You can probably get away with skipping a third of non-cat videos.

Exterior plugs should be on their own breaker. If only there was a way to stop the flow of electricity through a breaker...

Every so often I'm reminded that I once made an app to help me decide if it's a "shorts day" or not. Sharing it with all of you to celebrate the weather as of late.

Really, if Bluesky (the corp, the users, etc) think alt text is a priority, they should build an optional, locked down AI agent that people can use to suggest the first draft of alt text. That would be an appropriate accommodation to create a culture of accessibility.

The trade off is that people who need or would benefit from alt text might choose to copy and paste the image into an LLM to have the image described to them. I'm generally cautious about using AI, but this would be a good application of it.

So in this case, yes. Alt text would be helpful for some folks to understand what the image is about.

But also, this is social media; I'm not going to be upset that a creator doesn't include that info, especially after reading their post.

Both are helpful for describing an image; the goal of alt text is to help people understand the contents of an image.

Here, the post describes the quantitative aspects of the image (creator, date, size, title), but not the qualitative. Alt text is intended to describe what's happening in the image.

I'm an instructional designer, so accessibility considerations are something that are a regular part of my work. I won't say I'm an expert.

In my view, descriptions have two dimensions: quantitative and qualitative - not that this is necessarily the correct terminology.

I don't think we've ever met in person, but I back in the xitter days, I think we had a good number of mutuals. Happy to meet up for coffee sometime, listen, nod, and occasionally say "Oof. That's a lot."

Have people come to the realization yet that Trump intends to take over the western hemisphere by force or are people still playing stupid???

Every morning I wake up and thank the Good Lord that this numptie doesn't represent my nation on the world stage.

Looks like you're in Saskatoon. You can access Consumer Reports through the Saskatoon Public Library digital collection.

Patient zero is high on his own supply.

Disappointed to be losing my @usask.ca email address. I need to update 26 years of places I've used it as contact information. The chance to win a $500 gift card for giving you my new email so Advancement can hassle me for donations doesn't compensate me for the hours of work that are to come.

I've been out there a couple times and had the same experience. I get a bit claustrophobic in there since it's a bit more tightly packed. I should probably go more often - it's a similar drive for me to go to Saskatoon East and would be less time than dealing with West.

Just jokes. The ongoing lore is you can't ever find anyone working at CT.

At Canadian Tire and somehow have both of their employees each tracking down one of the two items I came in for.

Everyone who loves small government is currently angry that the City doesn't own 1500 snowplows.

A box of Fantuz Flakes cereal and Saskatchewan Roughriders branded Wisers rye whisky.

Calling in sick from work tomorrow.

How many months long is Black Friday, again? 3? I feel like it's 3.

They've also recently (7 years ago) updated their menu, in case you were paying particular attention to how the menu was setup previously.

It's how I get my fill of Kickstarter ads and stay in contact with relatives.

My Facebook feed over the past two days has been inundated by CPC MP posts from accounts I don't follow. Makes me think they have the ear at Fb and they've tweaked the algorithm to make the CPC look mighty, despite flubbing their budget amendments and losing MPs.

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I prefer "Xitter", pronounced "shee-tter". As in, "Most of the content on Elon Musk's platform belongs in the Xitter."

Believe Survivors Acquitted≠Innocent

As a VGK fan, i very much approve these signs!! Most of us VGK fans do not want Hart on the team.
#BelieveSurvivors

Air quality monitor bar graph. The graph shows high VOC starting at about when beef and wine were put into a crockpot.

My Amazon air quality monitor does not like braised beef in a crockpot.

Went and got juiced up today. Both my wife and I experienced the covid arm hurt a bit more at time of injection, but settled somewhat quickly. The flu arm felt almost nothing, but is a bit more tender after 4 hours.

WestJet should be required to use one of their actual planes in their commercials.

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists