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Breaking news: mastodon has content warnings that are really helpful so that your friendly trans mutuals don't get panic attacks and existential dread while scrolling

In a couple of different places on Mastodon this week I’ve seen people saying something to the effect of “what does visible alt text matter, it’s for screen readers.”

Here are just a few scenarios why people might want to view alt text visually:

1. “I made the post and I want to double check the alt text I wrote.”
2. “I did not make the post but I want to learn how other people write alt text so I can write better descriptions.”
3. “I’m having trouble making sense of the image but I think a written description would help.”
4. “My vision is enough to read text at my preferred font size but not in a tiny screenshot with jpeg compression.”
5. “This is what works best for me because of reasons I don’t want to get into.”

Accessibility is for everyone. Try not to make assumptions.

The way that the jorts.horse admin is posting right now, that's how abusers behave.

- Reducing a combination of problems/factors to a single event, pretending that that's the only thing that happened, and complaining about how unreasonable the response would be to that strawman
- Strategically not mentioning (or responding to) the very legitimate criticisms that they've received, cherrypicking only the emotionally-charged comments that they feel they can ridicule and trivialize
- Treating the whole thing as a joke, and painting "people getting upset" as a justification of why they were right all along not to take it seriously
- Using their marginalized status as a shield from criticism about an entirely unrelated thing
- Setting themselves up as the gatekeeper, declaring that they do not *personally* see the value in something and therefore nobody should be expected to treat it respectfully
- Making a non-apology, claiming they've told them to knock it off, but never *actually* condemning the problematic behaviour in question

Again, this is abuser behaviour, disguised as shitposting. And this is far from an isolated incident - this sort of thing is uncomfortably widespread in leftist and activist circles. Learn to recognize the patterns and act against them.

Gonna try to do a few of these, so I'll make it a thread!
Can't call yourself an adventurer without finding random bits of armor in treasure chests.
#Art #DigitalArt #MastoArt #Sketch #ZeroXPHero

If you're an instance admin/mod struggling to keep up with the fediblock tag, @fediblock is a 'curated' version that filters through the trolling/misuse of the tag and repeat entries, and only boosts the actual proper fediblock content. :)

To kick off the new year, I read "The King of Elfland's Daughter" by Lord Dunsany. If Tolkien is the father of fantasy, Dunsany is the grandfather, and it shows: The story is very much fairy-tale still, stretched to the length of a book. That is not always a good thing: the story feels stretched like plot scraped over too many pages. Still, the prose is beautiful and as a historical document it's fascinating.

im making a list of all the people's bio's you should read before following

for ease of use I used wildcards, here's the list:

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just a lil doodle today

#dailydraw

I believe that good people should not want to be around bad people. It’s more complex than that, of course, but the simple version is that I believe it is healthy and normal to not want to taint yourself by associating with people you find to be morally repugnant.

So, a bit of a "power of the fediverse" moment here.

My quote toot is a quote toot of a lemmy post I made. Lemmy is basically "federated reddit". In the post I was asking the lemmy community and developers about content discovery options on the platform. Thanks to the power of federation, I asked the question from an account on my lemmy instance, to a lemmy group hosted on a different lemmy instance. Lots of interesting conversation has come from it.

But what's really fascinating is that the post you see in my quote toot is that conversation on lemmy. And if you were to reply to it from mastodon or calckey or the like, your post would appear as a reply in the lemmy group, whilst looking like a regular conversation to you.

That's federation. That's the future.

#lemmy #fediverse #microfedi #federation #calckey #mastodon

RE: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/1409

It’s funny how recognizing AI art nowadays is just the same old rules as recognizing the fae in old tales.

“Count the fingers, count the knuckles, count the teeth, check the shadows…”

… and under NO circumstances should you make deals with their kind.

One of my favourite #fairy commissions!

#art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #fediart #fantasy

As you might have read today, #Adobe is doing really bad stuff (https://toot.cafe/@baldur/109630505660962387).

Fortunately there are many projects you can follow on here which are providing free open source alternatives:

➡️ @darktable - Photo software which lets you organise, view and develop raw image files

➡️ @Krita - Professional digital painting & 2D animation app

➡️ @kdenlive - NLE video editing software

➡️ @inkscape - Vector illustration software

➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social & @blender@video.blender.org - 3D animation and special effects

You’re all invited

A close friend who does a ton of mutual aid has a rare, singular chance to purchase the land that they've been farming/ community gardening in the city (previously abandoned lot) for the past couple years right next to their house, before gentrifiers take it and put another overpriced house there.

They are a little under $5k short! They're so close!!! They need to raise this ASAP!!

Venmo: @/pearlboatspaceship and put note "Land Back Gardens"
Cashapp: $pearlboatspaceship

#MutualAidRequest #IndigenousGulf #Indigenous #LandBack #Bvlbancha
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