Madison Rodriguez
@maddylelu.bsky.social
she/they • 25 • jewish • queer • iconic • dracula freak
disability & chronic illness advocate
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disability & chronic illness advocate
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Reminder that the best thing you can do to support open and free information is to USE YOUR LIBRARY #booksky #librarysky #diversebooksky #supportyourlocallibrary #diversebooks #libraries
January 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Reminder that the best thing you can do to support open and free information is to USE YOUR LIBRARY #booksky #librarysky #diversebooksky #supportyourlocallibrary #diversebooks #libraries
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hey!
Fantasy Magazine is currently open to submissions from BIPOC writers (today through Jan 25th)
send us your fantastic stories!
full guidelines here (PLEASE read the full guidelines before submitting)
Fantasy Magazine is currently open to submissions from BIPOC writers (today through Jan 25th)
send us your fantastic stories!
full guidelines here (PLEASE read the full guidelines before submitting)
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updated January 22, 2025
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January 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
hey!
Fantasy Magazine is currently open to submissions from BIPOC writers (today through Jan 25th)
send us your fantastic stories!
full guidelines here (PLEASE read the full guidelines before submitting)
Fantasy Magazine is currently open to submissions from BIPOC writers (today through Jan 25th)
send us your fantastic stories!
full guidelines here (PLEASE read the full guidelines before submitting)
I know it’s easier said than done to not stress too much right now, but please keep in mind all the setbacks we’re going to face in terms of healthcare, and how damaging for your health a dysregulated nervous system can be. Please do everything you can to prioritize your wellbeing, health, & peace!
January 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I know it’s easier said than done to not stress too much right now, but please keep in mind all the setbacks we’re going to face in terms of healthcare, and how damaging for your health a dysregulated nervous system can be. Please do everything you can to prioritize your wellbeing, health, & peace!
Some helpful info to have should you encounter a, ahem, roman saluter
January 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Some helpful info to have should you encounter a, ahem, roman saluter
Yes, it’s very hard to organize and educate when we’re being censored on social media, but no, IT IS NOT OK to misuse the captions feature to circumvent that. It makes your content explicitly inaccessible to people that rely on accurate captions -
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Yes, it’s very hard to organize and educate when we’re being censored on social media, but no, IT IS NOT OK to misuse the captions feature to circumvent that. It makes your content explicitly inaccessible to people that rely on accurate captions -
Hey diva 💕
Please remember to at least take a break from doomscrolling today to take care of yourself. Hydrate, eat, take your meds. It’s natural to feel radicalized more than ever right now, but you can’t pour from an empty cup, and you certainly can’t start a revolution without fueling your body.
Please remember to at least take a break from doomscrolling today to take care of yourself. Hydrate, eat, take your meds. It’s natural to feel radicalized more than ever right now, but you can’t pour from an empty cup, and you certainly can’t start a revolution without fueling your body.
January 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hey diva 💕
Please remember to at least take a break from doomscrolling today to take care of yourself. Hydrate, eat, take your meds. It’s natural to feel radicalized more than ever right now, but you can’t pour from an empty cup, and you certainly can’t start a revolution without fueling your body.
Please remember to at least take a break from doomscrolling today to take care of yourself. Hydrate, eat, take your meds. It’s natural to feel radicalized more than ever right now, but you can’t pour from an empty cup, and you certainly can’t start a revolution without fueling your body.
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January 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I’ve seen a lot of discourse on whether Nessarose will gain the ability to walk in #Wicked: Part 2, and whether or not that would be problematic. One thing I’ve seen multiple times is people comparing Nessa being granted the ability to walk with Elphaba’s potential “de-greenifying” by the wizard.
December 6, 2024 at 5:24 PM
I’ve seen a lot of discourse on whether Nessarose will gain the ability to walk in #Wicked: Part 2, and whether or not that would be problematic. One thing I’ve seen multiple times is people comparing Nessa being granted the ability to walk with Elphaba’s potential “de-greenifying” by the wizard.
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The words "CEO" and "healthcare" should never be in the same sentence.
December 4, 2024 at 9:44 PM
The words "CEO" and "healthcare" should never be in the same sentence.
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Spotify: March was your Francophile Cowgirl Crush Punk phase
Me: Uh huh that’s right
Spotify: In July you had a Surf Princess Girl Math Autoerotic-core moment
Me: I recall that, yes
Me: Uh huh that’s right
Spotify: In July you had a Surf Princess Girl Math Autoerotic-core moment
Me: I recall that, yes
December 4, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Spotify: March was your Francophile Cowgirl Crush Punk phase
Me: Uh huh that’s right
Spotify: In July you had a Surf Princess Girl Math Autoerotic-core moment
Me: I recall that, yes
Me: Uh huh that’s right
Spotify: In July you had a Surf Princess Girl Math Autoerotic-core moment
Me: I recall that, yes
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face card never declines
November 27, 2024 at 12:03 AM
face card never declines
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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
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Hi @bsky.app👋 We are DRA!
We want our state to be one in which the rights of all people are respected. All people have the right to be equal members of their communities & to live with self-determination.
Visit: disabilityrightsar.org
#DisabilityRightsAR #Advocacy #Arkansas #DisabilityRights
We want our state to be one in which the rights of all people are respected. All people have the right to be equal members of their communities & to live with self-determination.
Visit: disabilityrightsar.org
#DisabilityRightsAR #Advocacy #Arkansas #DisabilityRights
November 19, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Hi @bsky.app👋 We are DRA!
We want our state to be one in which the rights of all people are respected. All people have the right to be equal members of their communities & to live with self-determination.
Visit: disabilityrightsar.org
#DisabilityRightsAR #Advocacy #Arkansas #DisabilityRights
We want our state to be one in which the rights of all people are respected. All people have the right to be equal members of their communities & to live with self-determination.
Visit: disabilityrightsar.org
#DisabilityRightsAR #Advocacy #Arkansas #DisabilityRights
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PLEASE run for your library board. A lot of bad actors are on library boards because they seek to control and diminish the library, not support it. Some boards refuse to hire qualified librarians and seek to deprofessionalize the field. It won’t change unless you join!
I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚
November 14, 2024 at 5:19 PM
PLEASE run for your library board. A lot of bad actors are on library boards because they seek to control and diminish the library, not support it. Some boards refuse to hire qualified librarians and seek to deprofessionalize the field. It won’t change unless you join!
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Good thread on what alt-text is and why it’s so important #Disability #DisabilityRights #Accessibility
A brief thread on alt-text.
Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7
Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7
November 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Good thread on what alt-text is and why it’s so important #Disability #DisabilityRights #Accessibility
Had my new patient appt with a new PCP today and she’s amazing. I didn’t realize how helpful a good primary can actually be!!! I haven’t left a doctor’s visit feeling this good in a long time, if ever
November 18, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Had my new patient appt with a new PCP today and she’s amazing. I didn’t realize how helpful a good primary can actually be!!! I haven’t left a doctor’s visit feeling this good in a long time, if ever
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I will literally never get over how many of the loudest "disability justice" voices on this site don't wear masks. You only care about helping disabled people when it doesn't inconvenience you.
November 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
I will literally never get over how many of the loudest "disability justice" voices on this site don't wear masks. You only care about helping disabled people when it doesn't inconvenience you.
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hi everyone! abortion is a disability justice issue.
November 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
hi everyone! abortion is a disability justice issue.
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As a person who can be forgetful but who also wants to uphold disability justice whenever I can, I wanted to share how you can change your settings so that Bluesky won’t allow you to post until all your images have alt text. Alt text doesn’t have to be a big ordeal!
November 17, 2024 at 4:02 PM
As a person who can be forgetful but who also wants to uphold disability justice whenever I can, I wanted to share how you can change your settings so that Bluesky won’t allow you to post until all your images have alt text. Alt text doesn’t have to be a big ordeal!
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The discourse over twitter & leaving vs staying is getting truly goofy in some directions.
Twitter is not a *place* ffs. Twitter without the people is nothing. We have 100% of the power over whether twitter has value or not.
When we leave, we're not ceding ground? We're taking the ground with us.
Twitter is not a *place* ffs. Twitter without the people is nothing. We have 100% of the power over whether twitter has value or not.
When we leave, we're not ceding ground? We're taking the ground with us.
November 17, 2024 at 6:14 AM
The discourse over twitter & leaving vs staying is getting truly goofy in some directions.
Twitter is not a *place* ffs. Twitter without the people is nothing. We have 100% of the power over whether twitter has value or not.
When we leave, we're not ceding ground? We're taking the ground with us.
Twitter is not a *place* ffs. Twitter without the people is nothing. We have 100% of the power over whether twitter has value or not.
When we leave, we're not ceding ground? We're taking the ground with us.
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Glad to see more people from the old place posting here, it'd be great if you took few seconds to go into your profile and selected:
Settings > Accessibility > Alt text
Require alt text before posting ✔️
Cheers!
Settings > Accessibility > Alt text
Require alt text before posting ✔️
Cheers!
![Screenshot from Bluesky app Settings tab:
< Accessibility Settings
Alt text
• Require alt text before posting [selected]
• Display larger alt text badges](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bla6mk4bzznwlfc34xrkq724/bafkreihiuw6wrmamhg6h7js6myamxrplukxriyf2ol4tjid5qswufmw6m4@jpeg)
October 30, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Glad to see more people from the old place posting here, it'd be great if you took few seconds to go into your profile and selected:
Settings > Accessibility > Alt text
Require alt text before posting ✔️
Cheers!
Settings > Accessibility > Alt text
Require alt text before posting ✔️
Cheers!
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PSA for newbies:
Please include ALT text on your images.
This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people.
Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people.
Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered.
Thanks!
Please include ALT text on your images.
This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people.
Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people.
Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered.
Thanks!
November 16, 2024 at 12:18 PM
PSA for newbies:
Please include ALT text on your images.
This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people.
Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people.
Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered.
Thanks!
Please include ALT text on your images.
This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people.
Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people.
Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered.
Thanks!
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I should have added: If you need help remembering to write alt text, Bluesky has a reminder function in Settings.
You do need to turn it on to use it, but many folks say it helps.
You do need to turn it on to use it, but many folks say it helps.
November 17, 2024 at 7:03 AM
I should have added: If you need help remembering to write alt text, Bluesky has a reminder function in Settings.
You do need to turn it on to use it, but many folks say it helps.
You do need to turn it on to use it, but many folks say it helps.
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Incidentally, all of what I've explained above is why
a. AI alt text will not save us.
b. Copy/pasting the same alt text for an image every time you use it with no edits is rarely appropriate.
c. Storing a single alt text option in an image's metadata is unhelpful.
a. AI alt text will not save us.
b. Copy/pasting the same alt text for an image every time you use it with no edits is rarely appropriate.
c. Storing a single alt text option in an image's metadata is unhelpful.
October 29, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Incidentally, all of what I've explained above is why
a. AI alt text will not save us.
b. Copy/pasting the same alt text for an image every time you use it with no edits is rarely appropriate.
c. Storing a single alt text option in an image's metadata is unhelpful.
a. AI alt text will not save us.
b. Copy/pasting the same alt text for an image every time you use it with no edits is rarely appropriate.
c. Storing a single alt text option in an image's metadata is unhelpful.