Me: "this is my wife"
Wife, smiling serenely, slightly intimidating due to the intensity of her stare, but approachable: "Hello. It's a pleasure."
Me: "And this is my EX wife"
The exact same woman but now with a black flaming aura around her, with a quiet, piercing glare, as a unique boss theme plays: "you think yourself prepared...? Pathetic..."
Don't mind me, I'm just relaxing here for a while ^^
Art drawn by Azshara kletete (http://kletete.eu/)
Here's a list of things that can just go the fuck away for the sake of people with reading-based disabilities:
- Obnoxiously large starting letters to texts that are very off-set. (Personally, I don't have an issue with a difference of 3-4 font sizes for people wanting to do things for style, but it has to look connected. This is just trash that makes it hard to read every line next to it.)
- We're working in an online medium, we don't need hyphens to indicate word continuation. For fuck's sake, we don't need it in a physical text unless someone's using a typewriter. There was a reason it started, and computers *don't need to do it*. It's more taxing to try to recognise the two halves as *one word*.
- Quotes of what comes later in the text. Full stop. But especially if it's creating two columns of text (try, please, I beg of everyone, to stick to ONE COLUMN for main texts, even if you change locations of where it is -- you can have two columns if our paper can be successfully folded between them to create one column for those of us who need it). It also doesn't matter if they're two different font sizes/styles/colours. It's still visually disruptive.
You can just stop doing these. It's fine. Find more legible ways of being creative that care for everyone, including disabled people.
Hey, I'll be ending my 'tracheal shave funding page' soon, so wanted to link to it one last time.
🍎🗡️🚫
If you've ever downloaded any of my free papertoys and wanted a way to say thank you, feel free to help me go from Adam's Apple to Alex's Applen't 😊
It's not life or death & I'll be just fine either way, so no pressure or stress.
Link to donate : https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-alex-get-a-tracheal-shave?utm_source=widget&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet
Still me, sorry.
My MS is still flaring, it's improving slowly, but I'm still not really at a point where i can take care of myself properly.
I'm still struggling to cook and feed myself. I'm trying to eat a cold can of beans a day or something similar just to help fill me up. But I need to eat proper nutritious meals to help me get well, and that's beyond my very limited budget.
So I'm here again asking for help (still) I wish I didn't need to do this.
I need help to get me through this ongoing rough patch that I really hope is beginning to get better. Please help me keep going if you can.
Any boosts are super appreciated friends.
Thank you ❤️
#MutualAid #Help #Trans #Survival #Food
https://paypal.me/JadziaBenntley?country.x=AU&locale.x=en_AU
In response to FL Gov. Ron DeSantis’s actions to limit the teaching of Black history in the state’s public schools, Chicago-based publisher Haymarket Books is offering multiple e-books by progressive Black authors for students to download free of charge. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMastodon
https://truthout.org/articles/haymarket-books-will-provide-free-black-history-e-books-to-florida-students/
Hey can I ask you folks a favour please? I'm trying to fundraise to get an Apple //c to a buddy in Italy to learn about the fundamentals of computing, could you kick a few bucks towards it please?
And please boost!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-get-an-8bit-computer-for-samuele
i did it, i've made a xenia the trans linux fox winamp skin, because i wanted to
i made this primarily for me to use in webamp, but it should work just fine in winamp 2.9 (though the file picker might look weird). this also works in "qmmp", which supports winamp skins!
Looking to move away from GitHub, advice welcome
Hosting my #Git repos on GitHub is feeling increasingly icky because of the way Microsoft is scraping and reusing user code without consent, violating free software licenses in the process. I don't have code worth a shit hosted with them and don't care about the open GitHub Pages repo which I'm using as a quote-unquote free host of my static site. But I also have private repos of writing projects hosted with them and have no confidence at all that the privacy of this content will be respected.
So what are recommended alternatives for a use-case like mine? #Codeberg? Self-host? I don't need fancy actions or anything like that, just trustworthiness and integrity both morally and technically. I could probably self-host if it's just Mastodon- or wiki-levels of fiddly, at a much higher difficulty level (say: email hosting) I'm likely better off with an external host. An external host also has the advantage of not falling prey to my incompetence as a sysadmin, which is why I've held my nose and used GitHub all this time lol.
Haymarket Books have a Black History Month book bundle -
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/482-black-history-book-bundle
Three ebooks free to download -
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/480-defend-black-history-defend-black-lives
And 40% OFF Haymarket Books for Black Liberation until the end of Feb.
Nazi, NFTs, youtube link
In what will be a surprise to no one but is still really fucking gross, those bored ape NFTs are full of nazi shit. *Full* of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH3O6mnZvw
(Disclaimer: I know nothing about this channel/person and haven't watched the video because 60 minutes of content about nfts *and* nazis sounds like absolute hell, but it's a deep dive on the bored ape/nazi link.)(
hecko
it's a me
a skunk (i mean technically a gestalt entity made from a swarm of nanomachines in the shape of a soft enbyfemme sknq but for all intents and purposes a skunk)
Puns always welcome. Always.
Apparently a good writer of lewdness, though I disagree. https://bit.ly/2r4AI8n
ACTUAL PUBLISHED WRITER HECK
the fluffy tail
touch it
(icon from art by Catboots! https://bit.ly/2Kns50D )