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We ran into the fearless ridgeback puppy, and Odin got all his sillies out. She’s gonna be big!, which is great — I feel the one thing missing from Odin’s life is consistent access to a playmate who’s big enough to play rough with him. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

@jessie @catsalad this is Odin. Sometimes he commits hug crimes against mommy and has to be arrested by daddy.

there we go – a proper Sankakem Chapel to match the priestess dormitory. this is so, so much better than my first attempt months ago. #lego #gloryinthethunder

@eniko I don’t need 8k but I do need retina-class resolution or I can’t read antialiased text (or text that is designed to be antialiased but isn’t — only bitmap fonts)

not sure if my large hairy son is a seal or a grizzly #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Someone who looks at you the way Odin looks at my sour gummy worms #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

🚨 BABY ALERT 🚨

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #puppy

assess your work with the confidence of this person who posted five comments on their own artwork

I would advise caution with believing and spreading any claims about people being shadow banned on whatever website. While shadow banning is a real thing and it has occasionally been misused, most claims boil down to “I got less engagement than I expected on a post about a sensitive topic.”

It’s usually pure coincidence and occasionally a spam/abuse filter misfiring.

while researching the rubygems takeover situation, I ended up on the blog of someone who insists on using AI header images, and now instead of engaging with the actual post I’m stuck on “why is there a puppy on the table? WHY do the evil corporate overlords holding a sinister meeting have a PUPPY on the TABLE?”

but of course, there is no “why”; it wasn’t an artistic choice meant to convey anything deep or clever. This is much worse than no image or a boring image: it’s a nonsensical assault on the senses preventing any possible connection to meaning; it’s the bitwise inverse of art. It doesn’t decorate your writing, it casts a shadow of profound doubt upon it.

@puppygirlhornypost2 @mcc I once told a troll that my insecurities are many and obvious and yet they had deftly avoided striking a single nerve

This is a good summary of how the vaguely odious vibes that DHH has been giving off for a decade have boiled over. If you don’t know who that is/don’t have any personal investment in Ruby, you have my blessing to keep scrolling and not worry about it https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

When the TV that exists for the sole purpose of displaying its HDMI inputs has the nerve to paint “WiFi not connected” over the signal

Fresh graffiti on Odin’s usual route — so presumably they meant him. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

I’m trying to figure out what works better for alt text accessibility in practice — please reply ONLY if you ever actually use text-to-speech, braille interfaces, or anything similar for accessing the alt text of images. (Boosts welcome.)

If I post a picture of writing in another language — say, Chinese — is it more frustrating to receive an imprecise general alt text like “a picture of Chinese calligraphy”, or for the actual unicode Chinese characters to be present in the alt text and shoved through your TTS? Does that just blast you with a bunch of numbers? Does it silently skip over non-western characters?

My intuition is that the unicode Chinese characters would not be very helpful in this use case unless the user’s computer is already set up for Chinese TTS specifically because they speak a Chinese language, but I figured I should check.

#accessibility #alttext

Tonight on translations that are almost as unhelpful as the idiom itself, “mark a boat to find a sword”:

There once was a guy on a boat
Who found out that swords do not float.
He pulled out his dagger
With native Chu swagger
And said “I’ll just make me a note.”

#translation #poetry #poem #classicalchinese

don't worry, he got some fronch fries in the end. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #bleptember

dog who wonders why he never gets to go inside the friet stand with daddy #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #bleptember

well, 2019 me would be glad to know I got that sorted, at least. all it took was moving to another continent, to a country that's famous for having vastly less space than the US and yet somehow there are washer and dryer hookups in the apartments

News you didn’t know you needed: there is a single specific seal who seems to have dedicated their life to swimming through the Netherlands’ freshwater canals to tour cities. They’ve been at least as far inland as Utrecht and were last spotted in Amsterdam https://nos.nl/artikel/2583175-zeehond-in-amsterdam-blijkt-dezelfde-als-die-in-utrecht-rondzwom