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🌍🌎🌏 πŸ‘‹ β€œHumankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, Duwamish

Acknowledging that I live on the land of the #Atfalati tribe of the #Kalapuya people who inhabited this land before colonial settlers arrived

#PNW #Cascadia #knitting #crochet #gardening #BloomScrolling #SilentSunday #LichenSubscribe

Pixelfedhttps://pixey.org/K2

One of my favourite memories from the last Iceland trip is from the night we drove back from the puffin rock to our accommodation. As we reached the height of the mountain, suddenly we found ourselves driving above the clouds. It was magical. Iceland is magical.

#PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #Iceland #Photography #Travel #Landscape #LandscapePhotography

7 July 1923 | Belgian Jewish woman, Rachel Romacki, was born in Etterbeek.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 31 July 1943. She did not survive.

First monarch of the summer

I've been raising the caterpillars we find in our yard, using only milkweed grown in a tiny spot, for several years now. Last year I released 18, this year I'm already ahead of that number. We also have swallowtails after the gardener added golden alexander

#insects

πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ Hey queer folx in Germany! πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

I have a queer friend who's fleeing the US to your lovely country. She's hella cool, but she doesn't know anyone there yet πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

I told her I'd pass on the Discord info (sadly, she's not on Mastodon) of any of my community here if they wanted an introduction πŸ’ž

Did I mention she's awesome? 

Edit: she's moving to Munich, ΓΆbersendling.

#LGBTQ+ #Germany #Discord #Introduction #PleaseBoost

Lasagna for dinner, and wife decided she didn't want carbs, so she's eaten everything except the pasta.

It lies there, bereft of life, like it's been drained by some bolognese vampire.

Nosferagu.

#3112 - Geology Murder

Despite measles being declared eliminated in the US in 2000, annual measles cases have reached a 33-year high β€” and it's only July.

This is the tragic result of the spread of anti-vax disinformation, and will only get worse in the coming years because anti-vaxxers now lead our health agencies.

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.
You would think that ICE showing up in combat armor with a truck mounted machine gun to "arrest" (kidnap) little old ladies and child cancer patients would finally drill it into Americans' heads that immigrants are not dangerous and the only heavily militarized, ultra-violent gang in this country are cops.
🌞 Mainiu's automatic car awnings are becoming popular in China to avoid cars becoming boiling hot when parked outside during the summer.
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We felt we had to make this  πŸ€­

Edit: Added additional alt text to describe the fediverse symbol 🩷

Edit 2: Added more description to the alt text. Hopefully this is helpful to folks who wanted more details about the girls and the room they're in  

#WhatPrideFlagIsThat #SoAreYouGayOrSomething #sarahmhops #meme #memes #fediverse

@SleepyCatten honestly with that the gay question is very warranted
@SleepyCatten  so, are you like gay or something?
 i mean, yeah, but what does this have to do with anything?

@purplerabbit Feels like the early setup for a queer webcomic πŸ₯°πŸ€­

We'd totally read that.

It'll be hard to top the very sapphic opening episodes of Girly though.

Girly by JAQQQLN

That webcomic

itch.io
@SleepyCatten I genuinely never thought to look up what the fediverse symbol was, I've been like "ah yes, the queer pagans" this entire time
@FrazzledBrynn LMAO 🀣  
@SleepyCatten @FrazzledBrynn honestly, that seems like an extremely positive connotation and makes us more favorably inclined to the symbol :3
@ireneista @SleepyCatten @FrazzledBrynn yes, because there simply aren't enough queers in the Fedi.. Now that I think about it I think we could use a few more pro-palestinian protesters in here as well..
@SleepyCatten I would like a team of lesbians to develop the ClamBook that the girl is using.
@SleepyCatten I had not encountered this meme before! I love it - and your clear and complete explanation too.
@SleepyCatten TIL fediverse has a flag?!

@debuggingolympia It's actually just the fediverse logo on a white background for simplicity and quickness 🩷  

We did go looking for a fediverse flag though first.

@SleepyCatten so what you’re saying is that it’s the new Fediverse flag?
@SleepyCatten Its for gay people, furries, etc who also identify as non-billionaires and/or are sexually attracted to non-billionaires.
@SleepyCatten Huh, the fediverse, now known for its pentigay-m.
@robinsyl In fairness, so many of us are polyam or ambiam 

@SleepyCatten
In anyone ever wonders why alt text matters, this is a perfect example of the form

It is not only clearly descriptive, it also taught me that the fediverse has a symbol, and a super cool one at that

Is there an alt text Hall of Fame I can nominate this for?

@kims @SleepyCatten

I don't know, but there is a user account with that name!

cc @alttexthalloffame

@SleepyCatten @ahimsa_pdx @kims Yes, very nice!

My only one small nitpicky suggestion would be including a description of the fediverse symbol for those who might not be familiar with what it looks like.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112877928952629197

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

Well? [ ] Yes! [ ] Looks familiar [ ] Not sure [ ] Not really

Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server

@alttexthalloffame Thanks for the suggestion n πŸ₯° We'll add a description of that in 🩷

@ahimsa_pdx @kims

@ahimsa_pdx @kims @SleepyCatten @alttexthalloffame :)

Yay altText. For what it’s worth, using words like β€œgirl” doesn’t help me picture what is there, and I hope we’ll get better at this aspect of describing images with people in them

@kims
I look at it as a communication mismatch β€” when essential or broadly interesting information was hidden in the alt text, which most people won't even see, that's a failure of the post, not a win for accessibility.

Alt text was meant to *support* access, not act as a secret bonus track for extra content or facts :( If something's worth knowing, the post itself is so much better place for that.

@SleepyCatten

@SleepyCatten @Aaidanbird Yep, I’m one of the many β€œor something (s)”! Ha ha!
@SleepyCatten That's the federated-queer-furry-computer-scientist-train-loving-autistic-anticapitalist-generally-amazing-people-with-attitude-flag.

@celeste_42bit @SleepyCatten

CS train loving autistic here, one furry queer kid and one enby kid

@SleepyCatten the Fediverse is definitely "gay" as in the older meaning of lighthearted, carefree, and full of joy 

(And if someone told me the more modern meaning of the word applied too, I wouldn't dispute it πŸ€ͺ)

@SleepyCatten gay and occultist (because pentagram)! 😁
@SleepyCatten "you don't recognize the trans flag??"
@SleepyCatten [Looks around.] Yeah. This one's the Site Admin Pride flag.
@SleepyCatten just a pentagram for summoning inclusive demons
@SleepyCatten
It's the Happiness flag, duh!
The answer is yes, but that's not what the flag says
@SleepyCatten "just because a lot of queer folks use it does not make me queer. I mean, I am queer, and I use it, but shush"

@SleepyCatten
I swear I thought that rainbow pentagram was gonna mean queer witchcraft

Symbols are fraught with symbolism…!

@SleepyCatten Being fair... i think too many people think the same.
@SleepyCatten fediverse - getting cat ears is unavoidable
@SleepyCatten I'd never seen the original sauce of this meme, so thanks for telling me what that flag was in the original. TIL!