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Same thing over on education. US government entities down to the local level have to comply with WCAG 2.1 by April 2026 iorc, with some exceptions for content created before the cutoff. The exceptions aren't clearly defined which is causing me a bit of a headache.
I mean, I'd love for all of our legacy documents and images to magically get image descriptions and quality OCR, but the archives have a terabyte of images and PDFs. It doesn't help that the ruling uses "archives" to mean "legacy stuff unlikely to be used" and we use "archives" to mean "stuff about the history of the college, which students are encouraged to consult".
Anyways, I'm all for accessibility. It's good. I'm just borrowing worries from tomorrow about implementation.
I just had the thought that some of our documents are handwritten in ye olde handwriting. That will be the biggest pain in the neck to transcribe. (Shout-out to Transkribus for making it suck less, but it'll still need to be proofread). I worry that we'll scan and post fewer of our documents going forward if we have to provide a transcription when we post them.
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That was me when I worked in an office with a fancy coffee maker. Current place I'm down to maybe 2 cups (well, they're XL, but there's only 2 of them!)
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Adorbs, but can't hold a candle to the garden eel. Mostly because they both live underwater.
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It is hard to find onion-free chicken stock. My dog goes nuts for chicken but is a fussy eater otherwise, so we're always on the lookout for dog-friendly stock to add to his kibble.
I don't eat pig and Applebee's adds bacon to their Mac and cheese. They list like 8 different cheeses in the description but don't mention the bacon. Parents didn't want me to make a fuss so I ate it. That was not fun. (This was years ago, ymmv, I don't talk to those parents anymore because reasons.)
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Me and mine have various food sensitivities (latex, nightshades, pork). I use an android app "fig" to check things at the grocery store--scan the barcode and Fig tells me who shouldn't eat it and why. It does smart things like label "spices" as yellow because maybe it's peppers maybe it's not. The free version is sufficient for one person. The paid version lets you add more profiles.
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That's effectively what I had as an undergrad and it was lovely. Wednesdays were (mostly) reserved for labs, so if you weren't taking chemistry or another class with a lab, you had Wednesdays to sleep in. I rather miss that.
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One thing I know about violins is that they're smaller than cellos. Cellos are what, 4 feet long? That tardigrade is like 1mm big or something, much smaller than a cello. Therefore, it's holding a violin. Or maybe a bowed mountain dulcimer. /kidding
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You don't have to have dysphoria to be trans. It's perfectly fine to transition or not transition. Transitioning is scary but can also be pretty empowering if it's right for you. You didn't have to transition in all circumstances at the same time--i was out for years with my friends before asking my coworkers to use my new pronouns. It's ok to transition in your 30s. It's definitely easier in some ways to let people treat you as your birth-assigned gender, but can mentally/emotionally be harder.
My background: non-binary, figured my crap out at 30, finally changed my name and started using appropriate pronouns at work at almost 40. I haven't done anything medical because I'm ok with my body as-is and I can't be arsed to figure out a new system of clothing myself.
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Don't assume the best in people and you'll less often be disappointed.
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I don't even assume this person has a daughter. For all we know, they have a non-binary child and wish them "happy daughter's day" every year. Not that I have a mom like that or anything /projection
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Oooh, shiny! Thank you.
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TBF, the Ars Technica write-up was more favorable. Also, I was wicked curious.
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OH! It also just focused on the gendered nature of everything in my paper in a way that I didn't. The paper involved an 1860s divorce and a doctor who got her degree in the 1890s IIRC. Yeah, that's cool and all, but the 'podcast' kept circling back to harp on the 'trailblazing women' plotline in a way that I did not care for.
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I HIRED SOMEONE TO EDIT A VIDEO THE OTHER DAY AND OMG, IT FELT WEIRD TO HIRE SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING "I COULD DO MYSELF", BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT!
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I've tried it out with a paper I wrote and some of the references. The text-based summarizer is pretty handy. It provides links to the sources where it found what it regurgitates.
The podcast-creator... it's full of fluff, gets details wrong, and I cannot recommend it to anyone other than the person that wrote the paper.
For me/the author, it was a way have parts of the paper highlighted, which may encourage me to go back and expand those sections. For people that don't already know what the paper says.... well, it made shit up. Not cool.
edit: if anyone's interested in reading my paper, hit me up! I'm massaging it into the required format (grumble grumble word :( grumble grumble LaTeX :) ) for a local history journal and I'd love more eyes on it. It involves financial intrigue, family drama, mysterious women, and poetry about how awful someone's inlaws are. Also, lots of lawsuits.
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I used to have garlic chives in my herb garden, before I moved. It's handy being able to just go outside and snip up some oniony goodness for soup or what-have-you.
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It was this argument with my mom that helped me realize she was the sort of racist that doesn't think she's racist. We were talking about how black men tend to get a longer sentence for the same crimes than white men. Her stance was pretty much "well, they shouldn't have done the crime" and I'm like.... Mom. Unfair is unfair. Thankfully we're no longer close for other reasons.
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Huh. My felon (don't get caught doing drugs) brother Michael used to use "Killer Mike" as his screenname. I wonder if there's a connection.
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Ah, I thought you were being racist against people who might sing a song in a non-English language.
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Not a framer, but what I would do is take it apart and see what you're working with. It shouldn't be hard to replace just the mat. I doubt you'll be able to clean the water damage away.
I started it to keep my hands occupied during a class. I love the simple 2-color pattern. I picked the kit up from [Stitched Modern](https://stitchedmodern.com/products/japanese-pattern-cross-stitch-kit-green?variant=45582131200283).
I'd been using the Joey app to keep tabs on a few subreddits I'm fond of. It finally stopped working today.
So, I've never been to a pawn shop before. I'm curious what's there, but TV makes them seem shady and odd. What should I know before I visit? I'm sort of expecting a cross between an antique and a thrift store, that sort of vibe. I'm in the USA and don't intend to pawn anything.
Woodblock print of a grumpy-faced man in a tunic shoving a lion in the face. The lion's head is turned towards the viewer and he has a goofy look on his face. His tail is held high. The man holds a club in his left hand. Surrounding the lion and man is a tree, an embankment, and foliage. Found at: [The British Museum](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1882-0311-3008)
Image description: Japanese print with orange background. Print shows various circus performers, including people interacting with horses, an elephant on a barrel, a man standing on a tiger holding a second tiger's mouth open and a third tiger resting on his arm, clowns tumbling, acrobats, and horses on a teeter-totter. Found at: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3g10381/)
Image description: metal statue of a man wrestling with a lion. Found at [The Smithsonian.](https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/hercules-and-nemean-lion-1-15868)
I post a lot of pre-modern-era art from European artists. So, I thought I'd mix it up a bit with this work by Inuit artist [Jessie Oonark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Oonark). Image description: Work is on paper. Forms are defined by bold swatches of color. The main figure is a side profile of the green head of a wolf, with brown eye and an open mouth filled with point black teeth. In the mouth of the wolf is a man. His purple-brown legs stick out of the wolf's mouth. His torso is visible through the wolf's mouth as a white man-shape. A smaller animal's head--maybe another wolf-- is defined by an orange outline. The orange animal has its nose touching the throat of the green wolf. Its teeth are also showing. Below the artwork is the title, caption, and signature of the artist. Found at: [Montreal Museum of Fine Arts](https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/20391/)
Image description: a white-haired man in a blue coat with stars on it and red/white striped pants (Uncle Sam) looks inside a horse's mouth while a man in a white coat looks on. The white coat man is labeled Aldritch. The horse is labeled "Central Bank". The horse's teeth are labeled "Wall Street Interests". Found at: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011647532/)
Image Description: a man with a very large, dark moustache stands in a cage surrounded by 3 lions and 2 tigers. The man stares straight at the viewer. The man wears what looks like plate mail on his torso, with fancy gold shoulder thingies, red sleaves, a short red skirt, white tights, and fancy bejeweled boots. His hat is red with a blue feather. The big cats are all in fierce poses. A maned lion stands with his paws on the man's shoulder. The man holds open the other maned lion's mouth. Found at: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/resource/pga.03749/)
Image description: etched political cartoon. A lion is on a wheeled pedestal labeled "British". A man in a suit and befeathered top hat twists the lion's tail. A bald man in a suit twists its head. The lion's mouth is open. Behind the men and lion is a storefront labeled "furs". A man watched open-mouthed through the window. Next to the cartoon is a colored registry thingy, for calibrating colors. A detailed explanation of the cartoon is at [HarpWeek](https://elections.harpweek.com/1884/cartoon-1884-medium.asp?UniqueID=63&Year=1884) (and TBH their image of the cartoon is clearer than the one I uploaded. I chose the LOC one because the permissions were clearer). *In summary:* In American politics, the Republican presidential nominee and the Greenback-Labor nominee were both critical of Great Britain (represented by the lion). Found at: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/resource/cai.2a13958/)
Image description: woodblock carved into the form of the Biblical Samson holding open a lion's mouth. The carving is fine and the wood is dark with the ink used in printmaking. This is the woodblock used to make prints similar to the one previously posted, https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/892435 . Found at: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336211
Image description: 2-column handwritten text. Small doodle of Samson holding open a lion's mouth, in the upper right corner. Found at: https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/illmanus/roymanucoll/m/011roy000001b12u00080000.html
Image description: statue of Samson attempting to open the mouth of a lion whose mouth is firmly shut. Found at: https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj20453994
Image description: black metal candlestick. Samson sits on top of a lion and holds its mouth open. A column to hold a candle comes out of his back. Found at: Candlestick: Samson and the Lion - Rijksmuseum, Netherlands - Public Domain. https://www.europeana.eu/item/90402/BK_16915
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Image description: Image is straight up at a ceiling. There is a center circular medallion with a naked man sitting on a lion. The man is holding the lion's mouth open. There are two other lions partly in frame--one left and one right of the scene. Around the circle is gold and red braid. Outside of the circle are filigree decorations. Overall colors are red, white, blue, gold. Found at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dun_deagh/7274023374/
Image description: Item is an unglazed terra cotta tire. It looks a bit dirty or sooty, but is clearly still yellow-tan. It depicts a 3d scene of a man with long hair, a hat with big feather, and tunic. The man is sitting on a lion and holding open a lion's mouth. Behind the man and lion is a stone (or brick) wall about waist high. Above it is an archway. Outside the archway is a floral decoration. Found at: [Met Museum](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/469944)*___*
According the the Met Museum, coconuts were exotic to Europeans and a cup made from a coconut could be used to neutralize poisons. Image description: Tall silver and coconut goblet with lid. The bowl is made of most of a coconut, the base, stand, and lid of the goblet are made of silver. The coconut is engraved with biblical scenes, including Samson holding open a lion's mouth. Cherubs look on and there's filigree. There are also silver rams and roman? soldiers connecting the silver base and the top of the goblet. Found at: [The Met](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/193595)
Image description: a statue of Samson (with stylized hair in coils?) holding a lion by its lower jaw and its tail. The lion is suspended in the air. Image is black and white photograph. In the background is a flag with a spoked wheel on it. Note: statue was in the "transportation" area of the NY World's Fair, in front of the Ford building. Other flags included air planes, propellers. Related images: [NYPL: scrapbook page of the fair](https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-70e9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99) (where you get a better view of the flag in the background--them emblem is a wheel, not the swastika I worried it was)  [NYPL--image of lady in 1930s garb standing on the statue. The statue is huge.](https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-d6db-d471-e040-e00a180654d7)*___* Found at: [New York Public Library](https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-f56b-d471-e040-e00a180654d7)