Leeroy @leeroy@kolektiva.social
- Portfolio
- https://www.suspiremedia.co.uk
- Personal Blog
- https://www.firehound.co.uk
- Code
- CSS, HTML and a little bit of PHP and JS
Armchair anarchist who creates charity websites for a living, takes photos and occasionally writes on his personal blog Firehound.
Joined Apr 2022
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Lost my #introduction post when moved my account so here's a lists of #interests in no particular order:
#websitedesign #photography #punk #art #processwire #accessibility #charities #leftwing #politics #anarchism #sustainability #antiques #walking #reading #scifi #film #gardening #cooking
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#Skwawkbox going to #London to cover #Ware / #Panorama libel case. If you’d like to help, here’s how:
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Tooters! I've spent the last 18 months doing a research project on #mutualaid during the pandemic, the results of which can be found at mutualaid.uk.
Please do take a look. The interactive documentary has over 2 hours of interview footage.
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I want to help get out the message that there are valid reasons for some of the friction and lack of features in Mastodon, while there is also of course plenty of room for improvement.
The inability to free-text search anyone’s messages or anyone’s hashtags across the Fediverse is instrumental in keeping harassers and trolls at bay. Abusers must work harder to find conversations, there are no ”quote-boosts” and no viral rewards. Incentives and abilities to torment are restrained.
A #handy #CSS colour palette/gradient generator: https://mycolor.space/gradient
Taking #ProcessWire DEV (3.0.199) for a spin: https://processwire.com/download/core/
Only just started #StationEleven by Emily St. John Mandel but I'm hooked already. The book focuses on survival after an apocalyptical flu virus. Grim but gripping.
Made a desk from some pine boards and a couple of rectangular steel bench legs. Finished with walnut wood dye and tung oil.
I am inside an Italian hotel bar, I am alone. The room is long and narrow, it has a minimal brutalist style with smooth grey concrete walls. Continue reading:
https://www.firehound.co.uk/blog/blog-posts/another-covid-nightmare/
Trying to write a toot whilst sitting in strong sunshine glare is not a good idea.
#CamdenTown on a sunny morning, taken a few years ago https://pixey.org/p/suspiremedia/428486613374114979
Found a battered, handmade #pine tallboy on Ebay. The tallboy was a bargain but time hadn't been kind to it. It was full of dents and scratches and the pine had turned a horrible yellow colour. After sanding and a single coat of water-based wood dye the tallboy looked like a different piece of #furniture. The drawer knobs were finished with black wood dye. https://pixey.org/p/suspiremedia/428225957578199529
Empathy Prompts - Prompts to consider when making things for others to use. https://empathyprompts.net/#hearing-loss #accessibility #webdesign
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The Price Of ‘Selective Inattention’ – Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, And The Climate Apocalypse
"In March, these three broadcasters devoted about a third more time to foreign news than they have in recent years ‘when international news coverage has fallen to all-time lows’. "
There's a short blogpost that relates to this photo: https://www.firehound.co.uk/blog/blog-posts/jobsworth/
Nice free online tool: Photo/Image retouching made easy https://cleanup.pictures
- Portfolio
- https://www.suspiremedia.co.uk
- Personal Blog
- https://www.firehound.co.uk
- Code
- CSS, HTML and a little bit of PHP and JS
Armchair anarchist who creates charity websites for a living, takes photos and occasionally writes on his personal blog Firehound.
Joined Apr 2022
