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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · Jan 6

If I've liked your hilarious meme or beautiful picture but not reposted it, it might be because you didn't include alt text

Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · Dec 16

What's alt text? Why is it important on Bluesky? How do I write it? Where am I? What's going on?

Alt text 101 for Bluesky | Digital Philosophy by Manning Krull

Hi! You may be here because I or someone else sent you this link in response to a conversation about alt text on Bluesky. Welcome! This is a short article about alt text, its importance, and how to wr...

manningkrull.com

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 2h

*Cù Mara, I never get those accents in the right direction

Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 2h

I wish somewhere like Cú Mara had existed when I lived & worked in Arrochar 20 years ago. The Arrochar chippy has also significantly upped its game since those days

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 2h

There's a good reason these hills are known as the Arrochar Alps

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 2h

Epic cloud + sun conditions in Arrochar today. Good day out with eldest child even if we did miss the planned train back to Glasgow and were forced to eat good pizza in an excellent wee bistro while we waited for the next train

A full 360 degree circle of fogbow - like a pale double rainbow with a dark annulus between the two brighter rings - seen on/in mist drifting across a rocky mountainside. At the exact centre of the circle, a small shadow of a person is projected on the mist with a rainbow halo around their head - a Brocken Spectre with a Glory. Beyond and through the mist are other mountains and drifts of cloud below a bright blue sky

A boy with a rucksack stands with his back to the camera admiring the magnificent mountain scenery beyond. Below blue sky, a rugged crag-set mountain peak is wreathed in mists. The angles and features of the crags are defined by shadows, mists and bright illumination from the sun. The mist is thickest on the left slope of the mountain and the broad arete that connects the minor summit where the boy is standing to the peak. The boy has a bright blue rucksack with a hiviz bike helmet dangling from it, and he's holding walking poles.

A pointed tooth of mountain - the South Peak of the Cobbler - emerges dramatically from a dense bank of cloud, seen from high on the neighbouring hill of Beinn Narnain

The sun glowing wanly through a bank of cloud above the shining ribbon of Loch Long, as seen from high on a craggy mountainside. Mist pours through the glen below on the right, half obscuring the hill ridges beyond, but the loch is clear

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Florie @floriemarie.fr · 17h

Allez, on répète après moi :

ChatGPT 👏👏
n’est pas 👏👏
un moteur 👏👏
de recherche 👏👏

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 5h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 5h

This is the kind of full and unequivocal defense trans people deserve to hear from more candidates for office

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dan Harris @roostweather.bsky.social · 5h

Today's (11th October) maximum temperatures and anomalies (compared to '91-'20 average) from SYNOP observations.

#Aboyne No 2 was the warmest location with a max #temperature of 20.8C.

https://www.roostweather.com/ukobs/maxtemp_map.php?date=2025-10-11

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 4h

I think fond memories of momentum are what animates most of the remaining mailing list membership (the ones who haven't got fed up with the nonsense and joined the greens already). I don't think the landlord transphobe anti abortion MPs are that bothered by recapturing the magic of 2017 though

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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 5h

Siberian Chiffchaff at Bracken Hill Alnmouth this evening as I scanned the skies hoping for a northbound swift. Then a Common Sandpiper calling at Foxton Bends as I stopped to take this photo #NEbirding #birds

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 4h

Your Party's biggest problem is that they're all Labour brained. They're constantly trying to outmanoeuvre each other and establish their own little fiefdoms inside the party, and values and policies take second fiddle to that

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 4h

It seems to me like it would have been more prudent to simply not have those guys involved in the first place

Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 4h

Membership sacking 60% of the MPs at the first party conference doesn't seem like a great start for a new party though

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 4h

Doesn't sound like a party that will be around for a particularly long time then. I don't know why Sultana is even bothering to stick with them given the way the landlord transphobe MPs have behaved towards her

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 4h

Are you saying he's set up a political party with people he fundamentally disagrees with? That seems a bit of a daft thing for him to do

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Rod Jones @rodshelf.bsky.social · 5h

Chiffchaff among the hawthorn berries in Shelf Woods, Halifax. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Front view of a chiffchaff - a small, olive-coloured warbler - perching on a branch among green leaves and red berries.

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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 5h

have been informed that the excellent sacred paws are doing a special show at the qmu next thursday (16th) accompanying margaret salmon’s exhibition at the hunterian — get in!

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 6h

Fashy Cinemasins

That's what this is, the effect the proliferation of "anti-woke" youtube grifters have had on their audiences as a whole, stunting their ability to engage with media and training them to look for "DEI sins" to call out, atrophying their ability to enjoy the games they're playing.

No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6h

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 7h

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8h

the inability to view any stand you personally disagree with as motivated by anything except clout chasing is a true disease of the soul and the fact the sufferers walk around like asymptomatic carriers openly saying things like this and thinking they have been insightful is part of the pathology

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 13h

Covid vax should be just as available as the flu vax. Even ignoring the risk of death, there's so many people losing at least a week a year to covid illness, let alone the longer term disability risks, that you'd think this worker-productivity obsessed government would want to do something

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 1d

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Spooky neighbourhood baby octoghost @mancalledhorse.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck is wrong with Labour?Blair is still alive yet somehow his malign spirit manages to animate the twitching corpse of this zombie government

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 1d

I think it was @hannahfearn.bsky.social who was asking what's up with the govt's ability to read the room ...
In what world is the response to high-profile and vocal groups of parents raising concerns about teens and smartphones to propose digital ID for teenagers?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.