Notices by me (me@social.jlamothe.net)

I FREAKING PASSED MY EXAM!!!!!

BOO-YAH! 🥳🎉

Hey Fedi,

For those who don't know, my mother had a major #stroke a little over a month ago. We're very fortunate to live in a country (Canada) where we have free #healthcare, but as her discharge from the #hospital looms closer, we're having to raise funds to make #accessibility modifications to my parents' home so that she can return. Boosts are welcome (and appreciated).

gofund.me/a69e0cdc4

#a11y #MutualAid

@pawpower @Fragglemuppet @matt @adhdeanasl @WittiePenguin @wx1g @RareBird15 I believe he's recently switched to a Linux distribution* (which I understand doesn't play well with screen readers to begin with). I can ask him for more details. Unfortunately he's in the UK, so I can't assist in person.

* I don't know which.

Hey all,

I have a friend who's been trying to get on Mastodon but tells me that it doesn't seem to play well with screen readers. I know there are plenty of people on the fedi who do use screen readers, but I have no experience with them myself, so I can't really direct him.

Can someone who does use a #ScreenReader point me in the direction of some resources that might be useful?
#AskFedi #a11y

When a #neurodivergent person tells you about how something is difficult for them, rather than thinking of them as whiny, consider that this probably means they have a certain level of trust in you to drop their mask enough to do so.

Invalidating that struggle is likely also a pretty effective way of eroding that trust.
#ActuallyADHD

I am officially an old person* now.

* I have a supply of Werther's on my person at all times.

Went to the emergency room today (everyone's fine) to discover that the two main hospitals in town have merged.

Me: Hmm... I wonder what the implications of this are going to be.

First words out of the doctor's mouth when he sees us: Are you okay with us using AI to record and transcribe this conversation?

Me: ಠ_ಠ

Got my hair cut for the first time in probably a year because I have an interview tomorrow for a job I really want to get (and think I have a pretty good shot at).

It looks decent, but has revealed a good deal more grey than I'm accustomed to seeing.

@pathfinder @hellomiakoda So, Scooby-Doo then?

Granted, that was really only Shaggy.

@silverwizard That said, I fully understand how the average person* could not be bothered to figure out how to do it. The technology industry has done a great job of reducing all their offerings into little magic black boxes that everyone's afraid to look inside of for fear that they'll break them.

* The average person will never read this post because the fedi is too complicated and scary.