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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A teen (14?) has just lifted her friend into her arms and is twirling her around.
Her friend's head is thrown back in laughter that rings up and down the street, her long hair flying.
Totally caught up in a fleeting moment.
This is happiness.

A woman (60s?) pulls over at the side of a quiet street and calls to a friend who's walking, "Want a ride up town? I'm goin' that way."
Her friend replies: "No thanks! I love looking at the gardens. They're bloody stunning this time of year!"

A woman (40s?) says to a friend: "I never know what's going on, but Mum does. She's like the local newspaper, radio station and Facebook all in one! Whenever I want to know something, I just ask her."
Her friend laughs: "Can I borrow her? All mine does is tell me she hates my curtains."

A teen (13?) approaches a neighbour while cradling a huge ginger cat.
Teen asks: "This cat yours? He keeps coming into our house and stealing our food. We don't mind. I like him. But he could probably go on a diet eh."
Fat Cat gives them "I've eaten all the breakfasts" love eyes.

A young human (8?) is sitting cross legged in the middle of her front lawn with a big white rabbit sitting on her lap. She's picking flowers, offering them to Big Bun who seems to approve.
A bumble bee buzzing nearby, unbothered by Big Bun and his plus one.

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#spotted

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Tohle byste si také měli přečíst, proto to odemykám 🔑 — HN — Ruské útočné drony? Starejte se o cenu rohlíků! České volby se stávají variací na scénu z Čapkovy Války s mloky (Petr Honzejk).

Takže běžte k volbám a volte kohokoliv smysluplného — kromě obou koalic Jednotného Ruska (té komunistické i fašistické).

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Ruské útočné drony? Starejte se o cenu rohlíků! České volby se stávají variací na scénu z Čapkovy Války s mloky

Ve slavné závěrečné scéně z Čapkova románu Válka s mloky se pan Povondra doptává syna na břehu Vltavy, jestli je něco nového. „Ani ne, jen v novinách píší, že mloci jsou už u Drážďan,“ odpovídá syn.
Petr Honzejk (Economia, a.s.)

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Mastodon's bizarre overly complex quote post implementation is so bogus there should be an organized campaign against it called Quote Control
RT: mastodon.social/users/Mastodon…

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2025-09-11 18:28:47

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Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/…


Introducing quote posts

Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here's a deep dive on how quote posts will work on Mastodon.
Mastodon Blog

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For #Somerville, Massachusetts residents, the DSA voting guide has some useful information for the current election: docs.google.com/document/d/1H5…

#elections #MAPoli #MAPol #USPol


BDSA Boston/Somerville Preliminary Voter Guide 2025

Somerville Preliminary Election 2025 Somerville Voter Guide by Boston DSA Somerville has a preliminary election on September 16 and a municipal election on November 4. The registration deadline to vote in the prelims is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH.
Google Docs
#uspol #elections #somerville #mapoli #mapol

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"I’ve had that name longer than him": Meta deleted a bankruptcy lawyer’s Facebook page for “impersonating” Mark Zuckerberg — but it’s his real name, and now he’s fighting back windowscentral.com/software-ap…

"I've had that name longer than him": Meta deleted a bankruptcy lawyer’s Facebook page for “impersonating” Mark Zuckerberg — but it’s his real name, and now he’s fighting back

A lawyer is suing Meta after Facebook banned his page for “impersonating” Mark Zuckerberg, even though it’s his real name.
Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)

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So for Blind Android users, Google has released their AI Edge Galerry app. Can anyone confirm that it isn't accessible with TalkBack?

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

#accessibility #blind #google #android


Google AI Edge Gallery - Apps on Google Play

Explore, Experience, and Evaluate the Future of On-Device Generative AI
play.google.com
#Accessibility #android #google #blind
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James Just James

I don't know who the author is or how bad that is or why, but assuming it's about their personal views, I wish more people realized about all the thousands of people building Windows and OSX and so on, which we know nothing about but surely there are many baddies. All to say, I try to have a thicker skin in the open source world, while still advocating for us all to be better. We're under a bigger microscope and are held to a higher standard. It's hard to compete with secrecy.

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A post by @JamesBazan reminded me of one of my absolute favorite and the most profound quotations from a book. In fact, this book has many others. I'll let you discover others on your own. Here are a few.

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. … Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.”

Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign"

#books #bookstodon

#books #bookstodon @James Bazán
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Les lecteurs d’écran restituent-ils par défaut les textes en gras et en italique ?

Selon les tests menés par @juliemoynat, la réponse est non. C'est le style CSS qui est restitué et non la présence d'une balise (strong, em, b ou i).

Un paramétrage spécifique et complexe du lecteur d'écran est possible, mais la restitution peut être lourde.

a42.fr/restitution-le

#a11y #NVDA #JAWS #VoiceOver

Les lecteurs d’écran ne restituent pas le (vrai) gras et italique (strong, em, b, i) des textes - La Lutine du Web

Depuis fort fort longtemps, de nombreuses personnes relaient l’idée selon laquelle les lecteurs d’écran liraient plus fort les textes balisés via l’élément HTML strong, ou encore liraient différemment ou restitueraient la sémantique des éléments stro…
Julie Moynat (La Lutine du Web)
#a11y #nvda #jaws #voiceover @Julie Moynat
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NV Access

Les lecteurs d'écran comme NVDA peuvent être configurés pour signaler des attributs de texte comme le gras ou l'italique. Cette fonction se trouve dans les paramètres de formatage des documents de NVDA (appuyez sur NVDA+Ctrl+D). Comme vous le dites, ce n'est pas la valeur par défaut. Il est important que tout ce qui est transmis par le formatage soit également transmis par le texte. Voir WCAG 1.3.1 : w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understandin… et w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/g…

G117: Using text to convey information that is conveyed by variations in presentation of text | WAI | W3C

www.w3.org
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NV Access

Here is the English, just in case Google messed up the translation to French: Screen readers like NVDA CAN be set to report text attributes like bold or italic. This is in NVDA's Document formatting settings (press NVDA+control+d). As you say though, this is not the default. It is important that anything conveyed by formatting is also conveyed in text. See WCAG 1.3.1: w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understandin… and w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/g…

G117: Using text to convey information that is conveyed by variations in presentation of text | WAI | W3C

www.w3.org

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Hey musician mutuals and beyond, I think we need a community hashtag for our releases. I don't wanna miss the music you're sharing with us! I've tried to use lists for this, but we all post about more than just our releases, so those get buried.

So I propose we come up with a catchy hashtag for sharing released music. I like that we have #bonkwave, #gearsquad, #MusicProduction, but I sure could use something just for releases. Any ideas?

Edit: please contribute to our brainstorming! :)

#musicproduction #gearsquad #bonkwave
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Эпохальное интервью Аллы Пугачёвой. Уверен, это стоит послушать даже тем, кто не является поклонником её творчества. Дисклеймер: это три с половиной часа. youtube.com/watch?v=D6rFxVPz7U…

Алла Пугачёва: большое интервью «Скажи Гордеевой»

Билеты на новую программу «Это она»: https://katerinagordeeva.com/#stand-up Поддержать наш канал https://katerinagordeeva.com/#help Благодарим TB Palace за...
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Emmanuele Bassi

bindings will paper over any change when it comes to objects; for the rest: the API will change when it needs to change, just like it happens for every major new version. Some things may even get more Pythonic out of the box.

I don't think you have to worry about anything at the moment: this is an in-progress experiment, and we haven't even started working on GTK5, let alone GTK6. Plus, as I said: language bindings developers are engaged in this effort.

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Sony XM6 still sucks like Xm5. Gosh. What a disappointment. After a month in, Sonos Ace is winning over all of them. XM6 has come out to be very sweat-trapping over time on the earcups, compared to Sonos ace. The right earcup tap sensor will sometimes register phantom taps when I'm not wanting it to and until I reboot it won't stop doing so. Quirks like that. So nope, no Xm7 for me. Also no Bose QC Ultra. After 2.5 years, a slight electric static noise began to come around on the right earcup. Little electric swirl. Bose can go suck it. For me Sonos wins them over by a longshot. Their new QC Ultra refresh launching in October has no interest to me.
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Tamas G

@luiscarlosgonzalez ah yeah. It's definitely an upgrade over the XM5. But it keeps the same cheap plastic (I dropped mine outside once, and now the edges of the left cup have slight nics in them), does add folding, and sadly extends that right earcup sensor to be more edge-to-edge, as in, even almost around the lip of the round cup's outside. I think the best quality was in XM4, and it's a shame they didn't go back to that level of workmanship with the Xm6 - more so like they took the cheap qualities about the XM5 to add folding alongside with.
@Luis Carlos

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Trying a sattisfaction survey for #audiopub.
Do you like the site? Do you hate it? The reality of making stuff is that you almost exclusively hear from people when something is broken or they're frustrated. If I only went by my inbox, I'd think everyone hated this project. I don’t run big intrusive analytics, so this Survey exists instead to hopefully gain a better picture!
Feel free to respond to it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Audiopub Satisfaction Survey

Google Docs
#audiopub

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 1 added apps:

* Squeezelite: a 'headless' audio player for Lyrion Music Server 🛡️

We've also added a new category "Social Network", so you can find all your favorite Fediverse apps easier (we chose that name as F-Droid already uses it, and we wanted to avoid "clutter" there).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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Teixi

issues with auto-ocr, then auto-generate minimal reproducible example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_…

'delegate like a boss' w/o dogfooding? mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p…


Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
Mike Judge

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Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial nbcnews.com/world/brazil/brazi… #Brazil #Fascism

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial

BRASILIA — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created
Reuters (NBC News)
#brazil #fascism

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Golden aspens blanket the trail at Fish Lake, Utah, in a beautiful autumn display. More than beautiful—it's part of Pando, the largest living organism on Earth. Over 100 acres, sharing one vast root system, a living wonder of nature. Walking here feels like stepping through living history, every leaf connected to a single ancient being.

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#nature #utah #photography #buyintoart #landscape #LandscapePhotography #art #photo #utah #fineartphotography #autumn #fall

A winding trail at Fish Lake, Utah, covered in golden aspen leaves with white-barked trees glowing in autumn sunlight. This forest is part of Pando, the largest living organism on Earth, sharing one massive root system.

Fall In Love by Rebecca Herranen

Rebecca Herranen
#photo #art #photography #nature #autumn #landscape #landscapephotography #BuyIntoArt #fall #fineartphotography #utah

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After a short hiatus, State of the Thunder is back! This time, in addition to tackling community questions, we're also responding to the top 20-ish requested features from Mozilla Connect. Get the latest news on Sync, translations, and more!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/s…


State of the Thunder: Mozilla Connect Updates - The Thunderbird Blog

State of the Thunder is back for a new season! We're answering more questions and updating you on top requested features from Mozilla Connect
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird

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#SCOTUS #TransRightsAreHumanRights
"The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a transgender boy may use the boys’ bathroom in a South Carolina public high school while he pursues a challenge to a state law requiring students to use the bathrooms for their sex..."

Supreme Court Rules for Transgender Boy in Bathroom Dispute

"The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgend..."
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#transrightsarehumanrights #SCOTUS
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