Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

The week is over! Come hang out with the clowns!!
It's the Emperor Norton Coffee Hour!
Followed by #CircusInPlace
https://meet.jit.si/CircusHomeGym

For most instances, keyword searches are blocked on the Fediverse: you can search for a hashtag like #FediTips, but you can't search for "fedi tips", or for celebrity names, or anything else that doesn't have a hashtag in front of it.

You can, however, mute keywords, so if you don't want to hear about Twitter you can mute that word.

This combination means: please don't obfuscate terms. You needn't put asterisks in names. They're hard to search & troll. Let people's filters work.

Hello and welcome to all the new people! Just a reminder for when you post images on here, use #AltText. It seems like the more new people join, the less it's being used, which is really not great for the people who depend on it.
Do you, like me, have a hard time describing things that you're seeing? I learned a trick for that! Describe the image as if you were explaining what you are seeing to someone you're talking to on the phone. Once I started doing that way it got way easier.
#accessability

Day 14 of #DecRecs nearly half way there!

Today I'm reccing a story about good people trying their best in a post-cilmate change world "Pan-Humanism: Hope and Pragmatics" by Jess Barber and Sara Saab

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/barber-saab_09_17/

@Forestofglory I also love it when people mention the length. Sure, I can see that when I click through, but it helps! Personally I am very unlikely to watch a video unless it contains cute animals, but that's just me 😅😅😅

By the way if you rec vids it's extremely helpful to me to get some idea of how much dialogue is included. because of auditory processing issues I can't watch vids that have dialogue and music happening at the same time or too many sounds my brain thinks of as language going on all at once. I've been using "only song" or "song and dialogue" as helpful notes

Well @Satsuma recced a Guardian Vid so now I'm having a lot feeling about that show. So today's #DecRecs is going to be a Guardain fic!

meditations ex post facto by raven

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18886507

A lawyers AU about human rights and doing the small necessary things to make the world a better place. Also cupcakes

#FicRec

Check out Tip No. 2 - Image Descriptions Rule!

Not only do the improve accessibility for all users on Mastodon, but they’re fun to write and they improve searchability!

Add Image Descriptions to your beautiful images of the Tannies next time you post! Include some info about the format of the media (eg. Image, Gif, Diagram) and some info about the content of the image.

You can read the rest of my OT7 Tips here: https://apobangpo.website/ot7-mastodon-tips/

The GlitchCat #SundayPost offers news and updates from our corner of the fediverse to yours.

§ Instance News :—

Not much news to report today; @aescling finished Breath of the Wild and is now playing Super Mario Odyssey; @Lady has a few things she’s working on but nothing to show for it yet.

Many of us are continuing to use the #DecRecs hashtag to share things we enjoy!

§ Holidays and Observances :—

• 🍵 December 15 is Tea Day. Although the United Nations tries to celebrate this day on May 21 instead, December 15 is the day chosen by the countries where they actually produce the tea. Here are some of the resolutions from a 2008 Tea Day conference in Sri Lanka, and here is what the United Nations has to say regarding the importance of the day.