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A friend and I discovered though our conversation that the last base Shadowbringers dungeon is a Mogtome duty this time, and that's so objectively funny to me.

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uh. Artblock seems to be letting go.

#OCart #TTRPG #TheSwordIsActuallyTheNiceONe #art

[REDACTED]: And THIS is what we--why are you all so happy?
Adventurers: Mogtomes!!! Mogtomes!!! Rewards!!! Rewards!!! Wow, can you believe the next patch is coming out soon? What's it gonna be like?
[REDACTED]: [Long, deep sigh] Regardless of how offended I am, I feel like I'm not offended enough.

A friend and I discovered though our conversation that the last base Shadowbringers dungeon is a Mogtome duty this time, and that's so objectively funny to me.

FYI looks like GoFundMe is doing a new round of identity verifications for people in Gaza- so it is showing for many as their payouts are paused. Their campaign organizers should have an email about what they need to do next- it looks routine and not targeted- but they do need to respond

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This is his link since he is being hidden and can’t share chuffed.org/project/1591...

If I post that same image of my dog and a toy on a review of the toy, the alt text will be primarily about the toy as it appears in the image.

If I post that image on a "show your dog's coat pattern" forum or thread, the alt text will focus on describing my dog's coat pattern in the image.

"Alt text is contextual" means if I post a photo of my dog with a toy on a thread or forum about digital photo editing, my alt text is going to very briefly skim over the details of my dog and the toy and I'm going to describe other qualities of the image, like background blur, sharpness, tint, etc.

nb. AI alt text is not the answer here. Alt text needs to be done by humans because "AI" doesn't know why you're sharing that image where you're sharing it. And context is the most important thing to decide what you put in alt text and what you don't.

Another thread:

Maybe most importantly, from both my own experiences and what I've observed, understanding how to do alt text properly and what to include and what to leave out makes it easier and takes off a lot of the pressure.

And because alt text is a thing that needs to be done by humans, this matters.

A lot of folks think when I talk about doing alt text properly, it's about my opinion.

It (mostly) isn't. This is a tool that has decades of development to get it to a place where it's useful for what it's supposed to do.

We should care about using it properly.

And even though (at least right now) most social media platforms don't give us the option to include title text or other forms of supplemental information in their own spaces, it's still not appropriate to put that kind of information in alt text on social media.

This is a thread about that:

And because that is not what alt text is for, there was an attribute that supported that kind of description. For a little while.

It was called "longdesc". And it is no longer an option for use.

It wasn't implemented or supported so it was deprecated.

One thing that comes up as a problem for people doing alt text is they think they need to describe every single detail in the image and that's a hugely overwhelming prospect. And also almost never the point of alt text.

But some people genuinely could benefit from that.

Anyway, a lot of people basically have wrong or incomplete ideas about how to do alt text.

And I spent years paying attention to what folks (including me) were having trouble with when it comes to alt text on social media which is why I wrote some guides about it.

And here we get back to the title attribute.

Partly because of how Twitter surfaced alt text, a lot of people were under the impression that title text and alt text are the same thing with the same purpose. They aren't.

Remember this? The third paragraph is important.

Folks often talk about alt text having a curb cut effect, but it's more of a reverse curb cut effect and later an actual curb cut effect.

Alt is an HTML attribute that is only and specifically for text that serves as a replacement to the image. This also makes it helpful to screen reader users.

Going to try again because I think this maybe wasn't enough.

Let's go back to the start again.

Alt text was introduced to HTML in 1993 for situations where images didn't load or loaded slowly. In those situations the alt text is visible in the space where the image would have loaded.

Example:

Many people don't know that video files cannot support the alt attribute and cannot have alt text. There are other tools for making videos accessible.

The way Bluesky's dev team has done things falsely indicates otherwise and confuses a lot of people, but if you look at the code, it's obvious.

On the other hand, if you upload your own animated GIF, Bluesky will convert it to a video file. I don't know why (possibly something about compression techniques?), but it will.

In that situation, Bluesky will still tell you that you can add "alt text", but it's not actually going to be alt text.

Because the alt attribute doesn't work on videos, Bluesky will pass the text you input to a figcaption element being used in a way contrary to both HTML standards and accessibility best practices.

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a word that literally just means "people who aren't transgender" isn't allowed to be used - because bigots said so - and so everyone from EHRC to BBC are coming up with weird expressions to say "people who aren't transgender".

It's so pathetic. what a weak country of cowards.

also yes it's very funny that they are saying biological people - as opposed to trans people.

Why not just use cisgender?

Because the word cisgender is compliance with trans ideology, according to the bigots who have the EHRC in their pocket.

That's how captured these organisations are lmao.

"but it's hard for me to share news from elsewhere because it takes more work to find it"

again I ask, so what tho??? yeah this shit often takes more effort than not. you should want to do that because you give a shit about other people?

that's all we are asking here. for u to give a shit.

to the tune of were not gonna make it:

WE DON'T SHARE THE GUARDIAN

NO, WE DON'T SHARE THE GUARDIAN

WE DON'T SHARE THE GUARDIAN, WITH ANYONEEEEEEEEEEE.

(they are bigots and assholes??? guys what's wrong with you? stop reading their shit.)

the first result on google search for your work brings up a bigot blog from someone who hasn't read the book and seems extremistly bothered by tweets from people who are not you.

This link isn't that. This link is the one to your book so people can buy it.
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