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[ ID: A small Chuck E. Cheese's cup with Chuck the mouse's face on the side filled to the top with the currency of Chuck E. Cheese's. End ID. ]

Chuck E Cheese got me pregnant and gave me this as "child support". I don't know what I'm going to do.

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[ ID: A quote tweet from the user @/GBBranstetter. The user quote tweets a post from @/josephfcox that says, "New: some Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, 'a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia [link to 404 media (hyperlink)]."

GBBranstetter says, "Notable to me that every for-profit information hub is injecting AI into every corner of their services while the largest nonprofit education hub is fighting it off like it's their the Night's Watch." End ID. ]

A group of Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.” The group’s goal is to protect one of the world’s largest repositories of information from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued Google search results, books sold on Amazon, and academic journals. “A few of us had noticed the prevalence of unnatural writing that showed clear signs of being AI-generated, and we managed to replicate similar ‘styles’ using ChatGPT,” Ilyas Lebleu, a founding member of WikiProject AI Cleanup, told me in an email. “Discovering some common AI catchphrases allowed us to quickly spot some of the most egregious examples of generated articles, which we quickly wanted to formalize into an organized project to compile our findings and techniques.”

9 October 2024

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TONE TAG MASTER POST

common

/srs - serious or not joking /nsrs - not serious /j - joking or kidding /hj - half joking /ref - reference /nf - not fake or not forced /gen - genuine /pos - positive /neg - negitive

semi-common

/s or /sarc - sarcastic or sarcasm /lh - light-hearted /genq - genuine question /nm - not mad /p or /plat - platonic /r or /rom - romantic /neu - neutral /lyr - lyrics /nbh - nobody here

uncommon

/vpos - very positive /ij - inside joke /t - teasing or teasingly /q - quote /c - copypasta /f - fake /rh or /rt - rhetorical question /sx or /x - sexual connotation /nsx or /nx - non sexual connotation /th - threat /cb - clickbait /ma - manifesting /lu - a little upset /nay - not at you /ay - at you /hyp - hyperbole /ot - off topic

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Hi, I'm working on a post and I was wondering if you could help me make it more accessible. I want to post screenshots of my favorite passages from a book, usually a paragraph or a couple, with a sentence or two highlighted as my favorite quote.

I plan to put the transcriptions under the idividual screenshots, but I don't know what to do with the highlights. I've found out that screen readers don't pick up on bolded or italicized text, and underlined is also not recommended, but I'm not sure what's a good alternative?

One thing you could do is something like [bold] this [end bold]. While the brackets won't be read on all screen readers, the words defintely will be!

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[ ID: A gif of Daphne Blake and Fred Jones hiding behind a snowmobile. The two duck into their own jackets and then duck off screen. End ID ]

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[ ID: A looping gif of Scooby-Doo coming out of a purple Toy Duplicating Machine. End ID ]

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[ ID: A gif of Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Rogers sitting at a booth table. Both of their tongues roll out comically, and then they lick their lips and swallow. End ID ]

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If you are queer. If you are trans. Intersex. Please make something. It doesn’t matter what, the world needs to know you.

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[ID: three screenshots of tweets, blurred so they’re illegible. 'photo' is written over each in large all caps. /end ID]

if you don't add alt text, a caption, or a link, this is all the information screenreader users get about your screenshots

screenshots of text take an accessible format and make it unaccessible. it takes less clicks to copy the text of a tweet than it does to screenshot and crop it.

here is a guide on writing image descriptions.

caption your images. let disabled people in on your jokes too.

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[ ID: A picture of the characters Sandy Cheeks and SpongeBob Squarepants looking unamused with text that says "Can we start normalising being kind? Some of y'all are fucking rude bro it's insane." End ID. ]

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"In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”

“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”

Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”

It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option."

--Against Access, by John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind educator

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[ ID: Two gifs of a Black woman talking to someone off camera. She says, "Trans people aren't a debate" in the first gif and "We're human beings" in the second gif. End ID. ]

HEARTSTOPPER (2022 - ) I 3.06 - Body

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Discord Server

If you've ever wanted to help with image descriptions, there is now a discord server for exactly that! Whether you're an artist wanting to learn how to do alt text, or a fan wanting to increase accessibility for your fellow fans, you can join us, ask questions, and get support.

DM @cosmereplay to get an invite link to the Cosmere Described discord server!

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[ ID: A painting of a scene from the movie Nope (directed by Jordan Peele). The image is of a man in an orange hoodie on a black horse leading a large circular entity, that looks a bit like a sombrero, through the desert with a line of colored triangle banners. End ID. ]

it was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin' purple people eater

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[ ID: A tweet from the account @/GraceGFreud that reads "Oh, you were in gifted and talented classes and now have a job that sucks? Sorry, man. I was in special ed and now I eat pussy for a living." End ID. ]

tweet of all time

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i came across a website today that has a huge log of movies and tv shows on streaming services and other media that have audio descriptions! it's called the Audio Description Project and is ran by the American Council of the Blind. it's a huge resource that, besides info on what has audio descriptions, also has info on what they are, why they're important, and how to write them! i think it's pretty neat check it out

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[ ID: A tweet from @/ayy_vuh that says, "I'm sure young people getting told 'don't go into this industry it's a sinking ship' from literally every industry is a sign of a healthy society." End ID. ]