Tim Makarios @TMakarios@theres.life

I think I need to spend more time on other things, which probably means unfollowing some people here. I haven't decided who yet, but if you end up being one of them, it's probably not a sign that I dislike you. It's more likely to be because I find what you write too interesting, and therefore distracting. So please don't take offence!

I've finally set an avatar!

The man depicted is based on the man in the old Wedgwood anti-slavery medallions, which had the same words.

I license this under the CC0 public domain declaration, in case you want to build on this the way I built on the Wedgwood tradition. In fact, if you want .xcf and .svg files containing components of this picture, let me know; I've still got them.

To whoever keeps making this happen: please stop making the clocks jump around like this.

Gloria Wall's Bible reading plan http://www.wall.org/~gloria/lect/cur/wide/html/weeks/thisweek.html includes First Timothy chapter 1 today.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20TIMOTHY%201

I couldn't help noticing the start of the following chapter, which begins
"First of all, then, I ask that requests, prayers, petitions, and thanksgiving be made for all people. Pray for kings and everyone who is in authority so that we can live a quiet and peaceful life in complete godliness and dignity. This is right and it pleases God our savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth."

Today, we have a new (earthly) king to pray for.

PhoNZE 35 5/6

intro2psycholing.net/PhoNZErdle_daily/
Line 1: 2nd correct but in the wrong place.
Line 2: 4th perfect, but 5th in the wrong place.
Line 3: 4th perfect, but 1st in the wrong place.
Line 4: 1st, 3rd and 4th perfect.
Line 5: Won!

A Wordle-like game, but with sounds (technically, phonemes), instead of ordinary spellings.

Warning: it's based on the sounds of New Zealand English, which are, you may have noticed, not the same as the sounds of other varieties of English.

@platypus
This was supposed to be in relation to https://glammr.us/@platypus/108912589774123418 but Firefox wanted to restart, and when it came back, it somehow remembered the text I wrote, but forgot what I was replying to (at least when it came to posting; it remembered to redirect me back to that thread).

@platypus
I've recently started learning to use edbrowse with a screen reader on my phone, so I don't have to look at a screen while writing, and it's kinda neat. I'm still getting used to it, but a lot of my frustration comes down to realizing how many even terminal applications (which might generate text that I pass to edbrowse, or which I might want to use directly with the screen reader) are optimized for visual use.

Some of you may have seen this before, but in case you haven't, it's an interesting read about accessibility (for blind people) of computer programs: https://www.eklhad.net/philosophy.html

"When the user ignores 95% of what the program "says", and selects the relevant 5% by moving his eyes, that conversation must change in fundamental ways to be blind-friendly."

A courier brought me a box today. Inside the box was a bag. Inside the bag was some cardboard wrapping. Inside the cardboard wrapping was some paper wrapping. Inside the paper wrapping was a bag. Inside the bag was a sachet of desiccant.

But the innermost bag is quite nice. I might keep it for carrying things in.

https://www.theloyalworkshop.com