I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement

25.6.21

Fuck xmas

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

A cogent and well-written reminder to log off, touch grass and experience the world.

holy shit I’ve seen the Muppet Christmas Carol 2,000 times but this is the first time I’ve noticed this sound effect, which my husband noticed and we’ve watched on repeat 8 times and are crying laughing

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

Of course not. It’s a holiday.

If your complaint of blusky is mainly that its "boring" compared to Twitter then I strongly suggest u rlly think about all the time u waste endlessly scrolling thru so much bullshit on that site. Please learn to not always be on social media 24/7.

I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.

It's feasting month here in the US so here is my comic Soul Food Wars. Black kids at a culinary school in Charleston learning about Soul food. Only available in my shop! ko-fi.com/sarahamackli...

早いけどのせるね〜 ハッピバースデーヴィクトル！！！🎂🫶🫶🫶🎉🎉💕💕⛸️

hualian as a classical painting, the swing ✨ #hualian #tgcf #天官赐福 #xielian #huacheng

I know it's Christmas Eve, but an Ontario animal sanctuary (pet pigs, horses, etc) just had their water tank system fail. It's going to cost over $3000 to fix it, and it's an emergency situation (the animals have to have water). Please donate/share if you can: www.ralphysretreat.ca

For the record: -disabling grok & third party collaborators doesn't work, the edit button is still there -Glaze/Nightshade doesn't work -posting gifs/mp4s instead of stills is futile, they will no doubt update that -dont forget selfies/IRL pics can be edited & can be easily used to harass you

I’ve been thinking about how electroshock therapy was once touted as a cure for mental illness because of the way it rewired the brain There were justifiable outcries against it Yet here we are, with an all ages access ECT machine people inflict upon themselves, eagerly, multiple times a day

I swear to god, every Malt-o-Meal generic cereal name sounds like old-timer slang for gay people. You can’t tell me no one in the 1970s wasn’t referring to their gay neighbors as the “marshmallow mateys”

In our actual cyberpunk dystopia, there will remain in the dark nooks and crannies of the world machines which are cognitohazards people must avoid. Young people told "if you see one, don't fucking talk to it. Don't ask it any questions. It will drive you mad and get you to kill yourself."

One of my roomies in Philly was an old school Piney and he once said "Living in the Pine Barrens is like, 'meet me at the haunted abandoned plane fuselage. No, not that one the other haunted abandoned plane fuselage'

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻‍♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻‍♂️

(guy watching House for the first time) when are they going to start construction

WB: What do you have planned for Batman 2? Tim Burton: We open on a newborn baby boy WB: Aww TB: No. The baby is ugly. He kills and eats a house cat while it's still alive. His parents try to kill him in his crib, but to Gotham's woe, they fail WB: ... TB: Also it's a Christmas movie

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

Poor lonely thing

多印了日文版的⋯⋯🥰

日語版連載結束恭喜🎉 這兩年來看著越來越多新的日本讀者在推特上出現，每個人都會發表很多自己的心得還有想法，我都偷偷看得很開心😳 #svsss #mxtx

lmao

there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food

拿到了😍

Okay, this is cool as fuck.

Carl Safina has a bunch of examples of how commonly animals go to humans for help in his book on animal culture.

Bari Weiss: finally, I have the ultimate power to keep this critical 60 minutes segment from ever seeing the light of day Canada:

me:

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

I like to imagine that there is a rivalry between two top ham-sniffers: one, a meticulous keeper of precise traditions, the other a brash bad-boy with a colossal nose.

I once ended a particularly fraught bulletin by just slumping down and collapsing onto the desk in relief. And the director reminded me I was still visible on the wide shot.

I keep hearing that folk who don't use AI will be at a competitive disadvantage compared to those who do I wonder how long before that flips completely, and there's a big market for people who still have basic creative and research skills

Imagine being a cyber security expert and having to explain to grown people that no, actually "Security by Obscurity" won't stop children from figuring out every possible nook and bolthole past their hamfisted social media block. Imagine explaining how this is going to have systemic repercussions.

The fact nobody has resigned from cbs is telling

Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming

Begging dems to be as morally clear-eyed on trans issues as the liberal spice company

this is the main reason i’m so pessimistic for the oligarch capture of tiktok in the us. have seen a bunch of posts being like “well they’re gonna fuck it up and users will flee” and while there’s plenty of evidence for the 1st claim, you have to square the 2nd claim with ongoing twitter usage. so.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Do they know how depressing this ad is?

‘It’s not a part time job.’ Oof. Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.