Use this link to try #Smol planet friendly essentials (laundry capsules, dishwasher tabs, multipurpose spray, and handwash) for £3, and the £6 referral for PerlBod and me will go to Suds In Schools to help them tackle hygiene poverty in schools:
http://smol.refr.cc/suds-in-schools/u/danhopkins
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In November the UK Government promised to remove certain levies and obligations from fuel bills and this comes into effect on 1 April, saving the average household about £120 a year.
Octopus Energy has a good explaination here:
https://octopus.energy/blog/april-2026-price-cap-updates/
Spent the afternoon sitting in the garden in the sunshine. There might have been a G&T involved. It was glorious!
Can anyone recommend a screen reader #accessible webapp/Windows application (not mobile app) that'll let me cross-post to Masto and Bluesky? TIA.
#RIP Len Deighton
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/17/len-deighton-obituary
Time to read the excellent Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match again.
The V-Dem Institute, the world's most credible democracy watchdog, warns that Trump is aiming for dictatorship and the US is no longer a liberal democracy:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
So, skinny jeans are a thing? Again? Did we learn nothing the first time?
Spent the afternoon creating IFTTT applets and a Windows script to detect when I'm in a Zoom/Teams call and toggle my old radio style "On air" lamp on my desk on/off accordingly, so PerlBod knows when I'm in a meeting or not 🎤 😊
👏 #Firefox 148 has improved support for screen readers and MathML content in PDF!
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/148.0/releasenotes/
The @TetraLogical team has released a new set of videos to help everyone design and build more accessible websites; Accessible Building Blocks for Web:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/02/06/accessible-building-blocks-for-web-videos/
If you were previously following the TetraLogical team on a11y.social, we're no longer there (the instance isn't being maintained and we lost access to our account), but the good news is that you'll find us here instead: @TetraLogical 👏
We've moved the TetraLogical Masto account to @TetraLogical where we'll continue to share articles, videos, and other things #accessibility related.
Does anyone know if there's a problem with the a11y.social Masto instance? Keep getting "We're sorry, but something went wrong on our end" errors messages when trying to log into the @TetraLogical account. Pinged @community for help but no reply yet. Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
Hello @community, we're getting a "This page is not correct" error when logging into @TetraLogical account. Any ideas?
We tried resetting the pwd just in case but this hasn't resulted in the expected email. Wondering if something might be amiss with the instance?
When I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in the early 80s it took about a month before they figured it out. There were several misdiagnoses along the way, and even the accusation I was "pulling a sickie". Fortunately it wasn't an acute case at that stage and I'm hear to tell the tale.
Somehow I thought things might have improved in the intervening decades, but it seems not always so:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ppz5n3jvo
# Diabetes #LylasLaw
We've just added tags to the @TetraLogical blog, so now it's possible to point to things like all the posts in our Foundations series:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/tag/foundations/
From the 17 January edition of The Week:
"The US Consumer Product Safety Commission keeps a database of the various items that people in America have got stuck in their rectums. The most recent
data shows that about 4,000 people (average age: 43) seek hospital treatment for such mishaps per year. Among the items recorded were beard clippers, a sandal, uncooked pasta, a dog chew toy, an egg, a turkey baster, a pair of glasses and a shampoo bottle."
The mind is not the only thing that boggles 😂
Sustainable accessibility in complex organisations: strategic foundations by Henny Swan on the @TetraLogical blog:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/11/07/sustainable-accessibility-in-complex-organisations-strategic-foundations/
#Reform = REjects From Other Right-wing Margins
Common misconceptions about #WCAG by Ela Gorla on the @TetraLogical blog:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/12/10/common-misconceptions-about-wcag/
Common misconceptions about disability from the @TetraLogical blog:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/12/03/common-misconceptions-about-disability/
If you're fedup with the AI and other telemetry claptrap in #Chrome, #Edge, and #Firefox, try this: https://justthebrowser.com/
Elon Musk defends Grok feature that generates images of women and children stripped of their clothes (and much worse):
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/12/us/video/grok-elon-musk-ai-lead-jake-tapper
#Musk is beneath contempt and apparently quite stupid too.
Dear Amazon, if you're going to use AI enhanced synthetic speech for Audio Description on your Prime TV series, the least you can do is check it for pronunciation quality. The voice being realistic isn't enough.
In Talamasca: The Secret Order, AD mispronunciations include "Surré" instead of "Surrey", "alyus" instead of "alias", and "one hundreds" instead of "hundreds".
Let's Dance and Road To Hell (Part 2) are among the best tracks of my years. #RIP Chris Rea
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdH5JxbIEs
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OcW-BSEB3ng&list=PLBV2UZtWGI5xjNXTrV_laLlXG7GQ9rV6-
Scientists recognize Type 5 Diabetes:
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/type-5-diabetes-signs-symptoms_l_69406860e4b043da371d2a3a
Type 1: insulin production collapse due to auto-immune reaction
Type 2: insulin resistance, often due to obesity
Type 3: insulin production collapse due to pancreatic damage (from cancer for example)
Type 4: age-related insulin resistance/collapse
Type 5: insulin resistance/collapse due to malnutrition, most often in childhood
The @TetraLogical team has gathered (online) for a day of retrospectives, updates, and opportunities to continue innovating what we do and the services we offer, plus a Christmas quiz to wrap it all up.
There might also be a selection of Christmas hats on display, and there's a rumour going around that my hat might not be black! 😊
Listening to the news, you'd think we were being invaded by people arriving in small boats...
It's actually 40,652 people in 2025.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70989jrdweo
In Aug, the UK Gov announced a £100m investment to "tackle people smuggling gangs".
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/investment-for-border-security-command-paves-way-for-new-crackdown-on-people-smuggling-gangs
That's basically £250k per person who arrives on a small boat.
WTF?
Swearing can make you stronger:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/does-swearing-make-you-stronger-science-says-yes
Well, thank f...
PerlBod just chucked some chorizo in the cauliflower cheese we had for dinner this evening.
I think I'm in love 💜