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Jenn M-S

@jlms-qkw.bsky.social

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SLC, UT. Left-leaning politics & leadership. Quilt, knit, read, cook, bake, cat mom. Adult kids. Empty nest enjoyer. She/Her ELCA Disability Justice, and more. Use #AltText see my pinned.

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Jenn M-S @jlms-qkw.bsky.social · Nov 18

Here's @ebthen.bsky.social with everything #AltText: bsky.app/profile/ebth...

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Nov 14

If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong...

this thread is for you.

First: prompt questions to get you started.

Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · May 20

Alt text prompt Qs:

What would someone who can't see the image need to know about it in order to take part in the conversation? What is it about this image that made you choose it? What are the important details someone who could see the image would take away from it?

(Not for images of text.)

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Alerts from NWS Salt Lake City UT (UNOFFICIAL) @slc.nws-bot.us · 11h

🚨 Flash Flood Warning issued October 10 at 11:48PM MDT until October 11 at 1:00AM MDT by NWS Salt Lake City UT 🚨
Additional Details Here.

At 1148 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 0.75 and 1.25 inches of
rain have fallen. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.

HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing
flash flooding.

SOURCE...Radar.

IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of slot canyons and
typically dry washes.

Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Zion National Park and Springdale, particularly the upper Narrows
and the Subway.

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Amelia @ameliaearhart2.bsky.social · 1d

Please read. We have just 10 days to muster the resources to help recent DV survivor Chris & precious 14 y.o. feline Zoe on their journey to a safe new home. DV makes you feel small & worthless. Donations & reposts say to Chris: YOU MATTER. Thanks. 🧡🧡🧡
www.gofundme.com/f/moving-to-...

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Summer Whitesell @linimentcake.bsky.social · 11h

It turns out there were two ways to achieve equality in this nation...white America chose the version that wrecks everybody's lives...We could have had help buying our first home, or helped each other through tough times, but we chose this, instead...

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15h

FYI, all law enforcement already treats Black Americans this way. Welcome!

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 12h

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 12h

I remember how, before this game started, I thought, it'll be done around 11, I'll finish the dishes then, take out the trash, get in bed and maybe read for an hour. I was so much younger then

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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 12h

[sad violin music]

"My Dearest Martha... Our supplies are getting low. The concourse is entirely out of nachos. I pray divine providence will allow us to see each other again one day, in this world or the next"

Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 12h

"11th Inning: Just This One Damned Game"

Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 12h

Well, now we know what the next "inning" of Ken Burns' "Baseball" will be

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Darren and Poley @darrenandpoley.bsky.social · 12h

ah yes, the 15th inning, in which every player who fails to get on base is sacrificed into the pit of moloch

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12h

I've never been this invested in something I'm not watching and don't understand

Pamela Dean @pameladean.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you. I really don't appreciate sports, but this is so dramatic out of context that I might have a peek.

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JazzyUte @jazzyute.bsky.social · 12h

Memory: years ago, probably late 90s, early 00s staying the night at my aunt's house sleeping on her couch & watching the Mariners play an insane extra innings game...like insane amount (20 innings? I don't know...) while flipping back and forth between Clerks on IFC (first time I had ever seen it).

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 17d

Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past two decades studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.

RFK Jr. has now cut her entire division.

RFK Jr. Vowed to Find the Environmental Causes of Autism. Then He Shut Down Research Trying to Do Just That.

While touting a $50 million initiative to identify the causes of autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is helping lead an administration that is rolling back protections against pollution and toxic chemicals,...

www.propublica.org

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 12h

Leaving that video up but restricting comments after MANY people have told you you're spreading false info because it's generated?

Finally puts a finger why that account has always seemed suspsish to me.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 13h

I just love how much ducks love peas

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13h

as someone who worked at the CDC, the way they’ve targeted these illegal firings are pretty much what i would do to inflict maximum damage to what remains of our nation’s federal public health infrastructure. a hostile takeover of the agency

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 14h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jenn M-S @jlms-qkw.bsky.social · 13h

But can they get a better name?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Liberal Librarian, Emotional Support Cuban 📚 🌿🕓 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 13h

OK you magnificent bastards, enough of this gay banter. Y'all have a great night or a wonderful day. I'm outtie.

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Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 13h

i mean. it's not entirely out of the question.

Laurel Krahn @wintwins.bsky.social · 14h

A Jorge Polanco walk off could still be sweet, but we might be here for a while.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Wolverinethad (Boo Thad) @lettersfromthewasteland.org · 13h

Me, a Tigers fan, this whole series.

Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 14h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 13h

RIFed:

OHR - Office of Human Resources

…. did I get this right?
Like… can you even eliminate the OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES?

🤯

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Jenn M-S @jlms-qkw.bsky.social · 13h

Since 2001 . . .

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 17h

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

In Minnesota, 118 students are also under quarantine in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 1d

Make no mistake, when the state imprisons a trans woman in a men's prison, it intentionally procures her for the purpose of having her raped. The statistics are extremely clear-cut and consistent in every jurisdiction where they have been collected. There is no way around them

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