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I could really go for some tacos.

@EUCommission Good! Next: legal framework for curtailing micro mobility please 🥲

@molly0xfff Of course. There's also flash!

Tonight I’ll be dipping apples in honey with my family and making fervent wishes for a sweeter year to come. We live in a terrifying time, but there is still much to be savoured, including our freedom to build hope together in collective struggle. Happy Rosh Hashanah to all who celebrate!

#roshHashanah

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/09/11/1

“My God! Vikings! And they mean business!”

@jenniferplusplus I don’t think it’s any less impressive TBH. I don’t think I could do that yet—and really, the impressive part to me is the will to put in the effort.

(I got insanely lucky and made a new friend who persistently badgered me for a full year before I got over myself, and who now coaches and supports me.)

SHOKZ, ACCESSIBILITY
SHOULDN’T BE MY JOB. 💎

Today I got angry at a pair of lightweight Shokz headphones I just paid over $200 for. Not because the headphones are bad. They’re actually rather good. I got angry because I had to charge them. I am 70 years old. I had a major stroke many years ago. I am paralysed on my left side, and I have the use of only one hand.

So something as ordinary as plugging in a charging cable can become a bloody engineering project, and then I have to admit that I just can't do it. The cable falls. The plug turns the wrong way. The socket is designed for two hands, good eyesight, good balance and fingers that work independently of each other. And suddenly, an object that is supposed to make my life easier is asking me to adapt to it. Again. That was what made me angry. This isn't really about Shokz. And it isn't really about a charging cable.

IT IS ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF TINY BARRIERS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES ARE EXPECTED TO QUIETLY ABSORB EVERY DAY.

A door handle. A package. A keyboard. A bottle top. A heavy door. A charging cable. A shower. An article of clothing. A knife. None of these objects looks like discrimination. Nobody deliberately designed them to exclude me. But they, along with several thousand other objects, do.

They simply designed them without me or anyone with a disability in the room. And then I am expected to solve the problem. Not only pay for the item, but also come up with the disability fix so that I can use the bloody stupid thing.

For most of my life, I could solve these things. Before my stroke, the physical world largely worked for me. I didn't have to think about how many hands something required. I didn't notice where the socket was. I didn't examine a packet and calculate how I was going to hold it still while opening it.

NOW I NOTICE.

And after decades of noticing, occasionally I get fucking angry. Not because I am incapable. Because I am capable, and I am tired of wasting that capability fighting stupid little barriers that never needed to exist. Accessibility isn't a special favour for a small, unfortunate group of people.

IT IS GOOD DESIGN.

And sometimes the difference between independence and dependence is something as ridiculously small as where somebody decided to put the bloody plug.

@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @disability @pwd @joinin

#Shokz #Accessibility #Disability #InclusiveDesign #AccessibleDesign #OneHanded #DisabilityAwareness #AssistiveTechnology

Air to Ground Message:

FA1 REPORTS THAT PAX IN SEAT 9DEF HAS TAKEN OFF ALL HER CLOTHES AND WAS SEEN BY OTHER PAX TOUCHING HERSELF IN AN INDECENT MANNER. FOM SAYS THIS MUST BE REPORTED TO IOC/OSM AND HAVE LAW EN

Area: Jacksonville, FL, USA
Type: Airbus A319
A: #a93065dbb3d
F: #f0a451cf0b0

#acars #vdlm2

Apple announced two always-listening features for Apple Watch:

- Siri Recap summarizes conversations you had throughout the day.
- Live Rewind shows a transcript of the previous 15 seconds of conversation.

Quite a shift for a company that has made privacy a core part of its brand.

Pixelfed v0.12.10 is now available 🔥

The release doesn't list all the changes, we ran out of space, refer to the changelog for the full list of changes 😎

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.12.10

#pixelfed

There's a goat in our neighborhood who, I swear to God, just sounds like a bored guy making goat noises. Just the most pedestrian, apathetic bleats I've ever heard.

Why the current tech backlash feels different https://www.theverge.com/podcast/992141/decoder-mailbag-ai-backlash-surveillance-midterms-data-centers

Just heard the entire opinion team at Sacramento Bee—except the editor—also got laid off. I was the opinion editor at The Bee from 2018-2021. All gone.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/post/3mv6xbqcto22q

@maxoakland

Indeed. Engaging in politics, campaigns etc is great - but simply by getting together, being with other people, we break the social isolation that feeds prejudice, and break people's solitary relationship with channels and feeds curated by right-wing oligarchy.

@jonny ideas reading that this image came to mind

#nowar #Milano, 18-19-20 SETTEMBRE 2026 Tre giorni per la #Pace
Al centro la necessità di portare l'Italia fuori dalla guerra. Nella scorsa edizione avevamo deciso di usare come sottotitolo "Perché siamo in guerra" consci del fatto che l'Italia è immersa nel sistema guerra, a causa dell'adesione ad organizzazioni funzionali agli interessi di Washington: NATO ed Unione Europea.

Rachael Sage, "The Spirit We'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syGu2XFcte0

Me: <snaps> "Of course it's recycled material, it's all from the heart of a star!"