Runes

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I've been rattling around on the Net for quite a while. Chances are you might know me. Runes on MeFi, Ankus on Twitter.
If you notice something different here, I've moved accounts to @runes.
Weekends are for complicated dishes: cassoulet. Turns out that if you put a piece of duck in with a couple pieces chicken in a sous vide bag to make the confit it all tastes like duck!

Oh! Is today Giving Tuesday? Let me recommend the place I work - a domestic violence agency. We have a wishlist for gifts for our shelter residents, and we also appreciate cash donations, of course.

Boosts appreciated!

https://www.copedv.com/

#GivingTuesday #DomesticViolence #Nonprofit #DomesticAbuse #Wishlist #Donate

COPE - Center of Protective Environment | Alamogordo NM

COPE is a comprehensive domestic violence agency that offers a full range of domestic violence services in Otero and Lincoln Counties, New Mexico. COPE operates counseling and crisis-intervention offices in Alamogordo and in Ruidoso and a shelter for domestic-violence victims in Alamogordo.

Copedv
A peeper frog has taken up residence outside our bedroom window and after two nights of "breep breep breep" I'm ready to do a violence
I'm thankful for you, all my pocket friends
Fun game:
Text your mom on Thanksgiving afternoon
"How many minutes do I microwave a 25lb frozen turkey?"
The Boston Public Library (USA) has digitised its collection of legacy vinyl (crackle and hiss and all) at the Internet Archive, and it's the absolute epitome of a 50s–70s library record collection.
https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Got the first time in 10 days it's warm and sunny so everyone is out taking it in

If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were eager to join in.

Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual info in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.

I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Post-viral Edit: Don't forget to give the author some love on medium. They did the work!

#Accessibility

How to write an image description

I wrote this how-to guide with the immensely helpful counsel and insights from Bex Leon and Robin Fanning, as well as through an online…

Medium
If you're feeling lonely this holiday, just toot "if you can't push to prod on thanksgiving you're not a real devops" and a whole community of people will keep you company.