Crossword Man @crosswordman@qoto.org

Friendly reminder that using those 'fancy text' generators to make your name or the text in your posts all pretty makes them inaccessible to screen reader users.
to you, they're just cute lettering you can just skip over. For a screen reader user like me, depending on various things, they could come out as
'mathematical small bold k mathematical small bold a mathematical small bold r mathematical small bold a',
'letter 126b letter 17dj letter 13y7dwiz'
or nothing at all.
I'm not sure off the top of my head how they appear on a Braille display but it's bound to be a right mess.
I don't particularly call any of those pretty, do you?
Plain boring text that is accessible to everyone is the new pretty.

Looks like the penguins in the wall on the Kelvin Walkway in Glasgow are already getting into the spirit of St Patrick's day with Guinness for breakfast!

#glasgow #stpatricksday #paddysday #pengiuns #kelvinwalkway #ilovepenguins #guinness #streetart #glasgowstreetart #guinnessforbreakfast #publicart #sculptures

Sometimes, the reason is appreciating the incredible work of those around me. Today, it's @heyheymomo

https://probably.blog/reason/8

I'm looking for my next full time engineering role. Do you need an awesome senior/staff platform/devops/infra engineer, with strong technical and sociotechnical skills?

I like
* dark haunted codebases
* building the tools, automation and capacity for frequent deploys to prod
* mentoring jr & mid-lvl engineers into leaders

I'm looking for:
* kind & respectful teammates
* remote
* lots of async collaboration
* good benefits
* a do-great-work then go-have-family-time culture

pls boost

Good news on Covid, for a change https://erictopol.substack.com/p/a-break-from-covid-waves-and-a-breakthrough

Glacial Erratic

A glacial erratic is a rock that has been transported by glacial flow, and in some cases can be found hundreds of miles away from its original location. As a result, its lithology can be radically different from the place it was brought by its icy transportation - a stranger in a strange land. These wayward rocks can range in size from pebbles to boulders bigger than busses. Bonus: they can end up in weird places, precariously balanced, and in general, out of place as heck.

Enjoy more wonderful glacial erratics at the links below!

https://www.ontariobeneathourfeet.com/ice-age-glacial-erratic

https://www.atlasobscura.com/lists/glacial-erratic

This surreal setting is part of the garden at Charleston Farmhouse, the home or weekend and holiday retreat of the Bloomsbury Group.
The levitating woman sculpture was added by Quentin Bell, son of the painter Vanessa Bell, in 1973.
The garden, like the house, was not intended to be tasteful or restrained, and it has been organic since the 80s.

📷 Photo taken on a visit to Charleston a while back.

Someone shared this in a meeting and it was the first time I'd seen it. Sharing on here for laughs

#dev #debugging #humour

Incredible. A female falcon was equipped with a satellite tracking system in South Africa before migrating to Finland. Image shows tracker data. In just 42 days she flew over 10.000km at an incredible average of 230 km per day and almost in a straight line.

📷via reddit@ChemBioJ

Sometimes in Zoom meetings, I pretend my computer’s frozen and sit really still in a strange position until I get bored

tero: I grind
Minimus is preparing nuces (nuts) for making crustula (little pastries). He's pounding up the nuclei (kernels) in his mortarium (mortar) with a pistillum (pestle). Now he needs to mix in mel (honey), farina (flour) and lac (milk).
#LatinVerbs

THIS IS A GOOD HAT!

source chain: https://mltshp.com/p/1OQ3Q via @tomh ganking from https://www.tumblr.com/wyldefungi/683960142932344832/mgts-arts-hobbies

#fungi #mycology #mushrooms #fungus

@kristinHenry relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/977

Many folks, including me, had a lot of questions after the news of Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion landed. In my piece today, I explain as best I can, given that I’m not an economist or banker, what happened, what it means, and what’s next. Hope it’s helpful! https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/what-many-including-me-didnt-at-first?sd=pf

Bellingcat is hiring!

Our Investigative Tech Team develops tools for open source investigations and explores tech-focused research techniques.

You can learn about three open positions with the Tech Team in the thread below: 👇

Hello from Point 5 again! 😃

Also I ended up matching my sweater to the flowers in the @CMSexperiment control room 😄

Office Party. With cats.
#bengalcat #bumcopy #cats