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What's alt text? Why is it important on Bluesky? How do I write it? Where am I? What's going on?
Alt text 101 for Bluesky | Digital Philosophy by Manning Krull
Hi! You may be here because I or someone else sent you this link in response to a conversation about alt text on Bluesky. Welcome! This is a short article about alt text, its importance, and how to wr...
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If I've liked your hilarious meme or beautiful picture but not reposted it, it might be because you didn't include alt text
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And there's your side road zebras being possible in Wales from 11th March this year.
www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...
www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...
The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations and General Directions 2026
This Instrument amends the Traffic Signs Regulations 2016 and the Traffic Signs General Directions 2016, together titled the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (“the 2016 Instrument...
www.legislation.gov.uk
February 10, 2026 at 3:48 PM
And there's your side road zebras being possible in Wales from 11th March this year.
www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...
www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/35/...
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There's a super-viral post going around on here with replies and quotes disabled that is just a rip-off of someone else's image from more than a decade ago. See old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinte... for what *might* be the original source but it's hard to say.
Tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but it looks like its giant and destroying the town
Posted in r/mildlyinteresting by u/AhoffNYC • 4,722 points and 333 comments
old.reddit.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:10 PM
There's a super-viral post going around on here with replies and quotes disabled that is just a rip-off of someone else's image from more than a decade ago. See old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinte... for what *might* be the original source but it's hard to say.
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Sound on, timeline cleanse
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Sound on, timeline cleanse
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all the people who tell me that complaining about substack is censorship because they're just supporting free speech never seem to be able to tell me how substack censoring sex workers fits into that, because it's just so routine
February 10, 2026 at 8:34 PM
all the people who tell me that complaining about substack is censorship because they're just supporting free speech never seem to be able to tell me how substack censoring sex workers fits into that, because it's just so routine
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I am absolutely not kidding
Discord's new age verification rules got you down? Allow me to suggest an alternative: Internet Relay Chat
Launched in 1988, IRC was created by and for computer nerds, and it won't hold your hand but it also doesn't want to see your face.
www.pcgamer.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I am absolutely not kidding
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it is difficult to do, but every now and again, people overestimate how stupid the general public is.
have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
it is difficult to do, but every now and again, people overestimate how stupid the general public is.
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A £240m defence contract without tender.
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Zack Polanski pressures Wes Streeting over Palantir after Mandelson texts released
ZACK Polanski has piled fresh pressure on Wes Streeting over Palantir’s NHS contracts after the Health Secretary’s newly-released text messages…
www.thenational.scot
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A £240m defence contract without tender.
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
Their fingerprints all over our health care data.
A meeting in the USA but without any minutes.
Everything around Palantir stinks.
www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
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the most anti-LGBT+ government since Thatcher is also the government with the most links to paedophiles since Thatcher. what an odd coincidence that requires no further thought or inspection
BREAKING | Starmer’s paedophile-linked peer and former comms chief quits Labour Party
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Starmer’s paedophile-linked peer and former comms chief quits Labour Party
Matthew Doyle has apologised for his past association with a paedophile councillor Sean Morton
trib.al
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
the most anti-LGBT+ government since Thatcher is also the government with the most links to paedophiles since Thatcher. what an odd coincidence that requires no further thought or inspection
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
I remember when What's Hot was a popular feed and you only needed 10 likes to show up in it. I had What's Mid pinned for a while which was everything with 3 to 9 likes
February 10, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I remember when What's Hot was a popular feed and you only needed 10 likes to show up in it. I had What's Mid pinned for a while which was everything with 3 to 9 likes
Replies show up in Following for people on the default settings which is probably what helps there. Discover seems to work on a combination of global likes and follower network engagement plus some algo magic about topics and explicit preferences from the more/less like this buttons, so hard to game
February 10, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Replies show up in Following for people on the default settings which is probably what helps there. Discover seems to work on a combination of global likes and follower network engagement plus some algo magic about topics and explicit preferences from the more/less like this buttons, so hard to game
Although if you were press officer of the Labour party you probably would have worked with Doyle, making you paedophile-linked-peer-linked and thus the next domino in line to resign aa part of the desperate scramble to keep Starmer's head above the rapidly rising water
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Although if you were press officer of the Labour party you probably would have worked with Doyle, making you paedophile-linked-peer-linked and thus the next domino in line to resign aa part of the desperate scramble to keep Starmer's head above the rapidly rising water
And Starmer's former comms chief, who Starmer ennobled only a few weeks ago, was also pals with the nonce, so you can see why she might have thought that hanging around with a nonce was ok given senior Labour peers were ok with it. Which I suppose goes back to Sinan's question
February 10, 2026 at 10:33 PM
And Starmer's former comms chief, who Starmer ennobled only a few weeks ago, was also pals with the nonce, so you can see why she might have thought that hanging around with a nonce was ok given senior Labour peers were ok with it. Which I suppose goes back to Sinan's question
PDG is like Mandelson except there's no evidence she was passing her nonce friend sensitive market information and government secrets, and her nonce friend wasn't pals with half the billionaires in the world. Not great judgement on her part but not the degree of sleaziness that Mandy exhibited
February 10, 2026 at 10:27 PM
PDG is like Mandelson except there's no evidence she was passing her nonce friend sensitive market information and government secrets, and her nonce friend wasn't pals with half the billionaires in the world. Not great judgement on her part but not the degree of sleaziness that Mandy exhibited
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genuinely someone in labour has sent round a memo like ‘can you get rid of all the people associated with paedophiles now, games up’
February 10, 2026 at 10:11 PM
genuinely someone in labour has sent round a memo like ‘can you get rid of all the people associated with paedophiles now, games up’
It wasn't intended as criticism, just pointing out that likes and quote posts on Bluesky don't have the effect on visibility that they used to on Twitter. Just share the stuff you want to share however you want to share it
February 10, 2026 at 10:19 PM
It wasn't intended as criticism, just pointing out that likes and quote posts on Bluesky don't have the effect on visibility that they used to on Twitter. Just share the stuff you want to share however you want to share it
Why are you insulting me again? And where have I made any claim that parents should helicopter their children 24/7?
February 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Why are you insulting me again? And where have I made any claim that parents should helicopter their children 24/7?
And most kids can't get drugs. Those that can aren't stopped by drugs being illegal. Making the internet illegal for children isn't going to stop motivated kids from getting on the internet, but it does make life harder for everyone else as well as handing more power to gatekeeper corporations
February 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM
And most kids can't get drugs. Those that can aren't stopped by drugs being illegal. Making the internet illegal for children isn't going to stop motivated kids from getting on the internet, but it does make life harder for everyone else as well as handing more power to gatekeeper corporations
What exactly is "neo-liberal" about noting that parents already have plenty of tools to control internet access and so there's no justification for further legislation that inflicts mandatory corporate surveillance on all adult internet users?
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
What exactly is "neo-liberal" about noting that parents already have plenty of tools to control internet access and so there's no justification for further legislation that inflicts mandatory corporate surveillance on all adult internet users?
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This is some joy right here.
February 10, 2026 at 6:36 AM
This is some joy right here.
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When you purchase the audiobook of my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster between now and Feb. 12, ✨ 100 PERCENT ✨ of the purchase price goes to BINC, the nonprofit that helps booksellers who are having a tough time.
I love this audiobook. And BINC. It's a win-win!
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libro.fm
February 10, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Amazing news!
When you purchase the audiobook of my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster between now and Feb. 12, ✨ 100 PERCENT ✨ of the purchase price goes to BINC, the nonprofit that helps booksellers who are having a tough time.
I love this audiobook. And BINC. It's a win-win!
libro.fm/binc
When you purchase the audiobook of my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster between now and Feb. 12, ✨ 100 PERCENT ✨ of the purchase price goes to BINC, the nonprofit that helps booksellers who are having a tough time.
I love this audiobook. And BINC. It's a win-win!
libro.fm/binc
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This is a throng of yellow tangs hanging out together just a few feet from the ocean shore.
#fish #nature #photography #marinelife #love #yellow #maui #hawaii #bluesky #goodnight #peace #nokings #vacay
#fish #nature #photography #marinelife #love #yellow #maui #hawaii #bluesky #goodnight #peace #nokings #vacay
February 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
This is a throng of yellow tangs hanging out together just a few feet from the ocean shore.
#fish #nature #photography #marinelife #love #yellow #maui #hawaii #bluesky #goodnight #peace #nokings #vacay
#fish #nature #photography #marinelife #love #yellow #maui #hawaii #bluesky #goodnight #peace #nokings #vacay
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I, too, view every day I'm not called on to resign from my job a triumph.
me when i shit myself in public but the next day i successfully do it all in the toilet
February 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
I, too, view every day I'm not called on to resign from my job a triumph.