@Zagorath I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
#H2G2

@PugJesus As an Australian not from the state of Victoria, this seems about right ;)

@PugJesus Give him a break; he hasn’t been feline very well lately.

@PugJesus Prescient…
With apologies for the Instagram link, check out Herman here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQMhNRMET3W/

@PugJesus I’ve gotten on to the lead programmer of piefed, and he is now going to change the default behaviour when alt text if left off by users 🙂

https://aus.social/@whybird/115462676995423324

To be clear, actual descriptions are *greatly* appreciated by the fediverse generally - and not just for people with limited vision - but at least in future if piefed users choose not to describe images, it won’t deceptively make it look like they have 👍

@PugJesus How odd! All your image posts seem to follow this pattern. Maybe it is a setting of your client app or your instance?

@PugJesus thanks for putting #altText on the picture, but please don’t just repeat the text already in the post there; much better to actually describe the image in some way. Thanks :)

@maniacalmanicmania TL;DR

;)

@Zagorath p.s. if you are interested in another remnant of Brisbane’s racist past, the reason that there are so many “Boundary Roads” in Brisbane (esp. south side) is that those were the boundaries that the Aboriginals were not allowed to cross without a permit. I kid you not.

@Zagorath Historically, it’s racism. I literally heard a Northsider say that “ewww”, the Southside is “where all the Aboriginals live”*. That person was elderly already then, and it was decades ago, but I do think that’s where the inertia comes from.

* (Conversely, Northside might have been perceived as where all the racist, or at least snooty, people live.)

@brisk I thought the same, though also I presume you’d have to be logged in to turn safe search off.

@timrichards @skribe @ajsadauskas @eatham @unionagainstdhmo I kinda like March 3; only moves it by about a week and is significant as noted here: https://theconversation.com/why-we-should-celebrate-australia-day-on-march-3-the-day-we-became-a-fully-independent-country-221015