ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

How can anyone say with a straight face that climate change is a hoax?

‘Buffalo reports more winter storm deaths as it digs out from disaster’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/25/buffalo-winter-storm-blizzard-us/

From Joan Egeland on Twitter The Taliban has forced NRC, Save, Care and many others to suspend operations in #Afghanistan. Banning NGOs from employing women crosses a humanitarian red line. @NRC_Norway cannot and will not operate without our 470 female staff https://www.nrc.no/news/2022/december/afghanistan-nrc-appalled-by-the-closing-of-universities-for-women/ngos-condemn-afghan-de-facto-authorities-ban-on-women-ngo-workers/

25.12.2022, #video:

"We are not waiting for a #miracle because we are creating it ourselves" - #Christmas greeting by #Zelensky #Ukraine

When I began using the bird site in 2008, retweets had to be done manually by copying and pasting the text of someone's post into your own post. The retweet button came along the following year. Built-in quote tweet functionality didn't arrive until 2015. The history of both features is worth knowing about as users here on Mastodon debate the upsides and downsides that eventually resulted from them. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

I am a bundle of nerves right now but I will get through it

to you all

You deserve the best today and every day

Left this out for Santa last night. Our son was thrilled to find the cupcake half eaten and milk finished this morning

Wondering what astronauts do for the holidays?

The Expedition 68 crew shares their plans aboard the @Space_Station. Check out other ways we’ve celebrated in space: https://go.nasa.gov/3jvgFha
#NASA

Holy shit!

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/crisis-emergency-department-deaths-b2248844.html

On this day I’m thinking about Ukrainians struggling without electricity, trying to stay warm, fearful of Russian violence and hoping to stay alive amid a war that is so unnecessary. May the coming year bring an end to the madness.

Merry Christmas! I used GPT-3 to generate some new Victorian holiday cards, and did my best to illustrate them.
Fare ye Very Well Indeed!
https://www.aiweirdness.com/victorian-christmas-cards-by-ai/

After tasting the cake he brought to Christmas dinner, my wife and I have determined that our son’s boyfriend is now a part of this family forever no matter what happens with their relationship

It honestly still blows my mind today that Santa isn’t Asian. I remember seeing him during in the internment camps, and dude was def Japanese.

For more of my story, catch me live and on stage in London Jan-Apr in Allegiance:
https://AllegianceMusical.com

Rabbit stew, coming up. #RunAway

Auschwitz I. Block 5 - main exhibition. Personal objects that belonged to victims, mainly Jews who were deported to the camp for extermination.

Many deported Jews were told that they were being resettled & were given a limit of the luggage they were able to take with them.

(Photos: https://www.instagram.com/florinmocanu.x/)

#Auschwitz #exhibition #memorial #memory #objects #shoes #glasses #kitchenware #prosthetics #victims #deportation #robbery #objects #history #Holocaust #people #Shoah @histodons @museum

Merry Christmas?
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Defenders of #Ukraine singing and celebrating #Christmas. Merry Christmas to all brave Ukrainian soldiers! Slava Ukraini! file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/6AF8B7F9-30ED-4443-9754-AE6D26D30C3E/tmp/ADCE8CC1-1769-451B-8C28-6F14ECE43FD0/IMG_9530.MP4

Our world would be a very different place if we had more Curtis Jenkins’ in it!

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.
Sending love and light ❤️