The fact is that many people will not share posts without alt-text. It's for real people on here, not theoretical people. #DisabilityPrideMonth #AltText
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! Here's some basic info about alt text, its importance, and how to wri...
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alex@dremenec.bsky.social · 2y agoGenerally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs. However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
You can also sign the petition set up by the American Library Association. It will go directly to the inboxes of your representatives: action.ala.org/campaign/S49...
Tell the Senate: Protect the Freedom to Read!
Our Senators must reject censorship and protect our freedom to read.
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Republican Senators have introduced a nationwide book ban bill in the Senate, S. 4925 and it's a warning of their summer plans. Here's what the bill is, what it does, and how you can take action now. The bill is in the Senate HELP committee. bookriot.com/senate-bill-...
Republican Senators Introduce Nationwide Book Ban Companion Bill, S. 4925
Republican Senators have introduced a nationwide book ban bill in the Senate, S. 4925 and it's a warning of their summer plans.
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Remember that time you said I’ll wait to get involved until it’s serious. Ok it’s serious. Read, organize, etc. don’t wait longer. Please
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!
My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
I'm re-re-posting this significant article: "The open-source archive now contains more than 500,000 digitized photographs, identification papers, diaries, maps, films, and letters, many of which were collected directly from Palestinian families and might otherwise have been lost forever."
How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive That Can’t Be Erased
Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border.
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my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up
What could you create/make by next summer to lessen suffering in some part of your world? Let that question be your guide and hold yourself to making something of whatever size and impact by that time. Hold yourself to the commitment. No one else needs to know but you will.
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.
It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.
SUMMERWORK is out today! The last baby @andrewkarre.bsky.social and I have made together, Summerwork is a lot like me-beautiful and short-and a lot like Karre-tastefully smutty and erudite. Meaning: it fucks AND wears glasses. Go buy it or get it at the library: bookshop.org/p/books/summ...
@scmaestra.bsky.social i hope this repost means yr ready to write a booooook
Josh Johnson@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 2mo ago
“So I invite you, young organizer, to embrace uncertainty as a terrain of glorious possibility. Let this uncertainty ground you rather than make you fearful.“ Mariame Kaba inthesetimes.com/article/mari...
Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way
Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.
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my mom's in her late 80s and I've been doing the flower thing, but she's going to love that this year I'm supporting #freeblackmamas in her name instead: 80% of incarcerated women are parents. Please join me to reunite these Black moms and caregivers with their families bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026
Donate to #FreeBlackMamas
With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys...
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What's happening at Texas Tech is a five-alarm fire for academia.
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport
The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.
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associative leaping as a form of restlessness - carl phillips on eduardo c. corral
Shout out to the PSA makers posting multiple warnings in multiple languages below every Flock camera in Oakland
A Reading List by Ocean Vuong: Part One and Two www.anothermag.com/design-livin... and www.anothermag.com/design-livin... AnOther Magazine
A Reading List by Ocean Vuong: Part One
Featured in AnOther Magazine Autumn/Winter 2025, Ocean Vuong shares snippets by some of his favourite writers, thinkers and photographers
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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
“Sacred rebellion is in fact a divine gift, for it is grounded in infinite love...It is the attitude through which joyful defiance is enacted and through which change is mad Céline Semaan