Amanda Unvarnished

I am floored and fascinated by the near-literary quality of many of the descriptions of images that people carefully craft when appending pictures to their posts on Mastodon. Some of them will reveal a detail that had escaped my attention. Others will help me understand a subtle joke I had missed. Others still are true poems. ALT are their own microblogging world that reveals itself as you hover on a picture. And I hover, and hover.

#AltText #inclusivity
#Mastodon #netiquette #tootiquette

—@fheinderyckx

seeing pro-DRM arguments in my computing activist groups and it’s making me depressed, what the fuck, how did things get this bad

—@cwebber

Via Josh Gerstein

Someone reach out to RFK Jr. for comment pls

Laura Rozen:

Reporter at White House briefing says they were informed going into Herzog Biden photo spray that several members of the Israeli delegation tested positive for #covid

—@GottaLaff

Last year, I was being swamped with spam texts. That’s all changed. Barely get them anymore. Except politicians. All the time, politicians. Block them, they spam from another number, every day.

—@bryansmart

As much as newsrooms sniffed at bloggers and blogging, I love the wonderful irony that so many of them now depend on WordPress–<sniff> blogging software–as their CMSes. Karma. 6/

—@jeffjarvis

This is fine… https://apnews.com/article/phoenix-heat-record-48e8d06cd7c103f6bfcc4c883efd6543

—@chris