@_elena @hwll make sure to mark @markus_netzpolitik on release, as he contributed to many articles about W in several different newspapers and publications.

Kazakhstan wants to end Russian electricity imports by 2027, but closing the power gap may be harder than setting the target https://timesca.com/kazakhstan-targets-2027-exit-from-routine-russian-electricity-imports/ #EnergySecurity #Kazakhstan #Infrastructure #EnergyTransition #PowerGrid #ElectricityMarket #EnergyPolicy

i can't take a position on the bolshevik orthographic reforn because и/й feel sufficiently expressive
to me [everyone laughs at my boorishness in a cacophony of eastern european vowel-shaped birdsong] but also і is really cute and i'm sad i can't type it next to its little pen pals

@halcy cc @SiFiLiGr new demo idea

"#FrançoisRuffin, député de la Somme et ex-insoumis est toujours favorable à une primaire. « Je souhaite que la primaire ait lieu parce que je pense qu’il n’y a pas une autre façon de faire », a-t-il expliqué. Fin janvier, il avait même annoncé qu’il y serait candidat. « Maintenant, s’il n’y a pas de primaire, moi j’y vais. On a eu 100 000 signatures (de soutien) en 15 jours, alors maintenant en route vers les 500 maires, il y a un élan populaire », a-t-il justifié."

https://www.leparisien.fr/elections/presidentielle/presidentielle-2027-francois-ruffin-sera-candidat-meme-sil-ny-a-pas-de-primaire-a-gauche-12-05-2026-NVDGXJCM4JDZDLZXYK5KGQ7B64.php

lol at the dweebs downvoting this on Hacker News. 😂

Not even my original thought y'all! Plenty of experts in the field have expressed such a philosophy! 😃

I had a Giant Tortoise Encounter at the zoo yesterday, finally redeeming my birthday gift from Joh!

They let Joh and our friend join in, too. We fed them carrots on skewers, with one of them chasing us around the yard. We gave them cuddles, massaging their shoulders, petting their heads, and scrubbing their shells, which to my suprise they *loved*, stopping to lean into the attention.

Photo by my friend, posted with permission.

Thank you to everyone who DOES use alt text. You are inclusive, and that is pretty effing awesome. I appreciate each post you make when you use appropriate alt text, and know that you make a huge difference. Maybe it's a small thing for you, hells, maybe it's really not, but you do the thing, and you should be proud. 🫶

https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116561550116150277

'In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”'

An excerpt from "Against Access", an essay by John Lee Clark, read here: https://audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/against_access.html Just under 5,000 words.

#accessibility #AltText #ImageDescriptions

This blue winged Kookaburra has no time for your bullshit

#photography #birds

“Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions | by Emily M. Bender | May, 2026 | Medium”

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

> Accordingly, it seems like a fitting time to do some debunking, answering questions that people frequently fail to ask.

Not a Security Issue: https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/12/not-a-security-issue.html

We need to really stop using the terms "the flu" & "flu like symptoms". One of the things that led to COVID being minimised early on was medical experts liking it to "the flu", meaning influenza. Which unfortunately most people read as "that cold and fever I had for 3 days in January that I called the flu, but probably wasn't actually influenza". Influenza is a deadly disease that kills people every year. It's really nasty. Yet so many of the infections people call "the flu" aren't influenza
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