NFL stop trying to poach Marcus Freeman FFS. He wants that natty.

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Oh hey intrusive thoughts about a time a little over 15 years before the Narrative when something I said very carefully was taken to mean something it didn't.

There's no such thing as English Sign Language please stop listening to random hearing people on TikTok good morning.

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Remembering that time (not the big time but more recently) when I did not say a thing and I couldn't figure out why the person I was talking to kept saying I did say the thing and then I finally figured out that they'd missed the conditional but before I could explain they blocked me.

Thaddeus: "So, sounds like we both got a lot going on right now." Maximus: "Yeah." Possibly one of my favorite exchanges of the whole show.

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Think of how funny it is that humans love to pet their pets, the irresistible pull of millions of years of primate ancestors engaging in mutual grooming Every cat owner who feels honored when the cat starts trying to groom them, is feeling their ape ancestors go "ah yeah that's the life brother"

Aaron Rodgers retired from the NFL with 2:39 left in a playoff game he was playing in

Holy shit I'm just now finding out about Marcus Freeman. From the local news. He will not face criminal charges if you were curious.

I just used my very imperfect language skills to emphasize to the rideshare homie that we're on our way to a birth so fast as possible within the bounds of safety and the law please. Their eyes got SO big 💜 I'm less than 2 hours into this 36 hr call shift so if you can please help me scoot ⬇️

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Honestly cannot fix this for my family by myself, which is why I’m asking for help. It’s super important for them to fully pay the rent because the longer the delay, the higher the chance of eviction. Housing security is necessary for any kind of stability.

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Hm. If we do 20/40 we can start it off by adapting 'The Jungle,' and tell the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire story in there, too…

Oof. Nico Collins landing on his head. Ugly.

Just saw a claim that ICE is advertising for agents during NFL shows and trying to recall if I've seen recruitment ads for ICE during the games I've watched this season. It seems like I saw one during the CBS pregame show on October 26.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe is still trying to locate four members kidnapped by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week, and many Native people in the Twin Cities have felt scared to leave the house to go to work or get groceries. www.startribune.com/ice-detainin...

covered the rent thru the week, ty everyone! haven’t eaten or had pain meds since yesterday, haven’t been able to afford laundry in 2wks, have an appt tmrw and my rxs after will be ~$80, so still need to raise: 🚨 $190 for food, laundry, and meds anything helps 💸💞🫡 ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

If you don’t know, I am not sure I can fully describe the entire universe of losing a Torah — the spiritual injury, the communal injury, the stress and financial strain of acquiring a replacement for this extremely expensive and difficult-to-ensure holy ritual object…

If folks want to donate. The synagogue is historic - it was bombed by the KKK in 1967 for its civil rights activism. It is the only synagogue in Jackson and is in a majority Black community. Two of its torahs were destroyed along with its whole library. checkout.square.site/merchant/P9T...

Also I'm happy to give you some tips for getting started if you do join. I'm finding getting back into Ovipets relatively relaxing.

It's a bit like watching Emily cut a clutch of pipping hognoses to see what morphs they're going to have but there are often wings involved and the incubation time is shorter and there are no slugs and definitely zero smells.

Also a good number of the adults are neurodivergent in various ways and otherwise Disabled. Dunno how long I'm going to stay into it this time but I am the kind of person who gets slightly jealous of people breeding real critters and really enjoys egg cutting videos to see what people hatch, so.

Anyway that's my pitch. Or defense. Either way.

Tenor takes so long to approve GIFs. When are we getting native GIF support here?

The next time Esme goes to get her nails trimmed she's going to meet her groomer's child for the first time and her groomer and I are both really excited about it because we think they're going to love each other.

Watching Good Morning Football from today and wow Bears fans on Twitter apparently do not know their own team. You can't declare this Bears team out of it until you're at the end of the 4th quarter and maybe not even then.

TBH it is fitting that they're the Chicago Bears because bears are dog-like carnivorans and dogs are pursuit predators that basically just wear down their prey.

I don't quite understand what's going on with these Bears that they do surge so much in the fourth quarter but I'd say all the teams that lost to them in that situation also don't understand it and that's part of why they lost.

“This will be my Village Inn Origin Story” I said today in reaction to local neurologists not wanting to treat any neurology patients who have EDS — my moderate to severe aphasia for almost two decades (kind of important in communications jobs!) a big Villian Origin Story point

lol good luck. this is like finding an ADA lawyer.

Probably my main problem with that popular image on how to do alt text. It doesn't explicitly say "just do this and it's the solution for any image you want to share" but that's how folks read it, which means they miss out on a super important thing about alt text: it depends.

True; I wouldn't frame this as "the rich end up less well off" though. The rich don't end up less well off. The rich end up with fewer egregiously excessive resources. They'll still end up with everything they need and more.

And part of why I put so much effort into explaining how to do alt text correctly is to make it easier but also it matters to me that if we're going to adopt and spread the use of an accessibility tool that we do it correctly instead of some sort of half-assed "well at least people are trying".

Folks make doing alt text harder on themselves by not going into it with a clear idea of the goal. Preview of my thread: 1. Alt text is not to describe everything in the image. 2. Alt text should usually be pretty short. 3. Alt text should change depending on where/why the image is posted.

Your blue states aren't going "give us your huddled masses yearning to breathe free who are going to enroll in our state social safety net programs and need low-income housing" any more than red states are.

Thread originally posted Dec. 23, 2021 Trying to explain to abled people with money how easy it is to get trapped in a "red state" is just. They're like "what do you mean 'trapped'? you have freedom of movement". And it's like. I dunno. I'm so tired.

The administrative burden is intentional. It's seen as cost-saving. It's literally part of the plan to save $11 billion on Medicaid from the budget bill.

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Because they don't want to hear that and they think I'm a killjoy who just wants everyone to adopt my opinions but actually I'm just telling you the literal best practice developed over three decades for writing text to go in the alt attribute.

Alt text was of interest to folks who care about accessibility and folks who are interested in strictly compliant websites, but the majority of internet users didn't even know the alt attribute existed. It was often conflated with the title attribute. And we'll get back to that.

WHATWG, the organization in charge of maintaining the living standard for implementing HTML (of which the alt attribute and the text it contains are a part) explains the most important thing to know about alt text and how to approach writing it. "... it is not meant to supplement the image."

Having seen what kind of mess unfolds when we just tell people to do alt text but don't also tell them how to do it in line with best practice, I strongly urge calls for alt text to also include information on best practice. Preferably from people who aren't just making it up based on feels.

Also IME it really helps folks to know that the alt attribute has been around for 30+ years and there are people who already figured out best practice and it's not up to you to try to work it out on your own. And I put together a lot of that info in this thread:

Since there’s an influx of new users, I think now would be a good time to remind everyone to add alt-text to your images.

If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong... this thread is for you. First: prompt questions to get you started.

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