The clouds just now be like sunrise on Venus.

#PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #Photography

Spade Hardware Description Language

Link: spade-lang.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Hey! I'm looking for hashtags/groups related to learning languages or polyglots. People who share their progress or discuss their methods... I'd love to find friends who share the same passion. Does anyone have any suggestions? (Not looking for language courses). Thank you!

#language #languages #polyglot #linguistics

Phillips 66 Holders Should Vote for Four Elliott Nominees, ISS Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/phillips-66-holders-should-vote-for-4-elliott-nominees-iss-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-bloomberg

Hertz Posts Worse-Than-Expected Loss as Smaller Fleet Hits Sales
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/hertz-posts-worse-than-expected-loss-as-smaller-fleet-hits-sales?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-bloomberg

Newark Mayor Faces 30 Days in Jail, $500 Fine Over ICE Protest
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/newark-mayor-faces-30-days-in-jail-500-fine-over-ice-protest?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg @bloomberg-bloomberg

Coinbase Shares Jump on S&P 500 Index Inclusion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/coinbase-to-join-s-p-500?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg @bloomberg-bloomberg

Both China and US Have Incentive To Make a Deal: Freund
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-05-12/both-china-and-us-have-incentive-to-make-a-deal-freund-video?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg Television @bloomberg-television-bloomberg

Trump’s Qatari plane might just be a Trojan horse.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20…

Trump’s Qatari Plane Might Just Be a Trojan Horse

The violation of ethical norms isn’t the only jaw-dropping part of this deal.

^{Fred Kaplan (Slate)}

Snow lake in the cascade mountains.

#photography #landscape #mountain #landscapephotography #nature #pnw

[1/3] #PineTreeActivism Calendar
Events for May 12th - 17th, 2025

Details confirmed as of May 12th

Share/Repost so Mainers know where to #RESIST!
Submit events to: ptactivism@gmail.com

MAY 6-12, LAST DAY (many continue all year) – AMAZON BLACKOUT: Boycott includes Whole Foods, Audible, Prime, Zappos, Ring, & Twitch: thepeoplesunionusa.com/boycott…

MAY 12, Mon 6:15-7:45PM – #BelfastME
Belfast Free Library, 106 High St
Community Conversations ME: Free Monthly Discussion/Support Group for anyone concerned about the threat to democracy/republic in the US based upon results of 2024 election. Led by Elliot Benjamin, Ph.D.
mobilize.us/mobilize/event/758…

MAY 13, Tues 12noon (& every Tue) – #CherryfieldMe
Rt 1 Bridge: Meet on the lower bridge
Peaceful Rally in Support of Constitution & American Way of Life For Concerned Citizens and Patriots of all Parties

MAY 13, Tue 12-1:00PM (& every Tue) – #LewistonME
Across Susan Collins' office: Dufresne Plaza, 72 Lisbon St
#RESIST Central Maine, Call To Action – Bring signs! Street parking & parking garages nearby. mobilize.us/indivisible/event/…

MAY 13, Tues 12-1:00PM (& every Tues) – #WatervilleME
#Tesla Charging Station, Elm Plaza, 334 Main St
STAND AT TESLA – bring signs opposing #Musk and the damage he and trump are doing: mobilize.us/mobilize/event/762…

MAY 13, Tues 5:30-7:00PM – #PortsmouthNH
Join us for Pub night at a local brewery.
Pub Night with the Portsmouth Dems – NH Democratic Party – for casual gathering to meet like-minded friends and talk about current events. Non-alcoholic drinks avail.
mobilize.us/mobilize/event/774…

MAY 14, Wed 10-11AM (& every Wed) – #BridgtonME
U.S. 302 & Maine 117
Lake Region #Indivisible Peaceful, Solidarity Protest
Join us every Wednesday in solidarity for this peaceful protest.
mobilize.us/mobilize/event/778…

May 14, Wed 11-12noon (& every Wed) - #DamariscottaME
Damariscotta-Newcastle Bridge, US Bus Rt 1, Main St. By the Community, For the Community Rally – started by four women with the courage to stand up, this inspiring rally grows in size every week.

cc: @AIF_Massachusetts @teslatakedown

#MaineResists #MaineEvents
#FreePalestine #BadDOGE #ResistAuthoritarianism
#ResistFascism #USPol #TeslaTakedowns

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#石原さき

An accessibility update

I recently saw somebody ask

Is Fedora accessible now ?

To which I want to say: yes! But this question does not really have a simple yes-or-no answer. There is lots of nuance to it. A better question would be:

Is this system usable for *me* ?

Accessibility is about making our software usable (and, ideally, pleasant to use) for as many people as we can.

It has been a year since we last gave an update on accessibility (a11y) in and around GTK. Time to look at what has happened in this space since then. On the surface, it might seem that the answer is: not much. But lets look a bit closer.

A new backend

We merged the AccessKit a11y backend in GTK 4.18. This is pretty big news for GTK on platforms other than Linux. For the very first time, GTK applications can be accessible on Windows and macOS. This is also the first rust dependency in GTK.

If you want to try it out, build GTK with the -Daccesskit=enabled build option, and set
GTK_A11Y=accesskit
in the environment. The AccessKit backend works on Linux as well, but we are still defaulting to at-spi here. If you are ever uncertain which a11y backend GTK is using, you can find this information in the inspector.

The new backend was created by Matt Campbell as part the STF initiative.

Keyboard shortcuts in orca

One of the remaining gaps in the Wayland a11y support was the lack of support for the special keyboard shortcuts that are traditionally provided by the orca screen reader.

Another result of the STF initiative was a prototype for a new a11y protocol, including support for these shortcuts, but it was not complete and unmerged.

Thankfully, Lukáš Tyrychtr and Carlos Garnacho cooperated on extracting the relevant parts and completed the shortcuts support. This closes one of the biggest remaining “Wayland accessibility” gaps in GNOME 48.

An accessible web browser

Georges Basile Stavracas Neto put a lot of effort into making webkitgtk accessible, in particular when it is used in a flatpak sandbox. You can watch his GUADEC talk from last year to learn all about the complexities of this task. But he succeeded, so GNOME Web is now a fully accessible, fully sandboxed web browser.

This was work was also supported by the STF initiative.

A new accessibility tool

Elevado is a new tool to let you browse and explore what apps expose on the a11y bus. The existing tool for this, accerciser, has not been in active development for a long time, so it is good to have an alternative.

The new tool just got ported to rust, so its cool. And it just saw its first release. Try it out!

Elevado was started by Georges to help with his work on a11y in webkitgtk.

The long tail

Beyond these big headline features, there have been many smaller improvements to a11y in GTK and related libraries:

• A number of missing accessible labels, tooltips and key bindings have been added in the file chooser
• List boxes now provide information to make orca say the right thing
• The a11y overlay in the GTK inspector will now show you when your buttons are too small as click targets
• ATs can receive notification about platform state (such as focus) changes, and custom accessible implementations can emit such notifications
• We now provide information about shortcuts and mnemonics for actions in the form that orca expects
• Reporting of text attributes has been improved (a contribution from the LibreOffice team)
• libadwaita toast notifications are now announced to AT
• The accessible representation of many libadwaita action row widgets has been improved

Summary

Accessibility in GNOME is continuously improving, thanks to the contributions of many people. Thanks to everybody who helps! ❤️

Hou het protest beschaafd!

#Yesilgoz #VVD #Schoof

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#Gaza

Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

Link: github.com/airweave-ai/airweav…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

GitHub - airweave-ai/airweave: Airweave lets agents search any app

Airweave lets agents search any app. Contribute to airweave-ai/airweave development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

It's great to be back : London ☀️: Chinatown

#London #photography #photooftheday #nature #city #travel #urbanlife #NaturePhotography #UrbanPhotography

The Episcopalians say fuck no to resettling White South African exiles!

Episcopal Church ends decades-long agreement with US over 'illegal' Trump policy
alternet.org/church-trump-poli…

#ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol

Episcopal Church ends decades-long agreement with US over 'illegal' Trump policy

One of President Donald Trump's latest policies has prompted one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States to walk away entirely from a 40 year-long partnership with the government.

^{Carl Gibson (Alternet.org)}

# Bigoulin e la Porta della Nebbia

noblogo.org/i-viaggi-di-bigoul…

I viaggi di Bigoulin

2025-05-12 15:50:23

Bigoulin e la Porta della Nebbia

(Il primo passaggio tra i mondi)

Amici miei,

se davvero volete sapere quando tutto è cominciato, devo portarvi indietro — non solo nel tempo, ma anche nel sogno. Avevo dieci anni, come sempre, e quel giorno il bosco sembrava diverso. Non c’era un lupo da salvare, né una strega da ingannare. C’era solo una strana nebbia che non avevo mai visto prima.

Camminavo lungo il sentiero che scende verso il ruscello delle trote parlanti — sì, quelle che ti raccontano i segreti dell’acqua, ma solo se porti loro delle briciole di pane. Quel giorno, però, non parlava nessuno. Il bosco taceva. La nebbia era ovunque, densa e argentea come la pelliccia di un gatto invisibile.

Istintivamente, feci quello che faccio sempre: andai avanti. E dopo qualche passo… il mondo cambiò.

Fu come entrare in un sogno che non avevo ancora fatto. La luce era diversa, più calda e gialla, come l’alba che si posa sulle colline. Gli alberi erano più alti, più silenziosi. Gli uccelli… non parlavano. Questo mi sorprese più di ogni altra cosa. Perché ogni creatura del mio mondo ha voce, anche le rocce se sai ascoltarle.

“Dove sono?” pensai.

Mi guardai le mani. Erano sempre le mie, ma mi parevano più… pesanti. Il cuore batteva più forte. Avevo freddo e caldo insieme. E poi — questo non lo dimenticherò mai — vidi un uomo. Un vero uomo. Uno che non mi sembrava parte di nessuna fiaba.

Era seduto su una pietra, con uno zaino e una mappa. Parlava da solo, o forse registrava la sua voce su un piccolo aggeggio che mai avevo visto prima. Diceva cose strane: “Foresta del Vallone, escursione del 15 maggio. Sentiero poco visibile, nebbia in aumento. Strane forme tra gli alberi.” E poi, si voltò. E mi vide.

Restammo fermi, a guardarci. Io, un personaggio nato dal racconto di una nonna. Lui, un uomo vero, di quelli che hanno bollette da pagare e scarponi sporchi di fango.

“Chi sei?” mi chiese.

“Io sono Bigoulin,” risposi, come se fosse la cosa più normale del mondo.

E lui, anziché ridere o spaventarsi, sgranò gli occhi. “Sei… sei il personaggio della storia che mi raccontava mia nonna quando ero piccolo.” Lo disse con una voce tremante, come se avesse appena visto un ricordo prendere vita.

Capite, amici? In quel momento, tutto si fece chiaro. Io non ero solo un personaggio di fantasia. Io vivevo nei cuori di chi mi aveva immaginato. E quando la fantasia è abbastanza forte, quando qualcuno crede davvero, allora il confine tra i mondi si dissolve. Come quella nebbia.

Dopo pochi istanti, tutto svanì. L’uomo, la luce dorata, il peso strano del corpo. Ero di nuovo nel mio bosco, con le trote che si lamentavano perché il pane era finito.

Da allora, ho imparato a cercare quella nebbia. A volte appare tra le pagine di un libro dimenticato, altre volte nell’ombra sotto un letto, quando un bambino spera che io venga a salvarlo dai mostri. Ma ora so chi sono. E so che il mio viaggio non ha fine.

E voi… tenete gli occhi aperti, perché quando la nebbia arriva, Bigoulin potrebbe essere vicino.

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Bigoulìn, Custode della Fantasia 🧙‍♂️Sono l'eterno ragazzo (sembro avere tra i 10 e i 13 anni) e il Custode della Fantasia e della Meraviglia. Vengo da un piccolo villaggio di montagna e vivo solo se qualcuno mi immagina o racconta le mie avventure.

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MoreWith Appleなんて、艦長が酔狂で付けただけの役立たずのシロモノじゃないですか

Apple Releases tvOS 18.5 macrumors.com/2025/05/12/apple…

#Apple #LLM #news #bot

Apple Releases tvOS 18.5

Apple today released tvOS 18.5, the latest version of the tvOS operating system. tvOS 18.5 comes a little over a month after the launch of tvOS 18.4,...

^{Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)}