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Steve Ely
@stevereally.bsky.social
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Longtime librarian, currently unaffiliated.
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Weird and bleak message from the nearby hamburger restaurant, seen on this morning's dog walk.
Wendy's restaurant sign including temporary text saying, "Misfortune awaits lucky you."
August 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The account @mjkwho.bsky.social, (which is labeled as a Brianna Wu Follower Jonathan Chait Follower and Matt Yglesias Follower) posts, "Make alt text easier to use from a phone. I admit that I've stopped putting it on here because I'm doing 50 plus posts and it takes four times as long and keeps messing up when there's big paragraphs. It needs to be revamped." to which the account @thecastironpansexual.irish replies "If you got time to post 50+ images a day, you got time for alt text" (June 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM) and @loukas.bsky.social adds "I'm making 50+ pizzas a day! I don't have time to wash my hands!"
June 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Always use alt text.
Never use Netflix.
Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 Netflix is trying to grow ad revenue quickly. SCHARON HARDING – MAY 14, 2025 3:48 PM |
May 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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ideally, screenshots of text (and all other images) would have alt text. Here it is for this:
screenshot of text reading: 'April 13, 2025, 7:25 p.m. ET The Trump administration on Sunday evening doubled down on its assertion that a federal judge cannot force it to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month. In a brief legal filing, the Justice Department reiterated its view that courts lack the ability to dictate steps that the White House should take in seeking to return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to U.S. soil, because the president alone has broad powers to handle foreign policy. "The federal courts have no authority to direct the executive branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way, or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner," lawyers for the department wrote. "That is the 'exclusive power of the president as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations." '
April 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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with alt text
screenshot of text reading: 'April 13, 2025, 7:25 p.m. ET The Trump administration on Sunday evening doubled down on its assertion that a federal judge cannot force it to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador last month. In a brief legal filing, the Justice Department reiterated its view that courts lack the ability to dictate steps that the White House should take in seeking to return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to U.S. soil, because the president alone has broad powers to handle foreign policy. "The federal courts have no authority to direct the executive branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way, or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner," lawyers for the department wrote. "That is the 'exclusive power of the president as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations." '
April 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Screenshot of post from X from "Secretary Kennedy" @SecKennedy, reading, "In Seminole, Texas, with Jake and Tina Fehr whose 2-year-old daughter, Helena was just discharged after three weeks in the ICU, Peter and Eva Fehr whose daughter, Kayley, 6, passed in February, and Pete and Eva Hildebrand whose daughter, Daisy, 8, we buried this afternoon. I also visited with these two extraordinary healers, Dr. Richard Bartlett and Dr. Ben Edwards who have treated and healed some 300 measles-stricken Mennonite children using aerosolized budesonide and clarithromycin."
April 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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I'm very interested, but my browsers give me a security warning whenever I try to visit that URL.
e.g.
screenshot of browser message reading, "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to www.peoplesutility.org. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details. What can you do about it? The issue is most likely with the website, and there is nothing you can do to resolve it. You can notify the website’s administrator about the problem."
November 7, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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November 3, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Hey everyone, let's try to all use alt-text with screenshots of images of text, including Timothy Snyder's discussion of the fascist snitch state entailed in Trump's mass deportation plan.
Screenshot of two paragraphs, the first reading: An attempt to rapidly deport twelve million people will also change everyone else. As Trump has said, such an action will have to bring in law enforcement at all levels. Such a huge mission will effectively redefine the purpose of law enforcement: the principle is no longer to make all people feel safe, but to make some people unsafe. And of course the diversion of law enforcement resources to deportation means that crimes will not be investigated or prosecuted. So some people will be radically less safe, but everyone regardless of status will in fact be less safe. [second paragraph's alt text continues on second copy of screenshot] Screenshot of two paragraphs, the second of which reads: Such an enormous deportation will requires an army of informers. People who denounce their neighbors or coworkers will be presented as positive examples. Denunciation then becomes a culture. If you are Latino, expect to be denounced at some point, and expect special attention from a government that will demand your help to find people who are not documented. This is especially true if you are a local civic or business leader. You will be expected to collaborate in the deportation effort: if you do, you will be harming others; if you do not, you risk being seen as disloyal yourself. This painful choice can be avoided not at a later point but only now, by voting against mass deportations.
October 21, 2024 at 12:25 PM
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Browsing collections of content on the streaming platform formerly known as HBO Max, and I may have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of Harvey Pekar.
Screenshot of suggested movies from the Warner Brothers-Discovery streaming service, with the heading, "Enter the DC multiverse." The second is a Justice League thing. The first is American Splendor, starring Paul Giamatti.
August 26, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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Just saw a post wherein someone says of the platform Musk ruined: "...that is Twitter. (It doesn’t get called X here - I’m not indulging an idiot’s fantasy.)" and I'd like to again implore everyone to consider this from the brilliant Annalee Newitz. Totally changed my thinking on the question.
Screenshot of Annalee Newitz Mastodon post from March 12, 2024 saying, "I feel very strongly about calling Elon Musk's social media platform "X" because I want to remind people that Twitter is gone -- it's dead. And we know who killed it. We need to acknowledge the power that one edgelord billionaire has over our public sphere, and remind ourselves that we cannot reclaim that space. We can't make it "ours" again by calling it Twitter. I'd rather build up new spaces online than chase after the memory of one that is lost."
August 14, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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a Dec 29, 2023 tweet from Governor Tim Walz with the words "Electric Fetus for the win. Shop local for your vinyl" and a photo of 4 vinyl record album covers: Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver; Duke by Genesis; Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School by Warren Zevon; and Long Distance Voyager by The Moody Blues. (Electric Fetus is a Minneapolis record shop.)
August 7, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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Five minutes ago:
My legs and feet with the cat nestled on the couch behind my legs, with her paws on my legs, and the dog beyond my feet.
July 14, 2024 at 2:24 PM