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I knew all of these. Though I have to say my refrigerator simply due to where the outlet is for it in my kitchen is on an extension cord specifically for that stated purpose. It is the right rating for what it's doing.
well I guess I’m committing a major no-no. The microwave in my room is plugged into a power box. It’s not exactly an extension cord and it’s not exactly a power strip. It’s one of those little blocky things that goes into an outlet that has a bunch of other plug things on it.
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Basically, lots of folks seem scared that if we legalize it people are going to kill themselves tripping on shrooms and the like.
Because, you know, that's totally impossible with the current criminalization of these drugs.
FFS people can we all agree that locking people up for voluntary use of non narcotics is THE EPITOME OF STUPID?????
Let's please stop feeding the carceral industrial complex to no end other than to further enrich those who don't deserve it, ruining lives in the process.
This is a slate of Democratic candidates calculated for maximum impact for your donation dollars.
National campaigns receive a ton of money, but can't always deploy it locally in the places that the Electoral College, gerrymandering, and … shenanigans mean it needs to be spent. But figuring out which local campaigns *can* use it is a lot of work. This site is the output of that work.
Maybe you've got a limited budget for political donations and you don't know where to spend it; a few bucks in a presidential campaign feels like a drop in an ocean. Maybe you've got a big budget but you've maxed out your direct donations to national candidates and you don't know where else to spend the rest of it, because you're skeptical of PACs. Since the slate features 18 candidates, you can donate up to your limit on each one. In both cases, this is a high-impact use of your funds.
I've finished this site later than I wanted to, so there's precious little time left in the election. Even if you can't donate, please boost this *widely*, because we are still in the window where it could make a really big difference.
There are candidates from Pennsylvania superswingdistricts.org/#super… from the southwest superswingdistricts.org/#super… and from swing states superswingdistricts.org/#super… . I've made sure to link up all the individual seats (click the "#" next to the seat ID) so you can link directly to them if one in particular speaks to your particular issues or values; don't feel like you have to boost me here, feel free to post in your own words after reading.
Update to superswingdistricts.org today: a goal tracker, showing how much we've raised. This has been promoted other places, and we don't really have any tracking, but just based on timing it does seem clear that you folks are responsible for a pretty significant chunk of the progress so far, so THANK YOU!
This number might seem surprisingly small next to the millions and billions of dollars being raised in high-profile national campaigns, but that's kind of the point here; these smaller state-level races are starved for resources and this is where conservative ghouls have been eating our lunch for years, infiltrating the machinery of local elections, state offices, etc.
Refreshing social media feeds and podcasts to listen to whatever fresh outrage has occurred each day has not made me feel better even once, but refreshing this site and seeing the total raised number ticking up, even just by a couple of bucks, is one of the best mental health interventions I've had this year. It's just nice to see people I know giving something directly.
The goal will bump up to a new one if we can meet this one, of course; the campaigns can use plenty more than this. But it would be great to cross this threshold.
And we made it, and then some. On to the next goal: $60k.
Writing that thread about the stakes of the election from my perspective really took a lot more out of me than I thought it was going to though, so please get to $60k while I take a break for a while.
#AndroidAppRain at #IzzyOnDroid (apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid) today brings you 14 updated apps and has 10 old, no longer working apps removed. Thanks to Aholic Gino for digging them up! We'd welcome any hands helping us cross-checking his other findings at gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/… – so please take a look, pick an app or two to test, and tell us your results! "Second door to the left, one per person" if all join in, and it's done in an eye-blink
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
For those of you who are switching to #Thunderbird from #Outlook, do the following to ensure as seamless an experience as possible while using a #screenreader. Note, these do not have to be done in this order. 1. If preferred, add your account by filling in the form that is presented on the screen which appears for the first time you open Thunderbird. This will get your first Email account connected properly to TB. 2. Once you are presented with the main TB window and the various folders (inbox, sent, etc.), you know your account has successfully been added. Press F8 to disable the preview pane. This will reduce clutter and allow you to simply press Enter on a message to open it rather than having to navigate it in the main TB window. 3. Open the Tools menu with Alt+T, then press Uparrow until you get to Settings and press Enter. Note, this is not the same as Account Settings. 4. Once in Settings, find the following items and make sure they are set as shown below. A. Under General heading. When Thunderbird launches, show the Start Page in the message area Alt+Shift+W check box not checked. This will prevent Thunderbird from showing its normal startup page and reduce the resulting clutter in the main TB window. B. Under General heading, optional. When Thunderbird is minimized, move it to the tray Alt+Shift+m check box not checked. When this checkbox is checked, every time you minimize the application, Thunderbird moves to the system tray and consequently requires activation every time you want to quickly get back to it. I personally find this bothersome, so I have disabled this particular behavior. C. Under General heading, optional. Hide system window titlebar Alt+Shift+H check box not checked. I personally like all the information I can get when reading my titlebar, so I prefer to have this disabled. D. Under Incoming Mails heading, Optional. Show an alert Alt+Shift+S check box not checked. Note, do not disable this setting if you desire to change the setting below it. If desired, change the setting below first, then move back and change this one afterward if preferred. When this item is checked, the screenreader will automatically announce when each message arrives. This is a bit too chatty for my personal preference, so I have it disabled. E. Under Incoming Mails heading, optional. Use the system notification check box not checked. Note, change this setting first if desired before changing the one above it, as this checkbox becomes unavailable when the setting above is disabled. This item allows Thunderbird to send a system notification to the Windows 10/11 Action Center. You get the system notification sound, as well as any accompanying speech and can view the notifications that way. I personally find this overkill, so I have disabled it. F. Under Incoming Mails heading. Play a sound Alt+Shift+d check box checked. This will allow Thunderbird to play a sound whenever a new message arrives. You can either use the sound that has been set up for the default Windows notification sound for mail or choose your own by specifying the file you would prefer using the Browse option. G. Under Reading and Display Heading. Set Open New Messages In to A New Message Window. This will exhibit the more familiar behavior of Outlook and open the message in its own window when you press Enter on it. H. Under Reading and Display heading, optional. Close message window/tab on move or delete Alt+Shift+C check box checked. This tells Thunderbird to close the message window if you happen to move or delete it from the main TB window. I personally have this enabled for convenience. I. Under Reading and Display heading, optional. Preferred Address Display Format set to Name Only. I prefer this because it cuts down on chatter. This way, as you arrow through messages, you will see only the name of the sender along with other header information, rather than both the name and Email address. 5. Once all the settings are to your liking, press Control+W to close Settings and return to the main TB window. 6. Open the View menu with Alt+V and press Rightarrow on the Toolbars menu. Uncheck all the items there except for Status Bar. This results in less clutter in the main TB window. 7. Return to the View menu with Alt+T and press Rightarrow on Layout. Press Enter on Classic View. This optimizes the view a little bit more for screenreader use. 8. From the main TB Window, Shift+Tab until you find the Message List Display Options button. Activating this will bring up a context menu. Once in this menu, make sure that Table View is checked. This will allow you access to message headers and the ability to order them how you would like. 9. Finally, from the message list in the main TB window, Shift+Tab once. You'll find a toolbar that consists of several buttons. These are your message headers. If you wish your screenreader to announce Read Status first, find the Sort By Read Status button, then press alt+leftarrow. This will move the header over. Note, this does not mean you will be sorting message by Read Status. Sort By is announced because if you click on these headers, you can sort the messages by the header that is selected. Use Alt+Leftarrow or Alt+Rightarrow to find the preferred position of the selected header. To check or confirm the order of your headers, press Tab and arrow through your message list. I have Read Status first, followed by attachments and so on. This makes the reader announce the read status of the message, then whether or not there are attachments, followed by whatever header (e.g. correspondents) comes next. Change the order of the message headers to match how you would like your reader to announce the associated items as you arrow through your message list. Press F6 and Shift+F6 to jump quickly between Email folders and message lists.
Hope this helps, and enjoy your shiny new Email client! #A11y #Blind #JAWS #NVDA
> Preferred Address Display Format set to Name Only.
I'm going to push back on this. The tendency of mail clients to do this (including one I previously wrote) makes us more vulnerable to phishing attacks, because it's not easy to check that the sender's email address is legitimate.
@matt That's why I said that I prefer it and that the setting was optional. Still, I appreciate the feedback. Your reasoning is certainly sound. Thanks!
Very nice recommendations! Moving around the settings I also found something cool I didn't know existed: you can set up TB to indicate name and email address, but name only for people in the addressbook. That way when only the name is read you know it's a trusted (or at least known) address.
Just in case people are wondering, here is a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts native to #Thunderbird. I will include the link at the end of this post. Be aware, the terminology is a little weird (meta for control in particular), but an explanation to the terminology and what it means is given on the page. Control+W, for example, is listed as Meta+W. Apart from that, it's a very comprehensive list and actually includes keyboard shortcuts for several different mail clients at once on the same table. Hope this helps! wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:H… #Blind #Screenreader #A11y #JAWS #NVDA
Found this random bakery that refers to itself as open source
> I like the "Open Source" software model and want to eventually do a full job of sharing my sources and methods to encourage that same kind of collaboration and gradual improvements with other bakers that many software developers enjoy. I've already benefited greatly from the same from connecting with other bakers, farmers, etc. One of the things at the heart of my bakery is my flour mill and my current primary mills are the the KoMo XL (one is an XL Plus). These folks are the only US importer of these mills and have been very nice to work with.
If you're convinced, this is not an article for you to read, but it is an article for you to share, if you know someone who is not convinced that this is *serious*.
I was early, but I wasn't wrong.
In 2016, nobody had "mass deportations now" signs. In 2016, there were guard rails.
2020 was our Beer Hall Putsch. It failed. Remember when Hitler failed seize power? Conservative elites allowed his rehabilitation, his poisoning of their institutions. It was years until he could do "deportations". And—I cannot stress this enough—*that is what they called it*. "Deportations".
Godwin's law looms over all discourse so I try not to bring this up constantly but *I* am constantly thinking about it when looking at the news.
My great grandparents' names are on that list I just linked. And when we were learning about what the other kids in school would call "the holocaust", my grandmother would often speak about her experience using french words and phrases, because, you know. It happened to her, and when it happened to her it happened in french.
And that's the word she would use, in French. "Déportations". As in "mémorial des déportations", which is what a lot of holocaust museums are called in France.
For me, the phrase "mass deportation" has a visceral resonance more like "fucking kill your whole family" than "fiscal policy".
Which makes me feel absolutely insane when horse-race pundits say it. "Will fucking killing your whole family reduce housing prices? Fucking killing your whole family is very popular among men 18-34."
So, yeah. Make a plan to vote for Democrats. Donate to Democrats. Get out the vote for Democrats. A vote for Democrats might not be perfect, but it is a vote *against* fucking killing somebody's whole family.
Of course the Maga party is not *exactly* the Nazi party, I do not think Jews will be first on the list; we will not have a play-by-play Holocaust re-run. But they *are* playing the hits by starting with "the communists", which some of you may recall begins a famous poem.
"*V rozhovore pre Nova Sport ste naznačili, že podmienky na Slovensku neboli ideálne. Viete vysvetliť, v čom bol konkrétne problém?*
Podľa mňa najlepším príkladom je koniec jedinej certifikovanej atletickej haly na Slovensku, haly Elán v Bratislave. Jednoducho ju zatvorili a atléti sa polovicu roka nemajú kde pripravovať. Ako je možné, že takúto zásadnú vec nikto včas neriešil?"
“The last time the United States launched a mass deportation effort … U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent were rounded up and sent to Mexico—a place that many had never been before. The mass deportations that Trump is proposing would be devastating for our #economy and dangerous for American Latinos.” texasobserver.org/how-mass-dep…
The Lone Star State is home to millions of undocumented residents and members of mixed-status families critical to the state’s economic success, yet Texas leaders are cheering on Trump anyway.
One very strange side-effect of the US's _all the elections all at once_ approach to democracy is that donating to specific underresourced local campaigns can improve turnout in consequential state and federal races.
Here's a way to donate to 18 important and underfunded State-level races that could help deliver important Federal results: superswingdistricts.org/
Okay, time to properly launch this: SUPER SWING DISTRICTS! https://superswingdistricts.org
This is a slate of Democratic candidates calculated to give the maximum impact to your direct-donation dollars.
So I wrote a while ago about how content warnings are good and pacing yourself about political news is important and you may be noticing that I've been just a *bit* of a hypocrite about that in the last few days. As I said at the time, "the marathon that is the next 106 days"
1. my current Poasting is much more goal-directed here, superswingdistricts.org is a specific project and not generalized anxiety.
2. I hope to return to a more moderated posting style with more of these guard-rails in the future. Win or lose, there will be less to do come November.
3. I know I'm burning credibility and the patience of my followers, but that is a conscious decision. Some things are more important than my personal reputation.
If you need to mute me or unfollow for the next few weeks (or heck, permanently), believe me, I get it. No hard feelings.
But as long as I've got your attention right now, if you can't donate, you can volunteer. SSD isn't set up for that, but VSA is: votesaveamerica.com/vsa-2024/
Vote Save America is back, and this year, we’re going East v. West. We all know the stakes of the 2024 election: it's time to organize or…else. LFG team.
Have you heard about SUPER SWING DISTRICTS yet? I posted about it already, but I am so bad at using discoverability features of this platform. So let's give it a try and just go nuts with the hashtags on this repost, to see how much those help. Super Swing Districts is a slate of *state legislature* candidates that can maximize the value of your election donation dollar in crucial swing districts: mastodon.social/@glyph/1133473…
Okay, time to properly launch this: SUPER SWING DISTRICTS! https://superswingdistricts.org
This is a slate of Democratic candidates calculated to give the maximum impact to your direct-donation dollars.
Just found this article stating that using the #language #attribute for individual words within a text is not a good idea when you want #ScreenReader users to have a good #UX. It's just overengineered #a11y.
I'm a bit surprised as you always read otherwise (as the article also mentions).
Are some screen reader users here that can share their experiences? I'm really curious now 🤔
Yes, I agree with Domingos. Kerstin Probiesch has also written an article about this, although this also heavily emphasizes the case in PDF documents. The problem is that, for the screen reader to switch the language, one voice has to stop mid sentence, switch the voice to one that speaks the other language, speak the word or phrase, then switch back, which can take half a second each. It ruins the whole sentence melody, sounds as if you were to take a breath in mid sentence, disconnecting the words in a very unnatural manner for no apparent reason. I find it quite annoying if it happens too often. I tend to switch off language switching for that reason. Full sentences or paragraphs are no issue, single words in a sentence quickly become a huge annoyance.
@Marco This is what we teach for 10+ years. Individual words should not be marked with different languages. (I think framing that language attributes are damaging is a bit overdramatic tho.)
@yatil That sounds so wrong. Why should we encode the current incapabilities of screenreaders into our documents?! The screenreader could easily recognize short segments and decide not to switch language profiles.
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As it has been a while and I could have done this better last time here’s my #introduction. I’m a #blind #parent, #braille user, and #musician. I have been blind for 5 years, learned braille over the last 3 years, and spend most of my time juggling being a stay at home dad, and staff for #OurBlind, mainly on our Discord and the r/blind subreddit. I also read a lot, mainly fantasy, mostly on my #kindle with the #voiceview #screenreader, though also read on a #Brailledisplay.
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"Many people, including Dawkins, believe sex and gender are a straightforward binary. You’re either male or female, a man or a woman, end of story.
But if that were the case, it should be easy to come up with a rule that tells you which sex a person is. However, that turns out to be not nearly so simple. The more you look, the more you find that any such rule is fraught with complications, exceptions and judgment calls."
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