8)
0/125 (Oct 13)

background: I'm my mom's caretaker. she beat leukemia only to end up with nerve problems from multiple vitamin deficiencies, as well as, we suspect, POTS. she's […]