realbadkerning

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Tinker. Tailor. Painter. Scribe. They/Them/any
In Union Square, NYC, Fridays and Sundays, weather permitting.
**Currently on hiatus for the winter**
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Ahhh I just found @UncannyMagazine on here! Go read their magazine! They’re short stories (mostly) and are #scifi and sci-fi adjacent (the stories they publish are so difficult to put in such a box tho!) and are SO EFFING GOOD! If you are #lgbtq and like to #read you NEED to check them out.

Many people are desperately afraid of “forever masking.”

I'm afraid of #COVID19 remaining a top five cause of death indefinitely.

I'm scared COVID will leave billions with lasting damage to their heart, brains, and immune systems.

I'm frightened that children infected three, four or nine times will have lifelong health issues.

I'm worried that a rapidly mutating virus could yet spin off a deadly new variant.

Why is it so hard to do something so simple to possibly save a life? #WearAMask

(stolen from imgur)

Egyptian designer Hassan Ragad

@LadyA @lbruno @nazgul

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract.

If someone does not abide by the contract, then they are not covered by it.

In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.

Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.

#Tolerance #Intolerance #Meme #Memes

In the 1940s, when Representatives & Senators were being investigated for mailing Nazi propaganda out of their offices at taxpayer expense, they saved their asses by intimidating DOJ & investigating the FBI. We cannot let the GOP House run this script on the 1/6 insurrection.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-vote-weaponization-federal-government-panel-1st-week/story?id=96342735

@Maddow's Ultra podcast covers much about the Nazi plot against America including the corrupt congressmen

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/rachel-maddow-ultra-podcast-great-sedition-trial-1234603398/

House passes 'weaponization of the federal government' panel among 1st week priorities

The Judiciary subcommittee would have power to review those investigating Trump.

ABC News
music is mostly just really loud math

Today, far-Right supporters of ousted President Jair Bolsonaro, (who is currently in Florida), stormed the National Congress building and have attempted to enter the Planalto Palace. Check @CrimethInc for updates.

Since Bolsonaro lost the election, far-Right figures like Steve Bannon, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and head of the pro-Trump white Breitbart, has pushed election denial conspiracies while building ties between far-Right movements in Brazil and the US.

Jair son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, is also a part of Steve Bannon's group, "The Movement," which has linked together neo-fascist, white nationalist, and far-Right political parties across the US, Europe, and Latin America. Eduardo has also helped bring the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference to Brazil, further linking fascist leaning elements in the GOP with those from the Bolsonaro camp.

In November, the Washington Post reported that Eduardo Bolsonaro met with Trump at Mar-a-lago as well as with Bannon and "former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller, now CEO of the social media company Gettr."

Bannon has pushed Bolsonaro not to concede to losing the election and is clearly helping to craft a strategy that seeks to seize state power by force - just like on January 6th in the US.

Like the fascists, our movements need to be global in opposition and just like in the US, we can't put our hopes on the neoliberals to contain and stop the spread of authoritarianism.

#Brazil #Bolsonaro #Bannon #SteveBannon #Trump #JairBolsonaro #BrazilCoup

To the new Mastodon followers: I'll try to keep you update in English about what is going on in Brazil, but Brazilian-Portuguese is the main language here.

If you feel lost   you can check our emojis and ask the admin of your instance to grab them - we are socialists here, we share everything.

Btw, we have an emoji for the Brazilians terrorists of today:   

More here: https://emojos.in/Ursal.zone?show_all=on&show_animated=on

Custom emoji list for Ursal.zone

OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading! 😘