Spectacular timelapse of an aurora and Moon-rise over Earth from the International Space Station.

#space #nasa #alt4me

This felt too valuable not to share. Braille-labeled maps of washrooms to help people find and use facilities in the washroom. Everyone deserves to get in, do their business, wash their hands, and get out in peace and safety.

This seems valuable for all public spaces.

#Blind #Accessibility

Hey, you know how when you gotta do something that's so jank it'll only run on windows, you set up a new windows box, what's the first thing you do?

You go into the settings in the file explorer and swear at it and go "Where the hell have they hidden it this time" until you find the option that shows the whole filenames, right? So you don't end up double-clicking on cutekitten.jpg.exe, right? So you can see what the hell's going on in the computer that you bought and that lives in your house? How the hell else are you supposed to use it, right?

Most people don't do that. Hardly anyone does that. You are an outlier for doing that. You are a tiny minority. If someone downloads a zip with file.html and file.css and file.jpg then they only see file, file and file. Most people never change any settings. Most people don't even know that there ARE settings. The joke about the writer who sighs and says "Sometimes I'm sad that I make art.txt not art.jpg," nobody gets that joke, except weirdo computer people like us.

I cannot express strenuously enough how different most peoples' experience of technology is, to how people talk about it on fedi, which is full of the one person in a hundred who fiddle with the settings. But which also seems to have lots of people who are trying earnestly to make Software That Will Change The World.

If you want your software to be liberating, if you want it to be an agent of positive change, then it has to be usable and understandable by a majority of people. Being frustrated at Clueless Users won't change anything, won't help anything, won't do anybody any good. I promise you, these people are just as frustrated at you as you are at them, and you're outnumbered a hundred to one.

Meet people where they are FFS.

Anyone can become disabled at any time. It’s one of the few minority groups you can always join.

Even if you do everything “right”. Even if you’re young and healthy. Even if you “try hard”

It’s not a moral failing. It’s a part of life.

If more people would accept that and work with us, we would all be better off.

Do you ever just shout at the top of your lungs at the neighbor walking past your house?

Asking on behalf of my dog.

VDLM2 Message From: N230BZ / MX0754

Message: OPTOMITRISTS LIVE LONGER BECAUSE THEY DILATE.

Track Aircraft

Area: New York City, NY, USA

#acars #vdlm2

"What is a 'kettle'?" and how to look out for one in four frames.

#protest #protests #kettle #kettling

@jerry

This needs, and will receive, no explanation.

Hacker alignment?

For the 9th year in a row, we spend 24 Hours racing ourselves alongside the official race in France, it's the 24 Hours of LRR Mans! https://twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun

New speedometer works

My wife. My sexy, beautiful wife, is protesting tomorrow with one of her friends group in N. Phoenix. She needs to make a sign.

HELP! What are good, written, sign ideas for tomorrow?

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

I feel like a lot of the protest advice I see is very good but it assumes you will get gassed, kettled, arrested or targeted for arrest later. the vast majority of people will hopefully go, wave a sign around, see their neighbors for a while, and then go home early. THE VAST MAJORITY. don't be scared.

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Part of radicalization is realizing that the "proper means" of accomplishing change doesn't actually work, so going to an "ineffectual" protest now could be an important step in progressing some people from liberals to comrades.

They have to first learn what doesn't work in order to understand what must be done.

Repeat to yourself, "I won't defend myself to people who are committed to misunderstanding me."