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@epredota.bsky.social
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Chronically ill neurodivergent genderqueer Jewitch anarcho-communist + Certified Bluesky Elder (lol). Pronouns vary.
PP: Album cover of Ghost Of Cain by New Model Army
HP: 🏴‍☠️on 5bar gate.
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Yes. This image has been very helpful to me in upping my alt text game.
Image describing how to write alt text including: identity who; expression; description; colour; interesting features. The example given is a photo of “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on top of the capybara’s head.”
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Photo of a postcard reproduction of a 1908 Great Northern Railway poster. Central cartoony image shows a fat man with rosy cheeks, wearing a black hat, red scarf, blue jersey, white trousers, and blue knee high boots with green cuffs skipping down the beach with arms outstretched, smiling. In a forest Green section framing the image are the words “Skegness is SO bracing” in yellow all caps text, with the SO bigger than the rest.
October 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Urgent request for funds:
secure.actblue.com/donate/freet...
Urgent Request for Funds! A community member had their credible fear appointment at the ICE office yesterday and was told that he will need to go before an ICE Judge this Friday. His legal team believes that he will be denied his asylum claim and detained for deportation. Lawyers are requesting $1,500 in order to petition for a virtual hearing this Friday so that he can remain outside of ICE detention and leave the country without experiencing detention. Our goal is to raise $2,000 to pay the legal fee and for the return flight. Help support this community member to avoid detention as he navigates this rapidly changing situation. Send funds with the blue heart emoji in the note Venmo: @amornetwork Secure Act Blue: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freethemall
October 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Still from BBC 1980s children’s cartoon ‘Superted’ with queer-coded character Skeleton (who is a living skeleton) smiling with hands raised, wearing dark blue gloves.
July 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Of course the government and the NHS didn’t do anything. This is the sign up in DGRI *now*, more than five years into a pandemic that has been known to be airborne for at least five years. Utterly disgusting.
Tall floor standing notice reads from top to bottom (with associated icons, content of which is in square brackets): COVID SAFETY Please sanitise your hands before passing this point SOCIAL DISTANCE [2m] GREETING [don’t shake hands] CATCH IT BIN IT KILL IT [cough into a tissue]
July 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.
Two frames, one above the other. First frame: Drawing of two dogs sitting on a sofa. One says to the other, “I’m sad …tell me a joke.” The other one says, “okay… knock kn…” Second frame: Both dogs are now barking.
June 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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SCALP are reaching out for testimonies from people who have recently been visited at home by Police Scotland.
Black text on white background: [Title font] Do you have recent experience of Police Scotland coming to your door? [Plain text with red highlights] SCALP are developing guidance on your legal rights when the police come to your door. If you have experienced being *visited at home by the police*, *arrested from home*, or had your *home searched/raided* within the last 5 years, SCALP would like to hear from you. [Bold text] Please get in touch at activists_legal@protonmail.com [SCALP logo of stylised raised fist with green fill in broken handcuffs and SCALP in bold black text below in bottom right corner]
May 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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*Immigration raid
SPOT & STOP IMMIGRATION RAIDS information. (I will post detail in replies)
May 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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WHO guidance on COVID from last year that I don’t know of any government following; still applicable everywhere and for everyone. (With alt text)
Tweet from World Health Organisation 12/08/24 Protect yourself and your loved ones from #COVID19: Stay home if you are sick Test and contact your doctor for medical care Get vaccinated against COVID-19 & influenza, especially if you are in an at-risk group Ventilate Wear a mask around others. Blue image with yellow banner “YOUR HEALTH IS PRECIOUS” above white text: “Protect yourself and others by taking six simple steps, starting with getting all recommended doses of COVID 19 vaccine.” Below are six circular icons representing each of the six steps listed in the tweet.
May 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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With alt text.

Given the economic problems we know have arisen from giving ‘the top’ free rein, isn’t it time to try something different? Like, oh, I don’t know, socialism?
Image of Michael Foot giving a speech, no jacket, shirtsleeves rolled up, clearly impassioned. “We are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those i soluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of its initiative, I would answer, “To hell with them!” The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.” Michael Foot
March 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Mutual Aid: help my friend stay housed!

$1,715/$2,500 needed by 25th Feb, the pay-or-vacate date.

New $4,600 goal includes February rent, utility bills, and cat food for Gremlin.

Venmo @gardenparty33
PayPal @HOCSBeaconHill
Subject line: “Lex”

Donate and share!

Thank you.
Square image with dark blue background. Lex Fundraiser Update [red progress bar over aerial photo of countryside showing 37%] We’ve raised $1,715 of our $4,600 goal! New goal includes February rent, utility bills, and cat food for Gremlin. *We need to reach the $2,500 mark _by Tues, Feb 25, the pay-or-vacate deadline_* Venmo @gardenparty33 PayPal @HOCSBeaconHill Subject line: “Lex”
February 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?
A photograph of a white cat with a ginger stripe across its forehead sitting up like a human with its front paws limp at its sides, staring vacantly into space.
February 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Welcome to Bluesky. I’m so glad you’re here. One thing you can do to ensure more people can get your message is to add alt text to images before you post them.
Here are some resources that many find helpful:
1. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...
2. actuallyusefulai.com/alt/
3. Attached image
A helpful capybara giving simple guidelines for writing alt text
January 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Image with alt text:
Post from @LJIL_Leiden: Just published in the LJIL: ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’ by Elai Rettig, Shani Friedman and Benny Spanier. Click below to read it now! With a link to the article URL at cambridge.org
December 12, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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News article from 6th February 2024 with the date circled in read. Headline, underlined in red, reads: Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic. Subhead reads: “We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official at the World Health Organisation. Below is a photograph of a white woman with shoulder length brown hair with a centre parting, with her elbows on a table, clasping her hands together in front of her. She is the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove.
December 10, 2024 at 9:16 AM
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Four albums that dropped when you were in secondary school and defined your taste forever:
Album cover of “Prince Charming” by Adam and the Ants. A photo of Adam Ant from waist up, wearing his Dandy Highwayman outfit and make up, looking directly into the camera (and fabulous). Album cover of “The Ghost of Cain” by New Model Army. The back of a black leather jacket painted with snakes and words at the top, an oversize black handprint with lightning forking from its fingerprint in the middle, and NEW MODEL ARMY The Ghost of Cain at the bottom. Album cover of “The Hounds of Love” by Kate Bush. A photo of Kate Bush from the waist up, lying wrapped in lilac coloured organza with two Wiemeraners with their muzzles flopped on her torso and neck. (The Ninth Wave actually had more of an impact on me, but this side of the album cover is cuter.) Album cover of “Floodland” by the Sisters of Mercy. A black and white photo of a just past full moon in a clear dark sky over the ocean. Andrew Eldritch’s face looks out of the left hand foreground of the photo, wearing his signature black shades. Patricia Morrison, wearing her signature thick black eyeliner, looks directly at the viewer from the right hand background of the photo, with half of her face in shadow, as if emerging from the sky.
December 8, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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Please please please please please alt text your images and animated gifs!

If your problem is forgetting, you can set Bluesky to not let you post without.

If your problem is not knowing how, let the capybara help you.
Image showing how to write alt text using an example image: A capybara (who) looking relaxed (expression) in a hot spa (description). Yellow yuzu fruit (colour) are floating in the water (description) and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head (interesting feature).
December 2, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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without downloading any new pics where are you at mentally?
A fox glove puppet that has just been washed is lying on its back on top of a folded tea towel on top of an AGA hob cover. It looks bedraggled and unwell.
November 20, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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I do not like or share posts with images or videos that do not have alt text. If you do not know how to write alt text, this capybara will help you. Alt text is necessary for accessibility for people with visual impairments and stimulus processing issues. It is also just plain good manners.
[White text] WRITING ALT TEXT [Black text on different colour backgrounds] Identify Who. Expression. Description. Colour. Interesting features. [Image of capybara on left. Alt text for image on right, with phrases colour coded by what work they are doing on right] A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruit are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.
November 16, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Not my original work. Reposting to add alt text.
A photo of a small young white girl with bobbed brown hair (nearground) turning toward the camera with an evil smile, labelled BLUESKY, in front of a burning building (background) labelled X.
November 12, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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without downloading new pics, describe your gender in one image
A photograph of a snail wth a tiny pink flower behind its horns crossing a stone surface towards a bunch of tiny white flowers.
November 1, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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Found it!
A white block with a blue butterfly in the top left corner and the centered words “Celebrating 10M users 🎉” in small black text and “#157,887” in massive block text, with a little blue “BLUESKY ELDER CERTIFIED FIRAT 10%” seal over the bottom right of the number. In the bottom left of the white block is my user name and description, bottom right is “Joined June 25, 2023” in grey text. Around the white block is a black background, with white text underneath the white block saying “Thanks for being one of our first 10 million users.” in massive block text, with “Together, we’re rebuilding the social internet. We’re glad you’re here.” in small white text.
September 17, 2024 at 7:22 AM
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A tumblr post and reply both from alleycatboy: maybe i can gaslight myself into being okay wait this is just cognitive behavioural therapy
July 26, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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It’s usually coffee and walnut cake.
Photo of a two layer coffee and walnut cake with coffee buttercream and whole walnut decoration.
July 24, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Does this count? 😂

(Sorry, I had to: this is my favourite Venn diagram ever, and I take any and every opportunity to share it.)
A Venn diagram with Karl Marx in the left hand blue circle and Donna Haraway in the magenta right. Above Marx is “We are living in a material world”. Above Haraway is “I am a material girl”. An arrow points to the purple intersection of the diagram, labelling it Madonna.
July 24, 2024 at 8:19 AM