Brian Beach @bwbeach@social.cleverlibre.org

Do yourself a favour and add @auschwitzmuseum to your timeline. In the turmoil of the day, It will give you a short reminder of what really matters and help put things into perspective.

If you like writing, or you just want to get better at it, I highly recommend doing something you ought to be doing anyway.

Put descriptive alt text on your photos.

The more I do it, the more I enjoy it. It’s strengthening my ability to describe things; whether scenery or a technical diagram.

And check the settings in your Mastodon client. Most of them have a setting you can turn on that won’t let you post photos without adding alt text.

#WritingTips #writing #AltText

Nothing will make me close your website faster than finding I have to watch a fucking video to find something out

Reading on a smartphone reduces reading comprehension and ~elicits fewer sighs.~

This is so weird and interesting. h/t @clive

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05605-0

One of the most frustrating and depressing things is the right has a coordinated, well funded plan to impose reactionary white fascist rule on the rest of us, democracy and legality be damned, and they're succeeding, and there is no comparable counter mobilization to stop them.

This actually isn’t surprising at all, but it still needs to said over & over — the biggest barrier to more urban biking in cities is the fear of cars.

“A study confirms that if we are serious about getting people on bikes, they need a safe place to ride.”

Via @lloydalter #TreeHugger #bikes #cities #urbanism #cars #BikeLanes
https://www.treehugger.com/fear-of-cars-biggest-biking-barrier-study-6979522

Unearthing long ignored African writing system, researcher finds African history

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/

“U.S. cities, in contrast to their international counterparts, dedicate a relatively greater proportion of land area to streets…A typical street in modern Osaka or Paris is under 20ft wide, while many American cities require widths of between 50-60ft .”

North American cities waste too much space/land & public money on too wide roads that encourage us to drive too fast, fueling (among other things) too many injuries & deaths.
https://planning.org/blog/9229552/the-costs-of-wide-streets-in-the-us/

Carl Sagan passed away #OTD in 1996. In his final interviews he left us with two messages that are even more relevant today: one emphasizing the importance of a science literate public, the other a warning about how hard it is to extract ourselves when we’ve been conned.

Just a friendly reminder!

#TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #fediverse #FediTips

If Mastodon diehards want this to be The Next Place after Twitter, the move is to bend over backwards to listen to disabled and Black community about what they do and don't need in social media space.

Even if it's challenging.

Even if it makes you uncomfortable.

These are power user communities, whether folks like it or not.

Want to work on Mastodon full time? I’d like to pay a Rails dev for the next 3+ months to implement some auth improvements that matter to me but also just burn down bugs, make perf improvements, whatever is needed as this place grows. Remote 100% ok but need 3-4 hrs of Pacific time zone overlap, fair pay, meaningful work. #fedihire #ruby #rails #job

Believe me, I would much rather talk about happy things like butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales, but I kinda need people to get on board with this whole stopping the fascists thing.

Hi Mastodon, sorry it took me so long to get here. Not big on words, prefer to let my photos do the talking. Here for the #bees and #nature. Up to my neck in this with @thebeeguy Let's save the bees together.

#bees
#nature
#wild
#photography
#naturephotography
#beesofmastodon
#sanctuary
#wicklow
#ireland