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It is such a relief to learn that my decision to capitulate to an exploitative, extractive feudal juggernaut is purely a personal decision, having no impact on anyone else.
I've gotten tired of that little social conscience cricket that keeps chirping "We're all in this together!" in my ear.
Here in the US, we probably could have avoided the Civil War if only the Black freemen and abolitionists had minded their own business!
I’m a proud privacy advocate, but recently I’ve been wondering what’s the point?
This is a song parody from my teen years which attempts to satirically depict a certain type of (obnoxious) character. I found it funny at the time...but now my feelings are considerably more mixed.
I invite thoughtful comments from those who can make out what's going on here...
Upside: my dog greeting me this morning by licking my face.
Downside: I have to go to a funeral for a colleague later, so I had makeup and lotion on.
hello @stadjodes, several participants already asked for this, we have noted down on our roadmap here: changemap.co/bonfire/bonfire... 👍
Awesome, thanks so much!
I like the name too. it's like we're camping together
Cool campfire vibes! 😁 (Illustration Moomins by Tove Marika Jansson)
👋🏻 Hi folks. The prospect of making something new is always exciting. Like this ficus plant in my bathroom — always slowly, silently working on the next leaf.
@BonfireBuilders or infinite scroll
This is gonna sound silly, but in a best-effort attempt at making computers and the internet more accessible, I'd like to suggest making the alt text editor edit directly the image metadata ("notes" field), and then use the metadata as the alt field
What do y'all think? #a11y #accessibility
@af @BonfireBuilders
I really like your idea of using existing, or creating the needed file metadata to enable #a11y
So here we are. Kicking the tyres. Trying what’s possible. Bonfire is a nice name and gives a promise for future ambitions. Like it.
I like the name too. it's like we're camping together
I just noticed that there isn't any keyword shortcuts on #bonfire. This would be a very nice feature to have.
Being able to navigate web UI without having to touch the mouse can be very gratifying. 😄
Went ahead and made a feature request for precisely this.
Peace is children's best friend.
Emmy Lou Packard.
excited to announce on bonfire that yesterday @bea brought to the world our daughter Aurora ❤️
I'm not just talking about images, but also about sound files, and any relevant file really.
PDFs? Why couldn't I convert the .tex file to .rtf and slap it in the file metadata?
(Is .rtf a binary format? Or Markdown, anyway.)
This is gonna sound silly, but in a best-effort attempt at making computers and the internet more accessible, I'd like to suggest making the alt text editor edit directly the image metadata ("notes" field), and then use the metadata as the alt field
What do y'all think? #a11y #accessibility
I don't think so? @BonfireBuilders
@oct @dajbelshaw it's not, you're able to manually look up people or posts (pull) but not follow and federate automatically (push)
Hello? Is this thing on? Hello? Hey ho let’s go!
@Frank it is - let's go!😀
This video, made by historian Heather Cox Richardson a few hours after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony on Tuesday before the House Select Committee investigating January 6, is worth viewing (at least by concerned Americans) in its entirety.
If I have grabbed the link below correctly, however, the video should start playing a little after the 36-minute point. At this point, having summarized and interpreted Hutchinson's testimony, and having added a few comments on the SCOTUS Dobbs decision, and then offering some historical clarification on how democracies die, she adds comments about some of the things she thinks American citizens will have to do to preserve democracy.
Since her thinking begins to get at the problems I have tried to address with my #seizethemeansofcommunity hashtag I thought I'd provide a link that started you at that point.
Some notes:
- She seems to be unaware of efforts like Bonfire and of the available Fediverse, open source, self-hosting options available so, to the extent that she addresses online responses she tends to assume that people will have to avail themselves of platforms like FB and Twitter and the like.
- The link below is to a YouTube video, accessed through an instance of Invidious to minimize tracking. The YouTube video is a repost, I believe, to a Facebook video in a group she maintains, an indication IMO of a certain lack of awareness on her part about all the forces that are hacking away at democracy.
- Her comments do touch on what I consider to be an important point: how our elevation of heroes tends to come at the expense of our understanding of the important parts communities of people have played in social, political and cultural progress over the last century.
