Bard spotting on Bluesky 10 July 2024

Mx. Fee (@mxfee.bsky.social):

Accessibility chat hours~

Please do not forget that using special "fonts" in your usernames and posts can mess with some assistive tech.

Heads up that the link contains a video example and it is PAINFUL.

https://x.com/kentcdodds/status/1083073242330361856

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3awpiioa7f7e4r7r6mlplexf/bafkreiae2mzgjxuwndzur5cmo5bef465ayost5ekjidav6e4pqk5cjr2ci@jpeg

Tweet by @kentcdodds

Benene (@akw.bsky.social):

Screen readers should also handle this better, tbf. I'm trying to think of a situation where reading out "mathematical sans" before every letter is useful.

Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] - in my Brain Damage arc (@alexandraerin.com):

They aren't letters.

They are mathematical/technical/scientific symbols represented as letters.

This behavior is useful (and necessary) when people who need screen readers are working with texts that use the symbols as intended, where they will appear surrounded by actual text and numbers.

liv (@livfreeorcry.gay):

i don't think mathematical symbols mean something different when they're sans, or arial. the screen reader is not handling them, and it's not doing its job. it's failing, and its fallback behaviour is to read the entire unicode description of the character. it's lazy at best.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I seem to recall iOS 17's screen reader just … ignoring them.

liv (@livfreeorcry.gay):

which is better at least than how the reader in the clip handled some of those characters... took ten seconds to not even say the letters in "voice over"

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Galaxy Brain: Project 2025 will ensure your kid dies if he breaks his neck in a Saturday night football game, since the ER doctors will have to refuse to operate to keep from losing their licenses

Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social):

Tired: Project 2025 wants to bring back the Sabbath.

Wired: Project 2025 will ban Sunday sportsball games and forget about getting beer.

Shark Queen (ravenous) (@seransdell.bsky.social):

I have made it to 5o' clock on day 1 of a3-day juice cleanse. Applause needed.

(100% not doing this again tomorrow, you understand)

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Shark Queen (ravenous) (@seransdell.bsky.social):

Starving is stupid and hateful

Juni! (@queen-of-the.pelf.ie):

can I pickle something with c*m

Kiraculous Once and Future Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

finally a pickling i can agree with

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

😄

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Stuck in my head for a week, now exorcised

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

When I see things like this, I get sad, then angry, then depressed;

Maddie Blaustein, the English voice actress for Meowth,

died of complications of an influenza-like illness

which she didn't seek treatment for, because

she didn't have health insurance.

The future producer of "Himbo Heist" (@legalminimum.bsky.social):

Another reason why I'm focusing my book on Pokémon: this level of global popularity and how it got there is entirely a black box because nobody from the inside has ever talked.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

It enrages me because she died due to being American and her contribution to a multibillion dollar valued pop culture phenomenon was treated as, effectively, independent contractor piece work.

The future producer of "Himbo Heist" (@legalminimum.bsky.social):

She was one of the original voice actors (not literally from Episode 1, but still). We lost access to them after the divorce from 4Kids because they were under contract with 4Kids and not us. I'm sorry to hear what happened to her.

illumi (@illumi.me):

whoever made this should be publicly executed

potz(er)🏳️⚧️🐉🦝 (@feral-bear.bsky.social):

if this were alive it would be begging someone to kill it

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Me. I'd murder it. With a Shiner bock

Micah (@rincewind.run):

the four year old is apparently under the impression that when he becomes a grownup, that means we leave and he gets the house all to himself

good to know where his priorities lie, I guess

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

He's gotta be allowed to run and jump and slap the ceiling without being "No"'d, clearly

Adobe Creative Clout Services (@drangel.bsky.social):

Knuckle tattoos that say WHAT NOW?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

I'm in suspense — what did they say?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

When Trump disavowed Project 2025, he didn't just disavow a bunch of his former top staffers & the Heritage Foundation, but also all the institutes that signed on to Project 2025 — like the Family Research Council, ALEC, the ADF, Hillsdale College, and dozens more.

It will have consequences — IF…

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

IF we make sure he loses.

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

Killing transgender people is the official policy of the Republican party.

Genevieve (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):

We need a trans party that's official policy is killing republicans

Genevieve (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):

Hi FBI

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

😲

The patriarchy made up the science behind what healthy looks like in order to control the matriarchy's weight for their own sexual greed. There is no difference between a 150 pound woman and a 500 pound one and anybody who says the 500 pound woman is less healthy is only brainwashed by patriarch propaganda or is knowingly distributing said propaganda in an effort to steal our power. Being fat should be celebrated because it's a symbol of taking back the power and sticking it to the man. The fatter you are the more men hate you and the more men hate you the more power you have.