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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...

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 8m

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 · 33m

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 9h

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 · 13h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 8h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

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

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Grave Dirt Boy @gordbrush.bsky.social · 15h

this might be Comrade Photographers greatest work yet

Camarón 🇵🇸 @mickeymarxclub.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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

Just because a publisher spent a lot of money, you don't need to spend an ounce of attention.

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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 2d

No it doesn't.

A picture saying 'Nursery rhymes with Justin Fletcher'.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a midnight dreary
As I pondered murder, weary
How could witnesses be hearing
Speech of Turkey, Minsk, Japan?
Suddenly there was a knocking
At my door - its shadow shocking
The killer, here, to knock my block in!
Ohhhh. It's an Orangutan.

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 22h

You know this is a thread about Alliance Defending Freedom, the US based fundamentalist reactionary Christian pressure group that's interfering in the UK to remove rights to bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom, right?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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

Interesting piece that, thanks for sharing

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 1d

We’re too smart and abortion rights are too embedded and socially accepted for the ADF to succeed here, say guys who’ve uncritically promoted anti-trans activists funded by the same people and using the same lawyers for a decade

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

I don't go up the west end much so I haven't seen these but the Bell has done a short thing in their newsletter today
unitedinresistance.co.uk/collections/...

Palestine-Scotland Solidarity Flag

Two nations. One cause.This striking flag fuses the bold colours of the Palestinian flag with Scotland’s iconic Saltire, symbolising unity in the face of injustice. A powerful statement of support and...

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

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