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The offer for a Mastodon instance admin to get a sponsored consulting session to talk about increasing diversity in your instance is still on! First booking gets it. creatrixtiara.com/55-55

Landing page redesign:

☑️ Elephant friend
☑️ Public timeline
☑️ Puts instance information before Mastodon information
☑️ But does explain and link to joinmastodon.org prominently
☑️ Admin option to turn off public timeline
☑️ No GIF autoplay, hover to play

ah yes god night

may The Cat watch us all in our sloops and lik our heads if it wants

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Tbh I'm not happy about Quidditch being played in a national team kind of way, but well, these are the matches that you can view online without ever interacting with a real person, so I am stuck with that

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…I could watch some Muggle Quidditch that happened recently? youtube.com/watch?v=q4m4gSsuBd

The commentator is Willow Rosenberg which is good. Quidditch is incredibly confusing/boring to watch though unless you actually have the rules memorised well (which I don't) because it is really fast. Hmmm. I mean I should go to bed some time soon. But.

I gave myself a MY MY MY, I'M SO BI Ohrwurm (which is ok though, I love how that song embraces all the bi stereotypes and is cute and awesome, except very binary, I mean come on, having Buck Angel in the video is awesome but can't be all your trans inclusion, but I can even ignore that because I like it so much)

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wait why do I keep spelling "me" as "my"

oh actually

I think my is what I consider proper English orthography for literally every my my

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I almost wrote gross with a ß because that's just the proper way*

*actually that is my bias because I'm not from Switzerland where gross would also be the proper way**

**I'm sorry to throw around groß opinions about ~proper German orthography~. that is really nothing anybody should do, I gueß now you know that side of my

gross? things I do when nervous 

…we all have that small thingie that never heals for long because we keep scratching it open, right?

(I don't even mean in a metaphorical sense. A few years ago a cat got its claw stuck somewhere in my arm, and it made a tiny thingie that would have gone away really quick… except it's become my go-to "scratch or chew when nervous" area. it's now a few millimetres in diameter of dry skin / scar tissue that is slightly elevated and very convenient for that purpose.)

Okay more (I know all the episodes I've watched so far, but I only remembered a tiny bit of the plot so rewatching seems like the right thing to do)

Btw, in The Masked City (The Invisible Library book 2) there is a bit that is set in the world Kai is from, the cyberpunk one. I appreciate that. I hope there will be more of that. *purrs electronically*

The about page isn't bad, but there's no headings or anything (other than the instance title, which is a h2 instead of h1 for some reason)

For the most part, it isn't terrible.

icosahedron.website/media/zarW

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(Yes, *we* know what it means, because we can see the retweet icon and star icon; a screen reader doesn't have that advantage.)

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Frustratingly, the column headings aren't columns, and there's no easy way to jump to them. That mess of links at the top doesn't actually navigate to the relevant part of the page, it just tries to load it.

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Anyway, one fairly simple fix to this is a "screen reader" CSS class for "invisible" text. As an added bonus, it also makes copy-pasting keep some context.

First image: Added text in screen-reader class
Second image: Added CSS rules to clip the span to a 1x1 pixel
Third image: results of copy-pasting the text

icosahedron.website/media/2I_k icosahedron.website/media/9biU icosahedron.website/media/4ZLd

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Removing them from a single post's page reveals there's no real meaning behind most of the data. What does "0 - 1" mean?

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Removing all styles from Mastodon reveals that the emoji button is absolutely gigantic. Yay SVGs.

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Computer Fairies

Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!