this needs to be the top comment!!! this is the right answer!!!

a squeak/high pitched noise - it sounds like another cat/kitten shrieking in pain. that’s usually enough to get the message through!

you might be proving their point since they discussed the flynn effect, and then the reverse flynn effect

but. iirc, there are issues with using iq as a measure of intelligence anyway

someone snuck this little gem into the article

Alt text: Screenshot from the article showing two captioned images. First image shows a winning team celebrating. It is captioned, “Rodri lifts the trophy! Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA”

The second image shows Gianni Infantino speaking with Donald Trump. It is captioned, “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the spanish national team. Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock”

Just going to jump in immediately with my thoughts as a disabled person with an ESA, since I often see a lot of anti-ESA sentiment from people I would expect to be allys.

If you understand the actual law - no one “abuses” the ESA policy. There has never been an ESA registration. It has been a note from an actual medical professional that you see for treatment stating that the animal is medically necessary, and this only applied to housing.

Anyone who accepted “ESA registrations” didn’t understand the law, anyone who said ESAs could be in public places did not follow the law.

You should not be okay with punishing disabled people because other people aren’t following the law.

Maybe fine people who break the law and put that money towards programs that improve the lives of disabled people.

Also: Article from The New York Times (paywalled)

Article from The New York Times (paywall removed :))

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maybe that’s the point?

i’m not saying it is or isn’t, but it wouldn’t be surprising

I probably did. Any time I countered him he just got more aggressive.

I was talking about starting a movement; he attacked me out of nowhere calling me an idiot saying the government would find out blablablah and there’s no solution to anything and we shouldn’t even try blablablablah. I was initially civil and he kept insulting me and completely ignoring what I was saying.

He broke rules too iirc, but he didn’t get banned.

He made YouTube videos and his channel description included his number of kids. He was a public content creator and regularly posted about where he lived.

Am I doxxing the POTUS in this post if I say his last name is Trump and he’s married to Melania?

If you don’t want people to have your info, don’t tell it to the world.

I got banned from !politics@lemmy.world over this lol.

someone was being a dick to me and lecturing me about privacy. he posted A LOT of personal information on the threadiverse. all over his post history.

got tired of his shit and just responded with a ton of info about him that i gathered in like 11 minutes of looking at his post history. he reported me for doxxing and the mod sided with him.

it’s not doxxing if he posts it in a public forum, but okay.

i know i’m starting to get a bit edgy with the criticisms, so i just wanted to let you know that your comment keeps making me laugh and i do take it as a compliment in a way

https://venngage.com/tools/accessible-color-palette-generator is what I used for the color palette

i took the hex code of the meta logo and inverted it (anti-meta theme) for a hex code of #F9971E and generated a palette. this was one of the palettes. i went with a more monochrome palette for people who may have trouble distinguishing between colors.

as i do not have any relevant visual impairments myself, i cannot comment on the readability/accessibility.

saying “i don’t think this is accessible” is not helpful (you’re not the only person who has said this) as it does not tell me what is accessible.

i myself am severely disabled and unable to work and living in extreme poverty. i came up with this idea, shared it on social media, and asked if anyone would be willing to make a graphic. no one did.

if the cause matters to you, you always have the option to make your own graphic. i literally cried several times making this because i do not have the energy, the time, or a usable device to make this, or the money to purchase anything usable. i made it on my phone on the free version of Ibispaint, which is the equivalent of using ms paint with a trackpad, if not worse. i have shaky hands and painful joints.

as for my migraine, i can’t comment on that, as i have chronic migraines. we are advised to avoid noise and bright screens. if i do that i’m stuck listening to the convincing voices in my head screaming at me to kill myself while still being in physical pain. i prefer to continue to be in pain while deluding myself into volunteering time and energy i do not have trying to make this world a better place only to achieve nothing and to have ended up wasted time and getting shit on for it, while everyone else who does have the time, energy, and resources complains that no one ever does anything.

if i took spent hours on this (yes, this took hours because of how unusable the app is), other people can take a few minutes to explain to me how i can make this accessible, if it’s something they actually care about and aren’t just virtue-signaling. or! they can take a few minutes to make an accessible graphic themselves

i’ve heard that - but if signal becomes popular enough with individuals, i imagine businesses would eventually switch over to signal as well

could encourage people to move to signal while keeping whatsapp maybe… until one day hopefully no one uses whatsapp anymore :)

i used opendyslexic for accessibility (i am not an accessibility expert by any means, so i apologize for anything that’s off)

i don’t know if this one is really any better, but my friend suggested changing the layout to something more like this

edit: she suggested more changes, unfortunately what im using to make this is the mobile equivalent of ms paint with a trackpad, so i’m in hell :)

fedibook seems really new; i think it’s only been up for a few weeks? but it looks close to facebook, and apparently has an option to import facebook posts

i couldn’t find any screenshots of it, but i took some of my own after making a throwaway account

for me, it just feels closer to facebook design-wise than friendica and diaspora. every friendica instance that has a normie-friendly url seemed glitchy or just flat out took forever to load. before i stumbled upon fedibook, i was thinking about recommending spacehey or bliish (which are also interesting, but spacehey is invite-only right now; can’t remember what i didn’t like about bliish)

thank you, but it’s unironically not for me (unless you count the benefits from friends leaving meta)! i’ve never had a threads and i recommend wafrn because i genuinely love it. i do have an insta, but i rarely use it. never used whatsapp… have facebook but i don’t use messenger much; been using signal for awhile. i do use facebook… but again, not very much.

i wanted to do a challenge this month for people to switch their search engines away from google, but then i realized “no meta may” sounds better :) google can be another time…