Neurolinguistic programming is magic. (ADHD mention)
If one spends more than an hour in my presence (in person, video call, whatever), one is likely to witness the following ritual:
This started as a reminder to self that I am, in fact, a unicorn... and that carries with it at least some amount of grace, dignity, and poise. Picking up a new habit was a big challenge in the past, yet this took root within a couple days – almost certainly because I had an audio prompt, both verbal and somatic responses, and the help of family joining in here and there because it's just so gosh-darn cute.
It was only a couple months after establishing this that I got the idea to attach a much-needed positive habit to it, thus tacking on the "grab a drink" part because hydration is important. It took almost instantly because of one sentence I internally connected it with: "Sparkling is thirsty work."
I overcame immense internal resistance to good habits and trained myself in a set of positive behaviors by hacking them into an hourly magic spell.
Because unicorn! ✨ 🦄 ✨
If you leave description texts off of your image posts, then that is a choice that excludes obligate screenreader users. It makes things a harder for everyone else too.
It doesn't make you a bad person. Sometimes that choice is understandable: chronic illness sucks, never know what to write, language issues, spoons missing, bad brains today. All of that stuff. If that's you, stick an #Alt4Me on it or tag @imagecaptionspls and I'll try to help out if I see it OK? #accessibility
PSA: The US has a state-based network of #disability rights organizations that provide free legal advocacy services to #disabled people: the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and Client Assistance Programs (CAP).
In #California it’s DRC: https://www.disabilityrightsca.org/
Find yours here:
https://www.ndrn.org/about/ndrn-member-agencies/
More resources:
http://www.bazelon.org/resource-library/disability-rights-organizations/
If you know an org doing similar work in your country, reply & I will boost!
This week, LastPass, and its parent company GoTo, both published blog posts about their recent data breach: http://tcrn.ch/3ucMvBx
But if you search for GoTo's blog post in Google, you won't find it, because GoTo hid its breach notice from search engines using "noindex" code.
PSA, security disclosure: do not use Hive
Some reputable security researchers and SREs on birdsite are sharing that Hive has already had a major security breach and responded to private disclosure with public whataboutism instead of immediately patching:
* https://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1598330367374680064
Direct article link: https://zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en/
Avoid, avoid avoid avoid with anything resembling sensitive data. This is about as big a red flag as they come.
Since it's now #BandcampFriday I have pushed the big "release album" button on my Novembeat collection for 2022, at https://sockpuppet.bandcamp.com/album/novembeat-2022-original-soundtrack
But if you don't have a lot of my music already, maybe consider getting my full discography! It's pretty cheap, at $45 for over 20 years' worth of music releases, and I have a lot of music in a lot of different styles. Some of it is even kinda-sorta good, I think. Or at least that's what people tell me sometimes.
Anyway XOXO happy friday
It's snowing here. Have a snowy thing. ❄️
one of my favorite things is when someone uses an emoji representing their special interest as a general "love" emoji.
i have one baker friend that uses 🍞 for everything, and i work with a guy who is a volunteer steam locomotive engineer on the weekends - he uses 🚂 as his general positive reaction.
i love it!
Nevar forget the Quadro Tracker, the device sold to police agencies allegedly able to track anything, which instead of a circuitboard was revealed to just have ants glued to paper with epoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
avatar art by Dana Simpson (danasimpson.com)