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#this does make me wonder what is then the appropriate way to provide alt text for art#like if the purpose of a image is the very image then are these still appropriate guidelines <- I actually have something of an answer to this! Best practice for embedded image alt text is to keep it short, 140 characters or less. (That's characters, not words.)

However! If you're providing a description of your art in the comment section of your post, you can afford to go a little longer. The key is just to think about how long someone with a screen reader is going to have to sit there listening to a robot read it. So I'd recommend distilling the essence of the art into a sentence or two, max, if you can.

Ultimately, you want to provide a general idea of the art, but you should avoid getting too lost in the details.

Great information to know! Thank you!!!

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@fredericktjoseph

Welp Elon… #elon #elonmusk #twitter #twittermemes #sanfrancisco

♬ Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift

[Video description: A tiktok video by fredericktjoseph with the cover text “Twitter HQ tonight as hundreds of employees quit because of Elon”. Behind it in an office building in the dark with the twitter logo on a sign on the left. On the building itself is a projection with scrolling white letters that reads: “Elon Musk: supreme parasite, petulant pimple, petulant profiteer, dictators asskisser, lawless oligarch, insecure colonizer, cruel hoarder, space Karen, mediocre manchild, pressurized privilege, petty racist, megalomaniac”. The audio plays Taylow Swift’s antihero, the lyrics features are “Did you hear my covert narcissism, I disguise as altruism, like some kind of congressman. Tale as old as time. I wake up screaming from dreaming , one day I’ll watch as you’re leaving and life will lose all its meaning, for the last time. It’s me, Hi, I’m the problem, it’s me.”]

Tumblr seems to not display this video for everyone, if you don’t see it you can also find it here: https://www.tiktok.com/@fredericktjoseph/video/7167183175041486126

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#SpaceKaren broke me

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Clever billboard advertising the BBCs Dracula. (This is why you hire artists.) Follow it to the end.

Pretty clever, right?

https://www.facebook.com/KushFeed/

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saw this poster at my local trans resource center and cried

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Friend of mine was submitting a job application and discovered that they REQUIRED a photo:

We’re trying to decide which of these is a better option:

or

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I felt like the fears in this style would be cute as hell, and I was right

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my first reading in my African history class this year is about why using “tribe” to refer to ethnic groups stems from a racist desire to make African conflicts sound primitive or stemming from a desire to pretend that these are just ancient conflicts that have always existed. great article and I also feel like I’m vicariously experiencing the bullshittery that this author has been subjected to from people they’ve tried to talk to about this. like the article remains extremely professional but you can just hear in the tone that they’re talking through gritted teeth, you can practically see the customer service smile

[ID: a screenshot from a section of the article titled “But why not use ‘tribe’? Answers to common arguments.” Under the bullet point for the argument “Africans talk about themselves in terms of tribes” is written, “Commonly when Africans learn English they are taught that tribe is the term that English-speakers will recognize. But what underlying meaning in their own languages are Africans translating when they say tribe? Take the word isizwe in Zulu. In English, writers often refer to the Zulu tribe, whereas in Zulu the word for the Zulu as a group would be isizwe. Often Zulu-speakers will use the English word tribe because that’s what they think English speakers expect, or what they were taught in school. Yet Zulu linguists say that a better translation of isizwe is nation or people.” /end ID] 

translation: “ ‘Oh ho ho but some Africans themselves say tribe!’ You dipshit. You fucking donkey. When someone has a word that means “nation” or “people” in their own language but then when they learn English YOU TELL THEM IT TRANSLATES TO “TRIBE” then THAT WILL BE THE WORD THEY USE. Maybe if you LISTENED TO THE LINGUISTS OF THAT GROUP you’d have more accurate information. Asshole.”

each point is repeated over and over with like five different examples because you just know there are dipshits out there who will keep arguing.

to the anonymous author of this article for the Africa Policy Information Center I hope you have a good day every day and experience fewer people being assholes about this, your patience is actually legendary

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Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken

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Every year, “millions of dollars” are spent on reforesting landscapes, according to Lalisa Duguma of World Agroforestry, an international research agency in Nairobi, Kenya. Yet “there are few success stories.” Typically only a minority of seedlings survive, he says, because the wrong trees are planted in the wrong places, and many are left untended, in part because ownership and management of trees is not handed over to local communities.

Such failures often go unnoticed, believes Duguma, because performance indicators measure planting rates not survival rates, and long-term oversight is minimal because projects typically last three years or less. The result is “phantom forests.”

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Too often, argues Duguma, tree planting is “greenwashing” aimed at grabbing headlines and promoting an image of governments or corporations as environmentally friendly. Tiina Vahanen, deputy director of forestry at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, noted recently that many projects end up being little more than “promotional events, with no follow-up action.”

Cynical PR is one thing, but phantom forests are also increasingly sabotaging efforts to rein in climate change. This happens when planters claim the presumed take-up of carbon by growing forests as carbon credits. If certified by reputable bodies, these credits can count toward governments meeting their national emissions targets or be sold to industrial polluters to offset their emissions. Many corporations plan to use their purchase of carbon credits as a means of fulfilling promises to attain “net-zero” emissions. So the stakes are rising.

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couldn't resist painting Yaz in her Dirk Gently era

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