Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Grabbing Social Security is outright theft. Many of those funds took a lifetime to earn. These are not the government's *entitlements* because they belong to The People.

OTD in 1961 white supremacists rioted because two Black students—Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes—registered at University of Georgia.

They didn't riot because they were denied rights, education, or justice—but because Black people wanted equality.

Mr. Holmes became Dr. Holmes and passed away in 1995. And Ms. Hunter became a world class journalist and is still with us today.

This isn't ancient history, it's contemporary reality.

During Biden visit, Abbott cries he 'desperately needs more money' after wasting billions on stunts

#Biden #Abbot #BorderVisit
#Texas #Politics #Immigration

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/9/2146245/-During-Biden-visit-Abbott-cries-he-desperately-needs-more-money-after-wasting-billions-on-stunts

Shady connections.
- Bolsonaro was advised by Trump, Steve Bannon, and Jason Miller
- many of the pro-Bolsonaro trending Twitter hashtags are in english.
- Canada's extremist convoy got lots of funding from MAGA Americans.
- There is an interconnected/inter-funded global right-wing extremist movement and they use disinformation and terrorism tactics.
-Musk plays along, Bolsonaro called Musk, "a breath of hope."

hey

The global anti-democracy movement has been encouraged by America’s failure to hold Trump accountable.

Happy 115th anniversary to #MuirWoodsNationalMonument, which was designated as a National Monument #onthisday in 1908.

🗺- In #MuirWoods, #California, you are on Graton Rancheria and Me-Wuk (Coast Miwok) land.
#FindYourPark
📸- #sonyalpha #sonyalpha7riv #photography #landscape #nationalpark

Expert and novice cybercriminals have already started to use OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT in a bid to build hacking tools, according to security analysts. https://www.pcmag.com/news/cybercriminals-using-chatgpt-to-build-hacking-tools-write-code

The failure of the new House Speaker and the Senate Minority Leader to condemn the violent, anti-democratic coup attempt in Brazil is despicable.

Republicans are making it a priority to cut Social Security and Medicare. Democrats will do everything in our power to make sure that doesn't happen.

Ruin any knock knock joke instantly by simply saying "Come in".

For some reason, I'm not good at coding during the day, but at night..I'm a genius

Three years into remote work and the best argument marshalled against it is still "managers are unhappy that employees seem to like it."

In Melitopol the Yellow Ribbon activist group is still actively working against the forced distribution of Russian passports.

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! 😘

Seems to me there are a few Brazilians hanging out here in the US like it's post WWII Argentina.

#Brazil #Bolsonaro #Fascists

Lawmaker Calls On Bolsonaro to Be Extradited

Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) said “that ousted Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro should be extradited from Florida after his radical supporters attacked key government institutions in Brasília over the weekend following his election loss,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Castro: “Jair Bolsonaro is in Florida, hanging out with Donald Trump. He’s a dangerous man. They should send him back to his home country of Brazil.”

#EvictBolsonaro
#EvictTrump

@KiKiPosting Pretty overwhelming when someone looks at mine. I spent two hours discussing religion yesterday, and then I did Ted talks and learned about using pronounces and met some helpful people, on the bird site, we'd have been flooded with hate replies before we could ask a second question. If someone doesn't want to see it, mute me. I try to hashtag, so they can avoid USPoli or Politics if they like. if they want to avoid everything they don't like, they should stay off Social Media