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Duvet Gecko

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Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · Mar 5

Excellent guide to the whys and hows of alt text

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Mar 5

Alt text is extra information you add when you upload an image in order to describe what the image is/provide extra context! It's how blind people can tell what's in the image, for instance: screen reading programs can read the *text* out loud, but they can't access pictures.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 19h

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

A picture of He-Man

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1d

I got a potato and wire and a copper penny but I couldn’t find a zinc plated screw.

I put it all together anyway, but it didn’t work and now I’m being arrested for attempted battery.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 1d

Art can be prescient

jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 2d

I'm happy to lend my masterpiece as a temporary replacement if needed.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Mona Pizza.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you. I now see that the not going too far from residential areas will massively impact the options to protest on Shabbos. I'm in the UK, so more able to walk places, and it's about 25 minutes for me to walk to our No Tyrants protest.

Over here, we could easily do Sunday afternoon instead :/

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, that looks like a very useful website to get lost in while learning.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 4d

Even if you don't quote that post, I'd be grateful if you could explain the issur. (Hope I'm using that correctly!). My education barely covered the existence of Judaism, so I thought it was just work that was prohibited. I'm now realising that work covers a lot more than my (catholic) teacher said.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 4d

As you say, the pension Vs winter coat should be something they can tell you.

I think I do more worrying than my partner does, but I can only see how it's affecting him, and how he's getting more and more tired.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 4d

We just want to know if he can do larp combat or go to the gym!

Also "you need X operation, but we can't tell you how long the waiting list might be"

Sorry, venting in empathy for the lack of communication.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 4d

What is it about cardiologists that they don't seem to realise that not giving info is just creating anxiety?

My partner was told not to do any strenuous exercise in case he has a heart attack, but the examples given were running a marathon or playing a football match.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 5d

They are 5th ed, which I maintain only came out a couple of years ago, and definitely not several years before covid.

Ministry used to be setites and the other one you'll have missed is the necromancers having a completely bloodless* family reunion into a single clan. (*May not have been bloodless)

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 7d

For my mental records - a list of actors to no longer be excited about, since they think a HP paycheck is more important than medical treatment and human rights for trans people.

Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 7d

So far:

Kit Harrington
Keira Knightley
Iwan Rheon
Ruth Wilson
Ambika Mod
Leo Woodall
Simon Pegg
James McAvoy
Gemma Whelan
Matt Berry
Hugh Laurie
Matthew Macfayden
Riz Ahmed
Michelle Gomez
Cush Jumbo
Mark Addy
Alex Hassell
Daniel Mays
Sara & Avni Deshmukh
Frankie Treadaway

(Cont’d)

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 7d

Does anyone I know have experience with adult autism services in the Hartlepool/Teesside area? A family friend's child is aging out of the under 19 support, and hasn't been signposted/referred for any future help.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 8d

Warming up scones so the butter melts into them. It's like they are fresh out of the oven again.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 9d

My post from a few weeks ago

Bethany Black
@bethanyblack.bsky.social
Fascism relies on you finding earnest enjoyment of things cringe, it relies on you being ironically detached, it relies on you suppressing that bit of you that is unafraid.
27 September 2025 at 15:01

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 10d

Managed to get in this evening :D

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 12d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 11d

People keep going "buy fan merch, not official!".

She has said outright that support for Harry Potter is support for her.

And is a trans person walking down the street meant to hold their breath until they get close enough to see if your shirt says (TM) Warner Bros or not?

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 12d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 11d

My guess is that it's somewhere between mobile view breaking it and me having missed something obvious.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 11d

I think I'm stuck in a captcha loop when I try to register. The details page (username, password, email, captcha) takes me to the ToS when I hit enter, and the ToS sends me back to the details page.

I'm on a mobile, so I'm blaming that rather than my technological ineptitude.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 12d

I've got 72 just on my phone!

My desktop is usually more under control, but it depends on if I'm having a working day (~10) or a job hunting day (could be over 50)

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 13d

This now hangs in my doorway to set the vibes for all who enter

Yellow orange poster with image of crying toddler in white tank top and shorts reaching up to be picked up by disembodied hands.

Words: “keep calm and baobao*”

*hug/carry

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 12d

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 14d

If I get a set of matching notebooks with a really good pen then I will definitely do a better job of both planning and carrying through on projects. That's obvious.

Duvet Gecko @duvetgecko.bsky.social · 15d

Dizzy was in the UK too, and the resemblance is uncanny