Dani K. @dani@wandering.shop

Which behavior do you like best when displaying details and various reviews and statuses for a book after clicking "More Details" in the search results?
Also, how might screen readers handle each?

I'm aiming for a good solution between #accessibility and usability.

This behavior will likely be used on both search results and items on shelves.

#UX #design #boostsWelcome

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poll results are in; for october, we'll be reading the dispossessed by ursula le guin! this was also last month's tie for first place :)

please contact @naga if you need financial assistance with getting access to the book, we have crowdsource funds available!

https://doodle.com/poll/uainvukwnsgythb9

poll's up!

electioneering is fair game, feel free to reply here to promote your favorite :)

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tor.com publishing is celebrating its 5th birthday by offering free downloads of Hugo nominee The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, by Kai Ashante Wilson, the first book they ever published.

It's never been easier to check out some top-quality queer black fantasy fiction.

https://www.tor.com/2020/09/01/tordotcom-publishing-is-5-years-old-download-the-first-book-it-ever-published-the-sorcerer-of-the-wildeeps-by-kai-ashante-wilson

#KaiAshanteWilson #SFFBookClub

@naga yes! returning candidates are:
* the red threads of fortune (yang)
* the dispossessed (le guin)
* scarlet odyssey (rwizi)
* a song below water (morrow)

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hey, y'all! if you have suggestions for next month's read, drop 'em here! i'll also include books from last month that had high interest.

as a reminder, for september we're reading "the prey of gods" by nicky drayden, which i just got my hands on and am stoked for.

Rewrite my code
Say you'll debug me again
Undo this pain that you caused
when you pushed those commits
and made everything red
Unbreak my tests
They've failed so many times
Rewrite my code

Introducing #Botober, a set of AI-generated drawing prompts for each day in October!

I generated these using GPT-3, a neural net trained on a huge amount of internet text, but not on drawing prompts specifically. (This explains a lot)

I'm hand-curating the GPT-3 generated #Botober prompts because many of the neural net's drawing prompts are terrible for one reason or another.
Here are some of the prompts that were unfairly difficult.

Whoa! Netflix is developing an adaptation of the Three-Body Problem trilogy.

I'm not sure about Benioff and Weiss, but Rian Johnson is involved, and most importantly, both the original author Liu Cixin and translator Ken Liu are involved.

https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/the-three-body-problem-netflix-original-series

Ged is brown, and a big part of the reason Le Guin hated the Earthsea miniseries (which she had very little creative involvement in) was the whitewashing of him and Earthsea in general. https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv-earthsea.html Tenar and her people are white, but they also have murderous religious practices that she leaves behind after she meets and learns from Ged.

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since there was a tie, i used the universal decision maker (http://www.sam-i-am.com/play/5k/decisions/) to determine that we will be reading "the prey of gods" by nicky drayden!

if you need financial help getting a copy, please message @naga for crowd-sourced funding.

When other people post about becoming more comfortable with who they are:

It makes me so happy

Harrow the Ninth is ooout \o/

#books #gothic #lesbian #space #fantasy #GideonTheNinth #LockedTomb

Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share again this Friday, so artists will get their normal cut of any sales (music and merch) plus the fee that usually goes to Bandcamp. This is a good way to help your favorite musicians survive the pandemic - especially musicians of color, LGBTQ+ musicians, and disabled musicians!

Here are all the dates Bandcamp plans to do this in 2020:
August 7, 2020
September 4, 2020
October 2, 2020
November 6, 2020
December 4, 2020