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Castor Starr 🌈 📚 @castorstarr.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Reminder that the best thing you can do to support open and free information is to USE YOUR LIBRARY #booksky #librarysky #diversebooksky #supportyourlocallibrary #diversebooks #libraries

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

hey! Fantasy Magazine is currently open to submissions from BIPOC writers (today through Jan 25th) send us your fantastic stories! full guidelines here (PLEASE read the full guidelines before submitting)

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Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

updated January 22, 2025

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I know it’s easier said than done to not stress too much right now, but please keep in mind all the setbacks we’re going to face in terms of healthcare, and how damaging for your health a dysregulated nervous system can be. Please do everything you can to prioritize your wellbeing, health, & peace!

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Some helpful info to have should you encounter a, ahem, roman saluter

$Image titled 'Proper Fist Alignment is an Absolute Must!' from the Georgia Karate Academy and American JKA Karate Association. The image shows multiple diagrams of fists with text explanations for proper and improper fist alignment. - Top-left image: 'Good alignment with the contact area of the knuckles and the elbow will properly generate a straight line of force and power transmission.' - Top-center image: 'Completely tuck the thumb at the base of the clinched fist to protect it.' - Top-right image: 'Use only the two major knuckles closest to the hand for the fit of the two lower fingers to strike with.' - Middle-left image: 'Incorrect alignment of wrist with contact area of knuckles and fist will cause injury and lack of force.' - Middle-center image: 'Do not wrap the thumb inside of the fist. It will end up in pain with this hit!' - Middle-right image: 'Do not bend the wrist. This will improperly align the direction of force and may cause serious wrist fracture or injury.' - Bottom-left image: 'Good alignment of wrist with contact area of knuckles and fist for forceful striking.' - Bottom-center image: 'Clinch the fist completely to have zero air pockets between the fold of the fingers and the palm.' - Bottom-right image: 'The contact surface area of the straight fist is to be the first and second knuckles, no more, no less.' Each point includes corresponding illustrations of correct or incorrect fist positions, marked with checkmarks or Xs.$

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

- I’d argue even moreso than just not adding captions in the first place. This specifically excludes people that are deaf, hard of hearing, have audio processing issues, etc. from accessing your content and I imagine it’s extremely confusing to see.

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Yes, it’s very hard to organize and educate when we’re being censored on social media, but no, IT IS NOT OK to misuse the captions feature to circumvent that. It makes your content explicitly inaccessible to people that rely on accurate captions -

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hey diva 💕 Please remember to at least take a break from doomscrolling today to take care of yourself. Hydrate, eat, take your meds. It’s natural to feel radicalized more than ever right now, but you can’t pour from an empty cup, and you certainly can’t start a revolution without fueling your body.

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

-Doesn’t confirm anything but implies that the plot point has indeed been changed from Nessa being granted the ability to walk, so we shall see.

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I saw a lot of their commentary on the importance of casting a real wheelchair user but haven’t seen anything about them saying they’ll use CGI or exactly how this will be handled in part 2 so I would def love to see a source on that! The closest I’ve seen is this quote from Marissa Bode which-

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Although Bode can’t say much about what will happen in Wicked Part 2, which comes out in November 2025, she does say that “there will be movie magic and just magic in general, but just not in the way that I think a lot of people think it might be. There have been changes that I think are great in terms of representation in a healthy way, but I don’t think I can say more than that.”

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Oh I haven’t seen that! Where did they say that?

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Unfortunately, people with disabilities were overlooked in that regard in the original show, and I think it makes sense for a modern-day production to have some revisions in that area on a show that premiered over 20 years ago.

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

While there’s a ton I could say on that, I think this is enough: Is Elphaba actually de-greenified in the story? Why not? She isn’t, because it would negate the message and major themes of the story.

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’ve seen a lot of discourse on whether Nessarose will gain the ability to walk in #Wicked: Part 2, and whether or not that would be problematic. One thing I’ve seen multiple times is people comparing Nessa being granted the ability to walk with Elphaba’s potential “de-greenifying” by the wizard.

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Pagan in Arizona @apaganinarizona.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The words "CEO" and "healthcare" should never be in the same sentence.

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Spotify: March was your Francophile Cowgirl Crush Punk phase Me: Uh huh that’s right Spotify: In July you had a Surf Princess Girl Math Autoerotic-core moment Me: I recall that, yes

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ari🍥 @acariusb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

face card never declines

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

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Disability Rights Arkansas @disabilityrightsar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hi @bsky.app👋 We are DRA! We want our state to be one in which the rights of all people are respected. All people have the right to be equal members of their communities & to live with self-determination. Visit: disabilityrightsar.org #DisabilityRightsAR #Advocacy #Arkansas #DisabilityRights

Text Reads: What We Do: Sometimes our clients need legal advice or representation. Sometimes they need information or referral to another agency for services. We provide information about voting rights, self-advocacy, and laws & policies that affect the lives of people with disabilities. We can intervene in cases of abuse or neglect. We monitor facilities to ensure that they are accessible. Disability Rights Arkansas.

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Jennifer Goodland @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

PLEASE run for your library board. A lot of bad actors are on library boards because they seek to control and diminish the library, not support it. Some boards refuse to hire qualified librarians and seek to deprofessionalize the field. It won’t change unless you join!

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National Disability Rights Network @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Good thread on what alt-text is and why it’s so important #Disability #DisabilityRights #Accessibility

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

All these years, I thought all or most primaries would be as unhelpful as the one I was seeing; I was doing so much extra work managing my specialists and medications. I’m so happy this new doctor is going to take a little bit of that responsibility off my plate by helping with that!

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Had my new patient appt with a new PCP today and she’s amazing. I didn’t realize how helpful a good primary can actually be!!! I haven’t left a doctor’s visit feeling this good in a long time, if ever

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Farm Goth 🇵🇸 @poemsandfungus.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I will literally never get over how many of the loudest "disability justice" voices on this site don't wear masks. You only care about helping disabled people when it doesn't inconvenience you.

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Andrew Gurza @andrewgurza6.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

hi everyone! abortion is a disability justice issue.

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open records nerd ♿️🦮🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @openrecordsnerd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

As a person who can be forgetful but who also wants to uphold disability justice whenever I can, I wanted to share how you can change your settings so that Bluesky won’t allow you to post until all your images have alt text. Alt text doesn’t have to be a big ordeal!

image shows the accessibility settings menu for bluesky, where one can toggle on or off different settings, including to make it mandatory to add alt text to images.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/11/2024

The discourse over twitter & leaving vs staying is getting truly goofy in some directions. Twitter is not a *place* ffs. Twitter without the people is nothing. We have 100% of the power over whether twitter has value or not. When we leave, we're not ceding ground? We're taking the ground with us.

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Feders 😷🇵🇸 @feders.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Glad to see more people from the old place posting here, it'd be great if you took few seconds to go into your profile and selected: Settings > Accessibility > Alt text Require alt text before posting ✔️ Cheers!

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< Accessibility Settings

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• Require alt text before posting [selected]
• Display larger alt text badges

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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

PSA for newbies: Please include ALT text on your images. This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people. Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people. Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered. Thanks!

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I should have added: If you need help remembering to write alt text, Bluesky has a reminder function in Settings. You do need to turn it on to use it, but many folks say it helps.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Incidentally, all of what I've explained above is why a. AI alt text will not save us. b. Copy/pasting the same alt text for an image every time you use it with no edits is rarely appropriate. c. Storing a single alt text option in an image's metadata is unhelpful.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

People stress me out with how much they misunderstand "alt text is contextual". It doesn't mean you put the context of the image in the alt text. It doesn't mean you skimp on the alt text, either. It means the alt text is going to change depending on where and why you post the image.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Please don't. "Alt" is a 30-year-old HTML attribute that has a very specific use and it's not "adding extra information for the fun of people who don't need alt text". Stick to what alt text is for.

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Fr!! They’re gonna ruin it like they did with smoshtwt

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sa5m the 5 is silent @isamwhatisam.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

ten mins before toxic smosh fans join the skyverse quick guys lets talk about how funny noah grossman is

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hey! I’m Madison, or Maddy, or Lelu! I’m passionate about discussing chronic illness and disability issues. I have #hEDS #POTS and #endometriosis. I also have two adorable Shiba Inu dogs named Cosmo and Daisy and a black cat named Mavis. I got married to my best friend almost 1 year ago 🥰

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A bride and groom standing close together, smiling at each other under a shared wedding veil. The bride wears a detailed, beaded wedding gown with visible beaded accents on her veil, while the groom is in a suit. They are positioned in front of a building with green doors, creating a romantic and intimate atmosphere.

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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Dysautonomia is so often ignored in a #ME #MEcfs diagnosis. I wish I’d known about it years ago. I would have avoided so much worry and self-doubt. I was a sitting target for the snake oil vendors and gaslighting Drs. Beta blockers have helped a bit. #disautonomia #POTS #LongCovid

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Madison Rodriguez @maddylelu.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Any other users passionate about disability and chronic illness advocacy and justice? Let’s follow each other!

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Puneet Singh Singhal @puneetsiinghal.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Disabled people shouldn’t have to ask for access, accommodations, or basic civil rights. The ableist system puts nondisabled folks in charge as gatekeepers, controlling what rights we get. That’s not justice — it’s exclusion. #Disability #HumanRights #SDGs #Poverty #Technology #Cinema #Equality

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Leslie Templeton @somesaylezzels.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just waiting for my algorithm to become politics, disability justice, and raccoons

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