Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

Perfect example of not knowing your audience.

Hunting.

Here's an Ospreay (Pandion haliaetus) that I saw today. The bird was high over the ocean and long way off. The photo isn't the greatest, but it might be the best photo of an osprey that I've taken.

"Ospreys are unusual among hawks in possessing a reversible outer toe that allows them to grasp with two toes in front and two behind. Barbed pads on the soles of the birds' feet help them grip slippery fish. When flying with prey, an Osprey lines up its catch head first for less wind resistance.

#photo #photographylover #photography #birdphotography #bird #birdwatching #osprey

Frankie waiting for his turn on the box 😹 #CatBoxSunday #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #FediCats #Cats #TheHardyBoyCats

I came across this cartoon/meme this morning and literally spit out my coffee. 😂 #AlienHumor

Let me see if I remember correctly. President Biden helped negotiate the release of Israeli and Palestinian hostages and got a four day cease fire. trump negotiated the release of 5000 Taliban militants and got bupkiss in return. Tell me again who’s stronger with foreign policy. Vote Blue

So… I need to finish my coursework for the last week of the #archaeology class I randomly signed up for this quarter and I am suddenly unable to access the online portal which is the only way to get my assignments. 😡 I have been ACING this class so far and just want to complete it. Today. On my day off. Beyond irritated.

Luckily they had help from the organisation ProCheese and their Ardis Group firm who arranged the logistics: ordering a refrigerated lorry and organising the paperwork to drive it from a warehouse in Kyiv to Slovakia to Trondheim.

In the end, all 23 cheeses made it to Norway in one piece, joining just over 4,500 other products to be tasted blind.

Despite all the challenges of working in a country at war, 2023 proved to be a success for the Ukrainian cheeses, which emerged with 13 awards.

Oksana has helped to raise funds from Italy's famous Parmigiano Reggiano, to help rebuild a Kherson eco-farm named Lymanska Koza, which is determined to keep going, despite many months under constant shelling.

The Jersey dairy is in the Lviv region, far from the front lines but it has also come under attack: in May last year, a rocket fell just a few hundred yards away from the site, forcing workers to seek refuge in the basements where the maturing cheese is stored. 

"During the Soviet times, we never had this culture of making our own cheese, the only kind we could get was Russian," Viktoriia says.

Ukraine’s cheese market has been struggling. A Ukrainian cheese expert, explains that Ukrainian producers faced very different challenges...

"Some farmers saw their land destroyed, mined or under occupation", she says – and then tells me the story of a much-loved dairy expert called Yurii Antonov, the cheesemaker turned combat medic who was killed in action.

On Election Day, Biden will be 29,936 days old.

Trump will be 28,634 days old.

Biden will be ~4% older than Trump.

Is Biden at least 4% more honest?
4% more intelligent?
4% more experienced?
4% more stable?
4% more qualified to be president?

Many, many times that, folks.

Every accusation is a confession.
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A year ago today, Gungi was a tiny kitten. Now, he is pushing towards 19 pounds.

#cats #caturday #kitten #blackcat #catsofmastodon

Bracing myself for holiday gatherings where I will be surrounded by people but all alone.

I'm probably gonna drink a lot. ​​

The nation’s largest egg producer saw profits rise 600 percent last year. A U.S. Senate candidate's family business was found liable in an egg price-fixing scheme. This often isn’t inflation. It’s price gouging.

90 years have passed.

Our prayers will be heard today. And our words will be heard in defense of justice. And our solidarity will be visible - the solidarity of all free people who will light memorial candles as a sign that Ukraine will never forget its people, whose lives were taken by the Holodomor genocide.

And when, on the night before the day of remembrance of the victims of genocide, the work of our air defense system sounded, when the weapons of our soldiers work to protect the lives of Ukraine, when our emergency rescuers eliminate the consequences of enemy shelling and help people, we know that Ukraine will not be broken, conquered and destroy

Ukraine will survive. And it will be free. And he will walk the path of freedom together with those in the world whom he respects and who respect our state. It is only our choice - and it will always be so.

Today, prayers, the desire for justice and the fire that symbolizes our national memory will unite the Ukrainian nation. We will never forget what Ukraine had to go through. And we will certainly stop the new genocide that Russia, which inherited the criminality of totalitarianism, brought to our land.

Eternal memory to all victims of Holodomor-genocide! Eternal gratitude to all those who fought and are fighting for the freedom of Ukraine! 🇺🇦
- Zelensky

It is wintertime! Lets get outside with your AT-ATs to play a little bit.
They love it!
#lego #bricks #blocks #Klemmbausteine #starwars #hoth

I'm not on Mastodon. I'm on Hubzilla, and I've got no way to hide sensitive pictures (e.g. eye contact, food, alcohol) in posts from Mastodon users. I could link to them, but that'd be inconvenient for you.

Also, I tend to have to write extremely long and detailed image descriptions of sometimes tens of thousands of characters. My image descriptions always go into the post text. But if the image is linked, it won't be where the description is.

How should I handle this?

Here are the options for those who can't read them on their apps with a bit of explanation:

Image and full description in the post
+ convenient
+ fairly interesting post with an image
+ image and description are together
+ guaranteed to work with screen readers
– extremely long post
– risk of triggering someone

Link to the image, full description in the post
+ reduced trigger risk
+ description is in the post
+ guaranteed to work with screen readers
– inconvenient for you
– uninteresting post with no image
– image and description are separate
– extremely long post

Link to an article with the image and the full description
+ even more reduced trigger risk
+ image and description are together
+ much shorter post
– inconvenient for you
– uninteresting post with no image
– might not work with screen readers

All three suck, don't post those pictures
+ most convenient
+ saves me hours of work
+ saves you an eternity of reading an image description
– I can no longer post images that might trigger someone

(Please boost so I get more than six or seven votes.)

#AskFedi #Poll #ImageDescription #ImageDescriptions #Accessibility #A11y #Inclusion #Inclusivity #SensitiveImages #SensitiveContent #ContentWarning #ContentWarnings #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #EyeContact #CWEyeContact #Food #CWFood #Alcohol #CWAlcohol