Two men in fatigues with their hands ziptied being arrested by Capitol Police
Dozens of people in fatigues lined up in the Capitol Rotunda with signage demanding an end to the Iran War
Dozens of US military veterans were arrested at the Capitol today during a protest against the Iran War.
Photos via @frankthorp.bsky.social
Pls can everyone repost this and ofc donate if you can!!! Deonte and his mother need help to keep them from being made homeless. www.gofundme.com/f/help-deont...
please help my friend's family out!!
I still need to raise this $160. Please help. 🙏🏾💙✨
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An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.
However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
The author of this article refused to sign an NDA, giving up severance and healthcare benefits to tell this story.
If you didn't read it already, read it.
Because he refused, we may be able to stop the Kennedy Center from being sold for parts and turned into a gaudy MAGA fundraising warehouse.
Nurse Hammam, Abood, and their mother are in a tent
Mother washing cloth in a bucket by hand outside in the dirt
Broth boiling in a pot on a fire
✋Urgent🚨
We are experiencing the worst kinds of suffering in Gaza. We are afflicted with skin & intestinal diseases, starving,😭
homeless, living on the sand without a tent. My family's dream is now to live in a tent
We implore you to donate so we can buy a tent & food🤲
⬇️
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50/$150 As you guys know I had to be rushed to ER cuz I couldn’t breathe and the stress & my chronic illness has been so much on me. I’m sorry for having to ask for help again but life’s so rough at the moment. If you can help a Black, disabled desperate person out, please DM 💔 #mutualaid #helpsky
A man on a hospital bed
A family outside a tent
A man with a wounded shoulder
A shrapnel wound
Om jameel :"A serious danger threatens my husband due to a wound infection after surgery to remove shrapnel.We urgently need £130 for antibiotics before it’s too late. Please save him for the sake of our 5 kids &My heart is suffering from valve prolapse😭"
Vetted
Molly shah
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Help Ahmed whose father & mother are both in horrible shape, they need you badly if you can boost & donate!
blacksky is $1000/month away from getting their monthly goal !!
they sustained so you can shitpost!
let's toss a couple dollars to help them keep at it 🙏
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You cannot talk about autism while ignoring race. You cannot talk about representation while excluding Black autistic voices. And you definitely cannot platform “diversity” while centering everyone except us. Black autistic women are here, and we are not optional in this conversation 👌🏽
There are automatic faucets that don’t work properly because of my skin color so to see people trusting a driverless car is just a faith in technology that I don’t have at allllll.
this is beautiful
So Slavery...lite
Sudanese analyst Kholood Khair says both the RSF and the SAF are attacking civilians to undermine calls for democracy.
Bluesky went dark for a minute, had me reminiscing..
Used to feel like blue skies over my life, no clouds in sight…
Then you vanished on me, disappeared...
Hey hey! Emergency MA!! Please spread asap! ‼️
I have a DV victim in need of help ASAP. I can’t give out other info for safety.
You can send to my links with the note “for M”
$ app is fastest but my links are here.
Any help is appreciated by all. Thank you.
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if you've been enjoying blacksky working today thank @rude1.blacksky.team and the team with a donation
*coughs conspicuously*
cash.app/$sotreu2
venmo.com/sotreu
paypal.me/rikiam
“the jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men on average. We don’t want to be left behind”
Using the (ethically & environmentally 👎) technology that’s replacing your job won’t save your job. What is she even talking about?
The above post but with the original and unremoved skeet wherein why from the Blue sky team says. Looking forward to what the AI sucks. Crowd actually has to say about this one.
Good thing i screencapped it
Sama'a's seven-month-old is sick, a stressful proposition even in the best of times. In a war zone, the strain is unimaginable. Please give what you can.
chuffed.org/project/157569
1,000 is a useful frame for explaining the threat measles poses to children:
for every 1,000 cases, about 200 children will need hospitalization
50 will develop pneumonia
and 1 to 3 will die.
if anybody had a lick of sense about moderation and community building they wouldn’t be recommending Substack Notes But as always the open failure Mild fascism isn’t okay , folks who attack marginalized people aren’t good for communities And people who let them aren’t safe
Responses I got about Substack
- white journalist mocked when I pointed it out
- folks gave interviews to have viral moments
- POC said focus on what’s important or “all I do is argue with white folks online”
Caring for people isn’t cool like virality
It just predicts things really well
Liberals are just conservatives who want access to everyone.
Like socialites.
BREAKING: A record-high 40 senators just voted to block weapons to Israel, up from 27 last July.
There is much more work to be done, but today was yet another statement that the movement for Palestinian rights is growing in the halls of power.
Also notice how all the bigot-pandering Black celebs (Kanye, Chilli, Chappelle) are trying to come back to us now, begging for forgiveness? That bigot money is starting to dry up real fast