Cangal 😷
@cangal.bsky.social
AKA Cangal_39
Thornback, Antifascist, Bad Crip
"Make it accessible or burn it down" - GP
She/Her
Dogs ♥
Thornback, Antifascist, Bad Crip
"Make it accessible or burn it down" - GP
She/Her
Dogs ♥
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
www.ribc.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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gets collected into the linked feed. Please note: volunteers are always (like, ALWAYS) needed to help with this.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Here’s that link.
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yupj...
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Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Here’s that link.
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yupj...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
gets collected into the linked feed. Please note: volunteers are always (like, ALWAYS) needed to help with this.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Here’s that link.
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yupj...
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Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Here’s that link.
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yupj...
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This leads me to my next thing. If people can't write this alt text themselves for whatever reason, then they can add the keyword "Alt4Me" to their post or to the alt text field in their posted image to summon human volunteers for help. Anything that’s tagged with the keyword
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December 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
This leads me to my next thing. If people can't write this alt text themselves for whatever reason, then they can add the keyword "Alt4Me" to their post or to the alt text field in their posted image to summon human volunteers for help. Anything that’s tagged with the keyword
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., can make it VERY difficult for some people to add alt text to an image sometimes. What's more, on a long enough time scale, EVERYONE will find that certain skills or abilities can easily degrade or fluctuate. So: when you post images, include alt text--if and when you can.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
., can make it VERY difficult for some people to add alt text to an image sometimes. What's more, on a long enough time scale, EVERYONE will find that certain skills or abilities can easily degrade or fluctuate. So: when you post images, include alt text--if and when you can.
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Including alt text on posted images is A Good Thing. But it turns out that it's not always a simple thing sometimes for folks to "just write the fuckin' text." Dyslexia, dysgraphia, visual processing disorders, brain fog; not to mention physical conditions such as arthritis, etc
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Including alt text on posted images is A Good Thing. But it turns out that it's not always a simple thing sometimes for folks to "just write the fuckin' text." Dyslexia, dysgraphia, visual processing disorders, brain fog; not to mention physical conditions such as arthritis, etc
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posted image. Click/press/tap there, and you’ll be able to read any alt text that’s been appended to the image. And hey…don’t forget to add transcriptions to all-text screen caps as well. They’re not always recognized and read by screen readers.
Something else to help in mind.
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Something else to help in mind.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
posted image. Click/press/tap there, and you’ll be able to read any alt text that’s been appended to the image. And hey…don’t forget to add transcriptions to all-text screen caps as well. They’re not always recognized and read by screen readers.
Something else to help in mind.
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Something else to help in mind.
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small overlay at the top left that’s labeled “+ALT.” Click/press/tap there and a dialogue will magically appear, asking for up to 2000 characters of descriptive text to be appended to the image. Once the image is posted a similar overlay will appear at the bottom right of the
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
small overlay at the top left that’s labeled “+ALT.” Click/press/tap there and a dialogue will magically appear, asking for up to 2000 characters of descriptive text to be appended to the image. Once the image is posted a similar overlay will appear at the bottom right of the
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whatever reason, or if they simply need extra context for what they're seeing. I talk more about alt text in a few posts at eustace.leaflet.pub. I’m a mouthy motherfucker.
So: how does one actually add this text to an image? Well, when an image is posted, you can see a
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So: how does one actually add this text to an image? Well, when an image is posted, you can see a
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
whatever reason, or if they simply need extra context for what they're seeing. I talk more about alt text in a few posts at eustace.leaflet.pub. I’m a mouthy motherfucker.
So: how does one actually add this text to an image? Well, when an image is posted, you can see a
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So: how does one actually add this text to an image? Well, when an image is posted, you can see a
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posts they make. Essentially, this text comprises a description of the posted image that becomes available to screen readers to be read aloud for people who are blind or who have low vision. It's also available for people to read if they see the image but can't process it for
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
posts they make. Essentially, this text comprises a description of the posted image that becomes available to screen readers to be read aloud for people who are blind or who have low vision. It's also available for people to read if they see the image but can't process it for
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So. We’re doing alt text discourse again. COOL. Welcome to a primer.🧵
If you're unfamiliar with what alt text is, what it means, and how it's used around here, the following may be helpful.
Although it's still a very underused feature, users can add "alt text" to any image
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If you're unfamiliar with what alt text is, what it means, and how it's used around here, the following may be helpful.
Although it's still a very underused feature, users can add "alt text" to any image
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December 10, 2025 at 5:22 AM
So. We’re doing alt text discourse again. COOL. Welcome to a primer.🧵
If you're unfamiliar with what alt text is, what it means, and how it's used around here, the following may be helpful.
Although it's still a very underused feature, users can add "alt text" to any image
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If you're unfamiliar with what alt text is, what it means, and how it's used around here, the following may be helpful.
Although it's still a very underused feature, users can add "alt text" to any image
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Saturday night in America: trying to decide if we should make the rest of the drive to Providence for a show which starts in 30 mins bc the venue in is in lockdown with an active shooter situation two blocks away
December 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Saturday night in America: trying to decide if we should make the rest of the drive to Providence for a show which starts in 30 mins bc the venue in is in lockdown with an active shooter situation two blocks away
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Brown University confirms two dead victims and eight others in critical but stable condition following a mass shooting on campus.
December 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Brown University confirms two dead victims and eight others in critical but stable condition following a mass shooting on campus.
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I guess students are all supposed to grab a BCM 5.56, strap on body armor, and pie off every fucking door on the way to a final exam
fucking garbage country
fucking garbage country
December 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I guess students are all supposed to grab a BCM 5.56, strap on body armor, and pie off every fucking door on the way to a final exam
fucking garbage country
fucking garbage country
It baffles me that the pro-pandemic crowd rage against imaginary "school lockdowns" due to covid restrictions, but are silent about the very real, far too frequent school lockdowns due to mass shooters.
December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It baffles me that the pro-pandemic crowd rage against imaginary "school lockdowns" due to covid restrictions, but are silent about the very real, far too frequent school lockdowns due to mass shooters.
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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It's so bad! I keep trying to explain to people how bad it is and they don't believe me, even if I am only explaining one tiny bit of how fractally fucking bad it is! I am a professional expert in bad internet laws and I am still surprised at how bad it is!
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It's so bad! I keep trying to explain to people how bad it is and they don't believe me, even if I am only explaining one tiny bit of how fractally fucking bad it is! I am a professional expert in bad internet laws and I am still surprised at how bad it is!
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Multiple people were shot in the area of Brown University, police said
Multiple victims reported in shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island
Police say multiple people have been shot in the area of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
apnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Multiple people were shot in the area of Brown University, police said
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University says no one is in custody, correcting earlier statement, as police respond to active shooter on campus.
December 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University says no one is in custody, correcting earlier statement, as police respond to active shooter on campus.
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#GVerse "Everyone fucking hates you!"
See what happens when unarmed, peaceful citizens put their bodies in the way of an unwarranted ICE raid. Status Coup's
Jon Farina covered a run-in between local St Paul, Minnesota residents and #FuckICE agents on December 11th, 2025.
See what happens when unarmed, peaceful citizens put their bodies in the way of an unwarranted ICE raid. Status Coup's
Jon Farina covered a run-in between local St Paul, Minnesota residents and #FuckICE agents on December 11th, 2025.
December 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Hey, apparently the google is telling people I own the "mossworm" bigcartel store. that is not me! not the same mossworm. I do not sell jewelry.
I did not trademark "mossworm" and it's not my brand, it's more like a pen name. So, that's fine with me that they're using it, but it's not me.
I did not trademark "mossworm" and it's not my brand, it's more like a pen name. So, that's fine with me that they're using it, but it's not me.
December 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Hey, apparently the google is telling people I own the "mossworm" bigcartel store. that is not me! not the same mossworm. I do not sell jewelry.
I did not trademark "mossworm" and it's not my brand, it's more like a pen name. So, that's fine with me that they're using it, but it's not me.
I did not trademark "mossworm" and it's not my brand, it's more like a pen name. So, that's fine with me that they're using it, but it's not me.
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BRB, updating my syllabus.
(I record my classes and make the recordings available, but I don't allow students to make their own recordings, so specifying "this includes glasses" is easy.)
(I record my classes and make the recordings available, but I don't allow students to make their own recordings, so specifying "this includes glasses" is easy.)
I banned AI recording glasses from my classroom
Meta Ray Banned.
December 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
BRB, updating my syllabus.
(I record my classes and make the recordings available, but I don't allow students to make their own recordings, so specifying "this includes glasses" is easy.)
(I record my classes and make the recordings available, but I don't allow students to make their own recordings, so specifying "this includes glasses" is easy.)
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Drone strike on UN facility in war-torn Sudan leaves six peacekeepers dead
Drone strike on UN facility in war-torn Sudan leaves six peacekeepers dead
UN secretary general António Guterres says ‘unjustifiable’ attack on base in city of Kadugli ‘could be war crime’
A drone strike hit a United Nations facility in war-torn Sudan on Saturday, killing six peacekeepers, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.
The strike hit the peacekeeping logistics base in the city of Kadugli, in the central region of Kordofan, Guterres said in a statement. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Drone strike on UN facility in war-torn Sudan leaves six peacekeepers dead
No warming centres in Fort St. John, B.C., as winter temperatures plunge
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
No warming centres in Fort St. John, B.C., as winter temperatures plunge | CBC News
Harsh winter conditions have gripped northeast B.C., with temperatures expected to drop below –30 C and Environment Canada warning people could suffer from "frostbite in minutes." Despite this, there ...
www.cbc.ca
December 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
No warming centres in Fort St. John, B.C., as winter temperatures plunge
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Could parents stop taking sick babies to crowded public places?
A “friend” just informed me she’s headed to the hospital with her 18 month old who’s “super sick”,
Yet they spent the entire day at a crowded tourist attraction
You’re hurting your child & possibly infecting others
A “friend” just informed me she’s headed to the hospital with her 18 month old who’s “super sick”,
Yet they spent the entire day at a crowded tourist attraction
You’re hurting your child & possibly infecting others
December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Could parents stop taking sick babies to crowded public places?
A “friend” just informed me she’s headed to the hospital with her 18 month old who’s “super sick”,
Yet they spent the entire day at a crowded tourist attraction
You’re hurting your child & possibly infecting others
A “friend” just informed me she’s headed to the hospital with her 18 month old who’s “super sick”,
Yet they spent the entire day at a crowded tourist attraction
You’re hurting your child & possibly infecting others
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Sigh. I didn't even know I had to do this. But here we are.
I banned AI recording glasses from my classroom
Meta Ray Banned.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Sigh. I didn't even know I had to do this. But here we are.