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Alt text note:

These are dense images of text content that are much larger than the alt text buffer. I'm trying to honor alt text but I don't know how here

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These are images of text containing #childRape allegations that could be triggering. You have to zoom in a lot on the images to read them so avoid it if you are sensitive to this material

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#EpsteinFiles #Trump

A close up of a particularly damning #childRape allegation

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#EpsteinFiles #Trump

April’s Fool Feb 1

@benroyce
I was able to alt text this one via the “copy all” feature, then paste it here. It doesn’t always work, especially on court docs.

Name
Complaint Summary
Response

reported an unidentified female friend
who was forced to perform oral sex on President Trump approximately 35 years ago in NJ. The friend told Alexis that she was approximately 13-14 years old when this occurred, and the friend allegedly bit President Trump while performing oral sex. The friend was allegedly hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump. The friend said she was also abused by Epstein.
Spoke with caller who identified
as friend. Lead was
sent to Washington Office to conduct interview.

@benroyce

Anybody else would have been impeached, prosecuted and removed already.
But SCOTUS and the Republican party are covering this bastard…

Frankly unbelievable.

Frans Veldman ⁱ ᵃᵐ ᵃⁿᵗⁱᶠᵃ🚩Feb 1

Why was Bill Clinton impeached? 🤔

Their hypocrisis has no limits.

@FransVeldman @benroyce @xs4me2 Bill Clinton was impeached for lying to Congress under oath and not for anything he did with interns.

@Scrimshaw9 @FransVeldman @benroyce

Well if it is up for lying, Trump made that into a habit and nobody seems to care anymore...

Lewinsky was 24, not 13...

@xs4me2 @FransVeldman @benroyce Ppl do care, it's that the people that do care don't hold the means to do anything about it today. We can change that though, and I think we will in time.

this is like saying "the south didn't secede because of slavery, they seceded because of states rights"

...the states "rights" to engage in slavery

so bill clinton was impeached for lying to congress under oath *about sex with interns*

i don't know what your intent is, but this sort of topic shifting is inaccurate

@benroyce @FransVeldman @xs4me2 No, its literally what he was impeached for. It's nothing like the whataboutism you tried to slander me with.

Right. It had nothing to do with anything else. You win. Uh huh.

@benroyce @FransVeldman @xs4me2 That's what Congress impeached him for. I'm sorry it doesn't fit your narrative, but if you look it actually does fit your narrative bc there are plenty of docs in the files from the 90s and no one dared pull that thread bc of how that thread connected everyone else in power. He was not impeached for anything with interns though. He was impeached for lying under oath to Congress. His public disgrace was bc of what he did with interns, but that is different.

I'm not interested in rehashing a fight from 30 years ago. I simply resent topic shift because it's dishonest. I'm not defending nor attacking Bill Clinton. I don't fucking care about Bill Clinton

I have to register my distaste with this bullshit "the essential matter of a proceeding has nothing to do with the proceeding." I dislike this bending ourselves into pretzels over technicalities to pretend an event was about something else than it obviously was

@benroyce @FransVeldman @xs4me2 That's important part of the discussion, that he wasn't impeached for anything with interns.

You are the one that's going off course and rehashing a fight. You could have just been like yeah that's right and moved on.

Thank you for just completely ignoring everything I said and acting like this pathetic exchange you freely choose to join is all on me

@benroyce @FransVeldman @xs4me2 Ha! You're like 10 ply, guy.

@Scrimshaw9 @benroyce @FransVeldman

Please count me out of this?

@xs4me2 @benroyce @FransVeldman Oh sorry. You can't mute this?

Just respect their wishes and stop mentioning them, dimwit

@benroyce I did, turd shingle.

love you too

Yeah. I'm useful and I wipe out stupid shit

@benroyce Yeah you're covered in it.

sorry my friend but this is now just a sad scene of two walnuts of questionable sobriety at Dunks beefing over nothing. it's neat going to the Fediverse and meeting people from around the world. unfortunately there's also dreary insipid Massholes here as well. have a good one

@benroyce Lol. Finally you compliment me!

i also followed you. i can appreciate a good shit talk session. but i'm from Connecticut so the Masshole insult is a solid 😁

there's worse ways to meet someone

Deb Nam-Krane Feb 1

@xs4me2 If this had been Clinton, members of Congress would have dragged him out of his bed @benroyce

@dnkboston @benroyce

Sure would, these power hungry hypocrites...

Deb Nam-Krane Feb 1

@xs4me2 I'm not carrying water for Clinton, but the hypocrisy is making me choke @benroyce

@dnkboston @benroyce

Agree, I see what you mean...

I still find it very hard to explain why the US are now in this shit show. It was plain to see what Trump was pulling off here, a con artist as we have never seen before. The lies, the nonsense, the bullying, WHO in his/her right mind would vote for such an obvious toxic malignant narcissist a second time??? Who in their right mind would put forward such an indecent and criminal candidate? Unbelievable...

Deb Nam-Krane Feb 1

@xs4me2 Whole libraries will be filled trying to answer that. I go back to Reagan because I'm GenX, but I also keep circling on Rehnquist getting confirmed as Chief Justice of SCOTUS in spite of credible witness accounts that he engaged in voter suppression in 1964 in AZ. He made possible Bush II, who made possible Roberts, who gutted the Voting Rights Act. @benroyce

@dnkboston @benroyce

And I hope that when this hopefully soon will unfold and be over, government investigations and actions will take care that never ever something like this will ever happen again. It starts to remind of the Civil War the USA has been fighting...

Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺Feb 1

@benroyce Cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radars to Trump Golf Course in Rancho Palos Verdes, the back nine holes.

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Feb 1

@benroyce Let's euphemistically put it this way: I am totally bewildered as to how such texts and Trump supporters can exist in the same timespace.

GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺Feb 1

@benroyce But, yeah, her e-mails, right? 🙄

Drey Feb 1

@Eetschrijver 👍 @benroyce

Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Feb 1

@benroyce

I think this is exactly the right approach to #AltText for this sort of material, even though it does exclude the people #AltText is for. I imagine some screen readers could cope with the images, but don't know. I can extract text from them, but I'm quite nerdy...

Jupiter Rowland Feb 1

@Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 That's actually a problem if you're on vanilla Mastodon with only 500 characters per toot and only 1,500 characters of alt-text per image. Your only chance would be to spread the transcripts across a massive thread.

If you regularly have to post images with well over 1,500 characters of text in them, you could move elsewhere in the Fediverse that offers more characters, but that's still federated with Mastodon. Examples:

Misskey has a hard-coded limit of 3,000 characters.
Sharkey has a configurable limit that defaults to 3,000 characters.
Pleroma and Akkoma have configurable limits that default to 5,000 characters.
Friendica and Hubzilla (I'm commenting from the latter right now) are limited to over 16.7 million characters by their databases.
(streams) (where I post my images nowadays) and Forte are limited to over 24 million characters.

On all of these, you could put text transcripts into the post text body and maybe mention in the alt-text that the texts in the images are transcribed in the post itself.

The downside of this, however, is that your posts will exceed 500 characters. And this means you'll lose a whole lot of reach. There are lots and lots of Mastodon users who block everyone who ever posts over 500 characters at once at first strike because they want Mastodon/the Fediverse to be and remain a 100% pure microblogging "service" with no more than 500 characters.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Sharkey #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #AltText #AltTextMeta #CWAltTextMeta #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta #500Characters

Netzgemeinde/Hubzilla

Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Feb 1

@jupiter_rowland

Useful comparison, thanks!

I just put stuff that's too big on my blog, and link to it, but not everyone has that luxury.

Pino Carafa Feb 1

@jupiter_rowland for that reason I created 2 accounts. This one has the standard 500 character limit, my @rozeboosje one allows me to post the occasional longer toot with up to 5,000 characters, and then I boost those posts through this account.

Why would one block accounts that sometimes post longer toots, though? A "tl;dr" approach to my toots certainly wouldn't upset me.

Jupiter Rowland Feb 1

@Pino Carafa Why would one block accounts that sometimes post longer toots, though?
Because people are invited to Mastodon with no word that it's connected to something that isn't Mastodon. That'd make things too complicated.

So they join Mastodon and the Fediverse, thinking that the Fediverse is only Mastodon. Nothing but a decentralised microblogging platform with no more than 500 characters.

For quite a while, all they see is vanilla Mastodon toots with no more than 500 characters. "Quite a while" may be anything from two months to four years to even more. So they get used to the Fediverse being only Mastodon and not having more than 500 characters.

But then, the more people they follow and the more people follow them back, the more people do they follow who don't live in a Mastodon-only bubble. This means two things:

These other people will boost content that exceeds 500 characters to their timelines.
Their own toots end up outside Mastodon where people see them who don't have 500-character limits. And they reply to their toots with no regards for Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's unwritten rules. In other words, with over 500 characters.

In other words: They suddenly get "toots" (that aren't toots because they aren't from Mastodon) onto their timelines that are way too long. As in over 500 characters.

And they completely. Flip. Their. Shit.

Of course, they don't know that this particular "toot" is from Friendica. A place in the Fediverse that's over five and a half years older than Mastodon, with its own culture that's vastly different from Mastodon's, and with 33,000+ times more characters than Mastodon.

And they don't care. They only want their only-Mastodon, only-500-characters Fediverse back that they got used to, that they learned to love.

Besides, they don't know about third-party apps. That, and/or they couldn't possibly wrap their minds around using Mastodon with an app that isn't named "Mastodon". Thus, they daily-drive the official Mastodon app.

However, the official Mastodon app is geared towards a Mastodon-only Fediverse where nothing exceeds 500 characters. It can't fold long posts in. You get a 10,000-character message onto your timeline, and the official Mastodon app will show you the full 10,000-character "essay", full stop.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #CharacterLimitMeta #CWCharacterLimitMeta

Netzgemeinde/Hubzilla

Pino Carafa Feb 1

@jupiter_rowland Ha. I'm just happy to have found somewhere not owned by an oligarch or billionnaire and that lets ME choose what I'm going to see. As far as I'm concerned I wouldn't mind if Tolstoy posted War And Peace here 😁

At the moment I'm using Moshidon. Seems to suit my "needs". You?

Dec [{(

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@jupiter_rowland @rozeboosje
The latest @Tusky client shortens very long posts, fading them under a control that says "Expand".

Older versions of Tusky had a "Show More" button to do the same job.

El Duvelle Feb 1

@benroyce wow, where is this from?

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

Alex(ithymia)

Feb 1

@elduvelle @benroyce The latest tranche of Epstein files.

Cat West Feb 1

@benroyce Can you or anyone tell me where these pages are derived from? Were they summaries from 302’s?

https://www.justice.gov/epstein

@Catawu

i don't know what a 302 is but

Cat West Feb 2

@benroyce Thank you. A 302 is the form that the FBI uses to officially write down the facts of their interviews with people.

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Feb 2

@Catawu

today i learned!

you should also know a bunch of files were posted, then quickly vaporized, although some news orgs grabbed them before they disappeared

Lena245 Feb 1

@benroyce
OMG! How is this not causing more riots? They wanted them released and now, nothing?

MasterMischief Feb 1

@Lena245 @benroyce The essence of conservatism is that the law applies to others, never to them.

KatLS Feb 1

@benroyce the real #pizzagate . Every accusation is a confession. Rich, disgusting perverts with no checks on their depravity. 🤮