Lara @lara@mond-basis.eu

Who's that just sitting there?

Oh, it's me, putting the cute in executive dysfunction

The plural of "index" is "indices".
The plural of "vertex" is "vertices".
The plural of "mutex" is "deadlock".

-- @agmlego

Apparently with the right telescope you can very clearly see the rings of saturn this week.

Sometimes it's easy to regard astronomical objects the way we might regard a wiki of video game lore. Just another cool made-up thing.

Stuff like this reminds us that, not only are they real, but they're just some more far-away objects, like California or my car keys.

ENTRY 4

Sometimes to get through a tough time, what you really need is for someone to believe in you.

If friends are temporarily absent, magic can provide!

Corva's Curious Compendium provides a spell for just this eventuality.

Weiß jemand was über das Phänomen, wenn eins sich dauernd versehentlich verletzt und sich Kratzer, blaue Flecken und Abschürfungen irgendwo am Körper zuzieht, oft ohne es zu merken?

Gerne boosten.

Nochmal mit CW (sorry!). Ist sicher besser bei dem Thema.

tired: dating simulators

wired: poly relationship resource management games

Reminder: Springer has released a lot of digital textbooks for free in the last few months, and their special offer is ending on July 31st. There is no need to sign up to download the PDF and ePub files.

This lovely page has the full list of available titles: https://hnarayanan.github.io/springer-books/

Unpopular opinion:

Ease of use and convince in tech reduce mental load and are therefore accessibility features.

More unpopular opinion:

Open-source projects and (small) tech firms often fail because accessibility is treated as optional.

"Dad," she called, "there are monsters under the bed!"
"Are they?" he called back.
She hadn't thought about that.
"Monsters?" she whispered.
"We are dust bunnies."
"But you sound scary."
"We grow. We watch. We grow... angry. We grow..."
"Hungry?"
"Yes! Lead us to the rich!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Dogs: don’t know how big they are; know humans aren’t dogs.

Cats: know exactly how big they are; think humans are big clumsy cats.

Wenn du für die Küfa Aioli machen wolltest aber versehentlich die Sojamilch mit Vanille geholt hast.

My friend posted this and… I’m in awe. Just amazing.

there's a special kind of ableism where if there's no big catastrophic event to mark it, like an injury or disease, people won't believe there's something wrong, like boiled frog syndrome, if someone just slowly gets worse and less functional over time, people think they're just being lazy or something, and i hate it, personally