AspiringLuddite @AspiringLuddite@medievalist.masto.host

@cute @efi @Bashabez I was today years old when I learned that horses were not in fact introduced to the Americas by the Spanish, as I was always taught in school, and this lie is in fact a 500+ year old piece of Spanish colonial propaganda

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/yes-world-there-were-horses-in-native-culture-before-the-settlers-came-JGqPrqLmZk-3ka-IBqNWiQ

Your beauty lasts beyond the grave
The angels call you, sainted maid
Although you're nameless here, forever more
Your voice is like forgotten lore
I'm rapping at the chamber door
I cannot compete with you, Lenore
Lenore Lenore Lenore Lenore
I'm begging of you please don't haunt my man

Who knows of:
* tools
* resources

To be a good citizen for screenreaders.

I take anything from pages that test another page, locally runnable tools, videos, corporate guideline on how to code front end for screen readers, etc. etc.

Boost much appreciated

every silicon valley freak wants to transition us to a society where nine nines of humanity has nothing but a backpack containing all their worldly possessions, with the backpack itself and everything in it leased from Sqobly, a Y Combinator startup innovating 'things as a service'

If you're going to be pedantic about the new decade starting in 2021 because "there was no year 0", then you also have to be pedantic about the new decade starting on January 11, 2021, because there were no October 5-14, 1582.

SKIES THE COLOR OF TELEVISION TUNED TO A DEAD CHANNEL:
1980s-90s: grey static
2000s: unbroken blue
2010s: settings menu with inline ads

study of linux is a sudo-science

this is my xmas gift to #myass

instead of a weird white dude spying on children, i give you: Mapachin Claus! Put out pepitas and Mapachin Claus will bless you with good fortune for the new year! If you are bad, Mapachin Claus will chew a big hole in the insulation of your home.

Merry Chrimbo!
#mastoart #raccoons

names in the alt text

cc @Juju

I was reading about human sacrifice in mesoamerica the other day and I was wondering what kind of crazy ass cultural gaslighting you would have to have in order for everyone to be okay with the high priests killing like five dudes a day in the center of town on the flimsy excuse that if they didn't, gods would eat the sun

and then I remembered that "we can't just 'feed and house the poor', what about the economy?" is still a talking point today and I was kinda like. Ohhhh ok I get it now.

I'm a fucking webmaster
https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/

Due to the results of the UK General Election, I joined two groups this week.

The Electoral Reform Society and the Open Rights Group.

I'm also considering setting up a regular donation to Amnesty International.

Basically: I'm looking beyond what the exit from the EU could mean for us.