I'm writing a guide at work, what's your favourite accessible font??

#accessibility

“What’s brittle isn’t the code, it’s the people and the structures around it. If your team can’t change direction without six meetings, your bottleneck isn’t technical. It’s cultural.”
https://avivbenyosef.com/flexible-code-rigid-org/

@neil If you take the "c" from the front and the "x" from the end of "cardboard box" you get

"Ardbo Ardbo".

(edited to correct a typo)

Commission seeks answers over Slovak plan to dismantle whistleblower office https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-seeks-answers-over-slovak-plan-to-dismantle-whistleblower-office/?utm_source=eac&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=%40euractiv%40masto.ai

Like many services, as Signal grows, it becomes a more appealing place for scammers to try and cause harm.

We've put together tips to help you protect yourself from phishing, scams, & impersonation attempts. Plus info about how Signal support communicates.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/9932566320410-Staying-Safe-from-Phishing-Scams-and-Impersonation

Wikipedia finally says goodbye to its `m.` mobile subdomains: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/. This is a good change that comes with SEO (no more same content at different locations situations) and performance (no more redirects) benefits!

This is the best Black Friday offer I‘ve seen so far! 😏

#AssassinsGuild #AnkhMorpork #Discworld #Discworldemporium #BlackFriday

I think this may be my favorite photo this year. A flooded footpath in Pittencrieff Park.

Apart from any other thing, an ED in NSW is paid an enormous salary, some multiple of the median wage. To know that someone like that is outsourcing the discretion they’re paid to exercise on behalf of the public to a bot absolutely stinks. Thinking as a citizen.

I painted a scene for my personal project. medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache on Arches watercolour paper #Illustration #TraditionalArt #AnimeArt #SliceOfLife

Hey look, a dog!
Now that I have your attention….

Remember that genocide we were all protesting and acting on? It’s still ongoing. There’s still barely any aid entering Gaza. There is still bombing and killing with entire families being wiped out. There are still no medical supplies. People are living in freezing cold tents.

Your $10 or more helps provide food and pay for housing, including for a new mom and her baby.

https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

I said it didn’t I

https://aus.social/@liamvhogan/112283505823338135

Here is my Ukraine peace proposal:

1. Putin is sent to The Hague.
2. Russian soldiers leave Ukraine including Crimea.
3. Russia returns all kidnapped Ukrainian children.
4. Russia releases all Ukrainian prisoners.
5. Russia pays damages for everything their war has destroyed.
6. Russia pays damages to Ukrainian families who have lost family members.
7. Russia pays damages to every person who has been tortured, abducted or otherwise criminally mistreated.
8. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU.

@joepie91 It's no wonder a lot of this digital technology started coalescing around a time of global fascism, and now when global fascism is on the rise again it is being brought to the forefront of our public consciousness as well. I am not a primitivist, and technology obviously has morally good uses like in medicine or even things like assistive communication technologies. But technology that destroys these freedoms has become far too central in how the world operates, and has come between a lot of our communal lives.

One of the most terrifying things that nobody ever seems to talk about, is how the cultural development and even communication of our whole species is almost entirely defined now by the capabilities of our digital systems in a way that I'm not sure can even be solved, because anything not explicitly supported by them can't 'exist' within their realm, on a very fundamental level.

No 'official' language code for your language? Too bad. Use a writing system that can't be represented within the constraints of eg. Unicode? Sucks to be you. Gesture-based communication? Well, that probably isn't happening. Have different cultural norms from the US? Well I guess you don't anymore, because the tech you're now dependent on is built by US companies to their norms. Sure, you can replace the US and Unicode but it doesn't change the fundamental dynamic.

Historically, cultural and linguistic development has always been permissionless to some degree; you have a whole reality to interact with and affect, anythingwithin the laws of physics so to say. Everything within that is possible as long as it hasn't been made impossible. Invent a whole new form of communication, or have it emerge organically or collaboratively? Why not!

But digital systems are the exact opposite; only those things that were explicitly designed can exist, there's no space of possibility outside of that, and the knowledge required to do the designing is so incredibly complex that I doubt it can ever be a 'universal skill' in society, the way that eg. touch or gesturing is.

And it terrifies me to think of the long-term consequences of this kind of constraint.

One of the most terrifying things that nobody ever seems to talk about, is how the cultural development and even communication of our whole species is almost entirely defined now by the capabilities of our digital systems in a way that I'm not sure can even be solved, because anything not explicitly supported by them can't 'exist' within their realm, on a very fundamental level.

No 'official' language code for your language? Too bad. Use a writing system that can't be represented within the constraints of eg. Unicode? Sucks to be you. Gesture-based communication? Well, that probably isn't happening. Have different cultural norms from the US? Well I guess you don't anymore, because the tech you're now dependent on is built by US companies to their norms. Sure, you can replace the US and Unicode but it doesn't change the fundamental dynamic.

Historically, cultural and linguistic development has always been permissionless to some degree; you have a whole reality to interact with and affect, anythingwithin the laws of physics so to say. Everything within that is possible as long as it hasn't been made impossible. Invent a whole new form of communication, or have it emerge organically or collaboratively? Why not!

But digital systems are the exact opposite; only those things that were explicitly designed can exist, there's no space of possibility outside of that, and the knowledge required to do the designing is so incredibly complex that I doubt it can ever be a 'universal skill' in society, the way that eg. touch or gesturing is.

And it terrifies me to think of the long-term consequences of this kind of constraint.

“Taxing airline fuel is not the only answer to encouraging more people to choose low-carbon travel, but it’s a start.

It’s ludicrous that the most environmentally damaging form of transport doesn’t pay fuel tax”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/24/end-the-tax-break-that-makes-flying-cheaper-than-trains

#Climate #Energy #Taxation #FossilFuels #Transport #Airlines #Aviation