Alt text always depends on context. Imagine an icon of a computer printer. It could be used on a page of free icons. It could be on a school's computer lab site. Or it could be part of a button that allows you to print the current page. In each instance, the same icon would need different alt text.

I drew this, go read it!

Visually impaired gamers call for more accessible games dig.watch/updates/visu... #a11y

Who do I need to contact @ubisoft.com #MassiveEntertainment to get the premium currency that should have been included in my #Division2 ultimate edition months ago?

"Learn Accessibility" is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics. web.dev/learn/access...

Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines. The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy. But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk. Get 'em at SquidFacts.net

My pixel take on the uninhabited Sol system. #PixelArt #pixelorama

From the series "It's not me, it's you": "RRRUFFrrruff", oil on canvas, 12x12", 2025- $800(Cdn). #art

Another 4 hours today. Refining the right side. Getting closer to star time.

No nuclear!

“As we stand outside this courthouse, stepping into five weeks of trial, we know the legitimate right of journalists to do their job, to perform their vital role in our democracy, is at stake.” — Narwhal co-founder Carol Linnitt on our case against the RCMP: thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom/

"Canadian Landscape (camouflage)", oil on watercolour paper, 5 5/8 x 7", 2026- $200(Cdn) #art

Books don't turn kids into someone else. Books show them they don't have to deny who they really are.

Hooray!

They're ensuring they have a place to hide out in international waters, away from any laws, while they kill the rest of us off.

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Pieces of Candy

Lest we think of bad AI/tech policy as an Evan Solomon thing, Mark (“I govern in econometrics”) Carney — his personal friend and running partner — appointed him to a ministry despite his past record of public corruption. Solomon, and X, are Carney’s scandals.

Yep. There's a lot of stuff that leads to a U.S. takeover of Canada (either directly, or through a client state like Vichy); one of those things is a Canadian federal government that won't stand up for basic human decency.

In reality, this is the *easiest* tech/Canada-US policy challenge this government will face in 2026, for exactly the reason that it involves clear harms against children. Nobody wants to be seen as anti-child or pro-child abuse. Or at least they didn’t before Trump/Musk.

#GoodNews on #biodiversity, because we all need some

COVID killed >100,000 people per year over the course of 2023 and 2024 in the US alone. The level of indifference to this massive annual toll among both the public and the majority of my public health colleagues is stunning. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hello #Toronto! This petition is being presented on Monday and they're so close to their goal of 1000 signatures... but I bet we can do better than that! Please sign this call-to-action right now! And please share! #ToPoli #CleanAirForAll

Please read this article. Thank you, if you do.

I more & more have to admit that one of my biggest short comings in my art business is that I can't get behind the socials /marketing aspects. Bsky is decent but I can't get any footing on any other site. While I usually wouldn't recommend focusing too much on numbers, growing audience does matter

If you read a translated book, or poem, or anything, and the words move you or the prose excites you: remember the translator. Because those words are theirs. The original text is the plan. It lays out the structure and the goal, but the translator makes the choices that get you there.

It's been a long, horrible time in games media, but finding out about this put a giant smile on my face: bsky.app/profile/game...

Should be bigger news that the bureau chief of Toronto Sun is celebrating an unarmed woman being executed in the street

Good video with @charalanahzard.bsky.social on X generating child sexual abuse material and non-consensual undressing pictures and how the mainstream US media have almost all failed to cover the story. youtu.be/p71qQKmIGhQ

I know a group of Game Developers with threat of deportation from USA. Are any games journalists interested in being connected up?

Come to Canada!

this would be a great story for any budding games journos, kingsmaker game dev seems to be defending pedophilic image generation

Final Fantasy 4 didn’t start with Cecil realizing he was a coward for being complicit in a genocide for people to claim video games only just started to get political

My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.

It’s marketed as an esports display but this is secretly an amazing choice for retro style games on PC and emulation like Mame with variable refresh rates. Very impressive showing.

The data is in: bike infrastructure follows the logic of induced demand just as car infrastructure does. If you build it, they will come. 🚲🚲🚲 (Also fun to see a graphic from @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social in a US-based blog discussing a UK-based study.) usa.streetsblog.org/2026/01/09/c...

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

I made this 8 months ago, but it seems to gain relevance daily. For the "Borders & Edges" series: "(everybody loves a) Parade", oil on vintage map, 10 1/2 x 14", 2025 (private collection) #art

How does SARS-CoV-2 infection lead to dysregulation of the immune system in severe and #LongCovid? An unanticipated mechanism described @pnas.org with depletion of specific immune T and dendritic cells, open-access www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised" "Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid"

This is a very good listen. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

More than meets the eye!

The housing crisis is affecting every community in Ontario - today I learned how groups in St. Thomas are working hard on solutions. Grace Cafe and the Annex are fighting the homelessness and opioid crises with compassion by providing free meals and social services for mental health and addictions.

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed-if all records told the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became truth” -1984

It's about time some people hit a red line.

BC’s own Electoral Reform Committee recommended a Citizens’ Assembly. That is a serious democratic process that deserves action, not delay. If you want a voting system where results actually reflect voters, now is the moment to speak up.

I’ve seen a lot of exceptionally smart peers buy this idea without interrogating it. If these models could be trained solely on even medium sized data sets, the consumption race between the big players wouldn’t be happening. There are 2-3 companies that own an amount of assets that even gets close

2026 will be the first time, in 16 years, there's only going to be a municipal election (there's usually also a Provincial election). In preparation for what's sure to be a non stop buffet of election year nonsense, check out this really well researched and thoughtful edition of The Incline. #HamOnt

Great to hear this!