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If you're forgetful like I am, you can set Bluesky to remind you to use alt-text.

Settings -> Accessibility and it's right there. Tick a box and help out disabled users.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

these agents and everyone up the chain of command need to be investigated and prosecuted

Infographic comparing amount of US clean energy manufacturing investments that advanced and slowed since Trump took office on January 20, 2025.

What is happening to US clean energy manufacturing investments?

Since Trump took office, 14 projects totaling $12.2 billion in investment and 14,115 jobs have slowed.

My students @wellesley.edu and I are tracking it. Details 🧵 below. 🔌💡🔌🚗

www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...

Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week The federal Department of Education maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to DOGE cuts.

ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.

www.governing.com/policy/major...

Conference kindness reminder: presenting can be super stressful and scary, especially if it’s the first time you’ve done it, or public speaking isn’t part of your day job. If you’re the first person to ask a question, thank the speaker and say something nice.

Conference accessibility reminders: use the mic, add alt text to images posted here or on other social media, stick to timings so people get proper breaks.

Why housing affordability keeps getting worse Rising prices and a shortage of affordable homes have driven many folks to rent.

Americans are suffering under the weight of sky-high housing prices.

Today, I’m re-introducing my bill with @warnock.senate.gov and @cleaver.house.gov to build 3 million new homes, bring down rents by 10%, and cut red tape that drives up costs.

Congress must act.

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe www.404media.co/arch...

Smudge the cat, who is mostly concerned just with what's going on in his own house.

Folks, I don't intend to post about every single horrible thing that's happening at the moment because I'm not a direct news source and also because my mental health has an upper limit. Don't confuse lack of obsessive news updating for lack of concern or lack of personal action. Also, here's a cat.

Curated Collection of Tech Tools (Spring 2025 AK) A Curated Collection of Tech Tools Revamped: Spring 2025 (Tools don’t make the composition -- ideas do. Still … knowing where to find things can be helpful. These resources all came from the CLMOOC community, the National Writing Project community and other places and people. Many of these could...

Every year or so I try to update this list (which started as a CLMOOc project). What am I missing? I am trying to keep an updated list of various tech (free, freemium, paid) that educators can use docs.google.com/docu...

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

alt text 3.1 Accessible, ethical, actually useful AI.

Alt text generator just hit 150k images processed 🤩 love it

For those around since I first posted it, this isn’t quite as good as the original. Everything has always run locally - this is NOT a chatbot, see “about” - but yall broke my server. I’ll keep improving it

Anyway, for the newskies :)

I jumped into Bluesky with lists. It was the wrong strategy for me. Clearing out my following list and building up from direct contacts.

An alt Decision Tree Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

For beginners, it can be difficult to know what to put in alt text, as well as when alt text is needed and when it isn't. This decision tree helps you determine what to do, based on specific situations.
www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial...

Available for educational use! 33k clips!

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I use something similar to help team members deal with workloads, but I use important and enjoyable.

1. Important, enjoyable - prioritise
2. Important, not enjoyable - better with someone else?
3. Not important but enjoyable - keep, but not a priority
4. Not important, not enjoyable - kill it