Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@social.cleverlibre.org

If you're blind:

Does it help if we tag abstract art images in toots with an "alt" description? What kind of description do you appreciate?

(my take is: I label abstract paintings with just "abstract painting" so as to make them easy to ignore but I don't try to describe them because it would be futile in my opinion much like summarizing poetry)

#art #blind #lowvision

Today in special units for America: "Asteroid the Size of 100 Capybaras" which is in fact the size of 1 billion capybaras.

https://ts2.space/en/asteroid-the-size-of-100-capybaras-to-pass-earth-no-cause-for-alarm/
#astronomy #units #asteroids #capybaras #big #earth #america

Interesting spelling for "Ampèrian". In French, it's spelled "ampérien" with an acute accent, not "ampèrien" which would look and sound wrong even though it's derived from "Ampère".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9-Marie_Amp%C3%A8re
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/amp%C3%A9rien
#spelling #english #anglais #français #french #accents #physics

Here's something you don't get with digital images or ordinary prints: gold and silver effects.

#art #abstractart #artistsonmastodon #gold #silver #shiny

Did you know it takes 40 Olympic-size swimming pools of sap to make 1 Olympic-size swimming pool of maple syrup?

#makesyouthink #wow #syrup #sweet #swimming #trees #maple

I blame the Big Bang.

#politics #causality #causation #transitivity #physics #philosophy #liability #bullshit

I need to find out when the word for "mind" (Latin: mens, Sanskrit: manas) disappeared from the French language and some other European languages.

I call the mind the last taboo of rationalist society.

Do you understand approval voting?

#vote #poll #approvalvoting

oh wow, Mastodon supports approval voting! Let's see if we can make Donald Trump win.

#poll #politics #vote2024 #trump #thoughts #prayers #cabbage #horseshoe #crabs #blood #republicans #democrats #others #wow

Tell us, who's qualified to be US president?

My website doesn't ask you if you want cookies. It doesn't track you. It doesn't even use JavaScript. You're welcome.
https://martinj.art/
#cookies #gdpr #eu #web #tracking

I resorted to this animated gif to display a small gallery on my art website. I think it works better than having to flip through each image. https://martinj.art.
#art #gif

Instagram scammers are hilarious. I cannot not engage with them. 😂
#instagram #scam #writing #art