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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · Jan 6

If I've liked your hilarious meme or beautiful picture but not reposted it, it might be because you didn't include alt text

Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · Dec 16

What's alt text? Why is it important on Bluesky? How do I write it? Where am I? What's going on?

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! This is a short article about alt text, its importance, and how to wr...

manningkrull.com

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Patrick Harvie MSP @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 15h

The whole point of human rights law is that the Government can be held to account when they breach people's rights.

If the Home Secretary doesn't like it, that's why she needs to hear it.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 17h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 1h

The students will do the homework with AI. The teacher will mark it with AI and get AI to provide feedback to the student, who will get AI to summarise the feedback. Power and water will be used for absolutely zero gain - even the AI service will lose money on it all. This is how the world ends.

Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 3h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Shihab S Joi @shihabsjoi.bsky.social · 1h

Kid: We've been sent back from school. Teachers are on strike

Me: groan, catalan teachers honestly, what are they protesting over now??

Kid: free Palestine

Me: I love your teachers 🥰

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look.

lichen-spattered railway underpasses portal

Bodmin Moor portal, which offers the irresistible promise of "danger" and an excellent view

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 14h

O’Flaherty’s intervention on trans rights and protest rights centers on the necessity test, not proportionality.

In the simplest terms, it’s the question of “is it going to help?” If a law achieves nothing good and only interferes with our freedom, it violates human rights.

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Alexander Stanton @thewormling.bsky.social · 1d

Anima (NR):

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 21h

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Will Wilson @2wsphotography.bsky.social · 23h

Malachite Kingfisher - an absolute gem!

📍Bagamoyo, Tanzania.

#Birds #NaturePhotography #Tanzania 🪶

Small, gem-like wetland kingfisher. Shows geographical variation, with most birds having orange underparts, but birds in some parts of the range have a white belly. Found in almost all habitats with water, including streams, rivers, lakes, rice paddies, and lagoons. Sits motionless for long periods before plunging to the water to snatch prey.

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mimzy 🦋 @imimzy.bsky.social · 21h

The Painted buntings have returned for the Winter.. #birds

mimzy 🦋 @imimzy.bsky.social · Sep 3

A colorful male Painted bunting in all his glory.

#birds #nature #PaintedBunting

A small bird with colorful blue head, red belly, green wings, sitting in tree.

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 13h

Me too, might take a few weeks to get used to it

a young man wearing glasses and a sherpa jacket looks at the camera

Alt: a young man wearing glasses and a sherpa jacket peers at the camera as if examining his new haircut

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 14h

It was roughly around 30 seconds after they got elected last year, although there's a plausible argument that it happened quite some time even before that

Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 18h

And even then she couldn't even strongly say that puberty blockers should be banned so the Tory and Labour governments both had to pretend she did

Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 18h

The best bit was where she made up her own criteria for deciding which science counted and those criteria just so happened to exclude every study that said trans healthcare works yet included things like a survey of 15 parents on We Hate Our Trans Kids dot Org

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 22h

This is the kind of underground society I would want to be a part of. I hope they're still around and unfound.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Commissioner for Human Rights @commissionerhr.coe.int · 1d

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int

Strasbourg 14/10/2025

www.coe.int

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 22h

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 22h

This is NOT a #Christmas post, but could very well be an EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS CARDS post! Simon's Govan range is BACK 🎄🎅

🛒 In-store only (from late afternoon 14/10/25)

Govan Stones Christmas cards, with hogbacks and robins in winter scenes.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

One thing that I’ve come around on in comics is it used to seem corny and childish that a bunch of guys would call themselves the Legion of Doom and meet in an old castle where they’d be like ”hiss let us defeat the ideas of hope and love hiss” but that’s what they’re actually doing in real life lol

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, the most interesting thing (wch I want to follow up) is an ID provider based in Wigan spoke to the fact that ID exclusion in the UK maps to Reform voting intention - and that suspicion and misinformation was high. He called it "the next Brexit".

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion

Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

www.theguardian.com

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 1d

this might be Comrade Photographers greatest work yet

Camarón 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 1d

Even the Italian fascist is trying not to laugh

Donald Trump standing at a lectern with a presidential seal on it. He is looking down wearing a navy suit and red tie. He's flanked by other world leaders including Keir Starmer who has his back turned because he's just been humiliated. Giorgia Meloni is trying to hold in her laughter

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 2d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 1d

good morning to the bike lane big finish designers

photo of a bike lane going down a ramp and leading to a concrete wall with a dumpster in front of it

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 1d

Hate reading still puts eyes on bad books. You don't need to do it. If it's transphobic fanslop, you can just chuck free copies down a well. And certainly save your money if some shill hasn't shoved it in your mailbox.

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