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Erin Biba

@erinbiba.bsky.social

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Nov 18

A "WHAT IS ALT TEXT AND HOW DO I EVEN DO IT?" PRIMER.

If anyone hangs out around Bluesky for long enough it's inevitable that they'll run into alt text discourse. Some of us may not even know what alt text is or how to use it or why it's important. WELL. Essentially, this text

December 1, 2024 at 7:39 PM

bree bird 🇨🇦

@goose.ski

February 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM

pikkyu 🎨 VGen Comms Open // PIKMIK

@pikkyu.creator.blue

Tip for better TTs use for tags;

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Oct 22

PSA from the Bluesky "It's A Feature, Not A Bug" files: when you post your hashtags, it's good to use #PascalCase (capitalize each word in the tag). That'll allow screen readers to pronounce the tags in a comprehensible way. But that works everywhere, not just here on Bluesky.

October 23, 2024 at 9:29 AM

Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet.bsky.social

a sermon i endorse bsky.app/profile/eust...

Eustaciavye77 @eustaciavye77.bsky.social · Nov 14

I’ve been saying for years that it’s way easier to avoid problematic language if you just swear more.

November 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM

Derby County

@derbycounty.bsky.social

EUST ACE BARMY ARMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#dcfcfans #dcfc

March 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM

Comfortably Numb

@numb.comfortab.ly

More detailed information on how this works

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Nov 9

THE ALT4ME/ALT TEXT PRIMER YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED (now in thread-composed format) 🧵

If you're new to Bluesky and/or unfamiliar with the culture around image and art posts, you may also be unfamiliar with what alt text is, what it means, and how it's used around here.

November 20, 2024 at 12:07 AM

ghostwhotalks21.bsky.social

@ghostwhotalks21.bsky.social

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Eustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · 4d

He lives!!!!

September 23, 2026 at 12:38 AM

✎𓂃joanna maciel

@joannamaciel.com

ela acertou mt nesse texto pedindo demissão da reuters bsky.app/profile/eust...

eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Aug 26

#Alt4You

A Reuters press card identifying photographer Valerie Zink sits on a table. The card is cut in half.

For the past eight years I have worked as a stringer for Reuters news agency. My photos covering stories in the prairie provinces have been published by the New York Times, Al Jazeera, and other media outlets across North America, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere. At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.
When Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, together with the entire Al-Jazeera crew in Gaza City on August 10, Reuters chose to publish Israel's entirely baseless claim that Al-Sharif was a Hamas operative - one of countless lies that media outlets like Reuters have dutifully repeated and dignified. Reuters' willingness to perpetuate Israel's propaganda has not spared their own reporters from Israel's genocide. Five more journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hossam Al-Masri, were among 20 people killed this morning in another attack on Nasser hospital. It was what's known as a "double tap" strike, in which Israel bombs a civilian target like a school or hospital; waits for medics, rescue teams, and journalists to arrive; and then strikes again.

Western media is directly culpable for creating the conditions in which this can happen. As Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News put it, "every major outlet - from the New York Times to the Washington Post, from AP to Reuters - has served as a conveyor belt for Israeli propaganda, sanitizing war crimes and dehumanizing victims, abandoning their colleagues and their alleged commitment to true and ethical reporting"
By repeating Israel's genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility - willfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism - Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined, to say nothing of starving an entire population, shredding its children, and burning people alive.
The fact that Anas Al-Sharif's work won a Pulitzer Prize for Reuters did not compel them to come to his defence when Israeli occupation forces placed him on a "hit list" of journalists accused of being Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants.

It did not compel them to come to his defence when he appealed to international media for protection after an Israeli military spokesperson posted a video making clear their intention to assassinate him following a report he did on the growing famine.
It did not compel them to report on his death honestly when he was hunted and killed weeks later.
I have valued the work that I brought to Reuters over the past eight years, but at this point I can't conceive of wearing this press pass with anything but deep shame and grief. I don't know what it means to begin to honour the courage and sacrifice of journalists in Gaza - the bravest and best to ever live - but going forward I will direct whatever contributions I have to offer with that front of mind.

September 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM

pikkyu 🎨 VGen Comms Open // PIKMIK

@pikkyu.creator.blue

Tips for writing better tags for TTS use.

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Oct 22

PSA from the Bluesky "It's A Feature, Not A Bug" files: when you post your hashtags, it's good to use #PascalCase (capitalize each word in the tag). That'll allow screen readers to pronounce the tags in a comprehensible way. But that works everywhere, not just here on Bluesky.

October 29, 2024 at 6:57 AM

Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️

@kiraleigh.bsky.social

casual reminder that if you lack spoons for alt text or frequently forget it that there's volunteer-run alt 4 me which can help you!

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December 1, 2024 at 8:06 PM

Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️

@kiraleigh.bsky.social

there's also a volunteer service that has people swooping in to do alt text if you just can't. there isn't an excuse when something like this exists:

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September 23, 2026 at 2:15 PM

Brian JK Miller

@brianjkmiller.bsky.social

Splish splash I was taking a bath! EUST#1. A Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) having a dip, Conneaut Marsh, Northwest Pennsylvania. #birds 🪶

April 16, 2026 at 11:33 PM

Hermeline

@hermelinette.bsky.social

Oui y a le potifilm comvoissi bsky.app/profile/eust...

🇨🇦Pluches🍁 @eustachetuna.bsky.social · Feb 17

Olala c’est flou la traîtresse a rentrée et même si qu’elle a pas rapporté le snack au caribou elle a rapporté plein de bonnes odeurs de pudlaisselle je trouve c’est important de mouiller le maillot et de payer de sa personne pour son petit chat d’amour

February 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM

Loutre

@petiteloutre.bsky.social

Si c'est compliqué, pour une raison ou une autre, d'intégrer un ALT à tes images, tu peux utiliser ça :
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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Sep 21

If you’re unable to add alt text for whatever reason, include “alt4me” in your post and a volunteer will reply with an image description. The keyword isn’t case sensitive and it’ll be recognized with or without spaces (alt 4 me = alt4me = ALT4me).

noaltfeed

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · Sep 21

I will literally refuse to share even the greatest of memes and/or photos if you don’t alt text it :)

Make sure everyone can enjoy it with us, and I’ll reskeet the fuck out of it 💜

September 23, 2023 at 6:43 AM

Derby County

@derbycounty.bsky.social

Eust Ace Barmy Army!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#dcfcfans #dcfc

March 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Derby County

@derbycounty.bsky.social

Eust Ace Barmy Army!!!
Are you missing us Frank?
2-0 #dcfcfans #dcfc

March 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM

andi & the firmament girls

@konkondragon.bsky.social

I think this hits it right on the head on why it's stuck around even if so many people are completely unaware of its ridiculous origins bsky.app/profile/eust...

Eustis Bell @eustisbellusaf.bsky.social · Apr 25

I think a lot of it was that many people just plain didn't realize it was a conspiracy theory. "MIA, yeah man, hope your loved one comes back, or at least you get closure." "POW? Like McCain? Sounds rough."

Kinda generic well wishes vs

"Wait you think the Chuck Norris movie was real?"

April 25, 2026 at 4:17 AM

ValK.

@valkphotos.bsky.social

Petit complément pratique
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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Sep 21

If you’re unable to add alt text for whatever reason, include “alt4me” in your post and a volunteer will reply with an image description. The keyword isn’t case sensitive and it’ll be recognized with or without spaces (alt 4 me = alt4me = ALT4me).

noaltfeed

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · Sep 21

I will literally refuse to share even the greatest of memes and/or photos if you don’t alt text it :)

Make sure everyone can enjoy it with us, and I’ll reskeet the fuck out of it 💜

September 23, 2023 at 6:20 AM

Hanno Hauenstein

@hahauenstein.bsky.social

Visited the Palestinian bookstore in occupied Eust Jerusalem, just raided and ransacked. Its owner, Mahmoud Muna, and his nephew, Ahmad, were arrested - no charges, no reason, just arbitrary repression. One can only hope this outrageous crackdown drives more readers their way.

February 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM

Feu Crapouille

@crapouille.bsky.social

Y A LA FONTAINE À YAROUTE C'EST LA MEILLEURE FÊTE !
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🇨🇦Pluches🍁 @eustachetuna.bsky.social · Apr 20

Elle revient demain midi donc on peut se faire le petite bronche avec le jaune d’œuf, le bacon et la fontaine à yaroute

April 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM

kagayaki-hime (she/her, cis)

@kagayaki-hime.bsky.social

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Aug 21

I’m late, y’all. I can’t be trusted when my routine changes. But it’s #FundFriday today and I am happy to repost any requests for #MutualAid that anyone would care to share!

As usual, I’m sharing a feed full of mutual aid requests for those who might have a moment to repost or a dollar to share.

August 23, 2026 at 8:17 PM

Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️

@kiraleigh.bsky.social

There's alt 4 me which can help if people lack the spoons to do alt text. People keep forgetting about it bsky.app/profile/eust...

December 1, 2024 at 8:05 PM

Brooke

@usuallyflannel.bsky.social

A really useful thread and shortcut to adding ALT text to text heavy screencaps:

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Oct 1

I am once again reminding you that adding alt text to wall-of-text screencaps doesn't have to be a difficult thing. Copy-paste works on both iOS and Android phones (Android tablets are a different thing). Also there are shortcuts for iOS that can strip text from images.

routinehub.co/shortcut/18370

October 17, 2024 at 3:28 AM