I am not responsible for this mess.

Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.

Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.

When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?

[tags via : @heavenly-havoc]

Haven't had time to draw lately due to one of my huskies being sick, but she's much better now so I've been slowly getting back into it. This started out as some hand study warm ups ✨

"He's anti-Brexit!" Good.

"He's anti-Trump!" Good.

"He's anti-establishment!" At this point I think you're just trying to make me like him more.

"His manager once called Farage a horrible cunt!" Well Farage *is* a horrible cunt, what's your point?

"He's making a joke of British politics!" Well that's very appropriate given that current British politics *are* a fucking joke.

"He's a left-wing liberal elitist!" I don't know if you can be all of those things at once, but I do know that Count Binface isn't the one getting millions in donations from cryptocurrency billionaires sooooooo...

so i live in boorloo (perth) which is on noongar country and 1. i fucking love the noongar seasons it’s so much more accurate to here 2. should be noted that other season stereotypes are completely different! there’s ONE native deciduous tree here (common coral tree) and it blooms in the middle of july, which to a greater point! different native plants are always blooming all year round! the traditional “spring” period doesn’t really that many more (native) flowers than any other time of the year!

Much like in Western Australia, our seasons aren't what the majority of northern hemisphere media portrays.

Spring has more flowers in new bloom than the rest of the year, but we also have plants that flower all year round. Summer will roast you alive and is generally pretty humid, with lots of thunderstorms, many of them severe. Autumn doesn't have a widespread change of leaf colours, or much leaf fall - most of our plants are evergreen. Our daytime temperatures in winter are often warmer than the summer ones my friend in Scotland gets - we don't get snow (my Dad is 72 and has never seen it).

For record-keeping purposes we use the meteorological seasons. 1st September to 30th November is spring, 1st December to 28/29th February is summer, 1st March to 31st May is autumn, and 1st June to 31st August is winter. More practically though, summer is a lot longer than 3 months - it's more like mid-October to early April most years.

We don't use the astronomical seasons (beginning on the equinoxes and solstices), and most people don't even know what dates those fall on.

The only frozen water we have falling from the sky in December is hail, and nobody ever depicts that in picture books or on Christmas cards.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

4pm lunch is not the ideal

4 pm lunch makes the mind demons real

someone on reddit explained 😭

I back my computer up every six months and was planning to this week. I procrastinated by a day, and my SSD corrupted* — I lost six months of photos, including old photos of my life from now-deleted tumblr post, thousands of words of my writing, and game save files (luckily I emailed my two main Minecraft worlds to a friend last week so I only lost a few days of work). Not to mention that now my Windows will be up-to-date, 2½ years further ahead than mine had been. I'm going to have to battle ai back when I get my computer.

If you make a lot of art, back your work up way more often.

Please.

*Also, maybe don't download exports of any of your blogs, even small ones. That's what corrupted my drive. Literally and directly.

I said for years I needed to back up all my baby photos and videos. Then my house burned down, and I have no evidence of my childhood whatsoever. I now spray fully formed like Athena during the advent of social media.

to do it right now; this is

the devil talking.