urlyman

urlyman, 8 hours ago to random

I read Jonathan Freedland’s article about Starmer/Biden in yesterday’s Guardian, because it was right there, on the front page of the Journal section.

I knew what I was going to get, but I read it anyway
🙄

And what I got was…

several hundred words of blindingly obvious analysis and a lack of any substantive suggestions about what to do instead.

Nice gig if you can get it, week in, week out

urlyman, 1 day ago to random

We’re a social species.
We respond to the stuff other people do.
If they make music, we listen, or make music with them, or tell them they suck.
If they fly, we fly, or tell them they shouldn’t.
If they go to war, we pick a side.
We respond quickly.

Climate doesn’t get invited to any parties. And it doesn’t get in our grill either. Although ‘weather’ does.

But the parties we’re throwing are changing the climate. And we are responding much slower than we are changing it

#climateDiary

urlyman, 2 days ago to webdev

I’ve been avoiding display:contents because of all the problems people like @aardrian and @eric have written about.

But, coincident with this post yesterday – https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112449897977897437 – I actually had a need to use it for a non-public facing thing.

HOWEVER…

TIL that in Firefox it completely breaks the anchoring effect of an id attribute attached to an element.

Put differently, a link to an element with display: contents DOES NOT WORK 🤦‍♂️

#webDev

urlyman, 3 days ago to random

#climateDiary
The UK government:
we’re releasing dangerous criminals early to relieve delays in the court system.

Also the UK government:
we’re prosecuting people who are doing nothing more than causing minor delays to an economy that, unchecked, will drive us all off a cliff and the court system with it

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/15/uk-climate-activists-convicted-in-first-trial-of-new-anti-protest-laws

urlyman, 4 days ago to random

#climateDiary
Leaving aside the societal misery AI will cause, will it have taken less total energy* to do the thing than it took to do the thing before.

*resourcing + manufacture + training + processing

Since we are not adequately collating the energy footprint of those things (because we have an economy that still, more or less, does not care) it seems likely that in most cases we haven’t got a damned clue.

Welcome to the acceleration of the FAFO https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112095238476262957

urlyman, 5 days ago to random

#climateDiary
I would really like green growth to work.

For everyone.

But for me,
from where we are,
within the terms with which we currently define economic growth…

it doesn’t look remotely realistic.

But the artefacts of pursuing it could provide a crash pad

for a bit
for some.

That’s something

urlyman, 5 days ago to random

Turns out, the second half of my life will have been about unlearning many of the things I learned in the first half

urlyman, 7 days ago to cycling

Pedestrians standing two abreast across both cycle lanes.

Me: “Please look out”

Him: “Ease up mate”

I was easing up. I did.

But you wouldn’t walk in a road and say that to an approaching (speed limit observing) car 🤷🏼‍♂️

#bikeTooter

urlyman, 7 days ago to random

#climateDiary
Sam sets out a policy list in 10 posts.
Let’s make it happen.

https://mastodon.green/@samsterby/112427538575884089

urlyman, 8 days ago to random

One of the words I have developed a real antipathy towards is “productivity”.

https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/112415297543459566

Our obsession with it goes to the heart of why everything is fked.

And no, I am not a lazy bastard

urlyman, 8 days ago to random

Trudi Warner (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/23/trudi-warner-climate-activist-fight-with-the-uk-government) interviewed by Simon Jack on #r4today.

Trudi: “Climate breakdown is something we don’t want to talk about”

Simon: “Thank you, Trudi, I’m afraid that’s all we have time for”

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Climate: “Ready to talk yet?”
https://toot.community/@extretemps/112418721980050581

#climateDiary

urlyman, 8 days ago to random

Born in St Louis, had a thirst for knowledge
He tried then dropped out of NYU college
Where supply
Caught his eye
He started Twitter and soon he was loaded
But then Blue Sky became his new tombola
And he was "Fine"
But then in thirty-seconds time he said

Don’t wanna mix with all these common people…
Don’t wanna do the hard work that common people do
Don’t wanna moderate common people
Don’t want common people like you

#jackDorsey

rem, 9 days ago to random

a11y friends - I've been thinking about "ffconf" and how it reads out as a single word (rather than "FF Conf"). The visual brand is "ffconf" but on a screenreader I want it to read out differently.

I thought I could use aria-label, but VO on macos is still seeming to just say it as a single word.

Is there something I should be doing?

joelanman, 12 days ago to CSS

Is setting up a CSS grid, then having row divs with display: contents so its contents line up with grid a common pattern? Any pitfalls?
#css

pvonhellermannn, 5 months ago to random

Half thinking of starting an #AcademicVenting hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail. #Universities #AcademicChatter #neoliberalism