An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

Did you know each emoji has a coded description that gets read aloud by screen readers? This demo by Alexa Heinrich shows what happens when a screen reader encounters a post that uses an emoji to function as a bullet point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSMs...

Taylor Nation Emoji Bullet Point Tweet

Demonstration of what a tweet with emoji used as bullet points sounds like when read by a screen reader. The tweet also uses a "show more" cut, which isn't accessible when the tweet is seen in the…

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TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)

Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System

Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...

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Conventions need to hire - and even compensate - an ADA professional to stop this crap from happening. I don't work Worldcon any more because I can't afford it; unlike my other cons, they don't even offer a discount for senior staff. #ada #a11y #paydisabledpeople

Mari Ness, writer of things@mariness.bsky.social · 2w ago

....the ongoing delights of being both a Hugo finalist and a wheelchair user. "The backstage is for walking participants," said directly to my face, as a wheelchair user.

The USDA is trying to recind the Roadless Rule which currently protects 45 million acres of National Forests from logging and deforestation. We have until September 20th to comment and tell the USDA we don't want this! File your comment w/ link below: action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-d...

Finally! No offence intended, but a lot of you lovely people are getting your reposts turned off at my end.

Bluesky@bsky.app · last mo.

v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.

in fact, i'd argue the primary political purpose of this vaccine executive order and press conference is to explicitly and publicly undermine the CDC director in her first week on the job

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · last mo.

worth noting who isn't present at this little stunt—the CDC director they confirmed *last week*. a very clear and intentional message to congress to get lost

Citing a previous ProPublica investigation, House Democrats pressed VA Secretary Doug Collins for answers in a letter last week about how the agency’s mental healthcare has been increasingly strained under the Trump administration.

House Democrats Demand Answers From Trump’s VA on Vets Struggling to Access Mental Healthcare

A letter from Democratic lawmakers to VA Secretary Doug Collins cites a recent ProPublica investigation that found hundreds of therapists have left the agency and vets often aren’t getting the help…

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I need some San Francisco wheelchair activist help, please. Remember the whole Car Free JFK thing, where disabled activists demanded that there be an accessible shuttle bus if the road was going to close to buses and wheelchair parking? I think it's broken.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Well Lindsey Graham died

I don’t know who might need this (yes I do) but, you’re welcome.

Some folks may be able to switch to pills instead of patches, but older women / former smokers who are at higher blood pressure or risk of stroke are advised not to. I had to fight to get HRT because of genetic age-related high blood pressure.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Decent explanation about the shortage is estradiol patches. I'm on day 3 of being off them since I started and definitely notice symptoms coming back. This sucks. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/26/e...

For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco. youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ

Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility

Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility.

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Iran's use of a swarm of small, fast boats to seize two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz could undermine suggestions US forces ​disabled its naval threat and reveal challenges facing reopening one of the world's most important oil export routes reut.rs/48ly1E5

Iran fast-boat swarms add to Hormuz threats for shipping

Iran's use of a swarm of small, fast boats to seize two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz could undermine suggestions U.S. forces have ​disabled its naval threat and reveals the challenges fac...

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Don't use headings to arbitrarily style text. If you apply “Heading 4” style, you add a <h4> heading tag to the item. When screen reader users navigate from heading to heading, the item will be treated as a heading. This will be confusing. Only treat actual headings as headings.

The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during the war with Iran and created a “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in a future conflict should one arise in the next few years, according to sources. https://cnn.it/4e1Y7zv

Nice typo. I wonder what a predication market would do.

5 Calls@5calls.org · 5mo ago

These predication markets have become a hotbed for insider trading. If you wanna call your reps about it, we got you 👉 5calls.org/issue/predic...

Indigenous organizers warn that Big Tech’s AI boom is driving “data colonialism” in Native communities, with corporations eyeing roughly 103–160 massive data centers on or near tribal lands. www.democracynow.org/2026/4/22/kr...

Data Colonialism: AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota a...

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At this point, the primary hope for white collar workers is that the software industry is unique and Claude won’t completely figure out another industry’s core tasks as well as it has software development.

not a coincidence that men who have healthy relationships with women also have healthier relationships with other men!

Mike the Perpetual Student@sacwriter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My experience is that for men who see women as equals, treat them openly with respect and dignity, there is no male loneliness epidemic.

Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.

⚡️Human rights activists count 7 torture chambers detaining Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff.

Human rights activists count 7 torture chambers detaining Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff

There are at least seven torture chambers holding staff of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Roman Koval, head of research at the Ukrainian human rights organization Truth Hounds, said Ap...

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A review of official statements shows that the public account does not always align with what can be observed through open sources. Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Read more: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

The War You’re Not Allowed to See: How the UAE Rewrites the Story of Iranian Strikes - bellingcat

A review of official statements shows that the public account does not always align with what can be observed through open sources.

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Donating to online scammers posing as legitimate people in need is not morally neutral: You potentially are giving money to brutal slavery and human trafficking networks: www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2...

A matter of survival: The human cost of cyber scam operations in South-East Asia

A century after the abolition of slavery, a UN Human Rights report shows how trafficking and coercion underpin cyber scam operations across South-East Asia. Drawing on survivor testimonies from many c...

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FYSA, the lead story is not "current GenXers brains are bad because lead", it's that lead poisoning disproportionately impacted poor and minority communities and those voters died younger. Also AIDS killed a lot of young progressive GenXers.

Micah@rincewind.run · 5mo ago

generation lead never fails

The Trump administration pledged to root out “rampant” fraud in federal benefit programs like SNAP and welfare. But the DOJ has shut down more than 900 cases of federal program or procurement fraud in the first six months of this administration.

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

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Medicaid enrollment surged during the pandemic, then tumbled during the ‘Great Unwinding’. A health economist who studies the effects of public policy on insurance coverage looks at how paperwork and particular state policies influence who is still covered. theconversation.com/25-million-p...