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Imagine if we spoke about wearing glasses like we do other disabilities.

“Oh, you don’t need them, just SEE harder.”

“What’s wrong with you? You’re just making it up for attention.”

“Oh, sorry, we can’t make the text bigger, it’s just how we do things.”

And yet, wearing glasses is acceptable and normal. But if you didn’t wear them, you would be disabled! You wouldn’t be able to see properly. We have made a wholesale, societal adjustment for people who wear glasses to the point where glasses are now a fashionable item that people wear false lenses for.

It is possible to make accessibility part of the world we live in. It is possible to do it in such a way that as a civilisation, we don’t even see it as a disability, but as something completely normal.

If you know a better rock band than Band-Maid please let me know. New official live MV for "Don´t you tell me":
youtube.com/watch?v=SOj3qXBhiP #MastersAndPrincesses #BandMaid #Jrock #Po

Hispanoparlantes, pregunta: ¿qué nombre dais al vaso de plástico, presumiblemente con capacidad de ~1L, en el que típicamente se sirven bebidas alcohólicas?

¡Otras variantes (y su ubicación geográfica) en los comentarios, por favor!

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Day 20

Q: Why were Black folk so happy when OJ was acquitted? To be honest, it feels disgusting. Why does it seem like you're happy he got away with murder?

A: Y'all are gonna need to resist the urge to reply until you've read the whole thread. And I mean, the whole thread.

It's not about OJ:
hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109

Black History Month Megathread:
hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111

There. I just favourited a Taylor Swift song. I hope y'all are happy now.

Today in the USA we celebrate the Presidents of the United States of America, who in 1996 gave us millions of peaches, peaches for free.

I wrote about a weird (to me) syntax error in that is not quite like other syntax errors: `void value expression` blog.pablobm.com/2024/02/16/ru 🤔

PSA: Stop calling these: () brackets!

These () are parentheses

These [] are brackets

These {} are curly braces

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

Anyone else bookmark posts they plan to revisit and then completely forget about them?

tool shout out of the day: direnv direnv.net/

i've been using this for like.. almost a year now? it's solid, does exactly what it says on the tin

Oh hey, the Attorney General of Indiana has published a snitch line for schools that teach LGBTQ+ issues, or make Woke materials available to their students!

Here’s the URL. Use it responsibly. Don’t use it to report Godzilla flying the Trans flag or anything like that, ok?

in.accessgov.com/attorneygener

TIL that now you can add `ruby file: ".ruby-version"` to your Gemfile. Hat tip to @andycroll!

Details at andycroll.com/ruby/read-ruby-v

One of the issues that makes coding so difficult is that things that make it easier require more skill to use. i.e. tests, types, patterns.

If they're implemented incorrectly or in the wrong scenario, these helpers will, at best, slow you down and, at worst, make progress impossible. But when they're there and they are good, it's like being strapped to a rocket pointed at the solution.

#Servo, the web rendering engine written in #Rust that was orphaned by #Mozilla in 2020, is still alive and working on its 2024 roadmap 👍

servo.org/

Jeez, Doodle has enshittified big time since the last time I used it or what.

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