⛵️holly 🇺🇸➡️🇯🇵 @holly@v.st

Our latest episode is all about Avatar: The Way of Water. We have LOTS of thoughts about white savior narratives, whaling, gender, and colonialism. But this time around? We actually disagree quite a bit.

https://ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/episode-123-avatar

🚨BREAKING: Following noyb litigation, @meta (Facebook and Instagram) has been prohibited from using personal data for advertisement.
The #GDPR decision signals a major blow to Meta's business model in Europe, as Meta faces a € 390 Mio fine.
➡https://noyb.eu/en/breaking-meta-prohibited-use-personal-data-advertisment

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

The city of Amsterdam announcement of upcoming changes for 2023 includes this tidbit:
"Amsterdam will put its own Mastodon server live in January. This means that Amsterdammers, and the rest of the world, can follow the city's news via social media without being dependent on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram."
#Amsterdam
https://www.amsterdam.nl/nieuws/nieuwsoverzicht/verandert-2023/

Night train from Brussels to Berlin via Amsterdam starting mid 2023! 22:30-06:48 is not long enough for a full restful sleep, although continuing on to Prague would be nice. https://www.europeansleeper.eu/nl/coming-soon

Whoever did this wins winter.

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

one of my favorite things on social media is when people nerd the heck out about hobbies I don't know anything about.

I have a friend on instagram who's super into Breyer horses and like, I know fuck-all about either real horses or plastic ones but she does these explainers about the hobby that are always a delight to read

Post about your hobbies. It's okay to take up space. Delight somebody with details.

Mijn poging om neerlandici naar Mastodon te praten. https://neerlandistiek.nl/2022/12/een-sociaal-netwerk-voor-neerlandici/