all drugs should be over the counter

Last night was such a fucking success, holy shit

SO MANY PEOPLE appeared, the club was absolutely packed with young queer people til midnight at least

people kept stopping me and saying how happy they were to have such an event in Katowice

i'm so happy aaaaa

The way people look down on immigrants for not speaking their language perfectly.

Echoes the way neurodivergent people mock neurotypical people for the way they speak.

Both are elitist and supremacist.
That our way of speaking is superior and we don’t need to be flexible or accommodate the way we talk to other people to be better understood.

Communication is a highly valuable skill, it can be learned.

This attitude is really throwing our hands in the air and saying ‘we won‘, when it’s not a competition.

@tempest awww that doesn’t sound good 🫂 I hope that life will get better for you

Everyone wins!

#AltText #accessibility

today I learned that when you’re opening a can with a can opener, you’re not supposed to fully detach the can lid from the can. you’re supposed to leave a bit of the lid still attached to act as a hinge, so that the lid doesn’t fall into the can

thanks, Technology Connections!

web dev accessibility tip!
you can write alt text for any <div> just as you could for images with the alt attribute, except you have to use title like so

<div title="the sound emitted typically by alinas">woof</div>

then hover over it with your cursor and it will display just as with image alt texts :)

please especially use this when you're a huge nerd about drawing your networking diagrams and charts in unicode or ASCII art like me

@thermia omg I’m really glad I’m not alone. I’ve been thinking about including details about {what’s hosting this repo, and how is it configured} inside of my resume repo, but I’m not sure if that’s a good idea. it might be a security problem? although my resume is just a static site so I guess I can’t see a way that someone could exploit that information anyway

I should never be required to touch servers or even acknowledge their existence. I should live in an ideal world where I write code to solve interesting problems in exchange for money and somebody else figures out how to machete their way through the vine-choked hosting jungles so that my code can run on something

omg I need to update the DNS address of my resume website (it went up from $2/year to $32/year) and I literally can not figure out what is hosting it? I thought it was GitLab Pages but it’s not. it’s definitely something else. I set this up almost exactly 365 days ago and I have no idea what 2024 kas did

how do server people remember this stuff? do they just take really detailed notes?

How I defeated node_modules with the power of love

Chapter 1, the power of love.

The first step of my journey was realising that it is impossible to defeat node_modules with the power of love.

Chapter 2, the power of incredible violence

The most important thing I can tell you about writing or any other creative pursuit is this:

Give yourself permission to do it and don't worry about being "good" at it.

Life is short. Creativity is joyful. Just do it! Have fun. Muck about.

If you stick it out, you can get good at it over time, if that's important to you — but it doesn't have to be.

You can just play with creativity for the pure joy of it, too.

If it brings you joy, do it.

#Art #Creativity #Writing

@revoluciana @kimlockhartga Tolkien himself thought about this and regretted his portrayal of the orcs in the end:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_moral_dilemma

The entire idea of "racial alignments" is subconsciously satisfying to imperial/colonist cultures because it echoes the same colonialist mythos that justifies living on/benefiting from stolen land. Once you see it, it's super uncomfortable, and since it caught on so broadly, it's everywhere.

Why is it okay to sneak up on and preemptively execute Ganon's minions in Breath of the Wild? "They're invaders, and evil, right?" Well, that's the Hylian story. But they clearly have cultures (no coincidence borrowing aesthetics from real human cultures considered "primitive" and colonized in the real world). Several areas of the world are even pretty clearly their homelands, whatever we might claim about central Hyrule. It's okay to show up and murder them all with no warning because "they'd attack me without warning if they saw me first?" Okay, but you're a known serial killer who stalks and kills on sight, of course they'd attack you. That logic works both ways.

The parallels with the Pope declaring all regions not in Europe okay to colonize because they were only inhabited by "infidels" and "pagans" (who were okay to enslave, even) are strong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_doctrine

this video ended up in my recommendations and I was immediately reminded of all of the Fedi bots with LED visors. also it’s so cute!

Making a TV Head Cosplay