I’m not reading all that, but to add to the GOP crash out series …Okay, I realized it needs alt text, but again, I refuse to read it, so this is a straight up copy-and-paste from the screenshots with no checking or editing whatsoever mu.social/profile/wertwhile.bsky.social…
Joel Wertheimer
This Vance post. The Trump era is over.
Nov 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM
How I Write Alt-Text - 12 Aug 2026 03:30 UTC
‘Alt-text’ is short for alternative text, and is used to convey the substance of visual content as text. It is important for people with visual disabilities, though is beneficial for a wide range of people. It is useful for low-speed connections where an image might not load, for searching for an image, for SEO/AIO/GEO, for cases where a link to an image is broken, for understanding context, and for a variety of other gains.
Briefing_Building a New Social Web-20260218.pdf
The Alt-Right Playbook x PhilosophyTube: Doublewrong
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic information addicts. It broke me. It might break you, too.
Liberalism Won't Admit What it Actually Stands For
Clouded skies for open networks
Last week, I finished an essay about platform design affordances and content moderation expectations and community-level context collapse on Bluesky for Tech Policy Press and set it aside to cool before a last read-through. An hour later, the Trump administration brought to Bluesky a propaganda-zombie army made
it's my following and i want it my way! - matt's not blog
a late response to the social graph talk from last week
No Longer No Sense of an Ending
This is my first feature piece on Contents Magazine, about harnessing the properties of hypertext and the Web for superior reader experiences and business results.
With alt text mu.social/profile/oversightdemocrats.bs…
Oversight Dems
Official statement from incoming chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform @robertgarcia.house.gov:
With alt text (and YES) bsky.app/profile/bringmethenews.bsky.s…
Bring Me The News
The day after winning election, Senator-elect Peggy Flanagan called for Chuck Schumer to be replaced as the Democrats’ leader in the U.S. Senate.
Grace
Are you tired of context-breaking blocks like this one? If you want to see the quoted post, you can simply take the post URL and replace bsky.app -> impro.social to view it, no login required!
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Semble
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Amusing how if you read X, Facebook, most of NYTimes and The Atlantic, all of The Argument, and so forth, yesterday was a huge surprise and you have to reset everything from the past two years. But if you joined BlueSky in November 2024 and clicked on any politics-related starter pack, you're good.
Unsorted visual collection (with alt text)
Note that the alt text may be in the original post. I don’t know whether that would be readable directly on Semble etc. or not. See also currents.is/profile/aiueo.ooo
Unsorted visual collection (without alt text)
Will try to remember to add alt text as a note or by other means and then move it to the “with alt text” collection. See also currents.is/profile/aiueo.ooo
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Notes made while looking into questionable Bluesky accounts, potentially fake news websites, etc.
beetle moses (@beetlemoses.bsky.social)
Puff the Magic Hater (@mskellymhayes.bsky.social)
#NoKings #Manhattan
poorly drawn cats (@poorlycatdraw.bsky.social)
Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...
Laura Loomer for the past 24 hours
わかりました
@pmamtraveller.bsky.social
今日も一日
Sue Perteem-Tuenfor (@unlox.bsky.social)
Post Office Plato, MN
Post Office Mechanicsburg, IL
