@HistoPol @andrewdessler More specifically, it was the library of Hirschfeld' s Institute, that was burned on Bebelplatz. It wasn' t "University Libraries", the book burning was specifally aimed.

@altbot I am #blind and I am stating here that no, @Altbot is not making the fediverse ¨more inclusive¨. Instead it enables the Sighties to be performative about being an #Ally by their use of an AI tool that fails to describe images reliably. Sighties who choose to spare themselves the trouble of adding #AltText to their images and who offer fake "access by AI" get blocked.

World, we Dutch people have endured more than a decade of neoliberal reign by Mark #Rutte and we tried to warn you when you said he would do wonders as a #NATO General Secretary. Rutte rather lies and blames the victim than stand up for something that is both tactically and morally right.

@ajroach42
OK I'll name it then. Linux et al are not screen reader accessible and exclude blind people like myself, who are forced to use windows, because that does have good screen reader accessibility through NVDA, an open source community effort. The first commenter who so much as utters CLI or accessible coconut gets a block.

@blogdiva If you read some comments, people are asking her to verify this (?fake?) tweet. Wouldn't be the first time. Also, tinkebell as an artist is not without controversy over her exploitation of asylum seekers as props in her work.

@AnarchoNinaWrites We did a demo on Scheveningen beach back then with sand bags and "guarding the coast" against the US invasion.

@coffee4danz I'm blind and for me alt text is the Big Special Thing about Mastodon. If someone posts a meme, I'm in on the joke. Someone shares beautifiul moss, or their cat, I'm in on the beauty or fun or whatever. I'm now 62, and this is the first time I entered a community and a culture where people grant me this kind of access and community. So grateful for people who do alt text.

Please, well meaning sighties! I know you have good intentions. But please, please don't let AI bots do your alt text. As a blind screen reader user I have no way to know whether the generic descriptions describe anything meaningful or accurate. In the meantime, you're flooding my timeline with AI garbage. I've already started unfollowing people because of their firehose of AI alt text. Thankyou

@Gargron @swf whatever. thanks for replying. Obviously an important point that had to be made.

@Gargron Yup like getting into a "foundation" with Meta. Got it.

@ntnsndr @nextcloud I want to read what's on the site. I can't. Am I doing something wrong? Firefox +NVDA (screen reader)

@ntnsndr @nextcloud It's not very easy to navigate, because a number of buttons are not labeled? Hard to make out

@ntnsndr perhaps look into it some more

@ntnsndr @medlab do i need to download something? I get "network of friends" as an alt text to an image but not much more. Is there a link or a button anywhere?

@gvlx @aral I already know there is no sympathy for disabled people. Our mere existence is negative. And so is our messaging, appartently.

@yatil @gvlx @aral People had to chain themselves to the Capitol for ADA to happen

@katanova @aral @soller @thestrangelet @lucasmz I'm a blind person. I am forced to use microsoft, google and apple products because those are accessible and Linux, a FOSS flagship apparently, isn't. I'm done begging the sighties.

Getting unnerved by the huge number of left of center #Germans who desire a genocide to further my - Jewish - interests and protect me. Protect me, a diaspora Jew and European, from antisemitism. Meanwhile their country's government is being taken over by the fascist #NoAfD. Gd, I despise them. All those bios with "fuck Trump", "against racism" and then they proudly carry an Israeli flag.

@anarchopunk_girl Not only that. The cause is sought and found in “white male socialization” of said trans women. And that this should be “beaten out of them”. And yes, I have receipts.

The trans hate on this site