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 Warning! If you are motion sensitive and on macOS, have someone else do your upgrade to Sonoma. The initial launch screen is a motion animation behind the password field. I haven't tried re-launching so don't know whether this is a one-time thing or an every-time thing on power up. #accessibility 
 It's apparently automatically set on upgrade. Apple Accessibility Support walked me through disabling it, but it was their first time with this case and things may change.
1) For Screen Saver, choose one of the Other ones.
2) On the same settings pane, turn off Show on All Spaces
3) For Wallpaper, if it's not your preferred wallpaper then choose that or anything that doesn't have an icon on it. 
 ¡Now at 1900 songs! Infectious playlist. Catchy songs for joy in catchy times. Eclectic. Global. Mid-to-uptempo. 100+ hours of fun music. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLdlgvDfBTAJb2Jx86sRBuOQqh-mcJN0y&si=f5srjxY_rtY6UKig #Music #Languages 
 nostr:npub10afh6c7v8uvs539cmg73z3v77uanxw23xhmc0wfth8re6nx9zwcs3elkvw this is what ChatGPT told m... 
 @822883bb Ah, so it appears to be an alphabet. Interesting that the letter for the "a" sound looks like the Chinese period. And indeed it is an alphabet, according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifinagh 
 Ah, I see the language drop-down on posts gives a bilingual list, unlike the preferences. There's a contrast violation I need to file, however, when I get the chance. #Mastodon #accessibility #MastodonAccessibility 
 And filed  Language list on posts fails contrast #26948 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26948 
 Hmmm. ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ is one of the language choices for Mastodon. Google Translate takes it as English and a Duck Duck Go search gives random unrelated results. Searching on English Wikipedia reveals it as Moroccan Amazigh. Now I know. #Languages 
 Ah, I see the language drop-down on posts gives a bilingual list, unlike the preferences. There's a contrast violation I need to file, however, when I get the chance. #Mastodon #accessibility #MastodonAccessibility 
 Just realized that different software is using the same icon to mean different things. On Mastodon, the eye with a slash through it means hide the media. But in CKEditor5, which is used in Drupal, it means edit the alternative text. This is not a good thing, especially for someone like me who is icon-challenged. #accessibility #UIDesign #Mastodon #CKEditor  #Drupal #Icons 
 nostr:npub10afh6c7v8uvs539cmg73z3v77uanxw23xhmc0wfth8re6nx9zwcs3elkvw Yes, I have never heard tha... 
 @f361e382 Actually, I see that on all four approaches, the car stop line is well behind the crosswalk. The bike boxes on Fulton just happen to be ahead of the stop line. 
 @f361e382 Oh, interesting, I'm on a German Mastodon instance so I have to accept a cookies dialog in German (which I don't read). 
 nostr:npub10afh6c7v8uvs539cmg73z3v77uanxw23xhmc0wfth8re6nx9zwcs3elkvw I don’t believe so unless... 
 @f361e382 I notice they are also in a bike block. ¿Aren't cars supposed to stay behind those? 
 @df09caad Alternate text: Image of a male and a female actor in a remote town with a post bearing distances to various remote locations.

I thought the series was just okay. My father loved it. On a personal note, there was a subplot with a lesbian couple and that led my father to have some acceptance of my gayness. #lgbtq 
 Six more weeks of dinner 
 awww, so much love in that 
 ¡Arrgh! Switched from Firefox to Safari for Mastodon because of scrolling issues. But Safari doesn't have the Copy text from image feature that Firefox does. #accessibility #browserCompatibility 
 If four is an unlucky number in Chinese (due to sounding like the word for death) then ¿why do moon cakes come in boxes of four? #MoonFestival #MidAutumnFestival #Superstitions #Culture #Language 
 Surprised my blog post ¿Farthest possible bus-only trip in North America using only public transit? got over 40 views this past month. Viral. (I know it's not viral by any stretch of the imagination, but for me it's viral.) https://chasbelov.wordpress.com/2022/09/29/farthest-possible-bus-only-trip-in-north-america-using-only-public-transit/ #transit #PublicTransit #bus #BusTransit #BusTrips #travel 
 One last toot on this thread for now. Because seriously.

Would we think it reasonable to write a... 
 @e074433e also quality assurance 
 A year or so ago there was a chart showing how long masks provided protection from Omicron in various masking scenarios. ¿Is there an updated chart for current COVID versions?

#COVID #masking #masks #CovidMasking 
 Via my pal Jason Karsh:

A Republican candidate for president explicitly calling for extrajudicia... 
 @62a04c04 Um, it wouldn't have been okay if it *was* just brown people. 
 Also earwormed by some other song. Can't remember who it's by, what album, what language it's in (not English), only suspect it's on a various artists album so could take time to track down. Again, no time today. 
 ¡Found it! Ne se sumnyavai v men by Mastilo https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QstouruKCQc&si=1HwBu7H_XTo2TwN8 #Bulgarian #pop #music #BulganianPop #PopMusic #earworm #earworms 
 Earwormed today by some Buck-Tick song but doesn't seem to be on Six-Nine and don't have time to track it down on 97BT99. #earworm #earworms #Japanese #Rock #Music #JapaneseRock #JRock #RockMusic 
 Also earwormed by some other song. Can't remember who it's by, what album, what language it's in (not English), only suspect it's on a various artists album so could take time to track down. Again, no time today. 
 I do sometimes put butter on bread that I'm eating by itself but not in a sandwich. I also don't generally use mayo or butter on sandwiches. If I put anything on a sandwich, it's likely mustard, and only for certain sandwiches. 
 @4388b5ab Aside from the transport, looks very much like a California Street cable car in terms of layout, down to where the destination signs are.

Interesting destination signs. On the front left Southern Pacific Depot and Golden Gate Park. On the front right, O'Farrell, Oak, Page and Divisadero, via 4th, Ellis. 
 @37b55389 Sorry, read this at first as "I had some shedding to do." 
 1. My mental cover of The Letter by The Box Tops (that's mental, not metal, I can hear it in my head any time I like)

2. My mental reggae cover of Love You Ten Thousand Years by Wu Bai & China Blue

3. My mental 3/4 time cover of Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin

#3GoodThings @e804ff38 
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 @98042630 (image text continued) "We need to rapidly phase out fossil fuels, dramatically accelerate climate finance, protect nature, and deploy renewable energy both rapidly and equitably. Now is the moment when we must do all that we can to renew one of the key resources necessary for climate action: political will." 
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 @32dc9d2f @6adf5d3d @b7a54951 Wait, ¿red daikon as opposed to carrot? ¿huhng baahk lo baak? Of course, there are also yellow carrots and purple carrots, just to make things even more confusing, although they are typically sold together with the orange carrots as rainbow carrots rather than a bunch of yellow or a bunch of purple. 
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 Speak of the devil. Found one. 
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 @7c471175 Thank you for the suggestion. I can actually stream both of their albums, so if it's a song that's not on their albums then I've never heard it or it's by someone else (maybe Fun4 or Ayal Komod, don't think it's Mayday) 
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 Seriously, ¡check this group out!