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Green Beam 19.01.2026, 22:54 MEZ/CET, bei/near Leipzig Blick Richtung Osten / View towards the east <a href="/tags/nikond7200/" rel="tag">#NikonD7200</a> | 10mm | f/2,8 | 8 Sek. | ISO 640 | 01/2026 <a href="/tags/auroraborealis/" rel="tag">#AuroraBorealis</a> <a href="/tags/auroraphotography/" rel="tag">#AuroraPhotography</a> <a href="/tags/astrophotography/" rel="tag">#astrophotography</a> <a href="/tags/polarlichter/" rel="tag">#Polarlichter</a> <a href="/tags/nordlichter/" rel="tag">#Nordlichter</a> <a href="/tags/astrofotografie/" rel="tag">#Astrofotografie</a> <a href="/tags/aurora/" rel="tag">#Aurora</a> <a href="/tags/northernlights/" rel="tag">#NorthernLights</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a>

DE: Spätabendlicher Blick auf ein paar Bäume. Am linken Bildrand versammeln sich nicht nur einzelne Häuser sondern es tänzeln auch rote und grüne Polarlichter am Himmel. Ein grüner Polarlicht-Streifen scheint das Bild das Bild regelrecht in zwei Teile zu spalten und hebt hervor, dass auf der rechten Seite keine Häuser, sondern weitere Bäume stehen.

EN: Late evening view of a few trees. Not only are there a few houses gathered at the left edge of the picture, but red and green auroras are also dancing in the sky. A green aurora strip seems to split the picture into two parts, emphasising that there are no houses on the right side, but more trees.

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I included these pieces in the exhibition that opened Sunday. The middle piece features the crackled, fragmented surface I wrote about a few weeks back. The two pieces on either end were formed with clay collected from a construction site in Sarasota County and are unglazed. Up close, you can see the grainy sediment including small, black fossil fragments. The Earth is its own document, leaving a record for us to decipher. <a href="/tags/wildclay/" rel="tag">#WildClay</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a>

A photo in landscape orientation of three pots collaged onto a background photo of a Florida clay mine. The surrounding stratified earth is mostly light orange with random patches and streaks of white.

The two pots on either end are cream colored and much simpler than my usual pottery. The pot on the left is V-shaped and features fine ridges applied to the surface in a symmetry that aligns with the form. The one on the right is a bit taller and curvier with applied ridges that form an X At the center of the piece.

The vessel in the middle has a spherical body and a long, flared neck. It is a lighter shade of off-white than the other two pieces and features a crackled surface. It sits on a ring wrapped with twine. The vessels and clay background together communicate a natural and earthy aesthetic.

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I’m trying to figure out what works better for alt text accessibility in practice — please reply ONLY if you ever actually use text-to-speech, braille interfaces, or anything similar for accessing the alt text of images. (Boosts welcome.) If I post a picture of writing in another language — say, Chinese — is it more frustrating to receive an imprecise general alt text like “a picture of Chinese calligraphy”, or for the actual unicode Chinese characters to be present in the alt text and shoved through your TTS? Does that just blast you with a bunch of numbers? Does it silently skip over non-western characters?My intuition is that the unicode Chinese characters would not be very helpful in this use case unless the user’s computer is already set up for Chinese TTS specifically because they speak a Chinese language, but I figured I should check. <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a>

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i want to hear from people who use screen readers: what makes alt text useful to you? what doesn't help?<a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/a11y/" rel="tag">#a11y</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a>

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Trump is no Napoleon.Excerpt from 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines.<a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/cdnpoli/" rel="tag">#cdnpoli</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a>

Excerpt from book 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM by over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines. Quote follows.

The aspects of Napoleon’s personality and vision that mattered most to Jacquard were unconnected with the new leader's political or military success. Rather, they were related to his respect and admiration for science. This, like the intensity of Napoleons own personal ambition, lay at the core of his personality. Indeed, once Napoleon became the undisputed ruler of
France in 1799 he deliberately set out to give an enormous boost to French science and industry.

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Hey <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gargron" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Gargron</a> and others at <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a>, if you care about <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#Alttext</a> put the hotkey back to save your changes. I instead am losing the entry because it's been removed in the page redesign. It's very bad regression.

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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. <a href="/tags/thicktrunktuesday/" rel="tag">#ThickTrunkTuesday</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a>

A human in a blue jacket stands at the base of a massive root wad of a fallen spruce tree, its spread of the root wad easily three times as high as he is tall. The trunk of the dead tree is 6-8 feet in diameter above the swell. Behind, the surf rolls in white under a blue sky, and in the background is a double-humped island with many trees on top.

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The first few developed sketches from my wee tour of Anglesey’s ancient sites. More burial chambers to come <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a> <a href="/tags/standingstonesunday/" rel="tag">#StandingStoneSunday</a> <a href="/tags/sketchbook/" rel="tag">#Sketchbook</a>

Photograph of a sketch in pencil on a sketchbook page, showing an arrangement of standing stones, closely placed, in circle with an entrance denoting the site as the foundations of a Romano-British roundhouse. A perimeter all of the same material and arrangement sits behind the house. Grass predominates with fallen stones in the foreground, while a thick, wintry tree line forms the background.

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Photograph of a sketch in pencil on a sketchbook page, showing a small patch of daisies in sunshine silhouetted against a large rock of a with darker vegetation and other, distant rocks arranged (by man) in the middle distance. The site is an ancient hut settlement of the Romano-British period.

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Photograph of a sketch in pencil on a sketchbook page, showing the disc-like growth of Pennywort among the rocks of a wall on the exterior of an ancient burial chamber. There is the sense of bright but not strong sunshine. The texture of the rock is coarse while the vegetation has a smooth, glossy sheen.

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Next time you catch yourself saying: 'Fuck. That was stupid. Why did I do that?'--- rewrite it: ---'Fuck. That was thoughtless. Why did I do that?'Then it becomes a problem you can work on vs. a reprimand from a shitty boss. Be kind to yourself.<a href="/tags/kindness/" rel="tag">#kindness</a> <a href="/tags/selfcare/" rel="tag">#selfcare</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a> <a href="/tags/psychology/" rel="tag">#psychology</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#photography</a>

A mild chicane in a rail line can be seen up ahead looking east from the bridge to the local cemetery. Although we're in town, you wouldn't know it. There are mountains of yellow in the frame, late-October fall trees surrounding us, remnants of the Great Carolinian Forest, and the rail bed itself lined with Halloween orange and browns. The yellow leaves seem to hold on longest. There's a V-shaped wedge of mottled blue sky in the background, summer's last goodbye wave.

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I enjoy looking over <a href="/tags/magicinthemundane/" rel="tag">#MagicInTheMundane</a> toots. I like that, without exception, they all have descriptions in the <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a> providing understanding and context. Thank you.

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Via u/AlbertaOnHorizon on r/MEOW_IRL <a href="/tags/bot/" rel="tag">#Bot</a> <a href="/tags/catsofmastodon/" rel="tag">#CatsOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/catstodon/" rel="tag">#Catstodon</a> <a href="/tags/cat/" rel="tag">#Cat</a> <a href="/tags/caturday/" rel="tag">#Caturday</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a>

A fluffy cat with orange and white fur playfully hangs upside down from sheer curtains, looking directly at the camera. The room features wooden flooring and a small stool is visible on the right side.

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Hi <a href="https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@MonaApp</a> - love your work :)I was wondering if you have looked into an option where <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a>, or perhaps the first two or three lines of it, just always appears like a caption below images that have it, instead of the indicator icon?Two reasons: 1. Sometimes the alt text indicator icon obscures a detail of the image I’d like to see. 2. Some alt text descriptions are actually just sheer poetry or otherwise interesting enough in their own right that I’d like to read them even if I have full visibility of the actual image. Showing the first few words (and some indicator of alt text length?) always would give me some odds of being able to tell when this is the case. Thanks again for such a great app :)

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I couldn't think of a better place where to take a portrait with my new, awesome <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Mastodon</a> t-shirt that reads: "I write <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a>" : the Louvre Museum, in front of the painting "The Battle of David and Goliath" by Daniele da Volterra.🔗 : <a href="https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy">https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-i-write-alt-text-unisex-t-shirt-copy</a>And may I share an ambitious goal with you?I want to start advocating for the Louvre Museum to join the Fediverse (they're currently on all Big Tech social platforms only). Let's see what I can do 🤗

A vertical photo showing yours truly (a Caucasian woman with long brown hair) standing in front of the painting "The Battle of David and Goliath" in the Grande Gallerie of the Louvre Museum. I am wearing a navy cardigan, navy wide leg pants and the Mastodon t-shirt "I write alt text"

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Theater District, Manhattan - 7th Avenue at 53rd StreetIt’s wild to see a 10+ block view clear of traffic south to Times Square. The protest march is right behind me. Thousands of people are watching and joining the route from side streets.<a href="/tags/nyc/" rel="tag">#NYC</a> <a href="/tags/nokings/" rel="tag">#NoKings</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#AltText</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a>

A color, wide-angle photograph in portrait orientation that captures a rare, expansive view looking south down Seventh Avenue from 52nd Street toward Times Square. The broad asphalt canyon is strikingly empty of vehicles, cleared for an upcoming protest march. In the foreground, a few scattered pedestrians and a cyclist cross the wide street, while a single black police SUV sits at a red light on the left. In the mid-ground, a dense crowd of people begins to swell, filling the street and sidewalks as they head south. The towering skyscrapers on either side create a deep linear perspective, drawing the eye toward the horizon where the blue sky and soft white clouds peek through the urban corridor. The architecture is a mix of classic stone facades and modern glass towers, many of which are adorned with the vibrant, glowing digital billboards characteristic of the Theater District. On the right, American flags flutter from a building near the "I LOVE NY GIFTS" shop and the Playwright Tavern. Bright yellow traffic lights hang over the empty lanes, their glow contrasting with the cool shadows cast by the buildings. The lighting is crisp and natural, with sunlight hitting the upper stories of the skyscrapers and casting long, soft shadows across the street, emphasizing the scale and temporary stillness of the normally bustling Manhattan thoroughfare.

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