Mandai Baatl
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Mandai Baatl
@baatl.bsky.social
you're probably looking for @baatl.mastod.one

(profile pic: box art for Liquid Death Mountain Water)
Sounds like they ran into similar technical issues as @baatl.mastod.one (which hasn't functioned for months, and, frankly, is unlikely to ever work again)
I've made the difficult decision to turn off the US Politics Labeler. The linked post has more info about why and what's next.

I will shortly begin the process of removing the labeler's data from my server. If you want to run your own, the source code is linked in the article.
The fate of the US Politics Labeler | US Politics Labeler [OFFLINE]
I am not pleased to report I have made the difficult decision to power off the labeler, effective immediately. The decision comes after potentially weeks of it not functioning anyway, which I haven't...
whtwnd.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
sorry that the labeler has been down so much for the last couple weeks—just made a change on the server that should hopefully fix this
May 2, 2024 at 6:22 PM
looks like we're almost there, the delay is now under an hour
just bumped the minimum follower threshold up 150%, we'll see if that helps the autolabeler get caught up
sorry about this - the influx of new activity on Bluesky in the last week has caused increased delays in our label processing
April 19, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Mandai Baatl
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
April 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
just bumped the minimum follower threshold up 150%, we'll see if that helps the autolabeler get caught up
sorry about this - the influx of new activity on Bluesky in the last week has caused increased delays in our label processing
Uh, hello Brazil? 👀
April 15, 2024 at 10:43 PM
just noticed the @baatl.mastod.one autolabeling service has been down since Tuesday; just restarted it, looking into the root cause now
April 5, 2024 at 10:31 AM
just realized I forgot to `systemctl enable` the autolabeling service for @baatl.mastod.one, if anyone was wondering what was behind this morning's downtime
March 26, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Reposted by Mandai Baatl
those of us subbed to labels, this is what we see when folks don’t add alt-text to their images

so maybe start using it yeah?
March 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Reposted by Mandai Baatl
People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter.
www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...
How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
www.w3.org
March 25, 2024 at 9:57 PM
stuff like this is why I removed the term "extended characters" from the definition of Unicode Abuse
[first day as a waiter]

ME: may i take your order

CUSTOMER: two eggs scrambled and bacon on the side

ME: b
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c
sgeg o
n

CUSTOMER: thank you
March 25, 2024 at 10:11 PM
still working to reconcile lag with @baatl.mastod.one's automatic labeling against bsky's API throttling; for the time being, if you see a post without alt text that isn't labeled, it's either (a) the user doesn't have enough followers, or (b) I didn't set the minimum follower count high enough
March 23, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Reposted by Mandai Baatl
a good rule of thumb for adding alt text to your photos is that if you want to share a photo with everyone, make it accessible for everyone to share
March 20, 2024 at 10:58 PM
man i really hate it when images have bad alt text. wish someone would do something about that
March 19, 2024 at 12:13 PM