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Last week I was enjoying the beautiful Alpine scenery while skiing in France and Switzerland. Truly an amazing landscape and a wonderful time.

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Je prends mon petit déjeuner à Genève ce matin.

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I....I am overwhelmed by this. Magic: The Gathering players just raised $50,000 for @translifeline.bsky.social in 4 hours! Everyone donating, everyone throwing in prizes, everyone spreading the word...thank you. I am at a loss for words. Thank you for supporting this amazing cause. 🏳️‍⚧️

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multiple times a day i come across cool artists that i can’t repost because their images don’t have alt text. it is always so disappointing. 😩 please add alt text to your images so everyone can enjoy the stuff you make! folks are much more likely to share your work as well if you do!

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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My debut poetry collection The Thorn Key is out today! Retold fairy tales (very feminist & queer) about found family, trauma, transformation, & more! Books2read.com/thornkey

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How to write alt text and image descriptions for the visually impaired, courtesy of Veronica at Veronica With Four Eyes (@veron4ica.com)! Make sure to read the extremely informative and resource-packed post too: veroniiiica.com/how-to-write...

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And so it begins....a new era of Civilization.

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Does anyone know a good agent for speakers? I want to expand my speaking agenda but am burnt out on lining up gigs and unwilling to front someone $$$ up front for no guarantees.

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Friendly reminder to check the expiration dates at the store. Just had to throw out an entire meal after I finished making it because when throwing away the jar of pesto discovered it had expired over a year ago. Just got it a couple weeks ago.

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Please join me! I'm thinking about spending a little time talking about long-running campaigns and it would be more fun with more people. :)

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As promised on Tuesday's stream, behold! February's Twitch stream schedule! Bask in its glory!

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This is really important to understand.

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Never forget that the term "criminal" is not an indication of badness nor of any moral failing, but merely of an incompatibility between individual behavior and government desire. Also, the government making these decisions is accountable to us.

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I will continue to advocate for and work toward accessibility and inclusivity, regardless of what our government says.

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a question for the people who write code for money: if you could wave a magic wand and have your performance/promotability measured on any 5 metrics of your choice, what would those metrics be?

submitted 37 days ago • 72 comments

IMO (0) in this list is the single most important developer metric

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Anyone have any tips for making the online version of Excel process complex functions? I'm trying to perform conditional concatenation of text across 1000 rows in each of 64 columns. Google Sheets does this without any issue but Excel is limiting me to 186 rows and 20 columns.

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Am I the only person who thinks it's really strange to order an iced coffee when it's -17°?

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Regular reminder that while the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) bills itself as a copy/paste-ready pattern library, it is not. Nor is it a W3C specification, standard, or even note. It is strictly reference info (mostly for keyboard use only) adrianroselli.com/2019/02/unca... (anchor link)

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Do not Do not Do NOT Announce or even hint on your social media that you’re doing illegal or potentially illegal things. Even if for excellent reasons. You will be a target and make the people you aid targets.

submitted 39 days ago • 118 comments

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

submitted 39 days ago • 547 comments

Bodily autonomy is a human right.

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I've lost MySpace, Google+, Twitter, and now TikTok. Working on leaving Meta. Losing or walking away from online communities sucks and it's really hard. It's too bad we keep having to do it because of billionaires and capitalism.

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This would be pretty cool:

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Today, at 1PM EST! Join us over on Twitch as @markdc.bsky.social runs @twenty20sight.com @mrdowden.com and @troxellstradingpost.com through the Mage 20th Anniversary: Victorian Age jumpstart. See how Mark uses Lore Link to run a game that will likely go off the rails! https://buff.ly/4gUPRA1

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One of the worst data breaches I've found my info in was the fucking IRS so please sit down with the "data privacy" excuse for wanting to ban TikTok.

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Our capitalist hellscape brought to you by the tech industry.

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Yeah, this is bad. The short version is that Zuck is going full fascist in the clear light of day.

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