Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
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Joined Sep 2021
in retrospect i dislike my knife poll design but i’m not sure the question is interesting enough to enough to justify redoing
@gardener hi! not from fandom.garden but i’d recommend picking a method of flagging non-alt text posts that’s not adding a blur overlay (many instances use red or blue borders on undescribed posts, for example, which I think is a much better solution!). I have a couple reasons for this:
like many accessibility improvements, alt text is valuable to many more groups of people than just people who are blind so its not necessarily helpful to run a campaign promoting alt text that only focuses on blind people.
this is especially important to note in the context of partially sighted people who are going to be disproportionately impacted by a blur overlay ( eg. https://aus.social/@screenbeard/109793485561850055 )
as a disabled person, i am not a fan of attempts to ‘simulate’ disability — while they’re often well intended, i often feel more alienated from the community by their results rather than less as the simulations tends to highlight my ‘otherness’ rather than promote feelings of solidarity
apparently the term fuzzy has racist connotations in Australia, which makes the hashtag pretty problematic separate from the concerns I have about using a blur overlay: https://aus.social/@KarenWyld/109793250319179374
eating off the back of a paring knife is
@Sophie i find it imbalanced unfortunately (: poss solution, make opening a backwards smiley???? :)
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I don't always encounter alt text for images on Mastodon. But when I do, I notice the alt text descriptions are higher quality than they were on Twitter. In general, I feel like describers are sharing the intent of images more and sharing their visual interpretations more often. When describers do this, the pictures come alive in my mind. In short, alt text feels less robotic on Mastodon and more like my sighted friends narrating their lives and observations to me. It's really awesome and special to watch. Keep up the great work, describers!
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waiting
still waiting
a clay pot
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This painter (Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne, 1631-1681) has REALLY looked at cats. (Detail of this: https://www.mskgent.be/collectie/1955-m)
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#snowflakeChallenge2023 #snowflakeChallenge
#friendingMeme
The number of fandoms out there are vast, but the number of fans is vaster. Use the #friendingMeme tag to tell us more about you and your fandom. @SnowflakeChallenge and I will boost your post!
Suggested fan template in the attached post.
SO GLAD TO MEET YOU!
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Just one more day to submit your #lesbian/#sapphic #HistoricalFiction short stories to the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast for this year's #Submissions call! https://alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/call-submissions-2023-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-fiction-series
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Do you know any games to play with a tarot deck on itch? If so can you shoot me a link? Searching for it came out blank 
@aurynn @doofus_canadensis yeah it got enabled in tooot a few weeks ago i think — i wouldn’t mind a ‘fetch whole thread’ button honestly (assuming it respected blocks, etc) bc sometimes the extra context is helpful (trying to figure out if that question has been answered 100 times already, etc) but on average its made my fedi experience less pleasant
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I've just uploaded a brand new episode of the #2ClownsInACloset #podcast!
You can find the feed url, audio files, and full transcripts of every episode on our website:
https://circusfreaks.org/podcast
Amongst other nonsense, this installment unpacks the mystery of "Clown Car One", some additional Rhino stories, and a full guide to sticking out your tongue on the radio.
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This is so cool!
anyone, anywhere in the world can get a free library card from the LTI Korean Library and eye or ear read all the ebooks and audiobooks of Korean book translated into English or other languages!
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I think it's important to follow a few people where you never have any idea what the fuck they're talking about but it seems interesting
@MagicLesbianLazerOwl i would love to see this one modeled, once its finished! even just the mental image of managing all the tentacles is quite a trip
re: fediverse search (i built another thing)
@lmorchard great to hear! thanks for the quick response
fediverse search (i built another thing)
@lmorchard thank you for making it opt in only! big improvement in terms of consent mechanisms over previous attempts at fedi search
one question though: i assume you’re filtering out followers only posts from the database? they’ll technically be served to the bot, because its a follower of the accounts it scrapes, but i doubt anyone would expect that to mean they were made publicly searchable
@twistylittlepassages @godtributes yeah tribby nailed that summary 😆
sleepy af
also https://satsuma.dreamwidth.org/
User Icon is a variegated purple and yellow highlights — made by flowerdeluce.dreamwidth.org
Joined Sep 2021
