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Cory "lives in the mountains" W

@coryw.bsky.social

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gay, minidisc, computers, old computers, chronic illness, trains, tech support in higher ed, southwest. (he/him)

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · Oct 6

here's the whole thing, dunno if the account or post is still up on Twitter to get a better screenshot, alas

screenshot from twitter account wolf pupy "i hit the hay all day mother fucker. 24 hour sleep cycle. if you awake you a fake. it's bed time bitch"
dated 2013-10-20 11:34 AM

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 11h

And we thank you for this offering!

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 11h

Back in the olden days I used to go to Halloween as “nanowrimo municipal liaison who has themselves organized”

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 11h

Got home, crossing my fingers no knocks.

In other news: I paid the second half of the mushroom abatement today and emailed that receipt to insurance

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 12h

How long until we think my chance of running into kids who want candy is zero?

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 12h

Yes and also

Cat sitting in a skoon-branded disposable cat litter box

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 14h

Also sorry for being the wet blanket about it! :P

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah it’s sort of a bummer we can’t just use html to post since we could do fancy looks and still have it be readable but I bet things would get so out of control lolol

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 14h

Oh boy. There is this: support.google.com/accessibilit...

But idk if this is part of the everyday screen reader or if you can invoke it on command (Ope just got another notification)

Text-to-speech output - Android Accessibility Help

With text-to-speech, your device can convert text input and play audio aloud. Update text-to-speech settings Open your device Settings 

support.google.com

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 15h

My first thought was that if you have a Mac there may be a speak aloud option if you select text. It should for sure be there in like TextEdit. I’d need to poke around on windows and phones short enabling the system screen readers there vs using the tts engine as a sample

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 16h

I often wonder what the inertia on that is like, like I imagine some of it is, say, existing building plans or reuse of existing buildings but small enough you just need two bathrooms and they can just each have all relevant hardware and be universal access and degendered

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 16h

It might also be worth trying that font with a screen reader too because it might read it out as like “Unicode small letter T; Unicode small letter E” or whatever like it does for some of the more stylized options

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 20h

Today I brought one with a working battery

Silver Sony minidisc Walkman MZ-R700 sitting on a stool next to some Halloween decorations and a health magazine

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

To me the wild stuff you can do with x11 is peak computing

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

Oh nooo sending the best wishes and vibes!

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

Alternately: the regret starts at my failure to check batteries lolol

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

Plastic portable ones are $15 :P

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not the worst album but scrolling through my iTMS purchases is hilarious regardless because it’s such a mix of stuff that’s genuinely good, whatever was free, and stuff I probably bought for my brother