I'm not the only one enjoying the harvest? Photographed exactly as found when I went out to water this morning (plus really poor shot of a very lovely sky this evening)
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We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld
I’ll be celebrating #Juneteenth with another edition of Rhythms of Clay at an Arts Festival hosted by the Westcoast Black Theater Troupe in Sarasota, Florida. Once again, we’ll be teaching Black youth about the udu, a #Nigerian clay drum. They’ll have the opportunity to make a large drum collectively and create their own small percussion instruments from #clay. Materials provided by #KaaboClay and Highwater Clays of Florida. Happy Juneteenth everyone! #pottery #ceramics #BlackHistory
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Few things infuriate me as much as someone posting screenshots or pictures of text pages and then just writing "screenshot of a text" or "a text page in a book" in the ALT text.
Visually impaired people have the same right to information as sighted people! It's not accessible to exclude them from the written content. And no, a brief summary like "a funny text about dogs" isn't accessible either. At least give some more details if you don't want to type out the whole text.
Stop excluding us!
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phone cameras can extract text from a photo now that you can just copy and paste - there's really no excuse.
As a fully sighted person who, nonetheless, has empathy, I'd like to add: if something is so important, interesting, or cool that you are sharing it, then it's important, interesting, or cool enough for you to take the extra 15 to 90 seconds to add meaningful Alt Text.
If you aren't going to bother adding Alt Text, please don't share it at all.
This goes double for the massive public figures who are posting on Fediverse. I understand you might have a staff handling it. I understand you might be using a fancy app to post the same thing simultaneously to multiple social networking sites and not all of them even support Alt Text. This one does; take the extra time to add Alt Text or, once again, don't bother.
If you aren't going to bother adding Alt Text, please don't share it at all.
This goes double for the massive public figures who are posting on Fediverse. I understand you might have a staff handling it. I understand you might be using a fancy app to post the same thing simultaneously to multiple social networking sites and not all of them even support Alt Text. This one does; take the extra time to add Alt Text or, once again, don't bother.
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A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town
When historian Galo Ramón uncovered a long-forgotten pre-Incan water system in Ecuador, he set about restoring it, and helped transform the landscape and livelihoodsGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
People who greet any accessibility measure with "ah, but what about the people it DOESN'T work for??" annoy me so much.
It stems from the belief - very common among abled people, even well-meaning ones who want to make things accessible - that there's One Perfect Accessible Option, that they just have to find that and do it and then they never need to worry again.
I'm forever being asked, for example, what color is best to make a thing stand out for blind people.
It doesn't work that way.
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Yeah, I'm a nd spoonie with huge energy issues so writing alt text is both a jumble in my head and costs me energy to do. I do it when I can because OF COURSE, but a lot of the time it *is* too much. But people who CAN do it need to shush at least cus when you can it's a good thing.
Everything else? We just gotta listen to those who need the thing, who have issues with something. So yeah, agreed. Complicated, but ugh. We gotta TRY.
@jaedia Writing good alt text can be hard too!
If you didn't know it yet, there is a hashtag, alt4me, that you can use to ask the community to provide alternative text, which can be great when you have no energy but want to share an image nonetheless.
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I wonder, as a fellow-ND person, if you noticed the same thing as I did:
I find all details interesting, whereas "most people" and alt text typically focus on what is most important in media. I find it challenging to strike a balance between describing what I see and what is relevant.
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Update from OVFF's Chair - "We have the group code for the hotel for this year. You can go to our website for the details: ovff.org/hotel-information/
Feel free to spread the word far and wide. We hope to see you all there! "
A few June catch-up pics.....
#TinyJoy #NatureLove #happymaking #RightOutsideTheDoor #MyNeighbors
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From Conchair Doug:
OVFF officially has a new hotel for 2025!
Specifically, we will be at:
The Columbus Airport Marriott
1375 N Cassady Ave
Columbus, OH 43219
from Oct 24 to 26, 2025.
Here’s a link to their website:
marriott.com/en-us/hotels/cmha…
The space we will be using is substantially similar to what we have been used to, so we will be able to offer the same workshops, theme filks, open filks, con suite, dealers room, concerts, and the other items you have come to expect at OVFF. Thank you all for your patience through all of this- it’s been quite a journey for us. And special thanks to Sally Kobee who has been instrumental in making this happen this year!
We will be updating our website soon with a registration code and specifics on pricing etc. (Hopefully by next weekend- we won’t have an event code until early next week). So, start making plans- we look forward to seeing you all at OVFF in 2025!
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The Brainstorming Poll for the 2025 Pegasus awards is now complete! Thank you to all who submitted ideas!
We are now happy to present the 2025 Nomination Ballot!
Special categories this year are:
Best Hero Song
Best Villain Song
A few bits of #TinyJoy from a recent visit to #KubotaGarden
#SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseOfClem #ThreadOfGold
#SmallBeautiesHour #BecauseOfClem #ThreadOfGold
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Starting in 15 minutes!
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Cathy McManamon concert this Sunday on Bandcamp! 12noon PDT, 1pm MDT, 2pm CDT, 3pm EDT. 50%+ of concert proceeds go to Leslie Hudson, who had originally planned to play a livestream concert with Cathy during May, to help them recoup some losses from their canceled US tour. Music is Cathy's birthday gift to us!https://cathymcmanamon.bandcamp.com/merch/birthday-gifts-and-positive-shifts
Cathy McManamon concert this Sunday on Bandcamp! 12noon PDT, 1pm MDT, 2pm CDT, 3pm EDT. 50%+ of concert proceeds go to Leslie Hudson, who had originally planned to play a livestream concert with Cathy during May, to help them recoup some losses from their canceled US tour. Music is Cathy's birthday gift to us!
cathymcmanamon.bandcamp.com/me…
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The rest of my week: walked at a local trail the other day after some good med news, started May by visiting the beach on the other side of town, helped with a 'yard warming', and walked around the neighborhood.
#TinyJoy #happymaking #NatureLove
#TinyJoy #happymaking #NatureLove
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Quick reminder for my filk-folk: the Pegasus Brainstorming poll closes in two days! For this one, "submit early, submit often" IS a valid choice! 😆
Got stuck in my head a bit again, but there were bright spots #TinyJoy #happymaking #NatureLove #NaturesBeauty #RightOutsideTheDoor #xapCrafts
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Linux people - anyone conversant with Unraid os? Particularly 32bit version 5.0.6? Know someone trying to work with it who's running into issues bc it's "old", so apparently resources are kinda gone these days. Anything you can recommend (eg: how to setup ways to add, edit, remove files folders, and setup for remote access) etc would be appreciated.
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(note: I'm not the user, and don't know much more than the above & that the project is running on pretty old hardware, including drives of varying sizes, which Unraid is supposedly quite good at; just trying to find things to pass along etc since I know more linux-folk)
I cannot possibly improve on this headline.
(h/t Ysabet)
Sound frequencies of stars sing of our galaxy’s past and future unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2025…
Sound frequencies of stars sing of our galaxy’s past and future
UNSW researchers interrogated the ‘sounds’ of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique for astrophysicists to probe the universe and learn more about its evolution.UNSW Sites
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Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Nonbinary people are nonbinary.
Trans men are men.
Nonbinary people are nonbinary.
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Omigosh
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"You could use it to organise your recipes, mum!" was one of the classic ways of persuading them to buy you a computer to play games on in the eighties. Now someone's actually done it and in a way that could just possibly have worked back in the day too.
I don't know whether to be impressed or to accuse them of being swots.
mastodon.pepicrft.me/@pedro/11…
cooklang.org/ looks amazing. It's the markdown of recipes.
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Moon....
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So I have now officially lost count of how many "once in a lifetime" economic crashes / recession / fucked up republican failures that have happened already in my lifetime.
I'm GenX. I have no retirement savings. It takes all we have to just keep swimming.
I'm fucking tired.
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FilKONtario will be streaming this weekend on YouTube! Tune in for concerts by Rhiannon's Lark, Sean McGaughy, Beth Kinderman & the Player Characters, Gary Ehrlich, Marie-Lynn Hammond, and me, plus 2x10s, the Filk Hall of Fame, and more! youtube.com/@filkontario...
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Baked some Cheddar bread Tuesday
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Today's walk cut short due to knee issues, but did see a fair few wild salmonberry blossoms while out 😊 #happymaking #TinyJoy #NatureLove
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My afternoon's #TinyJoy is a TastyJoy 😊 Thank you Friday Afternoon
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Periodic useful reminder:
Have YOU backed up your electronics lately?
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From the last three days: More signs of spring continue to add #TinyJoy to walks 😊 And it really is beautiful here 💙 (Only using (mediocre) phone camera most of the time means pics don't really show what I get to see, esp starry nights, but tried anyway).
#happymaking
#NatureLove
#NewAdventuresForXap
#RightOutsideTheDoor
#happymaking
#NatureLove
#NewAdventuresForXap
#RightOutsideTheDoor
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Here's hoping?
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Only lightly rained-on during today's walk, and little purple flowers added a bit more #TinyJoy as well. Sharing here, along with a few other bits from last week.
#NatureLove #RightOutsideTheDoor #MyNeighbors #xapCrafts #happymaking
#NatureLove #RightOutsideTheDoor #MyNeighbors #xapCrafts #happymaking
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