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AV🕯️ CTRL+ALT+DEL @yappydagger.bsky.social · Jan 2
Meh. I'ma keep smoking. World isn't getting any better.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jun 5
A cool Bluesky feature: If you take a screenshot of text with your phone and want to add alt-text, you can copy the text right there in the ALT window. It’s OCR’d for you.

It doesn’t work on web, but works great on the iPhone. No need to go back to the article you’re reading to copy from there.
Screenshot of an alt-text window with the highlighted text: A recent surge in California fire activity, punctuated by a large blaze that erupted outside of San Francisco on Saturday, has officials wondering if this year's fire season could be worse than expected. The forecast is complicated, however, by a mix of competing factors both increasing and decreasing the fire risk.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
Adding alt-text to a screenshot of text has never been easier.

And all of that alt-text is searchable on Bluesky, meaning that a lot more people will find your post.

If you post a screenshot without alt-text, imagine you're just posting a black box for a bunch of people who want to see inside.
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Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 11h
I can sorta see people intimidated about alt texting a photo or piece of art, but when it's literally a screenshot of text..... Comeon now
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
When I see this stuff in my feed, I'd prefer to just hit the retweet button. But when you don't use alt-text, a lot of people can't read the screenshot you just posted.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11h
What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h
"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents. “I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.” During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley. “They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h
The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.
Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her. Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk. Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10h
Not enough writers with national reach are traveling around getting flash banged and shot at by various police imo.
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The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social · 11h
So true. The Reconstruction anti-canon.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12h
Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction
BIB L I OGRAPH Y STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO (These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un- fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.) Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876. Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky. Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic . Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc· tion. Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee. Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana. Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. --, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907. Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina. Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina. Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 . Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas . Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850. Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War. Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas . Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald Dunning. Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson. The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips. Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith. Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil- liam K. Boyd. Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton. The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis. The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson. Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley. Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction. Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po- litical, l 805-1 872. Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12h
Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction
BIB L I OGRAPH Y STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO (These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un- fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.) Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876. Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky. Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic . Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc· tion. Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee. Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana. Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama. --, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907. Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina. Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina. Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 . Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas . Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850. Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War. Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas . Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald Dunning. Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson. The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips. Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith. Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil- liam K. Boyd. Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton. The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis. The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson. Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley. Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction. Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po- litical, l 805-1 872. Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.
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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 11h
Of course they did. This is a war on working class people. MFers!
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John @johnh2.bsky.social · 13h
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 11h
Chatting Godot and other things with K on @colbertlateshow.bsky.social tonight…
Keanu and Alex on Colbert.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23h
NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

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Graphic with a cartoon bald eagle carrying an upside-down crown over a banner reading "NO KINGS." Now in glorious color with a bit of 35mm film clouds at sunset as the background. NO KINGS logo and nokings.org URL at bottom right.
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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 11h
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23h
NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org
Graphic with a cartoon bald eagle carrying an upside-down crown over a banner reading "NO KINGS." Now in glorious color with a bit of 35mm film clouds at sunset as the background. NO KINGS logo and nokings.org URL at bottom right.
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AV🕯️ CTRL+ALT+DEL @yappydagger.bsky.social · 12h
Damn! Letitia James could be governor. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 💙
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h
Among the most hideous & ubiquitous historical fables taught in this country are about the “discovery” of America and the “settling” of North America by pioneers. But there’s even more.

This Indigenous People’s Day,decide to learn.Ned Blackhawk & @rebeccanagle.bsky.social’s works are extraordinary.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13h
since we're letting podcasters run the FBI now, I'd like to make it known to any future presidents that if you appoint me i will pronounce the "human" in "human trafficking" like Quark from DS9.

there will be no other substantial changes

thank you for your attention to this matter
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13h
I love Tim Curry very much (Rocky Horror obv but also Clue is one of my very favorite movies ever) and I'm glad he is still doing stuff and enjoying himself

[🎁]
Tim Curry Isn’t Done Yet
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AV🕯️ CTRL+ALT+DEL @yappydagger.bsky.social · 13h
Sounds delicious and looks moist.
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Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 14h
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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 22h
The cuts amounted to $500 million in funds. Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

The #USDA did not respond to questions or requests for comment.

Read the story by Ruth Talbot and @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 22h
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.
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AV🕯️ CTRL+ALT+DEL @yappydagger.bsky.social · 13h
Sadly, a lot of young men hold a similar opinion of Trump.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h
“After dumping it for Texas, Elon Musk quietly expanding in the Bay Area again ***
The brain-implant startup Neuralink has leased a vacant building in San Francisco, a fresh sign of the billionaire’s renewed interest in the region's tech scene.” 10/13/25 … 1/ www.statesman.com/business/tec...
After dumping it for Texas, Elon Musk quietly expanding in the Bay Area again
The brain-implant startup Neuralink has leased a vacant building in San Francisco, a fresh sign of the billionaire’s renewed interest in the region’s tech scene.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h
“Musk calls for federal troops in San Francisco even as Benioff softens stance” 10/13/25 … 1/ www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/m...
Musk calls for federal troops in San Francisco even as Benioff softens stance
With Dreamforce about to kick off in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff inserted himself into a national debate about crime in U.S. cities.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h
I asked ICE why they couldn’t comment on their own arrest. The agent said to direct questions to DHS. And it appears DHS is making accusations via X to justify the abduction of a child.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h
This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:
Good afternoon, Marisa. Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien. Please feel free to direct any questions to them. Respectfully, James Tricia McLaughlin @TriciaOhio • 6h S... Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property. He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.
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