Reading that a German city is removing more public toilets, the general rule is:

If your city has no free, public toilets, the city is the public toilet.

(Usually you will not want this.)

Bras are separated on one end with that clasp anyway, right?

What if a bra would also be separable on the other side, so you'd be able to "mix and match" the left and the right side? This would allow for:

- Getting different cup sizes left and right
- Replace a damaged half
- No need for producers to create all possible size combinations, because the user can do that

AND, the silly fun aspect:

- You can individualize your look, like, neon-pink neon-green Splatoon-style half-and-half bra!

In my head all of that is totally awesome. 😁

Now, I assume this is easier said than done.

I guess the, erm..."bridge" or whatever it's called needs to be rigid enough and that would have to be imitated by whatever clasping mechanism this style would use. No clue if that's possible.

#Bras #Underwear

Okay, longer thing:

Not having boobs myself, I was never told much about bras. Quite some time ago I wanted to learn more and actually read stuff about sizing, "sister sizes", many folks wearing "wrong" bra sizes without knowing, and more.

It's really interesting to me to learn stuff outside my own life's reality.

Then at some point, there was a crowdfunding campaign for bras that had different cup sizes on both sides for a better fit for people with asymmetrical breasts.

I backed that project, but it wasn't successful.

I can kinda understand it, because producing and keeping in stock a collection of bras in all kinds of left-size, right-size combination sounds difficult.

But yesterday I has a really silly idea. I assume it's not really technically doable, but:

#Bras #Underwear

And while I'm already ranting:

I hate settings buttons that change their description when you activate them.

Like:

Off:
"You will not get notifications"

On:
"You will get notifications"

NO!
The setting should be named "you get notifications", and if it's "off", I can logically assume I will NOT get them.
-

The other way of handling isn't necessarily WRONG.
But it's not like how....all other buttons out there work, and people will assume wrongly.

If your setting says ""You will not get notifications" - Off"

Wait, so...me NOT getting notifications is off, so I AM getting notifications?

And then I have to click on it to see if and how it changes.

Edit:
And I also ASSUME this stuff is shitty for screenreaders which can only read the currently written state.

Imagine your e-mail-program hiding your inbox the moment you deactivate desktop notifications.

"Well, without notifications you wouldn't know about a new e-mail anyway, so you don't need the inbox!"
😅

My personal take:
Settings in a menu should NEVER be hidden!

They can be inactivated or collapsed, if you can do that in an accessible way, but they should NEVER vanish.

Searching for options, not finding them because "you would've needed to enable x first to see it" is infuriating!

Github, for example, hides the "inbox" icon if you have not enabled notifications on the site. Sounds reasonable?

Well, that also means you have no more link to the "notifications" menu where you can take a look at your subscribed issues.

The icon should always be there, but be grayed out, or have an "OFF" icon, but allow me to access its menu.

And no, this is not "typically Microsoft". This is just one example, and as much as I hate Microsoft, I usually appreciate their accessibility work. But I digress.

On the way back home from work I drove past two young girls sitting on a bench who were enthusiastically waving friendly to all cars passing by.

It seems most didn't see them, or decided to ignore them.

But I love being silly and friendly and thus gave them my best, friendly-enthusiastic waving possible while still driving a car, and they happily made "woho!" gestures and such when they saw that.

That made up most of the stress of my workday, seeing people happy, especially happy-silly children, is a great reward. 😊

Okay, I tried to contribute to cool OSM (OpenStreetMap) projects using this "HOT Tasking MAnager" which, as I understand, helps specifically supporting humanitarian projects.

But even the first few I wanted to give a try had major discrepancies between the Bing and "Esri" Aerial data. And even if the project tells me to "use Esri"...doesn't that mean that, while I do what the project tells me, in the worst case I'll add completely inaccurate shit to OSM, in cases where Esri might be far outdated?

That...doesn't seem like a good way to handle that.

I guess I am too dumb for OSM, as well. 😅

#OSM #OpenStreetMap

Hey, I heard many of you hate things that use tons of space and water, are pushed onto everyone as necessary despite better alternatives existing, depend on stealing and non-consent and make rich a small number of big CEOs?

You know what I'm talking about?
Good.

So...yeah, feel free to not buy animal products. ❤️

(Source is a presentation on veganism by the lovely Dragontzin, sadly not on Fedi:
dragontzin.bsky.social)

#Vegan #Veganism

Gods, another reason to love KDE:
Their standard image viewer "Spectacle" got an "OCR" feature ( "optical character recognition", recognizing and extracting text from images), and that's already cool.

But I just had an image where an artist only included a link as a QR code and I wanted to open it on my computer without using a phone.

So I just took a screenshot and thought "I wish the OCR function could also open QR codes".
And to my surprise not the OCR but Spectacle in general opens a little bar "code found:" with the corresponding link.

I love that!

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Linux

To be fair, their different lifespans would certainly have been problematic. But it's the same with humans and elves or dwarfs, and no one shies away from shipping them! 😁

Indeed!😁

Edit:
For crediting sake, here's the original poster's link: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittymoviedetails/comments/1vleiq5/in_the_sword_in_the_stone_1963_arthur_is_forced/

Edit2: I am VERY happy about all your favs and interactions, you seem to have a good taste in either humor, women or both. 😁
Especially to the non-Furrys of ya: embrace your love for cartoon chars, join us! 😊
Now I'll proceed and go through all your favs and follow people! 😁

#TheSwordInTheStone

Reddit post about "vandalizing" Nazi election posters with stickers and such:

"I consider such behavior outlandish, as if it would change their minds."

Erm..."defacing" Fascist's stuff doesn't aim at "changing their mind". They already clearly demonstrated they can't be reason with, time and time again.

Putting stickers, spraypaint and whatever on Nazi stuff is not to change the Nazi's views. It's to show one is standing up to them and "who the hood belongs to."

Gotta mute this thread for now, damn, 230 likes? Why does this never happen with my cartoon posts?! 😁
Do I need to link my Bandcamp and Kofi now? (My Kofi is "realzero" 😁)

But seriously: I appreciate all your interests and comments!

Just so you know: I'll let maintenance know. I'm in no position at this company to call the actual elevator maintainer, but I'll let maintenance know and see if they care.

No, I did not find an elevator with two "UPs" so far. 😁😅

Edit: First maintenance guy didn't really care nor understand the problem.
If I manage to see someone do actual maintenance work on the elevator, I'll try to let them know, but this might still be a year or so. We shall see.

I just checked, it's only on this floor. The others have correct ones labeled with Braille "UP".

These are the elevator buttons where I work.

Both have blind-accessible Braille text.

The down-arrow text means "down".
The up arrow text is also four characters, so, what could it mean?
Uppp?
High?

NO!

It means: Someone just took the down button, turned it 180 degrees, and slapped it on. 😅

So, at least from my amateurish knowledge...it means nothing.

Sure, you can abstract that the "not down" button means up. And I also think the arrows themselves can easily be felt but...that's damn stupid?

That...that's not the way stuff is handled, right? You can't just turn Braille upside down?!

I really wonder if I should...report this somewhere, but I have no clue if we have any accessibility responsible person. 😅

#Accessibility #Braille

Oh, yay! I can take back the "no way to celebrate", at least a bit!
My membership card for a German naturist club just arrived! I can now officially be naked everywhere! 😁

Okay, but seriously, I like that!
It also contains membership in the INF ("International Naturist Federation")

So, yeah. Ultimately this won't change anything. But it's a little part of not feeling alone with one's views. 😊

So, yay, happy nude day!

#Nudism #Naturism #InternationalNudeDay #NudeDay

Oh, by the way:

July the 14th is originally "National Nude Day", but I'm several parts also "International Nude Day" by now.

As usual I have nothing cool prepared to celebrate it, but hey, maybe some of you do!

As usual I wish for:

- Full acceptance of non-sexual nudity in public
- Top-equality for bare chests
- The same level of acceptance of nudity in games that, for some reason, violence gets
- More natural, non-sexual nudity acceptance in media, especially comics and cartoons

So, yeah, be naked, it's natural, bite stupid, artificial morals!
Have a nice Nude Day!

#InternationalNudeDay #Naturism #Nudism #NudeDay

So, is there a good hiking app that uses Openstreetmap, but considering:

I'm using Comaps for general map display, and I'm generally very happy with that.

I also just found out you can actually record tracks with it, which is also nice.

But: I'd love an app that allows me to mark or note things on said track, like "I saw a deer at the point I'm currently at" or "X marks the spot", or "tasty tree bark here" or something. 😅

Is there something like that, or does maybe Comaps even have such a feature?

It's not high-priority, but I assume you OSM folks have more knowledge than I have. 😊

#Hiking #OSM #OpenStreetMap

And yes, I understand, I also want to pet animals! I would SO love if I could give a tight hug to a hyena! But I'm willing to shed a tear and skip on that if it means peace and freedom for the animal.

(Also, not being ripped apart by a hyena misunderstanding my intentions is also a bonus. 😁)