If you leave description texts off of your image posts, then that is a choice that excludes obligate screenreader users. It makes things a harder for everyone else too.

It doesn't make you a bad person. Sometimes that choice is understandable: chronic illness sucks, never know what to write, language issues, spoons missing, bad brains today. All of that stuff. If that's you, stick an #Alt4Me on it or tag @imagecaptionspls and I'll try to help out if I see it OK? #accessibility

I am disabled.

I am disabled not because my body and brain are different, but because our society renders my state of being disabling.

"But you look healthy!"

But you can't see my disability.

You'll never see my chronic pain. You won't see my bruises. You won't notice when I've recently dislocated something for having the gall to move. My ADHD and anxiety won't show up on my sleeve.

When I'm most impacted, you won't see me at all.

But I am disabled.

#IDPWD #IDDP #Disability #DisabilityDay

📣 On International Day of People with Disabilities, we strengthen our community's resolve to be inclusive for all, and add the following item to our Code of Conduct under behaviors not allowed:

➡️ "Uploading images, audio, or video with Public visibility (appears on Local or Federated timelines) without adding ALT text media descriptions"

⚠️ Effective 1 January, such items may be removed, limited, or other actions taken. We will continue to highlight them as a reminder.

#IDPWD #disability

As you share your posts and host your events for the International Day of People with Disabilities, don't let them simply be a one-day signal of acknowledging disabled people, a box you've checked off.

The more than one billion disabled people who exist in this world are worthy of access and full inclusion today.

And tomorrow.
And next week.
And all month.
And next year.
Always.

#InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities #IDPD #IDPWD #Disability #DisabilityRights

RT @kosmi64833127: The #penguins of Dawson-Lambton Colony are very busy in this time of year🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

Enhanced color images taken by @CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 satellites since late September.

Data processed in @sentinel_hub

#penguin #Antarctica

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1598302751465025539

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

Today is #LGBTSTEMDay a day to recognize the presence and contribution of #LGBTQIA2S #queer folks in #STEM fields!

I’m so grateful for all my amazing queer friends and mentors over the years! They helped me see that I had a place here, first as a bi/pan individual, then as an trans individual when I came out as non-binary (agender) a few years ago!

I’m trying to pay that forward, supporting the @queerornithology community and beyond!