Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@PleaseCaption is a good bot - if you forget to add photo captions, it'll DM you immediately so you can delete and re-draft!

PSA: To everyone who is #NewHere, and those who are not.

When you use hashtags it can help those using a #ScreenReader to use #CamelCase. Screen-readers can then find and pronounce the constituent words, rather than trying to pronounce the whole thing.

It's not essential, but it's one way we can make the Fediverse more welcoming.

Did you see the news that all of the #JWST instruments are aligned now?

Check out this comparison of one of the newly released calibration images from the MIRI instrument compared to images taken of the same region of space by the WISE and Spitzer space telescopes! Look at that resolution! So many newly resolved stars and structures! 🤩

I can't wait for all the new discoveries we'll make with JWST! #Science data starts in only a couple months!

(Image from @/AndrasGasper on birdapp)

I’d tell you a Fibonacci joke, but it’s probably as bad as the last two you’ve heard combined.

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

@yaelwrites reminds me of Kim Mok's manifesto manifesto https://www.kimmok.com/#/the-manifesto-manifesto/

Just stress tested my fidget rings for over a week and they didn't even come loose! Very excited to get these onto my shop.

Hank Green runs through five different ways to understand large numbers using really good examples. @peterdrake should think about using it in his Numbers class.

https://youtu.be/CricQj0HSfQ