Seek people whose lives are hard, and make it easier for them.

Encounter people who have made their lives comfortable by making it hard for others, and make it uncomfortable.

Hope is a thing that fights in the dark.

A lot of people ask me the difference between a white nationalist and a white supremacist.

• A white nationalist is someone who believes in a strictly enforced authoritarian racial ethnostate.

• A white supremacist is a white nationalist, with sour cream and diced tomatoes.

Skee-Lo: I wish I was a little bit taller
Genie: makes sense, master, I wouldn't mind being a bit taller mysel—

Skee-Lo: I wish I was a baller
Genie: explains why you wanted to be taller

Skee-Lo: I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her
Genie: Master, I'm afraid wishes cannot control matters of romantic lo—

Skee-Lo I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
Genie: Wait, what's happening right now?

Skee-Lo: and a 64 Impala
Genie: no, nope, back up

Me: I lack all conviction.

Yeats: You’re the best.

Every few months, I find myself recommending basically everyone read this one article about the protactile deafblind language. But particularly relevant to mastodon users (AND people working on automated image captioning) is its great discussion of what makes good alt text.

There is such a thing as excess detail! It may make you look like a True Ally, but you're not helping blind people. #screenreaders #accessibility

https://audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/against_access.html