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Chronically ill neurodivergent genderqueer Jewitch anarcho-communist + Certified Bluesky Elder (lol). Pronouns vary. PP: Album cover of Ghost Of Cain by New Model Army HP: 🏴‍☠️on 5bar gate.

Image describing how to write alt text including: identity who; expression; description; colour; interesting features. The example given is a photo of “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on top of the capybara’s head.”
Photo of a postcard reproduction of a 1908 Great Northern Railway poster. Central cartoony image shows a fat man with rosy cheeks, wearing a black hat, red scarf, blue jersey, white trousers, and blue knee high boots with green cuffs skipping down the beach with arms outstretched, smiling. In a forest Green section framing the image are the words “Skegness is SO bracing” in yellow all caps text, with the SO bigger than the rest.
Urgent Request for Funds! A community member had their credible fear appointment at the ICE office yesterday and was told that he will need to go before an ICE Judge this Friday. His legal team believes that he will be denied his asylum claim and detained for deportation. Lawyers are requesting $1,500 in order to petition for a virtual hearing this Friday so that he can remain outside of ICE detention and leave the country without experiencing detention. Our goal is to raise $2,000 to pay the legal fee and for the return flight. Help support this community member to avoid detention as he navigates this rapidly changing situation. Send funds with the blue heart emoji in the note Venmo: @amornetwork Secure Act Blue: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/freethemall
Still from BBC 1980s children’s cartoon ‘Superted’ with queer-coded character Skeleton (who is a living skeleton) smiling with hands raised, wearing dark blue gloves.
Tall floor standing notice reads from top to bottom (with associated icons, content of which is in square brackets): COVID SAFETY Please sanitise your hands before passing this point SOCIAL DISTANCE [2m] GREETING [don’t shake hands] CATCH IT BIN IT KILL IT [cough into a tissue]
Two frames, one above the other. First frame: Drawing of two dogs sitting on a sofa. One says to the other, “I’m sad …tell me a joke.” The other one says, “okay… knock kn…” Second frame: Both dogs are now barking.
Black text on white background: [Title font] Do you have recent experience of Police Scotland coming to your door? [Plain text with red highlights] SCALP are developing guidance on your legal rights when the police come to your door. If you have experienced being *visited at home by the police*, *arrested from home*, or had your *home searched/raided* within the last 5 years, SCALP would like to hear from you. [Bold text] Please get in touch at activists_legal@protonmail.com [SCALP logo of stylised raised fist with green fill in broken handcuffs and SCALP in bold black text below in bottom right corner]
SPOT & STOP IMMIGRATION RAIDS information. (I will post detail in replies)
Tweet from World Health Organisation 12/08/24 Protect yourself and your loved ones from #COVID19: Stay home if you are sick Test and contact your doctor for medical care Get vaccinated against COVID-19 & influenza, especially if you are in an at-risk group Ventilate Wear a mask around others. Blue image with yellow banner “YOUR HEALTH IS PRECIOUS” above white text: “Protect yourself and others by taking six simple steps, starting with getting all recommended doses of COVID 19 vaccine.” Below are six circular icons representing each of the six steps listed in the tweet.
Image of Michael Foot giving a speech, no jacket, shirtsleeves rolled up, clearly impassioned. “We are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those i soluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of its initiative, I would answer, “To hell with them!” The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.” Michael Foot
Square image with dark blue background. Lex Fundraiser Update [red progress bar over aerial photo of countryside showing 37%] We’ve raised $1,715 of our $4,600 goal! New goal includes February rent, utility bills, and cat food for Gremlin. *We need to reach the $2,500 mark _by Tues, Feb 25, the pay-or-vacate deadline_* Venmo @gardenparty33 PayPal @HOCSBeaconHill Subject line: “Lex”
A photograph of a white cat with a ginger stripe across its forehead sitting up like a human with its front paws limp at its sides, staring vacantly into space.
A helpful capybara giving simple guidelines for writing alt text
Post from @LJIL_Leiden: Just published in the LJIL: ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’ by Elai Rettig, Shani Friedman and Benny Spanier. Click below to read it now! With a link to the article URL at cambridge.org
News article from 6th February 2024 with the date circled in read. Headline, underlined in red, reads: Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic. Subhead reads: “We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official at the World Health Organisation. Below is a photograph of a white woman with shoulder length brown hair with a centre parting, with her elbows on a table, clasping her hands together in front of her. She is the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove.
Album cover of “Prince Charming” by Adam and the Ants. A photo of Adam Ant from waist up, wearing his Dandy Highwayman outfit and make up, looking directly into the camera (and fabulous).
Image showing how to write alt text using an example image: A capybara (who) looking relaxed (expression) in a hot spa (description). Yellow yuzu fruit (colour) are floating in the water (description) and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head (interesting feature).
A fox glove puppet that has just been washed is lying on its back on top of a folded tea towel on top of an AGA hob cover. It looks bedraggled and unwell.
[White text] WRITING ALT TEXT [Black text on different colour backgrounds] Identify Who. Expression. Description. Colour. Interesting features. [Image of capybara on left. Alt text for image on right, with phrases colour coded by what work they are doing on right] A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruit are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.
A photo of a small young white girl with bobbed brown hair (nearground) turning toward the camera with an evil smile, labelled BLUESKY, in front of a burning building (background) labelled X.
A photograph of a snail wth a tiny pink flower behind its horns crossing a stone surface towards a bunch of tiny white flowers.
A white block with a blue butterfly in the top left corner and the centered words “Celebrating 10M users 🎉” in small black text and “#157,887” in massive block text, with a little blue “BLUESKY ELDER CERTIFIED FIRAT 10%” seal over the bottom right of the number. In the bottom left of the white block is my user name and description, bottom right is “Joined June 25, 2023” in grey text. Around the white block is a black background, with white text underneath the white block saying “Thanks for being one of our first 10 million users.” in massive block text, with “Together, we’re rebuilding the social internet. We’re glad you’re here.” in small white text.
A tumblr post and reply both from alleycatboy: maybe i can gaslight myself into being okay wait this is just cognitive behavioural therapy
Photo of a two layer coffee and walnut cake with coffee buttercream and whole walnut decoration.
A Venn diagram with Karl Marx in the left hand blue circle and Donna Haraway in the magenta right. Above Marx is “We are living in a material world”. Above Haraway is “I am a material girl”. An arrow points to the purple intersection of the diagram, labelling it Madonna.
An artwork of a snail with iridescent sheen and a magical forest scene within and upon its shell.
Tumblr user probablyasocialecologist: "The problem here isn’t that large language models hallucinate, lie, or misrepresent the world in some way. It’s that they are not designed to represent the world at all; instead, they are designed to convey convincing lines of text. So when they are provided with a database of some sort, they use this, in one way or another, to make their responses more convincing. But they are not in any real way attempting to convey or transmit the information in the database. As Chirag Shah and Emily Bender put it: “Nothing in the design of language models (whose training task is to predict words given context) is actually designed to handle arithmetic, temporal reasoning, etc. To the extent that they sometimes get the right answer to such questions is only because they happened to synthesize relevant strings out of what was in their training data. No reasoning is involved […] Similarly, language models are prone to making stuff up […] because they are not
The front cover of Hounds of Love by Kate Bush shows Kate from the waist up, lying on mid purple fabric, wrapped to the armpits in lilac gauze, her hair spread around her head, looking sidelong at the viewer, with her arms around the necks of two Wiemeraner dogs who are resting their chins on her shoulders.
A screenshot from a game of Ant Attack
Three negative COVID-19 tests in a row.
A photograph of a cardboard box labelled ‘BOX OF SUNSHINE :-)’ with decoration on the inside of the lid flaps to represent a sky with fluffy clouds. Inside you can see a handwritten note, a bunch of artificial flowers, and a set of butterfly stickers.
Eight small, brightly coloured, lit candles (red, purple, blue, green and yellow) shine in a row, each in a small colourful metal tube. Behind them, a bright green candle in a slightly taller blue metal tube is also lit. Their reflection shines back from the window onto the dark of the evening.
A pine tree in a bell tower ringing room with three bell ringing pulls behind it, with a spiralled blue and yellow design on the soft holdy bit on the centres of the pulls. The walls are wood, painted off white, and have several wooden plaques with gold writing commemorating the triumphs of past ringing crews.
Still of the speechless Mal from Firefly gif
A head shot of Garak from DS9, with one of his many camp facial expressions, with the words “Calling bigotry an ‘opinion’ is like calling arsenic a ‘flavor’.”
The_Real_Fly (blue tick) Twitter account saying “SAM ALTMAN’S SISTER” above a re blog by Annie Altman which says “I’m not four years old with a 13 year old “brother” climbing into my bed non-consensually anymore. (You’re welcome for helping you figure out your sexuality.) I’ve finally accepted that you’ve always been and always will be more scared of me than I’ve been of you”
Monochrome pink/black image of a large rally on Westminster Bridge, with the Houses of Parliament in the background. Over is the text: RALLY FOR PALESTINE DEMAND MPS VOTE FOR A CEASEFIRE WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER, 5PM PARLIAMENT, LONDON There are icons at the bottom of the image of a number of organisations, including Palestine Solidarity Campaign and CND.
A Venn diagram in black and white, with “Tell me why” in the centre of 3 overlapping circles, one circle labelled “Philosophy professors”, one labelled “3-year-old kids” and one that was labelled “Backstreet Boys”, but I messily scribbled it out and wrote in The Boomtown Rats instead.
A four panel cartoon. In all four panels, two Roman Legionnaries stand on top of a hill looking out over a field of apparently dead bodies. In the 1st panel, one asks the other, "How do we know if they're actually dead or just pretending." In the 2nd panel, the other says, "I have a chronic illness!" In the 3rd panel, four of the apparently dead people pipe up with "Try kale!" "Yoga!" "Essential oils" and "Juice cleanse" In the 4th panel the Legionnaries stab the 'dead' people who spoke up with their spears.
A still from the film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. A helicarrier (a large, airborne aircraft carrier) crashes into the Triskelion, the cylindrical Washington DC base of S.H.I.E.L.D., which has been discovered in this movie to be rife with fascists/HYDRA.
Tumblr screenshot with the following text: Disability will have you thinking shit like “I’m not even _that_ disabled. I can manager as long as I limit myself to very specific careers, never go shopping for more than an hour or two at a time, keep my plans open so I can cancel and stay in if need be, and only go out a few nights per week at the most” #hey wait a minute
Black text on yellow background: Stop the Genocide. End the Siege. Join us in Parliament Square, Thursday 19th Oct. At 17.30pm to demand our government takes action to stop the atrocities in Gaza.
A still from the film A Company of Wolves, showing Angela Lansbury Granny (Angela Lansbury) sitting in a chair next to a fire holding a ball of red yarn, with Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) sitting cross-legged at her feet holding the rest of the red yarn as a skein on her hands. The setting gives the impression of being 18th-19th century.
A striped cream, variegated pink and variegated grey crocheted scarf in a wavy pattern is pinned out to block on a dark blue towel on top of a cream and brown rug.
Advert for 'Sukkah Sunday Special' with red and yellow writing on bright green background, picture of a small white child wearing a blue kippah and waving lulav and etrog above pictures of sukkot.
Poem in teal serif font, mostly lower case, with astrological placements in red capitalised sans serif font, over a yellowish background showing random drawn objects in a darker yellow. Meme from https://orb.church/#main