@aardrian@toot.cafeI feel there’s nearly a decade of evidence suggesting he doesn’t give a shit about accessibility except as a virtue-signal-slash-cudgel.
Also, his Gutenberg push drove blind users away. But he’ll use that result to blame the WP-a11y team anyway.
This guy is WordPress’s biggest single risk.
https://
@Richard@worklifepsych.socialWorkLifeSpark✨ is my online personal development community, where free membership includes a chance to join our online 'Learn at Lunch' sessions each month. Here are the remaining themes and dates for 2026.
👉🏻 If you'd like to join (it starts at £$€free!) simply visit https://www.worklifespark.com/sign-up
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🎨 12 built-in themes: patina, classic, simple, nord, solarized, kanagawa, tokyonight, lavender and four Catppuccin variants. Custom themes are TOML files mapping Sublime scopes to styles — ANSI names, hex colors or 8-bit codes, plus bold and underline. Themes can extend other themes.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz
@outer@mas.toEngland during the reign of Elizabeth I (~AD1600) was a dangerous time and place to write plays, such as Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”.
Better watch those metaphors. Public plays were studied closely for signs of treason.
Christopher Marlowe was arrested for atheism, a capital offense. Thomas Kyd was tortured on suspicion of treasonous activity. Ben Jonson was in dire trouble several times.
#History
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzJust announced! Colts 2026 gameday giveaways, entertainment and promotions https://www.colts.com/news/2026-nfl-colts-schedule-tickets-themes-uniform-giveaw…
@dkomaran@social.linux.pizza
@ripienaar@devco.socialGot sick of the Markdown Presentation tools out there so just had the robots made exactly what I want. Complete with graphical editor of decks and themes.
A go library thats embedable in other systems - last image shows it embedded in the AI Planboard system i showed recently.
woop woop.
@cdarwin@c.imThese are some of the the most important House races to watch in November
1. The open seats
More House Republicans than usual have chosen not to seek reelection this year, opting instead to retire or run for other offices
— and leaving behind open seats that Democrats see as key flip opportunities.
Incumbency usually provides an advantage in campaigns.
Competitive after Republicans sought higher office
• After Reps. John James of Michigan’s 10th District and David …
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usBarbara McCaskill, research professor of English, also selected a wide range of pieces to accompany her course, ENGL 4791: American Autobiography. This semester, she is focusing her class on themes of “community and belonging, land and environment, hope and loss, and visibility and erasure,” and students will write their own memoirs in response to these themes.
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@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaProcrastination is a devil in disguise. 08:23, Friday morning and you can find me here 😜
https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/tree/master
@aardrian@toot.cafeICYMI (because I did), Automattic’s board put Mullenweg on paid leave from his CEO job.
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/05/a-model-for-wordpress-accessibility.html#Update09 (anchor link)
Keeps his board position, ownership, and is still lead…
@cdarwin@c.imThis party attracted a crowd that had clearly come to be seen.
Most attendees, wearing sunglasses and fetish-inspired clothing made of latex and leather,
seemed prepared to dance past sunrise.
Revelers were still bounding in as I climbed into a cab at 3:30 a.m.
Later that morning, I woke up with the music echoing in my ears and wondered: Is the party still going?
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaGood news for those of us who depend on NsCDE for a bit of quiet sanity in a mad world: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialLaughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions ❤️🔥🪗
by Tomson Highway
Spotted the word #Accordion on the cover of this one at the #VancouverPublicLibrary
Brought it home, but later that day picked up my own copy from Vancouver’s
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThis is a Very Good Comment. https://bsky.app/profile/roguesecunit.bsky.social/post/3mor6tjz7rk2m
The rest of the alt-text:
"...I bring this up here is because of a quote from her mother: “The option of a single-user restroom did not resolve her dist…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaFPF at the Singapore Data Festival 2026: Agentic AI, Biometrics, and the Future of Digital Trust in APAC
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-at-the-singapore-data-festival-2026-agentic-ai-biometrics-and-the-future-of-digital-tru…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Take All of Us" by Natalie Leif. Far outside the genres/themes I usually enjoy but I enjoyed it nonetheless, in large part due to how thoroughly it delves into disability justice issues. Lots of great stuff about who deserves to take up space, performing perfect victomhood, etc.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026 Position Breakdown: Youth and speed serve as main themes for wide receiver room https://www.raiders.com/news/2026-position-breakdown-wide-receivers-jalen-nailor-jack-bech-tre-tucker-raiders
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaI know I promised I wouldn't post about it again - but I wanted to say I'm happy to find out two or three people made it all the way through 'Otherscapes', because from the 30s on the album begins to hit a particular stride, and actually becomes almost a sequence of mini albums clustered in themes. One stretch that particularly resonated when putting it together was the "metals and electricity/minerals" section, its arc culminating in two tracks: 'Steel Aviaries…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialJohn Hare, Emeritus Noah Porter Professor of Philosophy, gave lectures in Nairobi in July at St. Paul's University, Africa International University, and the University of Nairobi. Two of his lectures explored philosophical themes on the subject of AI and theological education, building on the consultation on AI and theological education hosted by St. Paul's University in Nairobi - with the support of the Yale MacMillan Center's Project on Religion and Society in Africa.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaI really wish Google would allow us to modify the themes in a chromebook. Black or white sucks. I prefer the title bar to show a different colour to indicate it is the foreground task. Also set up a border around the app to make it visually obvious where it is. That pathetic shadow doesn't cut it at all. Similar rant for Windows. For my #linux boxes I have them set to make it obvious …
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚙️ Ships as a single ~3 MB Rust binary for macOS, Linux and Windows under AGPL-3.0, with 15 themes, 8 UI languages, modules in any language and install via curl or Homebrew
🌐 https://luvus.dev/
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaYep, there we have it! The repo has been updated and all is well. Included are nice new tools like fresh-editor, rio-terminal, the yazi filemanager and nushell, just to spice up that learning curve 😜 Also included some themes, fonts and walls to start off nicely themed. Go get your mango on FreeBSD!
#freebsd
@servelan@newsie.socialNew Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/latest-android-drop-connects-gemini-to-find-hub-adds-keep-notes-and-themes-to-messages/
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🎯 Five diagram types: architecture, workflow, sequence, data flow and lifecycle, plus four visual presets, dark and light themes and finite motion
🔧 Architecture Delta compares two validated snapshots as Before / Delta / After with exact added, removed, changed, moved and rerouted facts for design and PR review
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialMy terminal app built on SwiftTerm also has a new theme picker, because themes were overwhelming.
Looks fun, but the visualization are not quite as useful as I imagined it would be.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf you have an old phone, my little perpetual calendar app (https://perpetual.day) makes a nice desktop gadget (it’s a free web app without trackers, on iPhone you can Share − Add to Home Screen). Multiple nerdy themes available.
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Sulkhan Tsintsadze, Christoph Croisé & Ana Bakradze:
🎵 5 Pieces on Georgian Folk Themes: IV. Nana
#SulkhanTsintsadze #ChristophCroisé #AnaBakradze
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gztAt3nuhCOEYPrfoSE1S
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young. I'm reading a bunch of juvenile fiction right now in a quest to have some good recommendations for my kids to read in a few years when they're old enough, and this one definitely makes the cut, with deeply-integrated #OwnVoices Diné cultural elements, good (to my reading) handling of complex topics like divorce and depression, and cool magical elements. This is exactly the kind of new generation of kids' fiction I'm looking for that drops the regressive themes present in so much of what I read at that age. For example, I just before this I read Howl's Moving Castle and then The House of Many Ways by Dianna Wynne Jones, and while the first was pretty much great, the sequel has a whole benevolent monarchy thing that's central to the book in a way that weighs down the politics of the book a lot. Unsurprisingly, the indigenous perspective is a refreshing one.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Talinn Music High School Chamber Choir, Maurice Duruflé & Evi Eespere:
🎵 Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens, Op 10
#TalinnMusicHighSchoolChamberChoir #EviEespere
https://open.spotify.com/track/09FIned4AeMA4g4OKQyUXD
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Johann Strauss, Adolf Schulz-Evler & Ryan Wang:
🎵 Arabesque on Themes from the Beautiful Blue Danube
#JohannStrauss #AdolfSchulzEvler #RyanWang
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Rialto" by Kate Milford. A wonderful book with a *lot* of things to like but also a few I wish had been done differently.
Starting with the good stuff, an #OwnVoices portrayal of anxiety depression is always welcome, *especially* one that portrays positive coping strategies, including active therapy, and complex but ultimately supportive family dynamics. Dad & daughter each reminding each other to use calming strategies at different points in the book was lovely, and getting to see the complexities of the trying to be a supportive sibling was great! Larger than that aspect, portraying a YA adventure in which the parents are actively involved but don't spoil things is so great and must have been difficult to pull off. Most YA stuff quickly ushers the parents out of the picture, and this fails to provide any kind of positive or negative role model for parent/child interaction. This book had ample examples of the former, *and* let the kids have plenty of agency too. Excellent stuff that I absolutely want to see more of.
So what didn't I like?
First, as an anarchist, I always hate to see unapologetically positive (and thus drastically unrealistic) portrayals of the police. Without getting into spoilers, even the stuff about the Piepowder court bothered me. It's presented here as a cutesy alternate court tradition, but I can't help but speculate that these courts were likely not always fair in practice, and the whole "single person makes immediate judgments model" from this book is terrible in general. I just don't like positive portrayals of terrible systems that happen to be good because the people involved are good people, since they reinforce harmful positive mental models of "justice" that don't apply to the real world. This element wasn't enough to totally spoil the book for me (the plot could have mostly functioned without it) but it's a downside to me.
Second, the book is set in rural Missouri, and has plenty of Black characters. Yay for representation? Certainly better than the cast being all-white given the setting. But the book doesn't have any Black *culture* that I picked up on, and it chooses to try to completely sidestep the relevant history. Maybe I'm just not attuned to elements that were there; if anyone who read this did see them feel free to point them out. The history definitely isn't there though... for example, was the park segregated, or not? During the time it was active one imagines most parks would have been, and that if it hadn't been that would have been a very important difference, which would even have been relevant to the plot and themes of the book as written.
Now perhaps this critique is unfair because Black children and young adults *should* get to see themselves portrayed in cozy fantasies without things always having to be about racism... In a choice between erasing Black characters and erasing racism (and especially racist histories) maybe there's no right answer here and this is fine, actually. My instinct tells me that there are ways to do better, though, and that presenting a history with all the racism carefully elided isn't the greatest compromise to make here.
A while ago I read "Under the Heron's Light" by Randi Pink. It also has mythical animal guides, a Southern setting, helpful family members, a multi-generational mystery to solve, and a (slightly older) teen protagonist who is up to the task. In contrast, it is all about racist history, and takes us through multiple extremely harrowing scenes from the past.
In any case, this discomfort also wasn't a deal-breaker for me, in part because, as I said, I think it's probably good for Black children to see uncomplicatedly positive representations of people like them alongside the plenty of stuff out there that does get deep into the racism and history. I also don't have the best perspective to judge this stuff, although that doesn't mean I should default to "it's probably fine" (I'd be happy to hear from anyone who feels they have a better perspective on this, about this book or the trend in general...).
Overall, I enjoyed Rialto quite a lot. I don't think it quite makes it into my top tier of recommendations for my kids, but I think it does make the list somewhere.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
