@copiesofcopies

I learned that if someone says "Well we've stopped you because someone said it looks like a bomb" responding with "How could it be a bomb it doesn't even have a payload?" indignantly is NOT what you should do.

It's better to say "Oh wow I didn't think of that. It's really just a timer with old style of display. Let me turn it off."

New German flag just dropped

@brettm aw omg thank you! 😊

Remember:

New Year’s resolutions don’t work, but here’s something that does (for some people, anyway):

Yearly Themes - An Alternative to New Year’s resolutions - CGP Grey

Of all the features designed for blind users that are present on mobile devices, virtual braille input is, by far, the most powerful one.
Typing on a virtual representation of a physical [insert your keyboard layout here] keyboard works okay when you can see the keys, but when you're blind and use a screen reader, you have to explore the keyboard by touch. There are ways of making that process a little faster, but it's clunky and error-prone at best. Virtual braille input offers input based on relative finger positions instead of absolute input of a single finger. If you know braille, you can type. Talkback for Android and Voiceover for iOS both have this, though I'm only familiar with the apple version.
When you're on the go, you don't always have room for a physical keyboard, and the one the phone offers is very slow. Activate virtual braille input, and you can type and edit way faster than with normal commands. Get practice with them, and you can come pretty close to parity with traditional touchscreen typing input. it addresses the biggest pain point in using a phone without vision. Most of the swiping and tapping is pretty straightforward, sans inaccessible apps, but typing was always clunky at best. This isn't a perfect solution, but it's a massive improvement.
#blind #voiceover #talkback #braille #BrailleScreenInput #accessibility

@arichtman ooh okay! I’ll probably give it a try with my bright yellow American mustard hehe. adding mustard actually never even occurred to me - I’m glad you mentioned it

@arichtman like this kind of mustard

@arichtman ooh I’ve never tried it with mustard! I do have mustard but it’s yellow mustard - so I’m not sure if that’s what you mean (I know stuff is different between the US and UK)

important status update: I now have all ingredients necessary to make cheese and pickle sandwiches

(those being cheese, Branston pickle, and bread)

shes so cute!!!! look at her! you gotta flip her over!!

Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness

chat what pride flag is this

lol both Instagram and TikTok have blocked me from creating or logging into an account because I’m using LibreWolf with a lot of the privacy settings turned up, and they can’t track me this way