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Lisa The Riveter
@lisatheriveter.bsky.social
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She/her. Bi. Textile queen. AFOL. PNW. Low vision/blind. Immune-suppressed. Chronically ill. Extremely sweary. Alt text for everyone! #alttext for my tutorials to learn how.

New here, long online.
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Still recovering from travel, but my @oishinythings.bsky.social necklace went with me to Rockland, Maine for the 78th Annual Lobster Festival!

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Me smiling in sunny Rockland, Maine, wearing a black tank top and a silver torque necklace with a wire-wrapped red labradorite pendant
August 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Tree crew is moving on to the stand by the road now. They don’t expect to block access, and think they’ll be done by around 2:30.

Best part of using the same co for 10+ years? They say they love working in my forest bc it’s fun. ❤️❤️❤️
My forest 😍😍😍 Not an area we’re working on today, but we’ve done this part in the past. That cedar on the front left edge is about 7 feet from the back wall of the house. I call it Grandmother Cedar (Grandpa Cedar is in the front). I do leave it alone forest management. We only take out dangerous (to buildings/people) trees, leave habitat stumps, and let the debris stay to build soil as much as possible. We have a LOT of fauna living in our forest - just yesterday had deer foraging in the front yard and last year got to watch a family of barred owls grow up in one of the habitat stumps out back!
July 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Orphaned socks make excellent yarn bags! This one is for my traveling socks, an ongoing project that lives in my backpack and gets a lot of rough handling. Nobody likes untangling yarn. (This sock is a dimensional traveler. No one in this house had this pair and we don’t go to laundromats! 👀)
A little blue sock encases a ball of yarn, preventing tangles.
July 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Electric done, tree removal in progress! Little bit of vehicle shuffling needed but that was expected and no big deal.
My double oven, now with touchscreen active, proving that replacement module is operational!
July 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Look what my mom found!
A very amateur small watercolor painting of a stand of river grasses against a hazy grey-blue sky. From an art kayak trip with my dad around 2000. We went out in kayaks, with a little packet of watercolor paper and paintbox, and painted what we saw, using the water we were floating in. One of my favorite memories! Dad volunteered with that group for years.
July 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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@premeemohamed.com I loved The Butcher of the Forest! Staring pensively at my backyard.
The forest that begins 7 feet from my house, in hazy dappled summer morning light.
July 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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You too can grab a beauty like this! 😍
A closeup of me wearing my red labradorite pendant on a silver snake choker necklace.
July 16, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Want one too? Here’s the package information.
Packaging for my art case from Doodle & Create.
July 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Yesterday I took donations to a local thrift shop and looked for art supplies. I found this adorable set - a supplies box/easel THAT I CAN COLOR. 😍 I’ll seal it before it gets used forever.

Scored some perfect organizing bins to impose order on fiber/yarn chaos too!

#art #artsupplies #thrift
A nice big wooden art supplies box/easel, covered in line art cute cartoons. Birds, flowers, fruit, all kinds ready to be colored in! Inside the box are sketch pads, crayons, markers, colored pencils, and other art supplies.
July 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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My in-laws are in Kerrville. They’re fine, but the trailer park behind their house (double wide trailer) is completely gone. We were planning a trip to visit and renting a cabin in that park.
View through the backyard fence at my in-laws’ place. Where a trailer park used to be, there is only brown water and downed trees.
July 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I did some DIY on the keychain @irisflorafawn.bsky.social sent with my bracelet! It was too pretty to just be a zipper pull on my knitting project bag. Now I have matching earrings and a cool addition that I can wear with all sorts of other Pride jewelry in my collection! 😍🤩😎
Bonus keychain came with my custom bracelet! Custom Bi Pride dangles with semiprecious round beads and silver findings and rainbow heart dangle. Shown with maker’s business card and starry moon tulle packaging I turned the dangles into matching earrings with my very modest jewelry skills and small cache of findings. Heart dangle added to rainbow studs for an asymmetrical earrings look! The dangle just slips over the post, so I can use it with other studs or wear it as a pendant, etc.
July 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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My custom Bi Pride bracelet from @irisflorafawn.bsky.social is here! With bonus matching keychain!

Awesome experience ordering and it fits perfectly. I love it so much! No doubt I’ll be getting more from Iris and you should too. 😍🤩
Custom Bi Pride bracelet with semiprecious round beads and silver findings Custom Bi Pride bracelet with semiprecious round beads and silver findings Bonus keychain to match! Custom Bi Pride dangles with semiprecious round beads and silver findings and rainbow heart dangle. Shown with maker’s business card and starry moon tulle packaging Bonus keychain to match! Custom Bi Pride dangles with semiprecious round beads and silver findings and rainbow heart dangle. Shown with maker’s business card and starry moon tulle packaging
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Yeah, there’s the outfit for Sunday’s Seattle Pride March.
Charcoal grey Fuck Respectability Politics, floofy red tutu, tall rainbow socks Working guillotine pendant necklace and iridescent dagger earrings Bi Pride flag and red with white polka dots Rosie the Riveter headscarf. Both await ironing. Newly named pendant, “Not One More Drop of Ours”
June 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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My fashion has a theme, lol! Pendant arrived today from @oishinythings.bsky.social , necklace vintage from my late grandmother.
Red labradorite pendant wrapped with fine silver wire, on a silver snake-style choker necklace Red labradorite pendant wrapped with fine silver wire
June 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Yesterday I replaced the tattered handles on my favorite thrifted tote bag. Tres chic now! #mending #femme #fashion
A fabric tote bag with tattered handles. Fabric is a print of white tropical flowers on red background The same bag renewed! Now with black pleather handles clipped to gold grommets because fashion.
June 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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@oishinythings.bsky.social It’s beautiful! 😍😍😍
My new pendant arrived! A shimmery red labradorite tear drop wrapped in fine silver wire.
June 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Supplies! Fine and broad fountain pens, pencils in assorted hardnesses, erasers, assorted paintbrushes.
Watercolor paper pads in large and small and a big watercolor palette in many colors. Supplies! Assorted sizes paintbrushes, pens, pencils, erasers.
June 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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One of my watercolor instruction books! Details in alt text.
Book titled Watercolor for the artistically undiscovered by Thacher Hurd and John Cassidy. It includes both glossy instructions pages and watercolor paper pages so you can do the lessons and experiments. I thrifted mine so some of the early pages are partially used. I don’t mind! I can still use them for pen and ink detail and other practice and I’ve got a separate watercolor paper pad. Sample of a practice page with various watercolor swatches Sample of an unworked practice page
June 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Acrylic, by me, ~2015.

A mashup of Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Nightmare Before Christmas. Paint and Sip class with friends. I was at the back of the room and saw the moon and stars as smeared orbs rather than the dashed technique of Van Gogh. I love it so much.
A mashup of Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington depicted as a stick figure stands atop a curled mountaintop silhouetted against the full moon.
June 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Alt text tutorial! Got an image with text? Here’s how to make alt text in seconds!

It took me about 10 seconds to make those screenshots, and another minute or so to add the alt text captions.

Feel free to share widely!

#alttext #blind #esl #lowvision
Add your image to your post. Click on Alt. Click on the alt icon in the bottom right of your image. Then click on Copy All. Paste in the Alt Text box. Tada! Your text is now in the text box in a format that screen readers and the Translate utility can read! Look it over to see if it needs any corrections, and add any additional information or description you think it needs. For instance, if there’s a graph to describe or a visual component that adds context.
June 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Slide from ACIP meeting with alt text, summary of benefits and harms for COVID-19 vaccines
Summary Benefits and Harms • 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccination is effective in preventing hospitalizations and critical outcomes from COVID-19 in adults. - Data from prior vaccine formulations show that vaccine effectiveness has been similar across age groups. • COVID-19 vaccines have been continuously monitored through robust safety surveillance • Safety surveillance identified and characterized the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. - No other risks confirmed in the current U.S.-licensed vaccines except those seen with other vaccines (e.g., local and systemic reactions, allergic reactions). • Pregnant women are at increased risk of severe disease and adverse pregnancy outcomes from COVID-19. • Maternal vaccination has been shown to protect infants <6 months of age from severe outcomes of COVID-19.
June 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Changed! For reference, on iPad.
Screenshot of iPad utilities app showing text replacement shortcuts.
June 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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@irisflorafawn.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Probably my daily carry socks!
A pair of socks being knitted
June 19, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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I usually have several plain socks for donations being knitted. One on the couch, one in my daily carry bag, etc. I can never remember what sizes (number of stitches) they are from the first to the second. So I made stitch markers in the usual sizes! Got the number beads but had everything else 🧶🧦
A sock being knitted. A stitch marker with number beads reading 72 is visible, indicating that the sock is being knitted over 72 stitches.
June 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM